Tidal will stop paying royalties on fully AI-generated music and label AI tracks under a new policy to protect artists.
News from The Neuron
Fable 5 is back, baby
Grant Harvey. July 01, 2026
Welcome, humans. AI Independence day just came early, as late yesterday afternoon Anthropic announced Fable 5 is coming back online today. Technically, that means U.S. export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were lifted, with Fable 5 returning globally later today on July 1 and Mythos 5 access expanding through approved partners.
News from Futurism
Brown University Professor Horrified to Discover Largest AI Cheating Scandal in Ivy League History
“The empirical evidence of fraud is overwhelming.”
By Victor Tangermann, June 30, 2026
Award winning economist and Brown University professor Roberto Serrano says he has detected what appears to be the largest AI cheating scandal in Ivy League history.
As Spanish newspaper El País reports, Serrano noticed red flags as soon as he looked at the scores of a March midterm exam for one of the classes he teaches, an advanced undergrad course in mathematical economics. The take-home and closed-book exam — an “Honor Code” type of test Ivy League schools are known for — resulted in 40 out of 86 students scoring a perfect 100. The average score was an equally questionable 96 out of 100….
“Some answers contained unusual passages that coincided with results obtained after running the questions through ChatGPT,” Serrano told El País.
News from Futurism
AI Zillionaires Are Starting to Get Scared as the Public Turns Against Them; Data centers “have become a proxy for the hate towards AI and the concentration and accumulation of wealth it’s creating.”
By Joe Wilkins, June 29, 2026
There’s no doubt that the broader public has turned against AI in a serious way. In the United States, a YouGov pol found that three-quarters of Americans think AI should be more heavily regulated, an anxiety shared across the political aisle, the Economist observed. The US populace is likewise increasingly fearful of the economic impacts of AI, especially as powerful tech companies pour money into state and federal elections.
As that anger boils over, people are increasingly channeling their frustration toward data centers — one of the few tangible points of leverage ordinary people have against an otherwise untouchable, trillion-dollar tech industry.
News from TechCrunch
Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users
Lauren Forristal, June 29, 2026
Google announced on Monday that the Gemini app is now offering its personalized Nano Banana-powered image generation feature to a broader audience. Starting today, all eligible users in the U.S. can access the feature for free, a service that was previously only available to Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers.
….images can be generated based on Gemini’s understanding of your likes and preferences without you having to specify them in your prompt. Gemini utilizes data from your Google account connections — such as Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube, and Search — to achieve this… Gemini can also pull actual images of you from Google Photos, so you don’t need to manually upload photos.
News from Neowin
Tidal won’t monetize AI slop music, company says: Tidal will stop paying royalties on fully AI-generated music and label AI tracks under a new policy to protect artists.
David Uzondu, June 29, 2026
…Next month, the company plans to auto-identify and tag these uploads. Listeners will spot a special icon next to content that algorithms flag as 100% AI-generated starting mid-July, and the platform hopes to expand this tag to partially generated songs as detection tech improves.
Any AI music that exploits an artist’s voice or likeness will be taken down, and Tidal will immediately block tracks associated with fraudulent activity, which includes artificial streaming and deceptive content that interferes with real creators. And finally, music that’s 100% AI-generated will not be monetized.
News from Android Authoity
The Supreme Court just made your phone’s location data much harder for police to get: US Supreme Court gives rare win for location history privacy.
By Ryan McNeal, June 29, 2026
Just because you agreed to let Google or Apple access your phone data, like location history, does that mean the government should be able to access it as well? According to a new ruling, it seems the US Supreme Court doesn’t think so. The court has found that the data your mobile devices track should remain private to you, regardless of whether you share it with tech companies.
Today, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Chatrie v. United States, holding that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy from the government. Specifically, the decision extends Fourth Amendment protections to data that people hand over to tech companies. In short, the decision means that police will need a warrant to obtain the data you share with these companies.
News from Emerge
Meta Unveils New Tech That Uses AI to Translate Brain Activity Into Text—Without Surgery; Meta says its latest Brain2Qwerty system translates brain activity into sentences using non-invasive brain recordings, improving the accuracy of AI-powered neural decoding.
By Jason Nelson, June 29, 2026
Meta on Monday introduced Brain2Qwerty v2, an AI system that translates brain activity into text using non-invasive brain recordings. The company said the research is intended to help people who have lost the ability to communicate because of brain lesions.
The system records brain activity using a helmet-like magnetoencephalography (MEG) scanner, a non-invasive brain imaging device commonly used in neuroscience research. It then feeds those raw neural signals into an end-to-end AI model that reconstructs the sentences a person is trying to type.
News from Futurism
Madonna Issues Explosive Take on AI: Sorry, AI “artists.”
By Frank Landymore, June 29, 2026
If you’re using AI to try and make “art,” Madonna Ciccone has some bad news for you. In a new interview with Vogue Italia, the Queen of Pop emphatically declared that AI is antithetical to art itself because it stifles creativity and pushes you down the boring and safe route. “Algorithms and artificial intelligence are the opposite of taking risks and to me that is the opposite of making art,” Madonna said.
News from Quartz
The central bank for central banks warned that the AI spending frenzy could crash markets: The Bank for International Settlements said the five largest hyperscalers are on track to spend more than $1 trillion on AI capital expenditure in 2025 and 2026
By Cris Tolomia, June 29, 2026
The Bank for International Settlements warned in its annual report Sunday that the current surge in AI investment spending could end in a stock market crash and recession, drawing comparisons to previous technology booms that collapsed with severe economic consequences.
The Switzerland-based institution, which serves as a coordinating body for central banks worldwide, said fierce competition among leading AI firms may have pushed investment to excessive levels, leaving the sector exposed if returns disappoint. The five largest hyperscalers are on course to spend more than $1 trillion on AI-related capital expenditure in 2025 and 2026, according to The Wall Street Journal.
News from Futurism
Cops Caught Using AI to Edit Picture of Pathetic Drug Bust; “I like being lied to by the police, it’s good for building trust!”
By Joe Wilkins, June 28, 2026
Police officers are increasingly using AI-integrated tools on the job, though not without courting significant controversy. The error-prone nature of large language models has left law enforcement operations in a scramble, resulting in hallucinated police reports, evidence fabricated with generative AI…The most recent example comes out of Vancouver, where police set off a firestorm after publishing an image of a drug bust labeled “made with AI” on X-formerly-Twitter.
News from Paul Krugman
What Will AI Do To Our Minds? Cognitive damage, not productivity gains, may be the most important consequence
June 28, 2026
Students who rely on large language models to answer questions won’t learn how to think by reasoning through the evidence to form a conclusion….In short, there are good reasons to worry that what we’re calling artificial intelligence will adversely affect the development of our natural intelligence…. generative AI is just a further step in a process that began a generation ago with the launch of Google search and accelerated with the rise of smartphones. However, ChatGPT and Claude Code ratcheted that process up to a much more rapid pace…. And AI, which is already creating a crisis in education, will almost surely make the damage much worse.
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