JPMorgan upgrades Meta to overweight on AI position

Independent artists should keep five records — written consent scope, creation files, change logs, file control, and payment trails — to defend AI voice and likeness disputes. The U.S. Copyright Office has recommended federal protection against unauthorized digital replicas of a person's voice or likeness.

Apple's new Audio Intelligence on Apple Watch uses the microphone to detect sounds, identify music via Shazam, and take conversation notes with 15-second Live Rewind transcripts. Apple published a Privacy Overview document covering the always-listening data.

The New Stack argues AI-generated code that is functionally correct but violates domain boundaries erodes a team's mental model of its system, a cost it calls Comprehension Debt. The piece outlines switching from passive acceptance of AI output to active design enforcement.

Spark Capital, an Anthropic investor, led the $120 million Series A for a startup building off-grid power systems for data centers.

CMS head Mehmet Oz and Trump officials pitch AI as a fix for rural health, but rural hospitals say the tools won't close funding gaps from $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the next decade. AI handles clear calls from large datasets well; subjective judgments like "medical frailty" exemptions are harder.

Reddit users on OpenAI's Go plan say access to the full GPT Live 1 voice model was removed and replaced with a mini version. One subscriber calls the full voice model the main reason they stayed on Go, noting the gap between Free and Go keeps shrinking.