ByteDance first-half net profit reportedly fell to $20B on AI spending
Revenue hit $120 billion, up about 30% year on year, with TikTok's international advertising and e-commerce driving the gain, per The Information. ByteDance is expanding AI cloud services and developing in-house inference chips.
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Suno users revolt over V6 audio quality, calling it worse than V5.5
r/SunoAI is flooded with complaints that V6 vocals sound "muddy, hollow, and suffocated" and that audio quality regressed to roughly V3.5 levels, with hissing reported in 99% of songs. One user ran 130+ generations without a usable track; another says hundreds of attempts failed to produce one finished pop song.
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EU and Canada form "tech alliance" on AI safety and compute
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Microsoft releases enterprise AI playbook based on its own learnings
Microsoft published an enterprise AI playbook drawn from its internal deployments, per VentureBeat. The report highlights a "moat" businesses may already possess.
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Pew survey: 34 of 37 countries fear AI job losses
Pew Research polled 42,151 people across 37 countries from Feb 8 to May 13; in 34 of 37, more believe AI will destroy jobs than create them over 20 years. Worry is highest in Australia and South Korea (76% each) and the US (71%).
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Instinct and Meta's Muse both add AI calling features
Instinct's Concierge places calls to book restaurants, join dentist cancellation lists, and fix cable bills; Meta's Muse can now call U.S. businesses, starting with users who ask it to. Instinct raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation last month and is reportedly in talks at a $10B valuation.
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Anthropic drops Claude for Small Businesses with 44 skills
Anthropic released a Claude offering aimed at small businesses, packaged with 44 skills, according to a YouTube walkthrough by Ben AI.
YouTube·2 hours ago
Zapier CEO Wade Foster discusses headless AI tools and Zapier MCP
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YouTube·2 hours ago
CleanSpark seeks $2.23B junk bond for Meta-tied AI data center
CleanSpark is seeking roughly $2.23 billion through a junk-bond offering to fund AI infrastructure tied to Meta Platforms, the first US junk-bond deal of its kind for a Meta-linked data center.
Bloomberg Technology·2 hours ago
