Spotify plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce, or ~600 jobs, says content and ad head Dawn Ostroff is leaving, and reorganizes its engineering and product units
read the memo CEO Daniel Ek sent to staff Bob Cronin / Newser : Spotify Plans Layoffs, After Boss Concedes Miscalculation Rachyl Jones / Observer : Spotify Will Lay Off 600 Employees, or 6% of its Wor...
Capitol Music Group severs ties with FN Meka, a virtual “robot rapper” powered partly by AI with 10M+ TikTok followers, after backlash over racial stereotypes
robot Will Gendron / Input : Phew, Capitol Records has already been bullied out of deal with ‘AI rapper’ Tweets: Jonathan W. Gray / @elmcitytree : So let's talk about digital blackface. There was a lo...
A look at the cycles of decentralization and recentralization, and why we won't understand what Web3 consists of until after the next bubble pops
There's been a lot of talk about Web3 lately, and as the person who defined “Web 2.0” 17 years ago, I'm often asked to comment. Tweets: @oreillymedia , @amyjokim , @fredbenenson , @tgoetz , @robertdou...
Epic filing reveals that in a 2016 email Phil Schiller said “moving iMessage to Android will hurt us more than help us”, which Epic argues is proof of lock-in
what a story! You should call me. https://www.theverge.com/... Florian Mueller / @fosspatents : Since #EpicGames started its fight for app developer freedom last summer, these two days have been the f...