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Apple Music for Artists Adds Radio Monitoring for 40,000+ Stations

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Apple says it offers radio monitoring for 40,000 radio stations from more than 200 countries and regions. Radio Spins data is integrated throughout the Apple Music for Artists experience so artists can see which stations and regions are giving their music air time. The Trends page offers more detailed data, such as the stations that are spinning an artists’ music the most, or which songs from an artists’ catalog are receiving the most plays across all monitored stations.

Source: Apple Music for Artists Adds Radio Monitoring for 40,000+ Stations

Meta won’t release its multimodal Llama AI model in the EU

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Meta says it won’t be launching its upcoming multimodal AI model — capable of handling video, audio, images, and text — in the European Union, citing regulatory concerns. The decision will prevent European companies from using the multimodal model, despite it being released under an open license. “We will release a multimodal Llama model over the coming months, but not in the EU due to the unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment,” Meta spokesperson Kate McLaughlin said.

Source: Meta won’t release its multimodal Llama AI model in the EU

The Death of MTV News and What It Means for Digital Archives

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This action sets a dangerous precedent for the preservation of digital media. As our world moves more and more online, the role of media companies in maintaining accessible archives becomes increasingly crucial. The deletion of these archives can lead to a cultural amnesia, where future generations lack the resources to learn from past media landscapes, understand the evolution of societal norms, and appreciate the artistry and creativity that characterized different eras.

Source: The Death of MTV News and What It Means for Digital Archives: Guest Column

AI Content Detectors Don’t Work (The Biggest Mistakes They Have Made)

A copywriter ran the Declaration of Independence through an AI content detector. The result? It’s 98.51% AI-generated, despite being written in 1776. But is this mistake a one-off, or reflective of AI content detectors in general? “AI content detectors don’t work,” said Dianna Mason, SEO content specialist whose research uncovered the Declaration of Independence assessment.

Source: AI Content Detectors Don’t Work (The Biggest Mistakes They Have Made)

Google Sandbox rollout could cost publishers 60% of online advertising revenue

Privacy Sandbox, Google’s upcoming replacement for third-party cookies, will reduce publishers’ revenue from programmatically-sold online ads by 60%, according to new research from advertising platform Criteo. Meanwhile, trade group the IAB Tech Lab has warned Sandbox would “throttle” smaller news publishers and restrict the media industry’s growth.

Source: Google Sandbox rollout could cost publishers 60% of online advertising revenue

MTV News Repository Launched by Internet Archive After Paramount Content Purge

After Paramount pulled MTV News offline, the Internet Archive assembled a searchable index of 460,575 pages previously published at mtv.com/news. You can search the MTV News archive on the organization’s Wayback Machine. In recent weeks, Paramount Global, amid its ongoing financial challenges, similarly yanked down thousands of CMT articles and purged video content from Comedy Central’s site.

Source: MTV News Repository of 460,000 Articles Launched by Internet Archive After Paramount Content Purge

New ISO Standard Points to AI Opt-Out

Last month, the International Standards Organization (ISO) gave final approval to a new, open technical standard for a machine-readable content identifier that could provide creators and rights owners with a powerful new tool to regulate the use of their works in a variety of contexts.

Unlike other product or works identifiers, such as the music industry’s ISRC and ISWC standards that are typically assigned to a work or file by an outside authority or industry body, the new International Standard Content Code (ISCC) is algorithmically derived from the media file itself, and can be used for any type of digital media content, from text to music to images.

Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites

Multiple artificial intelligence companies are circumventing a common web standard used by publishers to block the scraping of their content for use in generative AI systems, content licensing startup TollBit has told publishers. A letter to publishers seen by Reuters on Friday, which does not name the AI companies or the publishers affected, comes amid a public dispute between AI search startup Perplexity and media outlet Forbes.

Source: Exclusive-Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites, licensing firm says

Apple Says Regulatory Concerns Might Prevent Rollout of AI Features in Europe

The EU’s Digital Markets Act, often called the DMA, enacted far-reaching restrictions on big technology companies and digital competition. One requirement was for interoperability, meaning developing software that could work across operating systems and hardware, making it easier for consumers to move their data or switch providers.

Source: Apple Says Regulatory Concerns Might Prevent Rollout of AI Features in Europe

Amazon’s secret GitHub data grab

To create powerful AI models, you need mountains of good data. Amazon is going to great lengths to collect this type of valuable information. The company recently told employees to sign up for Microsoft’s GitHub software-development platform and share their accounts so Amazon can scrape data from GitHub more quickly, Business Insider has learned. This is a key step in Amazon’s efforts to train its upcoming in-house AI model.

Source: Amazon’s secret GitHub data grab

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