At a moment when AI-generated music is drawing lawsuits and protests from artists who say their work has been used without consent, ElevenLabs is tapping musicians willing to put their own work in front of the model. The AI audio company that previously launched a marketplace for AI-generated voices including Michael Caine’s and Maya Angelou’s ..
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OpenAI is finally ready to see if its users will trade their screen real estate for a free chat. The AI giant announced Friday that it will begin testing ads within the Free and Go tiers of ChatGPT in the “coming weeks,” marking a watershed moment for the world’s most popular AI chatbot as it ..
Higgsfield, an AI video startup positioning itself at the center of advertising’s shift toward synthetic media, has hired former Perplexity ad executive Taz Patel as vice president of platform partnerships, ADWEEK has learned. Patel began the role this week and will report directly to CEO Alex Mashrabov. He is tasked with turning widespread adoption of ..
This story was originally published in On Background with Mark Stenberg, a free, weekly newsletter that explores the key themes shaping the media industry. You can sign up for it here. In the last few weeks, a handful of premium publishers have inked partnership deals with the two largest prediction markets in the world, Kalshi and ..
Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has put slightly more stringent limits on its Grok chatbot after it flooded the social app X with nonconsensual, highly sexualized AI-generated images depicting women, and even some children. Grok’s public X account, with which users can engage directly and prompt the AI for outputs, will “no longer allow the ..
Marketing no longer runs on broadcast thinking. Modern brands win by behaving like participants in culture, not distributors of messages. In this episode of The Speed of Culture podcast, Matt Britton sits with Selina Sykes, VP of beauty & wellbeing and global head of digital marketing and social at Unilever, for a deep look at ..
Apple will use Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence models to power a new generation of Siri, the companies announced Monday, marking a rare partnership between longtime rivals and a tacit admission that the iPhone maker needs outside help to accelerate its AI ambitions. Under a multi-year deal, Google’s models and cloud infrastructure will underpin Apple’s foundational ..
Former Google executive Justin Inman is betting that the next major battleground for brands won’t be search rankings or social feeds—but AI-generated answers. His startup, Emberos, announced Monday it raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding from a single angel investor. Inman, who is Emberos’ founder and chief executive officer, declined to disclose specifics. Founded last ..
Signal in the noise Google only provides general SEO recommendations, leaving the Internet’s SEO experts to cast bones and read tea leaves to gauge how the search algorithm works. This approach has borne fruit in the past, but not every SEO suggestion is a hit. The tumultuous current state of the Internet, defined by inconsistent ..
ChatGPT vulnerabilities could be exploited to exfiltrate user data and modify the agent’s long-term memory for persistence, web security firm Radware reports. Widely adopted across enterprises worldwide, ChatGPT has broad access to internal applications, such as Gmail, GitHub, Jira, and Teams, and by default stores user conversations and sensitive information. It also includes built-in functionality ..


