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According to the Financial Times, as relayed by Siècle Digital, Spotify is preparing an AI mixing tool for about US$4 to $5 a month on top of the regular subscription. Spotify has not confirmed the plan.
The report says some label agreements are in place and talks with Sony Music and Warner Music continue. Remixes would reportedly generate royalties and count as a play, and artists could accept or refuse the use of their catalogue.
The plan would sit awkwardly beside streaming services’ stated efforts to curb AI-generated music, and its success would depend on whether users are willing to pay for it.
The Verge reports that eBay appears to have blocked AI agents, including Meta’s Muse, from browsing its platform. A reader told the outlet his Muse agent had compiled a daily digest of watch listings on sites like eBay for several weeks. We could only read an excerpt, and eBay’s position is not stated there.
Anthropic announced on X two new models, Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, which it says improve coding, reasoning and vision. The company says Fable 5.2 is up to 30% faster than Fable 5.1 and now costs $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens, down from $10 and $50. It is available in the Claude Platform and Claude Code.
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, as relayed by The Verge, Apple CEO John Ternus is pushing AI chief Craig Federighi to speed up the Siri roadmap. The goal is a powerful AI agent able to compete with OpenAI’s Dots and Meta’s Muse. Federighi has reportedly delivered a working version of Siri AI on a very short timeline.
According to The Decoder, Andrej Karpathy used Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 model to filter 43 million Hacker News comments from 20 years into 6,454 recommended videos on a site called HackerTube. He says the viewing experience is significantly better than YouTube’s recommendations, and that a second site, TristanTube, with 47,000 videos, was built in about three minutes with Claude Code.