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‘There’s a lot of rogue attempts at this’: Amid AI music remixing plans, Spotify chief says he wants the company to be ‘the one that’s legal’ and ‘the one that’s controlled’

Music streaming platform Spotify announced a licensing deal with Universal Music Group last week which would allow subscribers to create AI-generated covers and remixes of songs from participating artists, who would then be compensated. The tool would be a paid extra to “create an additional source of income for artists and songwriters.” Now, Spotify co-chief…

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Deadlock new midlane objective turned games into such a mid-only fiasco that it only lasted one weekend, though Valve’s still experimenting

Deadlock still technically isn’t out yet—which means that Valve’s gonna experiment. As was the case with last Friday’s patch, that made a sweeping list of changes to the urn, one of the objectives on the game’s map that helps encourage players to actually batch up for teamfights. Previously, the urn spawned on one side of…

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