People don’t like that they can’t identify AI music. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Image: ActionVance / Unsplash AI has touched every part of the music industry, from sample sourcing and demo recording, to serving up digital liner notes and building playlists. There are technical and legal challenges, fierce ethical debates, and fears…
In a downtown Manhattan courtroom on Monday, lawyers for the US Justice Department and 40 state and district attorneys general warned a jury that the concert industry was being squeezed by a monopolist: Live Nation-Tickemaster. After amassing dominance over ticketing and artists’ use of large amphitheaters, lead DOJ counsel David Dahlquist alleged, Live Nation constructed…
New just-the-basics phone replaces the year-old iPhone 16e at the same price. Image: BoliviaInteligente / Unsplash Source: Ars Technica
Google just announced that Gemini will soon be able to take care of some multi-step tasks on your phone, like ordering food or hailing a car, starting first with the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S26 phones. It all sounds a bit like features Apple announced for Siri way back…
Harper is an AI-native insurance brokerage that just raised a $45 million combined Series A and seed, after a member of YC’s Winter 2026 cohort. Image: Vlad Deep / Pexels Source: TechCrunch
You can avoid Google’s AI summaries in your search results by simply adjusting your query. Or just switch search engines altogether. Image: 2H Media / Unsplash Source: Wired
Today, I’m talking with Hank Green, a longtime friend of Decoder and the cofounder and now former owner of Complexly, an online education company he started with his brother John in 2012. I say former owner because Hank and John have just converted Complexly into a nonprofit and given up their ownership of the company…
Prediction markets will let you bet on just about anything, from how many tweets Elon Musk will post this week to the next president of the United States, with predictions sometimes showing shockingly (or suspiciously) spot-on accuracy. Polymarket’s CEO Shayne Copland has even claimed that prediction markets are “the most accurate thing we have as…
With the just-released title track of her forthcoming album, “The Me That Remains,” Amy Grant refers to the 2026 bike accident that left her with a serious head injury: “Life cut me wide open / When my head hit the ground / Wasn’t my time for dying / Guess my soul just stuck around,” she…
Thrive Capital just raised $10 billion for its new fund– nearly double the size of its last fund. Image: micheile henderson / Unsplash Source: TechCrunch
