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Apple Music will start showing listeners which songs were made with AI. The disclosure behind those labels also stops being optional. Apple emailed music industry partners on Thursday to announce Made With AI Labels, Billboard reported after obtaining the message. Any track a content provider tags as materially generated using AI will carry a visible [] This story continues at The Next Web

The Dutch data protection authority has decided to fine Uber 825mn, or about $966mn, for shutting down driver accounts by automated systems without telling the drivers properly. It is the second-largest penalty ever issued under the General Data Protection Regulation. Reuters reported the decision after reviewing a document dated 17 August. The regulator, known as [] This story continues at The Next Web

Starcloud has raised $250mn to put AI compute in orbit, and a large part of the money is earmarked for rockets it cannot yet book. The Series A extension values the company at $2.3bn post-money, the company said. Its total raised now stands at $450mn. Starcloud was founded in 2024, and its March round valued [] This story continues at The Next Web

Micron is putting $10bn into a research lab built on the premise that AI has permanently changed what memory is worth. The company announced Micron Research Labs on Thursday, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with a planned $10bn over the next decade. It is separate from the more than $250bn Micron has committed to American manufacturing [] This story continues at The Next Web

New York has more tech workers than the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time since CBRE started counting 13 years ago. The property firms Scoring Tech Talent 2026 report, subtitled AI Realignment Underway, puts the New York metro at 394,300 tech talent jobs in 2025 against 375,730 in the Bay Area. New York [] This story continues at The Next Web

Patreon has published a roadmap of new and revamped features. TechCrunch counted 30 of them. The most consequential line in the post is an admission. To the smaller creators on Patreon: the lack of discovery youre seeing right now is not your fault. Its ours, chief executive Jack Conte wrote in a long post to [] This story continues at The Next Web

YouTube Premium is getting more expensive across Europe. This time the company is asking subscribers to agree, rather than simply imposing the increase. A price-change notice seen by TNW went to a Romanian subscriber on Friday. It puts the individual plan up from RON 29.00 to RON 32.00 a month, a rise of about 10%. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Adobe Fireflys audio tools became generally available on Thursday. Generate Music, Generate Speech and Generate Sound Effects now sit beside the image, video and design tools in its creative AI studio. Each runs on a different model. Generate Music uses the Firefly Music Model and produces original tracks tuned to a videos length and mood. [] This story continues at The Next Web

The United States conducted 178 orbital launches and re-entries last year, but the White House now wants at least a thousand a year by 2030. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday directing federal agencies to clear the path to that number, largely by getting out of the way. It instructs them to speed [] This story continues at The Next Web

Brazil is spending 2.3bn reais, about $444m, on two AI supercomputers. One will be built with Huawei, the other is expected to go to Nvidia, and that is the entire point. The strategy is not to depend on a single company, technology or country, the Lula government said in setting out the plan, which is [] This story continues at The Next Web