2026-08-25
Australia’s charts now require a human to sing the lead vocal
Australia will bar wholly AI-generated tracks from its official music charts from Monday. The song that prompted the rule was still sitting at number four on Tuesday. The Australian Recording Industry Association set the test in a statement. A track qualifies only if “humans wrote the song and performed the lead vocal and the primary […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-25
Brazil fines TikTok’s owner $29.9m over children’s data, including guest sessions
Brazil has fined TikTok’s owner over the way it handled children’s data, and the ruling covers people who never had an account. The National Data Protection Agency imposed a penalty of 153.7 million reais on ByteDance on Tuesday, worth about $29.9m. It cited irregularities in the processing of data belonging to children and adolescents. TikTok […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]
2026-08-25
The death of the human web? Report finds over a third of web pages pushed live since the launch of ChatGPT show evidence of being written by AI
Researchers have found a sharp increase in the number of web pages using AI authorship, with over 33% of pages published since January 2023 apparently written by AI [...]
2026-08-25
AI Method Reveals What Genomic Models Learn From DNA and Exposes Hidden Experimental Bias
Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have built an interpretation method that shows, base by base, what a deep-learning model has learned from DNA, and used it to strip a hidden experimental bias out of genomic data. The method, called PISA, is described in a paper published in Nature Communications in August 2026 and announced by the institute on August 25, 2026. Sequence-to- [...]
