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ElevenLabs just released Music v2, and it does something no AI music tool could before: shift genres within a single track-moving from opera to heavy metal and back-without losing coherence, timing, or rhythm. They also cut prices by up to 50%. |
While OpenAI has built the feature with strict privacy barriers, will users be comfortable sharing their most sensitive information with an AI? The move tests the boundaries between AI as a creative tool and a trusted personal companion. |
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ElevenLabs' Music v2 switches genres mid-track Robinhood opens brokerage accounts to AI agents Devin AI raises $1B at $26B valuation |
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What's new? ElevenLabs released Music v2, a major upgrade to its AI music generation platform that lets a single song move from opera to heavy metal and back without losing musical coherence-alongside improved per-section editing tools and up to 50% lower pricing. |
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Music v2 introduces improved inpainting: select any section of a track and regenerate just that part-a bridge, a verse-without touching the rest of the song, giving creators surgical editing control. All generated music was trained on licensed data through a partnership with music company Believe, making it cleared for commercial use with no sync fees or clearance delays. ElevenLabs cut pricing by up to 50% on the ElevenAPI and up to 40% on ElevenCreative self-serve, significantly lowering the barrier for developers and small creative studios. |
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Genre flexibility and per-section editing bring AI music generation closer to how real music producers actually work. With commercial licensing already solved, Music v2 removes two of the biggest blockers-creative limits and legal friction-in a single release. |
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What's new? Robinhood launched Agentic Trading in beta, becoming the first major brokerage to let third-party AI agents execute real stock trades on behalf of users-via dedicated accounts connected through Model Context Protocol. |
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Agents connect through Robinhood's MCP server, letting them analyze portfolio risk, review analyst notes, and execute trades within preset budgets-all without leaving the AI's interface. Safety controls include fraud detection, user approval requirements for certain trades, and rollback capabilities-Robinhood's answer to real concerns about giving AI agents actual financial power. Agentic Trading currently supports equities only, with options, crypto, futures, and event contracts planned as the product moves out of beta. |
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Robinhood is betting that power users want AI to actively manage portfolios-not just offer recommendations. With Stripe, Amazon, and Google building similar agent-payment infrastructure, the shift toward AI as a financial actor rather than just an advisor is accelerating across the industry. |
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What's new? Cognition, the company behind Devin AI, raised $1 billion in Series D funding at a $26 billion valuation-more than doubling its $10.2 billion valuation from just eight months ago-with $492 million in annualized revenue and a target of $1 billion by year-end. |
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Devin autonomously plans, writes, debugs, and deploys code across complex multi-step workflows-making it a genuine end-to-end AI developer, not a code completion tool. More than 90% of Cognition's own internal code is now written by Devin, making the company its most aggressive early adopter. Enterprise customers include Goldman Sachs, NASA, Mercedes-Benz, and Santander-demonstrating that the technology has cleared the credibility bar for regulated industries. |
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Cognition's growth from $37 million to $492 million ARR in 12 months is one of the fastest revenue ramps in enterprise software history. The round signals investor confidence that agentic coding-not just AI-assisted coding-is where enterprise software is heading. |
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YouTube rolled out automatic AI content detection across long-form videos and Shorts, applying disclosure labels even when creators haven't disclosed AI use-with labels now appearing directly below the video player rather than buried in the description. |
OpenRouter raised $113 million in a CapitalG-led Series B at a $1.3 billion valuation, more than doubling its worth in a year while processing 100 trillion AI model tokens monthly across 8 million users and over 400 models. |
Universal Music Group renewed its licensing agreement with TikTok to combat unauthorized AI music, expanding detection systems for AI-generated tracks that replicate artists' voices or styles without permission. |
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