Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts

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Spotify already found success with its popular AI DJ feature, and now the streaming music service is bringing AI to playlist creation. The company on Monday introduced into beta a new option called AI playlists, which allows users to generate a playlist based on written prompts.

But if you read the news, you might notice that men are the far and away most cited, and discussed players in AI today.

The feature will initially become available on Android and iOS devices in the U.K. and Australia and will evolve over time.

Now that we are finally past Y Combinator’s demo day — though our Friday show is worth listening to if you haven’t had a chance yet — we can dive into the latest news.

So, this morning on Equity Monday we got into the chance that the United States might pass a real data privacy law.

Today’s newsletter : 

• Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts

• Could Congress actually pass a data privacy law?

• TechCrunch Minute: Quantum computing’s next era could be led by Microsoft and Quantinuum

• Does technology help or hurt employment?

• North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet

• Sam Bankman-Fried Built a Crypto Paradise in the Bahamas—Now He's a Bad Memory

• Global research hotspots and trends on robotic surgery in obstetrics and gynecology: a bibliometric analysis based on VOSviewer

• Applications of AI and Machine Learning in Finance and Economics

• AI and Resilience

Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts
Summary:

Spotify already found success with its popular AI DJ feature, and now the streaming music service is bringing AI to playlist creation.

The company on Monday introduced into beta a new option called AI playlists, which allows users to generate a playlist based on written prompts.

The feature will initially become available on Android and iOS devices in the U.K. and Australia and will evolve over time.

In addition to more standard playlist creation requests, like those based on genre or time frame, Spotify’s use of AI means people could ask for a wider variety of custom playlists, like “songs to serenade my cat” or “beats to battle a zombie apocalypse,” Spotify suggests.
 
Prompts can reference all sorts of things, like places, animals, activities, movie characters, colors or emojis.

The company notes that the best playlists are generated using prompts that contain a combination of genres, moods, artists and decades, however.

Spotify also leverages its understanding of users’ tastes to customize the playlists it makes with the feature.

Could Congress actually pass a data privacy law?
Summary:

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This is our Monday show, where we dig into the weekend and take a peek at the week that is to come.

Now that we are finally past Y Combinator’s demo day — though our Friday show is worth listening to if you haven’t had a chance yet — we can dive into the latest news.

So, this morning on Equity Monday we got into the chance that the United States might pass a real data privacy law.

There’s movement to report, but we’re still very, very far from anything becoming law.

TechCrunch Minute: Quantum computing’s next era could be led by Microsoft and Quantinuum
Summary:

The tech world is incredibly focused on AI and its applications today, but artificial intelligence is hardly the only place where progress is being made.

If you want to get really into the weeds, pay attention to the progress that quantum computing is making, as made evident recently by an announcement from Microsoft and Quantinuum.

The pair of companies made what TechCrunch described as a “major breakthrough in quantum error correction,” which could make quantum computing systems far more usable than before.

The gist is that they encoded several physical qubits into a single logical qubit, which made it easier to detect and correct errors.

The error rate in quantum computing is a material issue to the technology’s performance, making the news that the two companies managed “run more than 14,000 experiments without a single error” pretty big news.

Does technology help or hurt employment?
Summary:

Ever since the Luddites were destroying machine looms, it has been obvious that new technologies can wipe out jobs.

But technical innovations also create new jobs: Consider a computer programmer, or someone installing solar panels on a roof.

Overall, does technology replace more jobs than it creates?

What is the net balance between these two things?

Until now, that has not been measured. But a new research project led by MIT economist David Autor has developed an answer, at least for U.S. history since 1940.

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North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet

FOR THE PAST two weeks, observers of North Korea's strange and tightly restricted corner of the internet began to notice that the country seemed to be dealing with some serious connectivity problems.

On several different days, practically all of its websites—the notoriously isolated nation only has a few dozen—intermittently dropped offline en masse, from the booking site for its Air Koryo airline to Naenara, a page that serves as the official portal for dictator Kim Jong-un's government. At least one of the central routers that allow access to the country's networks appeared at one point to be paralyzed, crippling the Hermit Kingdom's digital connections to the outside world.


Sam Bankman-Fried Built a Crypto Paradise in the Bahamas—Now He's a Bad Memory

EACH SUNDAY MORNING, the congregation of the International Deliverance Praying Ministry gathers in front of their church, ready to be let in. It’s a modest building in the southside of Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, on an overgrown and potholed street that floods when it rains.

While they wait, a member of the church comes around to take names and write them onto small, pink slips of paper.

The slips are folded, tucked into a box, and later drawn in a lottery.

Global research hotspots and trends on robotic surgery in obstetrics and gynecology: a bibliometric analysis based on VOSviewer

Minimally invasive surgery has gradually become a common surgical procedure with the continuous development of surgical techniques.

The advent of robotic surgical systems is an exciting development in the field of minimally invasive surgery.

Robotic surgical systems provide several benefits, including enhanced precision during the operation, as well as a clearer three-dimensional surgical field of view, thereby ensuring the safety of the operation (1).

Applications of AI and Machine Learning in Finance and Economics

In today's rapidly evolving economic landscape, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in finance and economics has become paramount.

AI, fueled by unprecedented computational power and sophisticated algorithms, has the potential to revolutionize decision-making processes, risk management, and predictive analytics within the financial sector.

Its adaptive capabilities and data-driven insights contribute to more informed strategies, driving efficiency and innovation.

AI and Resilience

Resilience describes the capacity of a system to withstand shocks through various forms of functional or structural adaptation without losing its capacity to operate.

Where it doesn’t arise naturally, it can be designed into existing systems through the introduction of new technology, either in terms of material novelty, by implementing novel practices or by stimulating behavioral change.

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