An AI artist currently has three songs in Spotify’s Viral 50 playlist, and one of them has caught the attention of Selena Gomez.
Sienna Rose is an AI-generated music creator with 2.7million monthly Spotify listeners, with a biography that describes her as “an anonymous neo-soul singer whose music blends the elegance of classic soul with the vulnerability of modern R&B”.
Iranian authorities have implemented a near-total shutdown of the internet in a crackdown on widespread anti-government protests, but a sliver of the population is keeping in touch with the outside world by satellite.
Starlink, a division of Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, is playing an outsize — and in the eyes of overseas activists, crucial — role in connecting Iran with the rest of the world as the country’s leadership turns to force to try to quash the protests.
Analyst Jeff Pu has provided a short spec sheet for the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and iPhone Fold due in September, which corroborates several previous rumors.
Rumors are beginning to solidify around Apple’s fall iPhone launch, which may only feature three premium models. While Jeff Pu’s data can sometimes be accurate, his assumptions and timelines tend to be too aggressive.
If you follow Anthropic, you’re probably familiar with Claude Code. Since the fall of 2024, the company has been training its AI models to use and navigate computers like a human would, and the coding agent has been the most practical expression of that work, giving developers a way to automate rote programming tasks. Starting today, Anthropic is giving regular people a way to take advantage of those capabilities, with the release of a new preview feature called Claude Cowork.
Google is rolling out Gemini 3 Pro to power AI Overviews in search. The system now automatically routes complex queries to Google’s most powerful language model, while faster models still handle simpler questions, according to Robby Stein, product manager for Google Search.
Google Search Product Manager Robby Stein announced the Gemini 3 Pro integration for AI Overviews. | Stein via X
This intelligent routing already works in AI Mode, Google’s AI-powered search chat, and is now expanding to AI Overviews, the quick answers that appear directly below search queries. The feature is available worldwide in English, but only for paying Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
Stellan Skarsgård has said people are working behind the scenes to find ways of bringing Meryl Streep’s Mamma Mia character “back from the dead”.
Speculation over Mamma Mia 3 has been rife in recent years, with producer Judy Craymer saying back in 2020 that “there was meant to be a trilogy”. The original adaptation of the ABBA jukebox musical came out in 2008 with the sequel, Here We Go Again, arriving in 2018.
