The digital media landscape is undergoing a rapid, AI-driven transformation, making today's users more like professional creators and curators than ever before. This week's news highlights a massive upgrade in both the tools we use and the experiences we have with content, from music to video and design.
Streaming giants are fighting for dominance by empowering their users: Spotify is blurring the line between listener and DJ with custom playlist transitions and enhancing social interaction with a new in-app DM feature, while also giving a major upgrade to free users by allowing specific song playback. Meanwhile, YouTube Music is directly challenging its rival with a new playlist feature of its own.
On the creation front, Artificial Intelligence is moving out of the lab and into everyday software. Users can now harness the power of AI image generation like Google's Nano Banana model directly within text programs like LibreOffice, and advanced editing tools are becoming more accessible, such as Google Vids video editor becoming free for all Workspace users and Windows Paint receiving a major, Photoshop-like upgrade. Even sophisticated features like Google's "Help me edit" photo technology are expanding to more Android phones.
However, this rapid adoption of AI is not without its controversies. While an AI musician secures a multi-million dollar record deal, platforms like Spotify are preparing to introduce AI labels and spam filters to manage the influx of "AI music slop." As AI-generated videos become increasingly realistic, the challenge of identifying them online is becoming a serious media literacy issue.
Finally, the home experience is getting smarter, with Microsoft Copilot coming to Samsung TVs to act as a voice assistant. This collection of updates confirms that the next era of tech is defined by powerful, intelligent tools that bring professional-grade capabilities to the average user, dramatically changing how we create, share, and experience media.
Now more than ever, Spotify's newest feature will make you feel like a professional DJ.You've already got the perfect playlist, now Spotify lets you add and customize transitions between songs. On Tuesday, Spotify launched a beta version for Premium users to add song transitions. SEE ALSO: OMG: Spotify lossless might...
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To celebrate its 10th birthday, YouTube Music is adding a new type of playlist to try, and it's giving Spotify vibes. Here's how it works.
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There's a new extension that adds Stable Diffusion to LibreOffice documents.
The messaging feature lets you discuss your favorite songs, audiobooks, and podcasts while staying in the app.
Google announced Wednesday a bit of good news for Workspace users: Vids, a video-editing tool, will be made free for all users. Previously, it was a paid add-on. Not everything from Vids is free, however. If you want all the new AI-powered bells and whistles, you'll still need to pay up. You might not have previously heard of Vids — after all, it was...
Samsung users can now talk to Copilot on their TVs. Microsoft teamed up with Samsung to bring Copilot to select TVs and monitors for discovering what to watch and more. Copilot is now available as a voice assistant app on Samsung's 2025 lineup of TVs and monitors. For TVs that includes Micro RGB, Neo QLED, OLED, The Frame Pro and for monitors, the M7,...
Designed for online games and audio calls, Microsoft's new technology aims to prevent the muffled audio you often hear over Bluetooth headsets.
When you first think of AI, you probably think of a text-based AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Google Gemini. But AI tools are getting a lot more versatile. Even basic AI chatbots now offer a range of media creation tools, including AI image generation.But what's the best AI image generator? That's exactly what I set out to find.While the average user will...
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The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards are underway, honouring some of the biggest names and best shows in television over the past year. Hosted by comedian Nate Bargatze, this year's Emmy ceremony is once again being held at L.A. Live's Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Fortunately, those in the U.S. who weren't blessed with an invitation will still be able...
Spotify free users can now search and play specific songs with an actually decent update announced Monday.Detailed in a company blog post, the audio streamer now lets non-paying users play any track or podcast by searching directly for it, a feature previously only available with the paid tier, Spotify Premium.Ad-supported accounts had to previously...
Google launched the Nano Banana image generator in late August, and it's been building momentum through word of mouth ever since. The new model, officially dubbed Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, actually shot to the top of the LMArena AI leaderboard under its Nano Banana code name before Google officially rolled it out in its Gemini AI chatbot and app.Users...
Microsoft has been steadily transforming Paint into a more robust and advanced image editor. Here's how to try its latest features.
The debate around AI-generated music and who profits from it continues.
The long-awaited AI assistant upgrade has arrived. Here's what it can do, and which TV models will be first to support it.
Google announced Tuesday that all Android users can now use Gemini AI for "conversational photo editing" — a perk that was previously exclusive to the Pixel 10, which launched in August.The tool is straightforward: open the editor, hit “Help me edit,” and describe what you want Gemini to do. It can handle the basics — lighting tweaks, object removal,...
When AI slop started making the rounds on Spotify — bands like The Velvet Sundown for instance — users urged Spotify to do something about it. They wanted a label showing that the music on their Discover Weekly and recommendations was actually created by AI. Some users even went so far as to
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