AI Music by the Numbers: 90,000 Tracks a Day, 50% of Uploads, 3% of Streams
More than half of everything uploaded to Deezer each day is now fully AI-generated. Those tracks pull 1 to 3 percent of streams, and up to 85…
Open Source AI: Myth vs Reality, 96% of Revenue Is Closed, and MIT Weights Are Not Open Source
The word “open” in AI now describes a download button, not a licence, and definitely not a legal status. Two things published on…
AI Writes 52% of Merged Code: DX’s Q2 2026 Report Across 500+ Engineering Orgs
“AI-authored code has nearly doubled, but so has PR size.” That is DX’s own headline on its Q2 2026 findings, and the second…
AI This Week: The Bill Nobody Costed, From 136.5× Energy Per Query to a December 2 Watermarking Deadline
An agentic query can burn up to 136.5× the GPU energy of a single-turn LLM call. The EU AI Act Omnibus watermarking obligation is due December…
5 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About the EU AI Act Omnibus: Watermarking Is Due December 2, 2026
The Digital Omnibus moved two high-risk deadlines to 2027 and 2028. It left the 2 December 2026 watermarking deadline exactly where it was,…
OWASP Ranks Memory Poisoning ASI06, and Detectors Miss 66% of Poisoned Entries
A user chats normally with your agent. No database access, no credentials. Weeks later the agent acts on a memory that user planted, and the…
AI This Week: Nobody Verified the Claim, From 25M Hijacked SIMs to 78% of Codeforces in Training Data
Who actually checked? Five stories between September 7 and 12 turned on a claim nobody verified: a platform covering 25 million SIMs, two…
The METR 19% Slowdown Was Never About AI Being Slow: It Was About the 39-Point Gap Between Feeling and Stopwatch
The most-cited study in AI coding just reversed its own sign, and the number that mattered was never the 19%. It was the 39-point gap between…
AI Model Leaderboards: Myth vs Reality, 2 Votes Flipped #1 and 78% of Codeforces Was in Training
“Dropping just a handful of preferences can change top large language model rankings.” That is the title of an ICLR 2026 poster…
Manifold Security Finds 8 GitSpawn Flaws in 7 AI Coding Agents: All 7 Failed, 4 Unpatched
Seven CLI coding agents were tested against the same trick. Seven failed, and four of the eight findings were still unpatched the day the…
