​If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at Moscone West!    

​Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories and reasoning behind their favorite music. Editors will be using the feature, too, on top playlists like RapCaviar and others.  

​Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.  

​Reddit is beginning to test video and audio versions of popular posts, allowing users to watch or listen to Reddit stories instead of just reading them.  

​Sonic Fire Tech raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitchens to apartment buildings.  

​The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.  

​Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly “unusable” for some users, while complaints about its mobile apps and customer support are adding to frustrations.  

​Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever’s available online.  

​Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.  

​Nvidia’s investment in SoftBank’s data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.