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Suno launches Spark incubator program to feed independent artists to its AI machine

Baidu’s chip unit Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion Hong Kong IPO and asked investors to buy its semiconductors

GPT-5.6 system card indicates Sol is well below the level of most worrisome Mythos use cases, suggesting all GPT-5.6 versions could be released without delay

Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short