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Fenix Flexin isn’t even denying using AI to make ‘Rubberz’ anymore

That cover art is almost certainly AI too. | Image: Fenix Flexin It took long enough, but now LA rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have admitted using AI for the 80s synth pop-themed song "Rubberz." His comments follow the producer Medasin's videos claiming that an AI tool called Treblo (formerly Sonauto) was used to make the song, and the company releasing an AI detector that identifies it as Treblo AI-created. In a reply to a comment pointing out that Tyga admitted to relying on AI for his own co

Aug 7, 2026 ·The Verge

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Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough

The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku's latest experiment in the FAST space has less to do with traditionally produced entertainment and is entirely focused on giving viewers access to a constant source of AI-generated content. This week, Roku added four new channels to its library of streamable programming. Along with dedicated feeds for old episodes of Mad TV, Whose Lin

Aug 7, 2026 ·The Verge

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Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck

For developers, the operating assumption has been one engineer, one agent — the model Claude Code and similar tools. At VB Transform 2026, James Zou, associate professor of biomedical data science at Stanford University, argued that assumption is about to break: the next frontier isn't a single, more capable agent, it's tens of thousands of them collaborating. For developers and product builders, the most critical takeaway from Zou’s presentation is how these massive systems are orchestrated. Hi

Aug 7, 2026 ·VentureBeat

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Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong

A VB Pulse survey this June found that 57% of enterprises had traced a confidently wrong agent answer back to missing or inconsistent context — the latest sign of how central context has become to whether AI agents can be trusted to act on their own. Most of the fixes so far have solved a narrower version of that problem: one agent remembering more, in one session. What's been missing is a way for a team of agents to draw on the same context at once, and that gap is where a newer problem is surf

Aug 7, 2026 ·VentureBeat

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