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Spotify removed more than 50 million AI slop and spam tracks from recommendations: Spotify said it removed more than 50 million songs it considered AI-generated slop or spam from user recommendations over the past year. In a Tuesday announcement, it said it changed its recommendation system to highlight more music made by human artists.

AI & Media • The Verge AI

Amazon • Amazon

Amazon pledges over €16B in Germany for AWS, AI, satellites and robotics: Amazon pledged to invest more than €16 billion ($17.9 billion) in Germany in 2027, according to Bloomberg. The spending will cover AWS and AI data centers, its Leo satellite program, Prime Video media production, and a Berlin robotics lab.

Study finds LLM reasoning uses 3.7× more inference energy on average: A study measured inference energy for 86 open-weight LLM checkpoints across seven benchmarks and six hardware platforms. Most configurations used a median 2.6–4.8× more energy than another configuration scoring at least as well, with gaps up to 27×; reasoning raised energy about 3.7× on average.

AI Research • arXiv