🍪 The AI music battle heats up

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In the oven this week:

• 🤖 Grimes makes waves in the AI music battle
• 🍪 Cookie crumbs: 5 bite-sized headlines
• 📈 Chart of the week: the shortness of life
• 🗳️ Poll of the week: how are the people doin’?
• 🍫 Chocolate chips: our 3 favorite finds on the internet
• 😂 Snickerdoodles: memes for the weekend

FRESHLY BAKED: THE AI MUSIC BATTLE HEATS UP

If you’ve been on social media at all, you’ll know that AI music has been straight poppin’ off.

Why?

Everyone’s using AI to create songs with popular artists’ voices. Think Kanye singing a Taylor Swift song.

Here’s a popular track from “The Weekend” and “Drake,” and we gotta say, it’s pretty impressive. Dare I say more impressive than some of the actual songs they’ve released?? 🫢 Ok ok, a debate for another time.