The Guardian AI
Blake Mackenzie, a 12-year-old from Newcastle, won the top youth prize at the Australian Poetry Slam with a poem about artificial intelligence performed at the Sydney Opera House; the competition ran 65 heats across 60 towns and cities to find 16 finalists and is in its 22nd year.
TechCrunch
Aisha Malik for TechCrunch profiles six reading apps — Fable, Bookshelf, Pagebound, StoryGraph, Margins and others — highlighting tracking, social features, discovery tools and subscription tiers; Goodreads is explicitly excluded from the list in favor of newer platforms.
Aisha Malik for TechCrunch profiles six reading apps — Fable, Bookshelf, Pagebound, StoryGraph, Margins and others — highlighting tracking, social features, discovery tools and subscription tiers; Goodreads is explicitly excluded from the list in favor of newer platforms.
20minutos
20minutos reports that Baby Queen is an AI-generated pop group from China and that one of its virtual singers, Mity, posted that she is "pregnant" and will temporarily leave the group to rest and recover.
20minutos reports that Baby Queen is an AI-generated pop group from China and that one of its virtual singers, Mity, posted that she is "pregnant" and will temporarily leave the group to rest and recover. The Daily Mail is cited as saying fans invented the pregnancy as a plot device because managing the four virtual identities was becoming difficult. 20minutos also states that AI-generated characters are increasingly common in entertainment in China, Japan and Korea, and that AI-created TV characters have appeared as commercial ambassadors.
Revue AS
RENÉ 26, the second Rencontres Européennes des Nouvelles Écritures founded in 2025 by Jean Boillot and his company La Spirale, will take place in Metz on 26 and 27 October and foregrounds theatrical writing as a way to explore telepresence, distributed performance and the integration of conversational AI and chatbots as stage agents.
RENÉ 26, the second Rencontres Européennes des Nouvelles Écritures founded in 2025 by Jean Boillot and his company La Spirale, will take place in Metz on 26 and 27 October and foregrounds theatrical writing as a way to explore telepresence, distributed performance and the integration of conversational AI and chatbots as stage agents.
20minutos
Spotify says it updated its recommendation system to reduce low-quality or spam music—much of it linked to AI—and to increase visibility for authentic artists; the company reports removing more than 75 million spam tracks from the platform and has already excluded over 50 million tracks from recommendations this year while keeping them hosted.
Spotify says it updated its recommendation system to reduce low-quality or spam music—much of it linked to AI—and to increase visibility for authentic artists; the company reports removing more than 75 million spam tracks from the platform and has already excluded over 50 million tracks from recommendations this year while keeping them hosted.
La Vanguardia
Xavier Nueno (born 1990) won the Anagrama de Ensayo 2026 for La revuelta de los copistas, a book that argues that technology companies have appropriated the intellectual and creative holdings once stewarded by libraries and turned them into subscription commodities; Nueno frames the library as today’s most profitable monetization machine and traces the story through figures such as copyists and librarians, ending with large-scale piracy and mass scanning by AI companies.
Xavier Nueno (born 1990) won the Anagrama de Ensayo 2026 for La revuelta de los copistas, a book that argues that technology companies have appropriated the intellectual and creative holdings once stewarded by libraries and turned them into subscription commodities; Nueno frames the library as today’s most profitable monetization machine and traces the story through figures such as copyists and librarians, ending with large-scale piracy and mass scanning by AI companies.