Technology

Popular music streaming platform Spotify has confirmed that they will be raising their prices from $11.99 to $12.99 a month for Premium users.

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers Australia an exciting opportunity to rise to the next level as an advanced manufacturing powerhouse – but will the country fall behind?

Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk launched a long-teased website X.com on Sunday, redirecting the domain to Twitter, and said he will relabel the social media platform’s iconic blue bird logo as the letter “X,” the latest step in a massive rebranding effort toward what Musk has described as an all-in-one “everything app.”

Spotify plans to raise the price of its advertisement-free premium streaming plan by $1 a month, sources told the Wall Street Journal on Friday, as the streaming giant looks to remain competitive in a growing streaming marketplace, following similar moves by Netflix and Peacock.

Threads has seen a 70% decline in active daily users since its July 7 peak, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower.

Koloma has raised $91 million to drill for hydrogen continuously generated underground. If it succeeds, it could turbocharge the clean energy revolution — and tap a $1 trillion market.

With millions of patients under its belt, digital health startup K Health is looking to scale its artificial intelligence technology in hospitals, starting with new strategic investor Cedars-Sinai.

The surge in share price comes amid an industry standoff with Hollywood actors and writers demanding fair contracts that one analyst deemed a major win for Netflix.

Elon Musk said early Saturday that advertising revenue for Twitter has dropped 50% amid a “heavy debt load,” just as competition between the platform—which recently started to pay creators for advertisements—and Mark Zuckerberg’s rival Threads continues to intensify.

Microsoft still needs to satisfy U.K. regulators to finally close the deal.