Spotify and Liquid Death release a limited-edition speaker shaped like… an urn? 

Spotify and Liquid Death launched what might be the wildest product of the year: a speaker shaped like a urn.

YouTube beefs up its $7.99/month Lite subscription with offline downloads and background play

Now the only reason to get the full Premium subscription is ad-free music and music videos.

Music generator ProducerAI joins Google Labs

Wyclef Jean used Google’s AI music tools on his new song “Back in Abu Dhabi.”

Final 4 days to save up to $680 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass

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Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.K. and other markets

Spotify continues to test its AI-powered “Prompted Playlists” feature, now rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden.

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Can the creator economy stay afloat in a flood of AI slop?

On the latest episode of Equity, we debated what’s next for the creator economy, and whether there will be any room for the next generation of creators to stand out.

Trump says Netflix will face ‘consequences’ if it doesn’t fire board member Susan Rice

Netflix board member Susan Rice had predicted that corporations that “take a knee” to Trump will be “held accountable” when Democrats return to power.

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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack

Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia.