>ElevenLabs recently announced a multi-year strategic agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG) spanning licensing and product development. This agreement is separate from Music v2.5.

I am more interested in knowing what this will bring in the future. This is bigger than their 2.5 or whatever version.

Curious to know what you'd like to see in this space ^

Copyrights were the limiting factor for these AI music companies. If they made a deal, the AI songs would be even more indistinguishable from human songs. And these music labels will use more AI and ruin music even further.

I'd say nothing damaged me more than the 90s unrestricted internet and extreme sites.

How soon until someone earns a PhD for studying the harms of goatse?

I still don't get the appeal of OpenRouter. Why not just generate API keys from the providers you want to use, which should not exceed 3-4, I assume, and integrate them into your apps to call them? Are people so lazy, or am I missing something?

If you're making a commercial SaaS, that's probably the way to go. For individual users like me, with a coding harness and some extra BYOK tools, OpenRouter is convenient and the few extra percent don't hurt much. I appreciate being able to try out any new model with just an ID swap, same with inference providers when they prices change. I know I wouldn't enjoy managing 5+ accounts, each with their own balance, in 3+ tools, so this is one thing I'm happy to outsource.

I have multiple commercial products using multiple LLM APIs. My concern is adding an extra 3rd party dependency and markup on top of the API usage. It just freaks me out to build entire apps on 3rd party single-point dependency.

I know many people without a laptop or desktop at home. They don't find it strange. I can't imagine not having at least a laptop in my life.

I know someone exactly like that. He runs a very profitable side business (reselling) using only his smartphone to take pictures, upload them, message customers, emails etc. I'm always baffled how he doesn't at least have some small laptop to help him type out stuff when needed, but he's doing just fine.

This is the reason why I allow certain mac addresses to communicate outside of my house. SonicWall makes it easy.

These TVs will connect to any open wifi and upload your data - your firewall only works for your network.

> SonicWall makes it easy.

This might be the first time I've ever seen anyone say something even slightly positive about SonicWall.

How is that possible? Did you use extreme pressure that penetrated your gums? I use Waterpik every day, and my teeth are cleaner than ever.

Just a guess but perhaps what is in the water may also make a difference

Why the jab at Pokémon go? It was a really fun time at release

Fun until government contractors bought all the private data it collected with an unknown scope

Context: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/12/pokemon-g...

Imho it say something about you that you see people that experiment with new things as "mindless people". I'll go search for my mind now, thanx.

That’s exactly what an experiment is.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/exper...

"a test done in order to learn something or to discover if something works or is true"

A test has usually a hypothesis and a documented result.

Teenagers would experiment a lot less with sex and drugs, if that was the requirement ;)

(Or what would we call the thing the teenagers do?)

Would you call those teenagers mindful?

I a way yes, it is their duty to their future happiness to explore. No doubt some will not word it like that, but I met some that really do (and I envy them, I was indeed a bit mind/clue-less).

Fwiw, I call that experimenting.

And, perhaps in both cases, because they had fun with it?

mindful people as opposed to mindless people don't have fun, they are occupied with bringing value to shareholders /s

Funnily enough, that’s what I expect an Openclaw user to say

This article tells me the author is not that creative. With LLMs, the number of projects I create increases by 1000%.

I think that is the real bottleneck now. Creative people used to be hindered by execution, now you can aim higher.

So for you the point was going from A to B - for me the point is the process for going from A to B. We have different interests. It's not the number of projects - who cares - is the impact every project on you while you build it. At least for me.

I keep trying to get the product people I work with to do personal vibe coding and they haven’t yet. Feels like they should have more ideas than I do.

Being creative and creating things are not the same?

Isn't being creative a requirement to create things? The author complains that he can't do the basic things that LLMs now take care of. And I am saying that if you really have a creative mind, you can come up with 1000s of projects every day and enjoy bringing them to life very fast.

For example, I wanted to build my own note-taking app for a long time because I got sick of Obsidian. Now I built my own, and it is magnitudes better than Obsidian, at least to me and for my use. I built smart home systems with Claude because, without an LLM, it would be too time-consuming to troubleshoot APIs and read all the api documentation. I wanted to test a TTS model, and it took me 10 minutes waiting to test it without reading the documentation. I use it for everyday random creations all day long.

Instead of one tiny project consuming all my week, I can now work on all of them in hours. My /srv folder has over 100 projects of my own, and some of them are parent folders to smaller dependency projects.

Maybe don't buy the product with Windows on it? Without an operating system, people won't buy the laptops, and with Linux, the majority won't buy them. This is bs.