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Spotify has quietly carried out one of the biggest digital clean-ups in music history, removing a staggering 75 million tracks it deemed “spam” over the past year.The purge, confirmed this week, is the company’s attempt to rein in an avalanche of AI-generated songs overwhelming the platform.And while the number itself is jaw-dropping, the underlying story says even more about where music, technology, and trust collide.According to The Guardian, the majority of these tracks weren’t just harmless experiments.They were churned out at industrial scale—low-quality audio stitched together by algorithms, designed to game the platform’s payment system.Imagine faceless entities flooding playlists with…

Machine-learning models can speed up the discovery of new materials by making predictions and suggesting experiments. But most models today only consider a few specific types of data or variables. Compare that with human scientists, who work in a collaborative environment and consider experimental results, the broader scientific literature, imaging and structural analysis, personal experience or intuition, and input from colleagues and peer reviewers.Now, MIT researchers have developed a method for optimizing materials recipes and planning experiments that incorporates information from diverse sources like insights from the literature, chemical compositions, microstructural images, and more. The approach is part of a…