Five Things Tech: Faking it, AI Drake, SaaS, Wind Farms, Retail
Tech is not getting boring anytime soon. Read what's important now.
I know that this is a newsletter about Tech, but I have to start this newsletter with another, much more important topic.
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I think the most interesting stuff that happened this week in tech is AI creating music that actually sounds “real”. This will change the way we think about synthetic audio and create new possibilities for artists. It will also change the way music gets produced, creating new challenges for artists.
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The End of Faking It in Silicon Valley
As money gets more expensive, people start looking more closely into what kind of startups they are investing in. That’s actually a very healthy development. (New York Times)
This AI Drake rip-off already has 250,000 plays on Spotify. How will the music industry respond?
This development has the potential to be way more disruptive than Napster, and that tore the music industry apart at the seems when it started. (Music Business Worldwide)
The Rebirth of Software as a Service
SaaS had a hard time last year and after this shock we’ll see new SaaS models and a different approach to marketing and sales for SaaS products. (Harvard Business Review)
Wind Farms and Birds Are Learning to Coexist
For a long time fans of fossil fuel technology had one argument against wind farms. Now scientists found out that birds can learn how to navigate through wind farms. This is good news for our planet. And also for the birds. (Reasons to be cheerful)
Major retail players are walking back their metaverse strategies
It really looks like the metaverse party is over for now. I guess we all have spent too much time in front of our screens in the last couple of years and rather interact with people in real life. (Modern Retail)
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