The Verge: The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI. “Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/22/the-verge-the-atlantic-created-a-searchable-database-of-the-music-used-to-train-ai/

PsyPost: AI voice clones are easier to understand in noisy environments than real humans. “Artificial intelligence voice clones tend to be easier to understand in noisy environments than the actual human voices they mimic. This finding provides evidence that synthetic speech technology could significantly improve assistive communication devices for individuals with speech impairments.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/psypost-ai-voice-clones-are-easier-to-understand-in-noisy-environments-than-real-humans/

Reuters: At G7, Macron says he expects progress on broadening access to Anthropic’s Mythos. “French President Emmanuel Macron ​said on Wednesday he believed progress would be made in coming weeks on broadening access to leading U.S. AI ‌models, as G7 leaders pledged closer coordination on the risks and opportunities of frontier AI.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/reuters-at-g7-macron-says-he-expects-progress-on-broadening-access-to-anthropics-mythos/

Waxy: The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows. “The polished site includes everything you’d expect from a publisher’s promotional book site: an author biography, press mentions, and links to buy the book on Amazon…. The book’s original photo-collage illustrations made by Koenig and several other artists are conspicuously missing. Instead, each word has an AI-generated image made […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/waxy-the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/

Nicolas Bouliane: AI is killing All About Berlin. “This is the traffic to All About Berlin, the website that I run since 2017, and live from since 2020. After 7 years of growth, it has lost 70% of its traffic to Google AI Overviews. When you Googled something, you used to get a link to my website. Now you get a page of ads, then an AI-generated answer trained on my content, then finally a link […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/nicolas-bouliane-ai-is-killing-all-about-berlin/

David Bushell: Google just spat in my face. “AI peddlers like Google have made one thing abundantly clear: their product will take your skills. It will take your profession. It will dehumanise you and you’ll pay for it.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/david-bushell-google-just-spat-in-my-face/

Jordan Fulghum: I built a private ChatGPT for my family. “My wife and kids do not want to SSH into anything, manage prompts, pick models, or learn the difference between a tool call and a RAG query. They want the box. I wanted that same shape at home, but private, grounded in our actual family documents, and steerable toward our values instead of some global average. So I built a private […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/jordan-fulghum-i-built-a-private-chatgpt-for-my-family/

Futbol Chronicle: Fake Photos and AI Crowds Have Turned the World Cup Into an Information War. “He was an electrician, some said. A bus driver who played football on the weekends, said others. It was a beautiful story, the amateur who walked off a building site to stun a superpower, and it was shared hundreds of thousands of times. It was also completely false.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/futbol-chronicle-fake-photos-and-ai-crowds-have-turned-the-world-cup-into-an-information-war/

New York Times: Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era. This link goes to a gift article. “Humanizers rewrite A.I.-produced text to make it sound less robotic, formulaic and trite. Autotypers slowly drip words and sentences into documents, making it appear as if papers were typed at a human pace when in fact, they were produced by A.I. They even fabricate typos, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/new-york-times-student-cheating-is-becoming-impossible-to-detect-in-an-a-i-era/

Engadget: Amazon is investigating three employees who spoke out against building more AI data centers . “Five members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) previously testified at Seattle city council meetings about AI data centers. Now, three of them are apparently under investigation by the company.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/engadget-amazon-is-investigating-three-employees-who-spoke-out-against-building-more-ai-data-centers/