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Google hit with $15 million verdict in US trial over audio patents
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Google hit with $15 million verdict in US trial over audio patents

[ad_1] Alphabet's Google must pay patent-holding company Personal Audio LLC $15.1 million for infringing two patents related to audio software, a Delaware federal jury said in a verdict made public on Wednesday.Personal Audio had argued that Google's music app Google Play Music featured playlist downloading, navigation, and editing features that violated its patent rights. The jury also said that Google infringed the patents willfully, which could lead to a judge increasing the award by up to three times the verdict amount. Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said on Wednesday that the company was disappointed with the verdict and plans to appeal. He said the verdict concerns a "discontinued product" and would not affect customers.A spokesperson for Personal Audio's law firm Stradling Yo...
Google’s new AI can generate music from text
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Google’s new AI can generate music from text

[ad_1] AI that can generate minutes-long musical pieces from text prompts, and can even transform a whistled or hummed melody into other instruments. Researchers from American tech giant Google have created an AI that can generate minutes-long musical pieces from text prompts, and can even transform a whistled or hummed melody into other instruments, similar to how systems like DALL-E generate images from written prompts, reported The Verge, an American technology news website, via TechCrunch. According to the outlet, the model is called MusicLM, and while you can't play around with it for yourself, the company has uploaded a bunch of samples that it produced using the model. The examples are impressive. There are 30-second snippets of what sound like actual songs created from p...