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⚡ WHAT'S AT STAKE TODAY ⚡
- 🎧📚 Spotify launches an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool
- 💰🤖 Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive 'universal' AI interface
- 🎬📈 Clouted wants to take the guesswork out of making short videos go viral
- 💸📊 Anthropic says it's about to have its first profitable quarter
- 💡🚀 Jensen Huang says he's found a 'brand new' $200B market for Nvidia
- ♻️🤖 With aluminum prices up 20%, recycling startups bet on AI to cash in
- 🔍🤖 Google is pitching an AI agent ecosystem to consumers who may not buy it
- 🔎🌐 Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn't really Google anymore
- 🏛️⏳ Trump delays AI security executive order, saying language 'could have been a blocker'
Spotify integrates ElevenLabs AI to let authors self-publish audiobooks easily.
Spotify launches an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool
Spotify has unveiled a new AI-powered audiobook creation tool built on ElevenLabs technology, giving authors the ability to generate and self-publish audiobooks directly through its Spotify for Authors platform. The announcement was made at the company's Investor Day event, with a beta launch planned for June on an invite-only basis. Initially, the tool will only support English-language content.
One notable aspect of the new feature is that authors won't be locked into any exclusive agreement with Spotify. Books created using the AI tool can be freely distributed on other platforms as well, giving writers full flexibility over where their content lives.
The launch builds on an existing relationship between Spotify and ElevenLabs, which had previously allowed authors to submit audiobooks created on ElevenLabs' platform directly to Spotify. Spotify also had a prior partnership with Google Play Books for digitally narrated content, but ElevenLabs' newer voice models — known for sounding more expressive and natural — appear to have made it the more appealing partner. ElevenLabs had already launched its own self-publishing platform for authors back in 2025.
Beyond the new creation tool, Spotify is also expanding its Spotify for Authors platform to support 10 additional languages: French, Canadian French, German, Dutch, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Danish, and Norwegian. This signals a clear push to bring more non-English speaking authors and listeners into its growing audiobook ecosystem.
Spotify also announced plans to expand its Audiobook+ subscription plans to include higher listening limits, along with future options tailored for students and families. No specific pricing or usage details were shared at this stage.
The platform has already crossed one million Audiobook+ subscriptions and is on pace to generate $100 million in annualized recurring revenue from its audiobook business — a significant milestone that underscores how seriously Spotify is investing in the format.
To improve how users find content, Spotify introduced a new natural language search feature for audiobook discovery. Later this summer, the company will also extend its prompt-based playlist feature — currently available for music and podcasts — to include audiobooks, making it easier for listeners to find curated content based on their preferences.
Spotify's audiobook push has been steady and strategic over the past few years. The company has grown its catalog to over 700,000 titles, expanded into international markets, invested in non-English content, enabled in-app purchases, and launched audiobook charts. Earlier this year, it also introduced a program allowing authors to sell physical books in both the U.S. and the U.K.
The results speak for themselves: Spotify reports a 60% year-on-year increase in audiobook listening hours, and more than half of its current audiobook listeners joined the platform within the last year alone. With its latest tools and expansions, Spotify appears determined to become a dominant force in the audiobook market.
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AI startup Hark secures $700M Series A at a $6B valuation.
Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive 'universal' AI interface
AI startup Hark has raised $700 million in a Series A round, valuing the company at $6 billion. Led by Parkway Venture Capital, the round includes Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and others. Founded by serial entrepreneur Brett Adcock, Hark is developing a universal AI personal assistant combining software and custom hardware.
The company plans to release its first multimodal models this summer, targeting everyday consumers rather than developers. With 70 employees and a former Apple design executive on board, Hark aims to build AI interfaces that genuinely serve ordinary people — a space it believes remains largely untapped.
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⚡ Trends for the Future
Trump delays AI security executive order, saying language 'could have been a blocker'
Trump pauses AI security order, citing concerns it could hinder U.S. tech leadership.
President Donald Trump has decided to delay signing an executive order that would have allowed the government to evaluate AI models for security risks before their public release. Trump stated he was unhappy with certain elements of the order's language, telling the White House press pool, "We're leading China, we're leading everybody, and I don't want to do anything that's going to get in the way of that leading."
According to multiple reports, there was also a more informal reason behind the delay — not enough tech CEOs were able to travel to Washington, D.C. on short notice. Given the high-profile nature of such signings, the lack of a proper audience apparently played a role in pushing the event back.
The executive order itself was designed to address growing national security concerns surrounding increasingly powerful AI systems. It would have tasked the Office of the National Cyber Director and other federal agencies with developing a formal evaluation process for AI models before they reach the public. The order came partly in response to the recent releases of Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Cyber, both of which have demonstrated a notable ability to identify and exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities at speed.
One of the most contentious provisions in the draft order, as reported by CNN, was a requirement that AI companies share their most advanced models with the government anywhere between 14 and 90 days before their planned launch. This pre-release sharing window appears to have been a major sticking point for the administration and potentially for the industry as well.
Trump summarized his concerns by saying the language in its current form "could have been a blocker" — suggesting that while the administration remains open to AI oversight measures, it is cautious about any regulation that might slow down American dominance in the global AI race. The order is expected to be revised before any future signing takes place.
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