Wikidata’s next leap: the open database powering tomorrow’s AI and Wikipedia

Many people have never heard of Wikidata, yet it’s a thriving knowledge graph that powers enterprise IT projects, AI assistants, civic tech, and even Wikipedia’s data backbone. As one of the world’s largest freely editable databases, it makes structured, license-free data available to developers, businesses, and communities tackling global challenges. With a gleaming new API,…

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Spotify had to pull an AI-generated song that claimed to be from an artist who passed away 36 years ago

AI-generated songs by deceased artists, like Blaze Foley, have been falsely uploaded to Spotify The streaming service is taking them down as they are spotted The tracks slipped past Spotify’s content verification processes through platforms like SoundOn Last week, a new country song called “Together” appeared on Spotify under the official artist page of Blaze…

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Microsoft servers hacked by Chinese state-backed groups, firm says

Chinese “threat actors” have hacked Microsoft’s SharePoint document software servers and targeted the data of the businesses using it, the firm has said. China state-backed Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon as well as China-based Storm-2603 were said to have “exploited vulnerabilities” in on-premises SharePoint servers, the kind used by firms, but not in its cloud-based…

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