Welcome back! We are looking at a bizarre week. Google just made high-fidelity music generation a default feature for millions by dropping Lyria 3 straight into Gemini. At the same time, this absolutely frictionless creation is breaking legacy systems. Academic conferences are currently drowning under a tidal wave of fake research papers generated in under a minute. We also have a look at a new real-time avatar that actually nods while you talk and a major update to how half the internet builds websites.
In today’s Generative AI Newsletter:
Google embeds the Lyria 3 music generator directly into Gemini
Tavus launches a 40 FPS avatar engine that reads human emotions
Academia rejects 2,400 papers a month as AI slop breaks peer review
WordPress builds an AI design assistant directly into its core editor
