Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.K. and other markets After initially testing its AI-powered “Prompted Playlists” feature in New Zealand and recently launching in the U.S. and Canada, Spotify announced on Monday that it’s rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden. Prompted Playlists allows users to create custom playlists by...

OpenAI acquires Promptfoo to secure its AI agents In Brief Posted: 10:49 AM PDT · March 9, 2026 Image Credits:Alex Wong / Getty Images OpenAI announced Monday it has acquired Promptfoo, an AI security startup founded in 2024 to protect LLMs from online adversaries. The frontier lab said in a blog post that once the deal closes,...

VC Eclipse has a new $1.3B to back — and build — ‘physical AI’ startups It takes just a skim of Eclipse’s recent investments to see where this venture firm’s interests lie — and where it is headed. The Palo Alto-based VC, which saw its median deal size explode over the past several years, has poured an increasing amount of money into the “physical world.” Its deals include electric boat...

NASA Artemis II splashes down in Pacific Ocean in ‘perfect’ landing for Moon mission After 10 days, the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft have returned to Earth, their mission around the Moon a success. Integrity, the name of the crew’s spacecraft as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. Pacific...

Canvas hack: company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data19 minutes agoJoe TidyCyber correspondent, BBC World ServiceGetty ImagesA stock image of US university students in examsThe company behind the popular Canvas software, which was hacked last week causing major disruption at thousands of universities and colleges, has paid the hackers not to publish stolen data online.The...