Baby Shark reaches Spotify Billions Club and toddlers are still obsessed
Baby Shark has crossed 1 billion streams on Spotify, and parents of toddlers everywhere probably are not surprised one bit.
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Gen Z loves AI for homework, hates it in their headphones
A new study from Wavelength by MAX surveyed more than 14,000 people and found a striking contradiction at the heart of Gen Z’s relationship with AI. The generation uses it more than anyone else, with 81 percent reporting active use, but it is also the most hostile toward it. More than a third of Gen Z say they would stop liking a song they already enjoy if they found out it was AI generated. That number drops to just 15 percent among Gen X and Baby Boomers. The divide runs deeper than age, cutting across gender, race, and music genre in ways that reveal just how complicated the AI conversation really is.