More top reads Adobe is spinning music: Adobe is getting in on the generative AI–powered music editing and creation with Project Music GenAI Control, a platform that can generate audio from text descriptions or a reference melody and let users customize the results within the same workflow. Totango and Catalyst are merging: No money is changing hands, though. Think of this merger as two customer success companies coming together to take on the market's Goliath. Speaking of mergers: Reliance and Disney are merging their media businesses in India to create the largest media entity in the South Asian market, valued at $8.5 billion. Reliance thinks it's great. Disney, maybe not so much. We are family, a StarCoder family: Hugging Face and ServiceNow teamed up to create StarCoder, an open source code generator with a less restrictive license than some of the others out there. Now there's StarCoder 2. However, this isn't just one code-generating model, but three. Bumble is rethinking its vision: That's after announcing weak earnings and massive job cuts this week. Part of the plan includes pumping new life back into its Bumble BFF friend-finding business. Guess who works at Bluesky now?: Aaron Rodericks, Twitter's former Trust and Safety team co-led, is now heading up Trust and Safety over at X rival Bluesky. You may remember Rodericks became known more publicly after becoming the target of a right-wing campaign on X. Car talk: We learned that Motional, the autonomous vehicle joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, told employees it will cut about 5% of its workforce. It's not a lot of its employees, but considering it made a 10% layoff in late 2022, it adds up. Meanwhile, Polestar secured a $950 million loan in what was described as "critical funds" needed to keep its electric vehicle plans moving forward after Volvo decided to pull back its financial support of the electric automaker. | 
