Are you falling victim to ‘AI Slop’?
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Welcome back to the latest edition of Quantious’ Tech Roundup, where you gain exclusive insights into the tech news you need to know to stay at the top of your game.
Today, we’re covering the release of Claude Haiku 4.5, Pinterest’s controls for limiting AI in feeds, Spotify partners with record labels to create ‘artist-first’ AI music products, and Anthropic’s ‘Skills for Claude’.
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Top Tech Highlights
Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 4.5, a faster and more affordable small model that matches the coding performance of the former frontier model, Claude Sonnet 4, at one-third the cost and over twice the speed. It’s optimized for real-time tasks like chat assistants, coding, and customer service, offering developers high performance through the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.
Pinterest adds controls to let you limit the amount of ‘AI slop’ in your feed
Pinterest has launched new tools allowing users to control how much AI-generated content appears in their feeds, following backlash over an influx of “AI slop.” The platform plans to make GenAI content labels more visible and expand its moderation systems as AI imagery now makes up over half of all online content. Critics warn that if left unchecked, the spread of AI-generated posts could damage Pinterest’s credibility and user trust.
Spotify partners with record labels to create ‘artist-first’ AI music products
Spotify has partnered with major record labels including Sony, Universal, Warner, and Merlin to create “responsible AI” tools that ensure artists and songwriters are fairly compensated and can choose whether to use AI. The company’s new initiatives come after criticism over AI-generated music flooding the platform, prompting updates to its policies and labeling systems. Spotify is also developing a generative AI research lab and product team to build technologies that prioritize consent, copyright, and artist control in the evolving AI music landscape.
Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work
Anthropic has introduced “Skills for Claude,” a new feature that lets users create customized folders of instructions and resources to make Claude more effective at specific work tasks. Early adopters such as Box, Rakuten, and Canva are already using the feature, which aims to make AI agents genuinely useful by teaching them to perform within each company’s unique context.
What You Really Need to Know
Smarter, Faster, and More Thoughtful AI
This week’s AI updates show the industry maturing in all the right ways—Pinterest giving users more control, Spotify putting artists first, and Anthropic building tools that make AI genuinely useful instead of just impressive.
It’s a shift from novelty to nuance, where innovation comes with intention. Together, these moves hint at an AI era that’s not just powerful, but actually considerate of the humans using it.
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