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Music Ally @musically.com · 4d

ChatGPT reaches 800m weekly users and adds Spotify integration

OpenAI has reached some significant new milestones with its ChatGPT service. “More than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, and we process over six billion tokens per minute on the API,” CEO Sam Altman announced at the company’s…

ChatGPT reaches 800m weekly users and adds Spotify integration

OpenAI has reached some significant new milestones with its ChatGPT service. “More than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, and we process over six billion tokens per minute on the API,” CEO Sam Altman announced at the company’s ‘Dev Day’ yesterday. And, like so many big tech services before it – Facebook, Spotify and others included – ChatGPT is entering its ‘I’m a platform for third-party apps’ phase…

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 4d

I see Robert Jenrick just finished his speech at the Tory conference with "Let’s take our country back". Entirely accidentally *very* similar to an old BNP slogan, of course 🤔

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 5d

@jamesrball.com d'you know anyone who's trying to dig into this from a data perspective?

Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 5d

It's a private company, Musk can do what he wants etc etc. But I wonder if people realise how much far-right stuff is being shoved at users – a lot of it seems to be happening below the surface of what's easily trackable publicly

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 5d

I didn't get round to turning off homescreen notifications either. I get one of these every few days - always far-right / pro-Trump things, despite everything its algo should know about me

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 5d

I don't use my Twitter account any more, but I had to log in to check something.

The 'all notifications' column is 90% far-right tweets. Any basic algorithm analysing at my posting/following history would realise that's anathema to my views.

6 Tommy Robinson tweets in the top 30 served up to me...

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 10d

YEAH! Email came in, clicked on the link and chose standing tix as fast as I could. Think I was lucky as friends literally 30 seconds behind me hit the sold-out wall.

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 25d

And perhaps once investigating imaginary terrorist networks is done, they'll get round to tackling the whole 'children getting shot in schools' thing...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A screenshot from a news report with a quote from an eejit politician.

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milo edwards @miloedwards.bsky.social · 26d

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 27d

Elon Musk really is quite the human being, eh? Jesus…

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · 29d

I just laughed out loud at the final quote :)

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 29d

The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · Sep 8

ChatGPT was only pretending to write a book?
Wow, it really is human.

Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · Jul 16

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...

Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

From the OpenAI community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the OpenAI community

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · Sep 8

I have retired from hard games because I am just not up to it any more! Tiny Bookshop is v much my level now but I am comfortable with that I think - at least until the next GTA is out so I can continue my streak of only getting 2% of the way through it

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · Sep 8

@olihawkins.com hello! Came to check if you’re on here, as we’re in the final week of prep for our eldest son going off to university, and I had a happy flashbacks to ‘10 slices of toast and a pint of tea’ late nights :)

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Music Ally @musically.com · Sep 5

Four of YouTube’s top five songs are from KPop Demon Hunters

YouTube’s latest weekly music charts reveal the continuing domination of Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters, and the artists involved.

Four of YouTube’s top five songs are from KPop Demon Hunters

YouTube’s latest weekly music charts reveal the continuing domination of Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters, and the artists involved.

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · Sep 5

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A screenshot of an article about Reform's Nigel Farage admitting it didn't have "experienced people who had been in government before" and then revealing that his solution to that was Nadine Dorries.

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · Sep 5

Happy artist-birthday!

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hey Mr H! Been a while :)

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hey, congratulations! That's one genuinely nice thing I read on the internet today and it's only 11.01am :)

Also if I haven't said this before, Brian & Roger is wonderful.

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hat tip to Leonardo DiCaprio for serving internet comedians the world over with the perfect feed line...

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

I feel 32, Leonardo DiCaprio says of turning 50

Actor says reaching milestone made him want to not waste time and reveals his top regret is not doing Boogie Nights

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · Jul 15

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says please disperse

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says please disperse

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · Jul 9

The Price of Music – the podcast I co-host with Steve Lamacq – is back today after a short hiatus.

The relaunch episode sees us chatting about AI band The Velvet Sundown; the big numbers around the Oasis reunion; Deerhoof's Spotify protest and more.

Listen here: musically.lnk.to/TPOM

The Price of Music

Your essential weekly music biz explainer – with Steve Lamacq and Stuart Dredge.

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · Jul 6

Made you some promo shots to follow suit :)

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Stuart Dredge @stuartdredge.bsky.social · Jul 6

"One love, for the Mother's Pride (£1.19 a loaf, aisle 10...)"

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