What changed in AI today

• Toggle hides AI-generated tracks, albums, and related artists from search results once enabled.
• Deezer says a 2025 survey found about 45% of its customers wanted to remove AI music from feeds.
• Reportedly over 50% of daily uploads were AI-generated as of July, about 90,000 tracks per day.

Why it matters for marketers: Content teams distributing music on Deezer may face a listener filter that hides AI-made tracks, so human-made catalogs could gain visibility.

• Zenzap raised $44 million from Bessemer, Lightspeed, The Garage and two individual investors.
• The private messenger offers AI search, task management and voice chat, with paid plans from $51 per month for up to 20 users.
• Clients reportedly include FedEx, Dollar General, Taco Bell, Starbucks, Casey's and Regal; the startup has 50 staff.

Why it matters for marketers: Content teams at companies running frontline staff may face a new option for internal messaging that claims IT and security compliance, unlike consumer apps.

• First Stargardt patient received the PRIMA implant in May, in an ongoing trial at Sydney Eye Hospital, Australia.
• The implant is 2 mm by 2 mm and restores a sharp, black-and-white patch of central vision, reportedly readable letters and words.
• Stargardt disease affects roughly 150,000 people worldwide, according to the company, and is currently considered incurable.
• CEO Max Hodak said a next-generation device is expected in humans within a year, with larger fields of view planned.

Why it matters for marketers: Content teams covering health tech should note the first Stargardt implant is an early trial result, not a commercial product, so claims should stay limited to trial progress.

• Flox sells battery-powered edge devices that identify nearby animals on-device and play species-appropriate sounds to scare them off.
• About 150 Flox devices are live in North America, Europe and Australia, including at airports, rail corridors and substations.
• Alstom is an OEM partner paying an annual fee to deploy Flox software on trains, per the report.
• Flox is opening a $10 million Series A to scale from about 150 devices to several thousand units; it expects about $1.5 million revenue in 2026.

Why it matters for marketers: Infrastructure and mobility teams building physical-AI or wildlife-compliance content now have a concrete edge-AI deterrent example with named deployments and pricing structure to reference.

• Meta is bringing Instagram's Your Algorithm feature to Facebook, letting users add and manage topics for feed and Reels.
• Users can tap interested or not interested from the three-dots menu or under posts, with possible follow-up questions.
• Meta says it is using LLMs more in ranking, so users can describe in their own words what they want to see.

Why it matters for marketers: Content teams should expect feed reach to shift faster with user-stated topic preferences, so audience targeting on Facebook may need rethinking.

• Apps built in Google AI Studio can be installed on Android phones through Play without connecting to a computer.
• The feature launched in the US on Tuesday; personal apps stay separate from the public store catalog.
• Google says sharing an app with a select group of people will be added soon.
• Google positions Play as a route to a professional developer account, with the same Trust & Safety reviews.

Why it matters for marketers: Content and marketing teams testing AI-built prototypes can now put them on Android phones without a computer, though wider sharing is still pending.

• The $8 million seed round was led by Non Sibi Ventures, according to TechCrunch's exclusive reporting.
• Satlyt's software launches Thursday on a SpaceX rocket alongside Google's Project Suncatcher prototype.
• Earlier this year, Satlyt ran Google DeepMind's Gemma model on a Momentus spacecraft, cutting transmission size by over 60%.
• A shared computing cloud across two satellites is planned for next year, with a goal of reaching 20% of satellites by decade's end.

Why it matters for marketers: Space AI is shifting toward software that runs across many operators' satellites, not only hardware makers, so content teams covering orbital computing should track software vendors too.

• Honeyjar automates announcement writing, journalist targeting and speaking-opportunity discovery, per TechCrunch's report.
• Founders Michelle Masek and Nadia Jamshidi say the product aims to bring the whole comms workflow together.
• Waitlist reportedly drew 10,000 signups in the first 24 hours; beta testers include Nextdoor and Bloomberg Beta.
• Masek says customers must still send or publish drafted pitches themselves, keeping a human in the loop.

Why it matters for marketers: Content teams should expect more AI-drafted pitches reaching reporters, and may need to define their own review steps before sending anything to journalists.