That’s it. I officially declare it the “will circle back in the new year” time of year. 

Here’s some news: 

🍎 Apple is halting sales of its series 9 smartwatch over a patent dispute. 

🤖 OpenAI is beefing up its security team and giving the board veto power. 

📹 TikTok has updated its app to serve tablets and foldables better.

Remember NFTs? They were the big craze before AI. For the most part, it boiled down to buying and trading things like images, videos, and audio snippets for cryptocurrency. 

With them, you get a digital receipt of ownership. NFTs dropped off just as AI was taking the world by storm, but now the latter wants to bring back the former. 

Korus is an AI music platform built and launched by Deadmau5. Yes, that Deadmau5. It operates as a suite of tools for discovering, creating, and purchasing music. 

The main tool is something called “Sound Mosaic.” Users can upload stem files (audio split into four channels), and an algorithm will compose a new track from those stems. From there, Korus will pay users for every new track and grant ownership, which means royalties. 

Users can then purchase music as a digital collectible (NFT) with Korus’s own currency called “NOIZ.” You can earn NOIZ by selling music, of course, but also by engaging with the platform by making tracks, sharing content, etc. 

Other features such as “Scenz” use AI to generate captivating visuals to accompany your tracks, which can be something as simple as an animated background to more complex creations like 3D worlds.

It’s safe to say that AI is changing the world, and when combined with tech like NFTs, it could lower the barrier to entry for becoming a successful artist. You’ll never know until you…

• Jive is a new app designed to make it easier to connect with people at events. 
• MealByMeal is a subscription-based meal tracker to count calories and macros.
• AI Clips turns your long-form videos into potentially viral shorts. 

• Creatify uses AI to generate short video ads in seconds.
• Pieces Copilot is a coding copilot that uses AI to understand and fix your code.
• TheyDo links all your customer insights, opportunities, and solutions into one interface.