Deezer Says 44% of Daily Uploads Are AI-Generated and Google's Material 3 Gets Expressive

Some weeks the big story is a $10B funding round or a regulatory hammer dropping. This week we learned that 44% of songs uploaded to Deezer every day are AI-generated, which is either a watershed moment for synthetic media or confirmation that streaming platforms are now mostly slop repositories. Probably both.

Nearly half of Deezer's daily catalog is synthetic

Deezer disclosed that 44% of the tracks hitting its platform each day are created by AI. That's not 44% of listens or chart positions—it's 44% of uploads. The streaming service didn't break out how much of that material actually gets played, which matters because discovery algorithms and editorial playlists still favor human artists. But the sheer volume is notable.

This isn't just bedroom producers messing with Suno or Udio for fun. If nearly half the daily inflow is synthetic, either a small number of operators are flooding the zone with generated content (likely), or a genuinely large cohort of casual users now treats AI music tools the way they used to treat GarageBand loops (also plausible). Either way, moderation and rights management are about to get significantly more annoying for everyone involved.

Deezer didn't announce new policy changes in the same breath, which suggests they're still figuring out how to handle it. Spotify has been experimenting with AI-generated playlists and background music for a while, but no major platform has drawn a hard line on synthetic uploads yet. If the 44% figure holds across services—and there's no reason to think Deezer is unique—we're looking at a structural shift in how catalogs grow and how recommendation engines have to filter signal from noise.

Samsung's open-ear Galaxy Buds and bone conduction rumors

In hardware news, Samsung appears to be working on Galaxy Buds Able, a new pair of earbuds with an open-ear design. The name surfaced in regulatory filings and early rumors point to possible bone conduction technology, which would be a departure from Samsung's usual in-ear or ANC-focused designs.

Open-ear buds have been a niche category—mostly favored by runners who want situational awareness or people who find silicone tips uncomfortable. If Samsung is going this route, it's either a hedge against AirPods' dominance in traditional form factors or a play for the fitness crowd that Shokz has quietly owned for years. Bone conduction would make sense for that audience, though the audio quality trade-offs are real and Samsung's brand positioning skews toward premium sound.

No release date yet, but the timing lines up with Samsung's usual summer product cadence. We'll know more once the FCC filings go public or someone leaks a render.

Inware 7.0 brings Material 3 Expressive to Android device info

On the software side, Inware—the Android app that tells you everything about your device's specs, sensors, and firmware—just shipped version 7.0 with a full Material 3 Expressive redesign. If you've been following Google's design language updates, Expressive is the latest evolution: more playful typography, wider color palettes, and dynamic theming that pulls from wallpaper colors.

Inware was already one of the better utility apps for Android power users, and this update makes it feel less like a developer tool and more like something you'd actually want to open. The gallery of screenshots shows a much more colorful, less utilitarian interface—ironic for an app whose sole job is to surface dry technical data, but that's the point of Material 3. Even boring apps should feel decent to use.

The update also adds new data points and sensor readouts, though the changelog didn't specify which ones. If you're the kind of person who checks your device's kernel version or wants to know which Qualcomm modem variant you got, this is worth updating.

A quiet Monday everywhere else

The rest of the tech news cycle was unusually slow for a Monday. Apple had organizational shuffles bubbling under the surface, Google Pixel 11 Pro rumors suggest cost-cutting measures might mean less powerful specs, and streaming services are doing their usual weekly content drops. Nothing that demands immediate attention.

Which is fine. The Deezer stat is the one that will matter six months from now when someone writes the "AI slop killed streaming discovery" think piece or when labels start filing DMCA takedowns against generative models trained on their catalogs. We're still in the early phase where platforms are absorbing synthetic content without clear policies, and that window is closing fast.