Daily Tech & AI News Digest

**🎉 Today’s Tech & AI News Digest 🎉**

🔍 Users Push Back Against Google’s AI-First Search
DuckDuckGo installs surge as users reject Google’s shift from traditional search results to AI-driven agents and summaries.

🚀 Starlink Wins Major Airline Wi-Fi Deal
American Airlines will deploy SpaceX’s Starlink across 500+ planes, strengthening Starlink’s dominance in inflight connectivity ahead of its IPO.

🤖 India’s Gig Economy Trains the Next Generation of Robots
Startup Human Archive is using India-based gig workers wearing camera-equipped caps to gather real-world data for training physical AI systems.

💰 OpenRouter’s Rapid Rise as an AI Gateway
AI infrastructure startup OpenRouter more than doubled its valuation to $1.3B in a year after raising a $113M Series B led by CapitalG.

🎵 TikTok and Universal Music Clamp Down on AI-Generated Songs
UMG and TikTok renewed their licensing deal with new commitments to remove unauthorized AI-generated music and better protect artists.

📱 Google Health App Sparks Fitbit User Backlash
Google’s AI-powered Health app replaces the Fitbit app, but users complain about lost features and a degraded tracking experience.
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/937534/google-health-fitbit-app-ai

🎧 Spotify Expands AI-Narrated Audio Content
Spotify now offers AI-narrated long-form magazine articles, further blending audiobooks, podcasts, and text-to-speech content.

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