YouTube on Thursday unveiled some new experimental AI services, including a feature called Dream Track in YouTube Shorts. It creates up to 30-second soundtracks using AI-generation versions of artists' voices. Though musicians have mostly pushed back on AI (and their voices being used for training models without permission or compensation), YouTube got nine big names from the music industry to participate, including John Legend, Troye Sivan, CharliXCX and T-Pain. The company hoped to announce the feature at its Made on YouTube event in September, but it's been tied up in negotiations with recording companies over rights and payments. Users can access Dream Track by typing an idea into the creation prompt and choosing from one of the participating artists.

YouTube has teamed up with music artists including John Legend and Sia to offer AI-generated versions of their singing voices as soundtracks for creator videos. The Google-owned video platform is using a music generation model created by the search company's AI unit to produce the unique 30-second clips in a limited trial. The nine artists are: Alec Benjamin, Charlie Puth, Charli XCX, Demi Lovato, John Legend, Sia, T-Pain, Troye Sivan and Papoose. YouTube said the experiment, called Dream Track, has been opened to a small group of US creators using its Shorts feature – the platform's answer to TikTok. In a blogpost, YouTube said creators would be able to produce a 30-second soundtrack by typing a text prompt.

Just like in real life, it's in his home's subterranean quadrant, and just like other rooms, his wife's eye for wallpaper designs makes the room pop. The dark neon green walls which appear to house sci-fi experiments give off strong Super Metroid vibes. As T-Pain explains, "She gave me these cause I call my studio'The Lab.'" In addition to the studio essentials -- keyboard, turntables, drum kit, guitar, backup server -- the room also features posters of T-Pain's Animal Crossing muses: his neighbors. "I got all my islanders there, showin' love."

After reports this week that rappers Lil Wayne and Birdman apparently used to place 10,000 bets against one another on computer-simulated matchups in the football video game Madden, the video game's Twitter account responded Thursday saying that perhaps that wasn't the best usage of anyone's George Washingtons. "We do not recommend betting 10K on CPU-simulated Madden games," the EA Sports Madden NFL account tweeted. "Even if you have money to blow." The tale of the 10,000 bets was told by singer/auto-tuner extraordinaire T-Pain during a Twitch live-streaming session of the video game "Doom" Tuesday. TMZ published a video clip of the live stream and it took off.