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  1. Spotify Launches Podcast Memberships, Creators Keep 90% RevenueSpotify launched paid podcast memberships in 34 markets on October 20, letting podcasters sell bonus content and perks directly to fans while keeping 90% of the revenue.→
  2. Apple Licenses Huxe Tech, Offers Jobs To Its TeamApple disclosed in an EU filing that it will license technology and offer jobs to staff from Huxe, the personalized AI podcast startup that shut down in May, in a structure known as a reverse acqui-hire.→
  3. Daniel Ek's Body-Scan Startup Neko Opens in USNeko Health, the full-body scanning startup co-founded by Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, has officially launched in the US after opening its first American office in Manhattan.→
  4. Apple Cuts EU App Store Fees to End DMA FightApple will charge a 5% Core Technology Commission on apps distributed through third-party EU app stores, part of a new four-tier fee structure the company says resolves its Digital Markets Act dispute with Brussels.→
  5. Daniel Ek's Neko Health Opens First US Clinic in SoHoNeko Health will open its first American location on September 24 at 300 Lafayette Street in SoHo, with more than 25,000 New Yorkers already on the waitlist, a month after raising a $700 million Series C.→
  6. Apple Proposes 15% Cut on Purchases Outside App StoreApple asked a federal judge to let it charge up to 15% on purchases made through external links inside iOS apps, a court-ordered concession in its long-running Epic Games fight that developers say still falls short of a truly open App Store.→
  7. Suno Adds Watermarks to AI Songs Amid Legal BattlesSuno will add audio watermarking and limit mass downloads after a German court found it liable for copyright infringement, a bid to head off further lawsuits from labels and artist groups.→
  8. Daniel Ek's Neko Health Raises Another $700MNeko Health, Daniel Ek's full-body scanning startup, raised another $700 million, extending one of the largest consumer health-tech rounds of the year as it scales its scanning-clinic network.→
  9. TIDAL Cracks Down on AI Music by Cutting Off MonetizationTIDAL, the streaming service owned by Block, will stop paying royalties on AI-generated music -- demonetizing tracks its systems detect as AI-made without banning them outright. The policy is one of the clearest moves yet by a major platform to protect human artists' royalty pool as a flood of synthetic tracks threatens to dilute streaming payouts.→

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