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Welcome to "On the Net Today". Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we bring you a handpicked selection of three valuable and interesting online resources to help you get the most out of the internet and optimize your browsing time.

Here are the three resources we've prepared for today:

• Perplexity Labs, Perplexity's new tool to generate projects in just 10 minutes

• Spotify publishes its annual report on the music streaming industry

• Pew Research asks what is news

Perplexity Labs, Perplexity's new tool to generate projects in just 10 minutes

One of the leading generative AI companies, Perplexity, announced yesterday the launch of Perplexity Labs, a new advanced product available to its paid subscribers that allows users to create a wide variety of projects with AI assistance in just 10 minutes.

For example, with Perplexity Labs users can create reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, or simple web applications based on extensive research and analysis performed by the tool.

"Perplexity Labs uses a toolkit including deep web browsing, code execution, and chart and image creation to turn your ideas and to-do items into work that's already been done."

To better understand what can be accomplished with Perplexity Labs, the company provides practical examples of projects that have already been created.

Perplexity Labs "can achieve in 10 minutes what would have previously taken days of work, tedious research, and coordination of many different skills," according to the project's announcement.

Links:

• Perplexity Labs

• Introducing Perplexity Labs - Perplexity

• Perplexity’s new tool can generate spreadsheets, dashboards, and more - TechCrunch

Spotify publishes its annual report on the music streaming industry

Spotify has recently published its annual Loud & Clear report on the streaming music economy, which provides concrete data on royalty payments from Spotify to artists and an analysis of the global streaming economy for 2024.

Here are some of the key findings from the report:

Last year, Spotify paid a record amount of over $10 billion to artists on the platform. Since its inception, Spotify has generated nearly $60 billion in payments to artists for royalties.

Over the past decade, these payments from Spotify to artists have increased tenfold, rising from $1 billion in 2014 to $10 billion last year.

More than 200 artists earn over $5 million annually on Spotify. 

Nearly 1,500 artists generated more than $1 million in revenue, and a total of 100,000 artists earned at least around $6,000 last year on Spotify.

Nearly 12 million people have uploaded their music to Spotify.

Links:

• Loud & Clear Report - Spotify 

• The Latest Spotify Data Shows EU Artists Generated a Record-Breaking €1.7B in 2024 

Pew Research asks what is news

The Pew Research Center has recently explored the question of what is news for U.S. citizens and what is not.

This organization periodically asks Americans to what extent they follow the news, where they get it from, and how much they trust it. But at a time when "people are exposed to more information from more sources than ever before and the lines are blurred between entertainment, commentary, and other types of content, these questions are not as straightforward as they once were," its officials explain.

Therefore, they wanted to study what the public understands by "news," and they have discovered that the definition of news is becoming increasingly personal.

Here are some of the study's conclusions:

• Defining news has become a personal and personalized experience. People decide what news means to them and which sources they turn to based on various factors, such as their own identities and interests.

• Most people agree that information must be objective, current, and important to society to be considered news. Personal importance or relevance also appears frequently, both in participants' own words and in their actual behaviors.

• "Hard news" about politics and war remains what people most clearly consider to be news. American adults are more likely to say that election updates (66%) and information about the war in Gaza (62%) are "definitely news."

• There are also consistent views on what is not news. People clearly distinguish between news and entertainment and between news and opinion.

People don't always like the news, but they say they need it: Although many express negative emotions around news (such as anger or sadness), they also say it helps them feel informed or they feel they "need" to stay up to date.

Link: 

• What Is News? – Pew Research Center

• How Americans decide what ‘news’ means to them – and how it fits into their lives in the digital era

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