Fake AI Artist Goes Viral on Spotify & More Americans Are Surviving Cancer

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

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Episode 758: Neal and Toby chat about the controversy of Sienna Rose, a trending artist on Spotify whose music is being widely shared…except for the fact that it is likely made by AI, says Deezer. Then, China reaches a record $1.2 trillion in trade surplus, highlighting the little effect Trump’s tariffs are having. Also, a new study says the average age of new hires is getting older. Meanwhile, Neal dives into the numbers of cancer survival, Delta’s earnings, and a billionaire land owner. Finally, what the heck happened with Verizon? Explore Indeed’s full findings at https://www.indeed.com/2026hiringtrends Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠ Watch Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.7	Good morning for Daily show. I'm Neil Fryman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today the AI singer
0:37.4	rising up the Spotify
0:38.7	charts. Then the U.S. workforce is older than ever. It's Thursday, January 15th. Let's ride.
0:50.2	Good morning and happy 25th birthday to Wikipedia.
0:57.5	The website your history teacher said you couldn't use as a source.
1:02.2	On this day in 2001, the earliest edit on Wikipedia homepage proclaimed,
1:09.8	this is the new Wikipedia, and the user-generated information storehouse has now grown to more than 66 million articles across all languages.
1:11.9	If you were to try to read every English Wikipedia page, it would take you about 38 years. But here's my favorite bit of
1:17.7	Wikipedia lore, the Scrappy Doe article. By 2020, the Scrappy Doe Wikipedia page had become
1:24.1	absurdly long at nearly 26,000 words, a higher word count than Kafka's
1:29.7	The Metamorphosis, and almost 2,000 words longer than the Wikipedia entry for the history
1:33.9	of Poland. It had six sections, 15 subsections, and 19 sub-subsections. It's since been
1:40.9	shortened by editors, but just goes to show you how niche things can get on Wikipedia.
1:45.5	Oh, scrappy do. I never understood where he came from or what his vibe was, so I needed, you know,
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