Fresh from raising another $5bn from Amazon – with potentially up to $20bn more to come – Anthropic is getting back into the details of its legal battle with music publishers. Billboard reported on the […]
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
AI Is Already Training on Music. The Real Question Is: Who Gets Paid?
AI is already learning from music. Quietly, constantly, and at a scale most people don’t fully see yet. While the industry debates hypotheticals, the real shift has already happened. The […]
Amazon will invest up to $25bn more in AI company Anthropic
Despite a damaging fallout with the White House – and ongoing lawsuits from music publishers – AI company Anthropic continues to have no problems raising huge amounts of funding from tech giants. […]
Deezer says that AI-generated tracks are now 44% of its uploads
Deezer has published its latest update on how much AI-generated music is being uploaded to its service. The total now stands at nearly 75,000 tracks a day – 44% of total daily uploads. […]
Greater Music Group aims to rethink the modern label – with AI at its heart
Companies in the music industry are using AI in various ways. But few are doing it quite as ambitiously as Greater Music Group.
OpenAI boss Sam Altman’s ‘World’ gets into concert ticketing
Sam Altman is best known as the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, but he’s got another project called ‘World’ that is suddenly directly relevant to the music industry. Sharply summarised by […]
IngaRose is a hit as SIQA launches ‘AI Music Intelligence’ report
Actually, a quick public service announcement about ‘hit’ first. It may be high time we stopped using ‘is number one on an iTunes chart somewhere’ as a marker for success […]
Spotify roll out its own AI-transparency feature in beta
Last September, Spotify announced a series of measures relating to AI music, spam and deepfakes. They included supporting – and, indeed, revealing for the first time – a new industry standard […]
Audiotool launches a global hackathon for music apps
Music-production firm Audiotool has unveiled ‘Let’s Build’, a series of online and in-person events designed as a hackathon for music apps.
UMG’s Michael Nash sees ‘no audience’ for explosion in AI music
Universal Music Group’s digital chief Michael Nash sat down with Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava at last week’s HumanX AI conference, offering the latest insight into how both companies see the […]
Report explores ‘streaming paradox’ for artists in five countries
The latest study exploring musicians’ views on the music-streaming economy comes from the Oxford Internet Institute and researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. They surveyed 1,200 musicians […]
Chapter Two adds clients for Baltazar AI rights-analysis tool
Outside the GenAI-music arguments, there are plenty of other opportunities for AI technologies to be used positively by the music industry. For example, in the world of catalogue sales and […]


