Music IP Holdings (MIH), formed through a partnership between Universal Music Group (UMG) and Liquidax Capital, announced on Thursday (Aug. 20) that AI music start-ups Udio and GRAI are the first two …
Music IP Holdings, formed last year in partnership with Universal Music Group and Liquidax, has licensed a portfolio of more than 24 patents covering AI-generated music creation, moderation, watermark…
Epoch AI estimates the effective stock of quality-adjusted public text at roughly 300 trillion tokens, which frontier developers could exhaust between 2026 and 2032, signaling the end of the scrape-fi…
Alibaba Cloud launched Fun-Music, a beta AI music-generation model that creates complete songs with lyrics, melody, arrangement, and vocals from text prompts, available in limited preview to users in …
Suno released Studio 2.0, adding MIDI support, multitrack arrangement, and stem generation for up to 12 stems, positioning its platform as a 'Generative Audio Workstation' for music production. The up…
Suno, the AI-music generator sued by three major labels in 2024, announced a partnership and preemptive settlement with BMG, the fourth-largest music company, covering recorded music and publishing an…
Spotify will add 'AI Persona' badges to artist profiles starting in mid-September to label AI-generated personas, the company confirmed Tuesday. The badges aim to clarify whether a creator is human or…
Spotify will affix 'AI Persona' labels to artist profiles it determines are AI-generated starting in mid-September, excluding them from algorithmic recommendations, as part of its effort to combat fak…
MuseGen ranks itself as the best overall AI music generator of 2026 in its own guide, scoring tools on audio quality, creative control, ease of use, export options, and value. Suno is named best for v…
AI music company Suno will impose download limits starting Sept. 3, capping free users at seven total downloads, Pro subscribers at 20 per month, and Premier subscribers at 60 per month, as part of an…
As of 2026, commercial rights for AI-generated music vary by platform: Suno Pro ($10/month) grants commercial rights to new songs, ElevenLabs Music Starter ($6/month) offers commercial use from an opt…
Playback singer Madhubanti Bagchi called current generative AI music tools "stupid" and "more annoying than unnerving," citing their lack of intentionality compared to human performance. Her remarks c…
The Munich Regional Court ruled on 31 July that Suno, a Massachusetts-based AI music generator valued at around $5.4bn, infringed copyright by training on songs represented by GEMA, Germany's state-ma…
The Atlantic has created a searchable database revealing that music from 21 million artists, including Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift, was secretly used to train AI music generators like Suno and Udio. So…
The United States leads global AI music adoption in 2026, accounting for roughly 15% of Suno's app downloads and about 17.5% of web traffic to leading platforms such as Suno, Udio, and MuseGen, accord…
Sony Music Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against AI music platform Udio, alleging illegal copying of over 30,000 songs from artists including Beyoncé, Harry Styles, and Elvis Presley to train its …
Deezer said this week that AI-generated songs made up more than 50% of its June uploads, a first for the French streamer, with about 90,000 AI tracks uploaded daily. Fully AI tracks account for just 1…
Sony Music has filed a new lawsuit against AI music generator Udio, alleging it copied more than 30,000 songs from artists including Beyoncé, Michael Jackson, and Elvis Presley without permission to t…
Sony Music Entertainment filed a new lawsuit against AI music generator Udio, alleging the startup illegally copied over 30,000 songs from artists including Beyoncé, Harry Styles, and Elvis Presley to…
French music streaming service Deezer said Tuesday it will remove AI-generated songs used for fraudulent streams after determining that more than half the songs uploaded to its site are generated by a…