Stability AI raised $76 million in a Series B funding round announced on August 25, 2026, backed by Electronic Arts and major music labels Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Gro…
Stability AI, the startup behind AI image generation model Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in Series B funding, bringing its total fundraising to $232 million. The round includes investments …
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) will exclude fully AI-generated tracks from its official charts and ARIA Awards, while allowing AI-assisted music that is substantially human-made …
Stability AI, the AI startup behind Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in a Series B funding round backed by Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Electronic Arts,…
Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV allowed Universal Music Group and Sony to amend their copyright complaint against Suno on 18 August, adding a Digital Millennium Copyright Act anti-circumvention claim that S…
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has become the first organization to adopt the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's (IFPI) principles barring AI-generated music…
Dr. Dre, the seven-time Grammy-winning producer, said in a New York Times interview that he uses AI as a production tool and dismissed critics as 'afraid of learning new things,' comparing them to tho…
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…
Universal Music Group (UMG) announced on Wednesday (Aug. 19) a partnership with AI-powered social music app Hook to allow user-generated remixes of songs in its repertoire, expanding Hook's licensed c…
Hook, an AI-powered music remixing app, has struck a licensing deal with Universal Music Group (UMG) to bring catalogs from Republic Records, Capitol Records, Virgin Music Group and more to its platfo…
Spotify began labeling AI-generated artist profiles with an 'AI Persona' badge on August 11, 2026, and will remove them from default recommendations in mid-September, after deleting over 75 million sp…
Round Hill Music, an independent publisher managing a catalog worth $1.1 billion, filed copyright infringement lawsuits on August 17 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California ag…
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…
AI music generator Suno has struck a licensing deal with music company BMG, paying for BMG's repertoire and training data use, as it prepares new label-backed models. BMG joins Warner Music Group in s…
Spotify's global head of artists, marketing & policy, Sam Duboff, said the company is betting on human artistry and building AI products that respect copyright, aligning with Australia's recent commit…
Spotify will label accounts that produce AI-generated music with an 'AI Persona' badge starting mid-September, and such profiles will be excluded from algorithmic recommendations, the company announce…
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…
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…
Suno, the AI music generation service, announced it will start watermarking and fingerprinting songs created on its platform, limit downloads, and update community guidelines to prevent copycat songs,…