Universal Music Group and Sony Music filed a new lawsuit against AI music startup Suno last week, adding tens of thousands of new songs to their existing copyright battle and arguing that Suno's "whol…
Universal Music Group sued DistroKid on Tuesday, Sept. 15 in Manhattan federal court, alleging the distributor valued at more than $2 billion floods streaming platforms with "mass AI-generated, SEO-op…
Universal Music Group signed a multi-year licensing agreement with ElevenLabs to build a bespoke AI-powered music platform letting fans co-create, remix and mash up licensed music from participating a…
Warner Music Group (WMG) CEO Robert Kyncl announced in an internal memo that Suno's new AI music model v6, launched on Sept. 9, marks the first time WMG talent can earn revenue from music creation, no…
Suno launched v6, its latest AI music models, on Sept. 9, marking its first release 'in partnership with the music industry' and featuring models v6, v6 Wild, and v6 Mini. The company, valued at $5.4 …
Suno CEO Mikey Shulman announced the launch of V6, a suite of three AI music models (V6, V6 Wild, and V6 Mini) developed in partnership with Warner Music Group, Believe, and BMG, marking the first tim…
SOCAN, the Canadian music rights organization, has filed a lawsuit against AI music platform Suno for copyright infringement, alleging that at least 150 of its outputs infringe on members' works, incl…
The Trump administration filed an advisory brief on Sept. 1 arguing that AI companies like OpenAI are protected by copyright fair use when training on copyrighted works, siding with AI firms in the Ne…
Armin van Buuren and Laidback Luke have become the first members of Moises' Artist Partnerships program, helping the AI music platform shape new producer and DJ tools. Moises, which trains its models …
Jason Isbell, David Lowery, Guy Forsyth, and Ed Calle filed a class action lawsuit on Monday (Aug. 31) accusing Suno of violating artists' rights of publicity by encoding their musical personas as tok…
Suno was sued again on Aug. 31 by Gerencia 360 Music, an independent regional Mexican label and publisher, which alleges the AI music company trained its model on its Spanish-language catalog to gener…
Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group filed a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic on Friday (Aug. 28), claiming the AI company illegally harvested more than 20,000 songs to train its Claude …
Suno, the AI music company valued at $5.4 billion, is simultaneously licensing music from Warner Music Group and BMG while fighting copyright lawsuits from Universal Music Group and Sony Music, a dual…
Billboard reports that streaming platforms are adopting divergent policies on AI-generated music, with Deezer noting daily AI track uploads exceeding 50% at peak levels in June 2026 and Apple Music st…
Stability AI announced on Tuesday (Aug. 25) that it has closed a $76 million Series B strategic funding round, including investments from Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Warner Music Group, and Ele…
Lady Gaga's fiancé Michael Polansky co-founded Outer Biosciences, a biotech startup that uses AI and living human skin to accelerate cosmetic ingredient discovery, and Gaga sits on its board. The comp…
Billboard announced on Tuesday (Aug. 25) its commitment to greater transparency around AI-generated music, including identifying AI-created songs on its charts and in editorial coverage. The announcem…
Luminate, an entertainment data company, announced on Tuesday (Aug. 25) that it will add labels for AI-generated content to its platform starting later this year, using a combination of proprietary id…
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has become the first national chart body to bar wholly AI-generated tracks from its charts, effective Aug. 31, requiring recordings to be "substant…
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, co-founders of Beats Electronics and Beats Music, expressed strong support for AI in music creation in a New York Times interview published Aug. 23, with Dre calling AI a 'ne…