Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: the music industry wants permission, payment and transparency from AI companies.
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
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Indian AI background music startup Tringbox raises seed funding
Tringbox is an Indian AI startup that’s making background music more generic and specific at the same time. The Mumbai-headquartered company has built what it describes as an “environment-aware” platform […]
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Competition to ChatGPT in AI-assistants market is heating up
OpenAI’s ChatGPT became the fastest mobile app ever to reach one billion monthly active users in May this year.
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The Atlantic uncovers ‘millions’ of songs used for AI training
It’s very clear that some AI-music services have trained their models on huge datasets of commercial music. But which songs exactly? That’s the question at the heart of lawsuits against Suno and Udio, and it’s also the subject of a fascinating investigation by The Atlantic’s ‘AI Watchdog’ project.
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Startup Artist Included uses AI to rework Culture Club classic
Boy George, it turns out, IS a man with conviction… that AI can help artists rather than pose an existential threat to their livelihoods. He’s working with a new startup called Artist Included to prove it. In this case, the AI is being put to use to enable musicians to “reimagine classic recordings and create new, artist-owned masters for today’s market”.
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Hello, is it Lionel Richie’s vocal trademarks you’re looking for?
Richie has become the latest artist to file trademark applications focused on his voice, in an effort to protect himself from unauthorised exploitation by AI cloning.
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Suno’s chief product officer defends ‘platform integrity’ policies
Suno is preparing to launch its first model based on music licensed from rightsholders: something its CEO Mikey Shulman trailed in his recent announcement of the company’s $400m funding round.
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Deezer debuts ‘AI music detector’ for playlists… on all DSPs
Deezer continues to lean in hard to its technology for detecting AI-generated music – and then generating headlines about its scale. The latest example being an ‘AI music detector’ for people’s […]
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Anthropic’s Claude FM is a 24-7 music stream on YouTube
Thus far, AI giant Anthropic’s main interaction with the music industry has been a legal battle with publishers, who are suing it for copyright infringement of their lyrics. More positively, […]
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Played By Humans is verifying ‘human artistry in an AI age’
Label and live music company Jazz Is Dead is up to something interesting: and it’s all about trying to protect the human musicians who make jazz (and other genres) in […]
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Vermillio launches SDK and pitches ‘AI-Guardrails-as-a-Service’
Vermillio is one of the startups focusing on likeness and IP protection for rightsholders, including those in the music industry.
Sony Music co-led a $16m funding round for it in March 2025. Now the company is launching its software development kit (SDK), which in turn powers what it’s calling “AI-Guardrails-as-a-Service for the music industry”.
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Google study explores how UK teens are using AI technologies
Google’s latest piece of research involved asking teenagers in the UK how they’re using AI for learning and “creative pursuits” – including music. The topline stat: 67% of teens said they are using […]
