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Pirate activist group Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped 86 million music files and 256 million lines of track metadata from Spotify, and released them in approximately 300TB of torrent files (Mitchell Peters/Billboard)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 22, 2025

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GM adds native Apple Music to some vehicles and rolls out support for digital keys, after starting to phase out CarPlay in 2023 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 15, 2025

Andrew J. Hawkins / The edge: GM is adding native Apple Music to some vehicles and rolling out support for…

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Warner Music settles its dispute with AI startup Udio, which plans a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks from artists who sign up (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 19, 2025

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AI music platform Suno raised $250 million led by Menlo Ventures at a valuation of $2.45 billion, up from about $500 million in 2024, and says its annual revenue has reached $200 million (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 19, 2025

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Netflix ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Boosts Korean Music, Politics

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 4, 2025

At South Korea’s largest amusement park, crowds of people wait for hours to take part in the “KPop Demon Hunters”…

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UMG is partnering with AI music generator Udio to launch a subscription service to create music with licensed songs in 2026, in part to settle a copyright lawsuit (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 30, 2025

Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: UMG partners with AI music generator Udio to launch subscription service to create music…

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Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including features like adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 25, 2025

The information: Sources: OpenAI develops AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including features such as adding…

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Spotify updates its AI policy, especially by adopting the next DDEX standard to label and identify music AI and deploy a new music spam filter (Sarah Perez / Techcrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 25, 2025

Sarah Perez / Techcrunch:: Spotify updates its AI policy, in particular by adopting the next DDEX standard to label and…

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Recent graduates and doctoral students are recruited by AI companies like Handshake to provide specialized training data in areas such as music and law for $ 30 to $ 160 per hour (Emma Haidar / Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 25, 2025

Emma Haidar / Bloomberg:: Recent graduates and doctoral students are recruited by AI companies like Handshake to provide specialized training…

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Velvet Sundown, a group created by AI with ~ 850,000 monthly Spotify listeners and two recent albums, shows how some listeners turn to anode AI music (Ian Bogost / The Atlantic)

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 6, 2025

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Browsing: music

Pirate activist group Anna’s Archive claims to have scraped 86 million music files and 256 million lines of track metadata from Spotify, and released them in approximately 300TB of torrent files (Mitchell Peters/Billboard)

GM adds native Apple Music to some vehicles and rolls out support for digital keys, after starting to phase out CarPlay in 2023 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Warner Music settles its dispute with AI startup Udio, which plans a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks from artists who sign up (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

AI music platform Suno raised $250 million led by Menlo Ventures at a valuation of $2.45 billion, up from about $500 million in 2024, and says its annual revenue has reached $200 million (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal)

Netflix ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Boosts Korean Music, Politics

UMG is partnering with AI music generator Udio to launch a subscription service to create music with licensed songs in 2026, in part to settle a copyright lawsuit (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including features like adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks (The Information)

Spotify updates its AI policy, especially by adopting the next DDEX standard to label and identify music AI and deploy a new music spam filter (Sarah Perez / Techcrunch)

Recent graduates and doctoral students are recruited by AI companies like Handshake to provide specialized training data in areas such as music and law for $ 30 to $ 160 per hour (Emma Haidar / Bloomberg)

Velvet Sundown, a group created by AI with ~ 850,000 monthly Spotify listeners and two recent albums, shows how some listeners turn to anode AI music (Ian Bogost / The Atlantic)