News That AI artist with over 1M listeners on Spotify? His music was created with Suno, says expert report The creators behind Aventhis and other AI 'artists' might not actually own the rights to the music they upload to streaming platforms
News Suno upgrades AI Song Editor, as labels reportedly push for Content ID-style fingerprinting in licensing talks with AI music platforms As record companies push for input over what sorts of tools AI music platforms develop, Suno is forging ahead with new capabilities
Analysis News From Deezer’s fight against AI music to Charles Goldstuck’s $500m raise… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News Suno, after being sued by the majors for copyright infringement, launches V4, which it says takes AI music creation ‘to the next level’ The company has also hired Jack Brody, formerly of Snap, as its Chief Product Officer
News This Chinese tech giant, worth $4.8bn, just launched a fully AI music streaming service Firm has launched what it claims to be 'the world's first AI-powered music streaming platform'
News YouTube is clamping down on AI-generated clones of superstars The video platform is also rolling out mandatory labeling of AI-generated or "synthetic" content.
News Mike Caren joins Futureverse AI text-to-music venture JEN as a founding Partner Futureverse raised $54m in a series A funding round this summer from backers including 10T Holdings and Ripple
News AI music generator Riffusion raises $4m in seed funding round Round was led by Greycroft Partners, South Park Commons and Sky9
News Stability AI launches text-to-music generator trained on licensed content via a partnership with music library AudioSparx The new text-to-music generator works by taking a series of cues input by a user and turning it into an audio track
Analysis News 100 million AI-generated tracks have been created by music platform Mubert Figure is roughly equal to the entire catalog of tracks available on Spotify
Analysis News Microsoft is developing an AI rap generator, DeepRapper – trained on a large set of songs ‘crawled’ from the web DeepRapper is one of a number of projects being developed in China by Microsoft's Muzic AI team
News AI music startup AudioShake raises $2.7M in seed round with backing from Crush Music, peermusic… and Metallica The company’s latest seed round was led by Indicator Ventures, with participation from Precursor Ventures and Side Door Ventures
News AI music app Boomy has created 14.4m tracks to date. Spotify just deleted a bunch of its uploads after detecting ‘stream manipulation’. Today's news comes a week after Daniel Ek, founder and CEO of Spotify, announced to investors that his company was working with major record companies to quell the threat posed by AI music