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arstechnica.com - Ryan Whitwam - Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music
Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music
Ars Technica

The Internet is awash in AI content, and it's not always easy to tell it apart from genuine human creations. While images and videos are perhaps the most obvious type of AI slop, streaming music services like Spotify are also being inundated with…

techradar.com - Graham Barlow - Great music is made by people': Suno spent years making AI music easy - now it's trying to stop people making quite so much of it
Great music is made by people': Suno spent years making AI music easy - now it's trying to stop people making quite so much of it
TechRadar

Suno, the most popular AI music creation tool, spent years making it incredibly easy to generate music. Now it's introducing download limits, watermarking and fingerprinting to stop people flooding streaming services with AI slop. That suggests…

billboard.com - Lars Brandle - Universal Music Korea Signs Hukky Shibaseki
Universal Music Korea Signs Hukky Shibaseki
Billboard

Universal Music Korea signs award-winning producer, composer, and hip-hop artist Hukky Shibaseki to a management deal. Recognized for his distinctive approach to experimental hip-hop, electronic textures, and alternative homegrown rap, the South…

theverge.com - Terrence O'Brien - Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music
Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music
The Verge

The company is changing its download policy and rolling out new watermarking technology. The company is changing its download policy and rolling out new watermarking technology. Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images All the latest in AI…

bloomberg.com - Ashley Carman - Universal Music Is Struggling to Convince Investors That Dominant Market Share Matters
Universal Music Is Struggling to Convince Investors That Dominant Market Share Matters
Bloomberg

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fansided.com - Jake Elman - Dodgers need to face the music with Shohei Ohtani's two-way status
Dodgers need to face the music with Shohei Ohtani's two-way status
FanSided

Those around baseball are signaling the inevitable alarm regarding Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani's two-way status. A lingering knee injury has kept Ohtani, a four-time MVP, from pitching over the last month. He's resisted going on the…

billboard.com - Lars Brandle - Yes Boone Signs With Warner Music Australasia
Yes Boone Signs With Warner Music Australasia
Billboard

SYDNEY, Australia — Yes Boone joins the Warner Music Australasia roster, through a partnership with Warner Records in the United States. The photogenic DJ and producer has been making all the right noises in dance music circles. He was…

hypebeast.com - Zoe Leung - Stray Kids Drops 'This & That' Music Video in Tandem With 'THIS&THAT' Album Release
Stray Kids Drops 'This & That' Music Video in Tandem With 'THIS&THAT' Album Release
Hypebeast

Stray Kids released their 8-track mini-album 'THIS&THAT' alongside a new music video for its title track, 'This & That'. Produced by 3RACHA (Bang Chan, Changbin and Han), 'This & That' merges experimental production with slick, ambitious rap flows…

axios.com - Andrew King - Weekend picks: '90s music, Springsteen and cocktails
Weekend picks: '90s music, Springsteen and cocktails
Axios

Travel back in time to the '90s with the Ohio State Fair's big finale. 🎶 Our pick: Blues Traveler with Gin Blossoms and Spin Doctors. The intrigue: Each band in this trio could probably play a decently sized Columbus venue, but the fair is…

eonline.com - Kim Kardashian, Kanye West's Daughter North West, 13, Drops Music Video for 'Aishite'
Kim Kardashian, Kanye West's Daughter North West, 13, Drops Music Video for 'Aishite'
E! Online

Watch: Kim Kardashian, Kanye West's Daughter North West Cancels 14-Date Kimokawaii Tour North West 's new music video will make you love her. The 13-year-old—eldest daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West —dropped the creepy visuals…

mentalfloss.com - Logan DeLoye - The Paul McCartney Song That Inspired John Lennon's Unexpected Return to Music
The Paul McCartney Song That Inspired John Lennon's Unexpected Return to Music
Mental Floss

To the world, John Lennon and Paul McCartney were two-fourths of The Beatles. To each other, they were bandmates and best friends, until creative differences drove them apart in 1970. The Beatles were no more, and the longtime friends, who had…

theweek.com - The Week UK - The Week Unwrapped: Why is country music top of the pops?
The Week Unwrapped: Why is country music top of the pops?
The Week

Should everyone have to vote? What can we learn from the Aquiry civilisation? And why is country music top of the pops? Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. A podcast for…

vice.com - Caleb Catlin - Jacquees on 'Mood 2', Fatherhood, Gospel Music, and Why Simping Is (Almost) Never Okay [Exclusive]
Jacquees on 'Mood 2', Fatherhood, Gospel Music, and Why Simping Is (Almost) Never Okay [Exclusive]
VICE

Jacquees is a student of the game first when it comes to R&B. Even when he boldly declared himself the king of the genre and rubbed a lot of people the wrong way in the process, it was never out of disregard to the legends who paved the way before…

dailyrecord.co.uk - Ross Thomson - Music in Lanark committee announce their programme for season
Music in Lanark committee announce their programme for season
Daily Record

The Music in Lanark committee has announced their programme for the season along with a change in the venue for the concerts. The theme of the programme is “The World in Sound: Music Without Borders”. This year the concerts will be…

gazettenet.com - Madison Schofield - Finding their voice: How a Valley choir is using the power of music to restore speech
Finding their voice: How a Valley choir is using the power of music to restore speech
Daily Hampshire Gazette

For the past four years, vocal instructor Eileen Ruby has watched music unlock speech for Valley residents facing neurological challenges. As director of the Healing Harmonies Choir, she witnesses firsthand how singing bridges the communication…

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