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Tuned Global rolls out AI music features via AudioShake partnership

Tuned Global’s clients will now be able to separate songs and generate word-by-word lyric transcriptions

OpenAI, valued at $157bn and facing multiple copyright infringement lawsuits, says China’s DeepSeek may have used its data to train rival AI model without permission

DeepSeek spent far less money on developing a chatbot than US AI companies, but it may have done so by stealing OpenAI's IP

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We talked with Anthropic’s Claude about The Beatles. Those copyright ‘guardrails’ seem to be working… pretty much.

Anthropic's Claude can still be tempted into referencing Beatles lyrics – but chatbot refuses to print them verbatim

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Bruno Mars breaks own record, hitting 150M monthly Spotify listeners

Bruno Mars continues to shatter records, this time becoming the first artist to reach 150 million monthly listeners on Spotify. The feat, announced Monday (January 27), comes just over two months after Mars surpassed The Weeknd‘s previous record of 120.7 million monthly listeners. With the latest listener count, Mars’ listeners now account for a little … Continued

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In the wake of new Spotify deal, Universal Music Group adds $3.4 billion to its market cap; Warner Music Group shares up 4.7% as investors await similar agreement with streamer

Universal and Warner jointly pile on around $4 billion in market cap value following landmark announcement

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I Love L.A… and I’m angry at those who mocked us in our darkest moment.

Lucas Keller, founder of Milk & Honey, on the Los Angeles wildfires – and his fury at America's Most Heartless

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Spotify General Counsel Eve Konstan to exit

Exec's last day at Spotify will be January 31.

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Mark Douglas on the rising importance of the International Performer Number: ‘We strive to remove cost from the wider industry and sharing metadata and systems is one way we do that.’

The following op/ed comes from Mark Douglas, CIO of UK-based music licensing company, PPL.