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Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak amongst hundreds of tech and science leaders calling for 6-month pause on ‘training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4’

Other signatories include three researchers from Google/Alphabet's DeepMind

38 million tracks on music streaming services were played ZERO times in 2022. (Or: why Spotify should take a leaf out of Elon Musk’s book.)

Should Spotify, in a quest to improve its margin, start playing hardball with its least successful artists?

Goldman Sachs predicted the global recorded music biz would generate $27.9bn in 2022. It didn’t. Here’s why.

We're sorry. We're going to talk currency models. It's kinda important.

In a shock move, Meta has pulled music by Italian songwriters from its platforms. Is this connected to Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Year of Efficiency’?

A mega dispute is brewing in Italy between music publishers and Mark Zuckerberg's Meta

‘A lot of people are advocating for changes in the models of existing streaming services. I feel like that ship has sailed.’

MBW's Inspiring Women series talks to Vickie Nauman about her career at the crossroads between music and technology, from Napster to Web3

Arica Ng appointed President, Asia Pacific at Warner Chappell Music

Exec will be based in Hong Kong, reporting to Guy Moot, Co-Chair and CEO of WCM

To grow the market for music creation tools, look to Canva and Figma.

The following op/ed comes from Adam Hasslert, CEO of music creation platform Soundation

Why a US legal ruling over an AI-generated cartoon has major implications for music’s future.

AI legal expert Barry Scannell, analyzes a new decision in the US that could have consequences for the future