News Fan engagement app Afterparty.AI secures $5m in new funding, bringing total raised to $12m Afterparty says the money will go towards developing its new AI-powered platform
News TikTok says it’s working on automatic AI content detection, as it rolls out new ‘AI-generated’ label for creators TikTok rolls out new tool that will enable creators to label AI-generated content that they upload to the social media platform
Interviews Denis Ladegaillerie on AI, streaming royalty models, Believe’s game plan… and more The Believe founder and CEO joins MBW's Tim Ingham on the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast
News Responsibility for AI copyright infringement rests with platforms, and 3 other things we learned from Robert Kyncl’s Goldman Sachs interview Warner Music Group's CEO participated in a Q&A session on Wednesday (September 6) at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia + Technology Conference in San Francisco
News Queen’s Brian May on AI threat: ‘2023 will be the last year that humans dominate music.’ 'Everything is going to get very blurred and very confusing,' says iconic musician in new interview
Analysis HYBE and Geffen want to globalize the ‘K-pop methodology’ – and launch the world’s biggest girl group. Will they succeed? They don't even have a name yet – but HYBE and Geffen's ambitions for their new girl group are sky high
News NetEase Cloud Music’s paid monthly users grew 11% to 41.8m at the end of June China-based music streaming provider has published its H1 earnings results
News Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square stays bullish on Universal Music Group, even vs. AI: ‘The long tail of AI-generated content will likely never be heard and will not displace legitimate artists’ work.’ Pershing effectively laughs in the face of concerns raised by analysts earlier this year over AI's threat to UMG
News AI a threat to music? Try telling that to this artist from Costa Rica – who’s just recreated his late father’s voice on a new track Costa Rican artist Pedro Capmany used AI to record a duet with his late father, the legendary rock singer, José Capmany
News After raising $54m, Futureverse unveils ‘JEN 1’ text-to-music AI generator Futureverse was formed from the merger of 11 different companies last year
Interviews ‘Generative AI is set to revolutionize the music business.’ MBW's Trailblazers series interviews Daouda Leonard, manager of Grimes and founder of Los Angeles-based AI development studio CreateSafe
News AI voice platform Kits.AI, backed by Steve Aoki, Wyclef Jean and more hits 1m ‘voice transformations’ Kits.AI also reports to have trained 80,000 voices and amassed 100,000 users
Analysis News Daniel Ek talks AI, artist-centric, TikTok Music and how price hikes are now part of Spotify’s ‘toolbox’ Spotify's Co-Founder and CEO joined CFO Paul Vogel on the company’s earnings call Tuesday morning
News White House secures voluntary safety pledges from Meta, Amazon, Google, others to manage AI risks The voluntary commitments aim to manage the risks posed by the rapid advancement of AI technology
News Universal Music Group calls on US Congress to pass new rules regulating AI Jeffrey Harleston, General Counsel and EVP for Business and Legal Affairs at UMG, appeared a Senate hearing this week