News Piracy claims can’t be added to music publishers’ copyright case against Anthropic, says Judge US District Judge Eumi Lee found denies amendment to complaint
News Google, Amazon, Microsoft back Cox in Supreme Court case over $1bn copyright verdict The tech giants filed a joint brief supporting the ISP's appeal
News Multiple buyers, including Oracle, Microsoft, and Perplexity AI, in race to acquire TikTok in the US (report) Elon Musk, real estate magnate Frank McCourt, and Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary are also interested in taking over TikTok, according to reports
News Sonos takeover speculation grows, with Spotify or Amazon tipped as potential suitors (report) Though Apple, Google, and Meta are potential buyers, they are unlikely candidates due to their existing strategies, a new report says
News Microsoft’s AI chatbot Copilot can now compose songs from text prompts via integration with generative music app Suno Copilot users can now input simple verbal prompts, and Suno will produce a song for them, complete with lyrics, instrumentals and even singing voices.
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 FTC asks US court to block Microsoft’s $69bn takeover of Activision Blizzard US Federal Trade Commission is asking a court to block the sale of video game giant Activision Blizzard to Microsoft
News ByteDance rejects Microsoft’s TikTok acquisition bid, opts to partner with Oracle 'We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users.'
News Walmart to buy TikTok with Microsoft? 'We are confident that a Walmart and Microsoft partnership would meet both the expectations of US TikTok users while satisfying the concerns of US government regulators.'
News Microsoft warned to ‘sever all links’ between TikTok and China if sale goes through Senator Josh Hawley has written to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
News Spotify opens Discover Weekly playlist to brand sponsorship Microsoft has joined as the beta launch partner
News Microsoft rebrands Xbox Music as Groove to challenge Apple Over 40m tracks on offer through service