News Suno and Udio hit with class action lawsuits from independent artist Justice is accusing the AI companies of using recordings and works from “thousands of class members” without authorization to train their AI models.
News Timbaland launches AI music company Stage Zero, with first AI artist, TaTa The new venture, called Stage Zero, launched with its first signee, TaTa.
News Suno upgrades AI Song Editor, as labels reportedly push for Content ID-style fingerprinting in licensing talks with AI music platforms As record companies push for input over what sorts of tools AI music platforms develop, Suno is forging ahead with new capabilities
News Labels in licensing talks with AI music generators Suno and Udio (report) Reported talks arrive a year after the majors sued Suno and Udio for copyright infringement
News Suno upgrades AI music generator with enhanced vocal capabilities, extended track length The v4.5 update allows users to create mashups combining different genre styles, and extends maximum song lengths to 8 minutes from 4 minutes
News Udio and Audible Magic team up to tackle rights management in AI-generated music A “content control pipeline” will allow streaming services and distributors to identify AI-generated tracks from Udio’s platform
News AI unicorn Anthropic raises another $3.5bn, boosting valuation to $61.5bn The Series E round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, also an investor in Stability AI and AI music generator Suno
Analysis News From Amazon’s Suno tie-up to Kobalt’s new publishing platform… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News $500m-valued Suno has admitted training AI on copyrighted music. That hasn’t stopped Amazon from adding its controversial tech to Alexa The new voice assistant is also integrated with the Claude chatbot from Anthropic, an AI company facing a copyright lawsuit from music publishers
Analysis News From Suno being sued by GEMA to Weverse’s 150m lifetime downloads… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News Suno, after being sued by the majors for copyright infringement, launches V4, which it says takes AI music creation ‘to the next level’ The company has also hired Jack Brody, formerly of Snap, as its Chief Product Officer
Analysis News From Timbaland’s Suno partnership to UnitedMasters’ direct TikTok deal… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News Suno, with a $500m valuation, has admitted training its AI on copyrighted music. It just named Timbaland as a strategic advisor. 'We're going to open up the floodgates for generations of artists to flourish on this new frontier.'
News Startup Delphos enables creators to make their own AI music generators Delphos enables artists to create 'Soundworlds' that can generate music in their own style
News As Suno and Udio admit training AI with unlicensed music, record industry says: ‘There’s nothing fair about stealing an artist’s life’s work.’ Suno and Udio suggest that the record companies may have themselves violated music publishing copyrights
