All the latest in AI ‘music’

AI has touched every part of the music industry, from sample sourcing and demo recording, to serving up digital liner notes and building playlists.

There are technical and legal challenges, fierce ethical debates, and fears that the slop will simply crush working musicians through sheer volume.

Is it art or just an output?

What exactly is “really active“?

Whether it’s a new model or a new lawsuit, we’re covering it all to make sure you don’t miss any major developments.

So follow along as we dig into the latest in AI “music.”

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  Suno leans into customization with v5.5
  


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  The music industry has embraced a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy about AI.
  


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  North Carolina man pleads guilty to AI music streaming fraud.
  


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  Apple Music adds optional labels for AI songs and visuals
  


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  Qobuz is automatically detecting and labeling AI music now, too.
  


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  This Chainsmokers-approved AI music producer is joining Google
  


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  Google’s AI music maker is coming to the Gemini app
  


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  Deezer opens its AI music detection tool to other platforms
  


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  ElevenLabs made an AI album to plug its music generator
  


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  Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content
  


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  Universal Music signs a new AI deal with Nvidia
  


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  Musicians are getting really tired of this AI clone ‘bullshit’
  


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  Get ready for an AI country music explosion
  


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  97 percent of people struggle to identify AI music, but it’s not as bad as it seems
  


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  Warner Music Group partners with Suno to offer AI likenesses of its artists
  


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  The music industry is all in on AI
  


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  No, typing an AI prompt is not ‘really active’ music creation
  


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  Suno valued at $2.45 billion in latest funding round as lawsuits loom.
  


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  The human behind AI music artist Xania Monet, revealed.
  


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  Suno’s upgraded AI music generator is technically impressive, but still soulless
  


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  What happens when an AI-generated artist gets a record deal?

  A copyright mess
  



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  Record labels claim AI generator Suno illegally ripped their songs from YouTube
  


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  Can the music industry make AI the next Napster?
  


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  AI music company Suno acquired a browser-based audio editing tool called WavTool.
  


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  The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs
  


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  Sabotaging AI music with sick beats.
  


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  YouTube’s new AI tool generates free background music for videos
  


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  Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on where to draw hard lines around AI in music
  


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  Making human music in an AI world
  


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  AI music startups say copyright violation is just rock and roll
  


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  The music industry’s AI fight
  


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  Listen to the AI songs music labels say violate their copyright.
  


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  Warner Music Group’s CEO says we might see AI prompt-generated music really soon.
  


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  AI-generated music isn’t just a copyright hazard.
  


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  How AI is solving one of music’s most expensive problems