The platform’s controversial reputation in the music industry doesn’t seem to have prevented tech giant Amazon– owner of Spotify rival Amazon Music– from partnering with it. Amazon has unveiled a new AI-powered version of its Alexa voice assistant, and among the capabilities of the “next-generation” Alexa+ is an integration with Suno. Amazon’s willingness to do business with AI companies at odds with the music industry isn’t limited to the integration with Suno.
Source: $500m-valued Suno has admitted training AI on copyrighted music.
So long, Spotify: Snoop Dogg says he’s “ditching” the streaming service for blockchain-powered competitor Tune.fm, where he’s exclusively released a new single. In no uncertain terms, the longtime crypto enthusiast Snoop Dogg attributed the switch to his allegedly miniscule Spotify royalty payments. And on that front, the rap mainstay said he’d pocketed only $45,000 or so from a staggering one billion Spotify streams.
One of the most divisive aspects of the law concerns transparency in the crucial upstream phase, requiring AI companies to notify rightsholders when their works are being used as training data for the algorithms of their generative AI systems. That notification obligation — the implementation of which is still up in the air but is due to kick in on Aug. 2 — is the crux of the battle for rightsholders seeking compensation and new revenue streams.
has launched its video generation tool in the UK amid a deepening row between the tech sector and creative industries over copyright. Beeban Kidron, the film director and crossbench peer, said the introduction of OpenAI’s Sora in the UK added “another layer of urgency to the copyright debate.”
Top executives from Meta Platforms and Alphabet have amped up the heat on the European Union (EU) over its perceived failure to foster innovation in artificial intelligence. In particular, the EU’s AI Act, which tightly controls the type and nature of AI systems allowed in the bloc, was seen as going “too far” by META director of public policy Chris Yiu. “The net result of all of that is that products get delayed or get watered down and European citizens and consumers suffer.”