Universal Music Group lets its artists opt into a new ElevenLabs platform that licenses their music for AI use, while keeping it separate from ElevenLabs’ Music API and ElevenMusic generator and continuing parallel work with Udio.
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs are developing a licensed fan-creation platform for remixes, mashups, alternate versions and personalized vocal experiences from participating artists’ music, with creators promised compensation and new revenue streams.
Suno launches its v6 AI music model family, now trained exclusively on licensed music from major partners like Warner Music Group and BMG, but the company still faces active lawsuits from Sony and Universal Music Group amid ongoing legal battles over AI and copyright.
An Anthropic researcher resigns and warns that AI could kill humanity this decade, while a senior colleague puts the odds above 10% and admits no control plan exists — as music AI startup Suno launches licensed v6 models in partnership with major labels.
The Seattle Times and Newsday are suing OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming the tech giants illegally used their journalism as AI training data without permission, reproducing passages in AI responses and costing publishers vital subscription revenue and site traffic.
The Seattle Times and Newsday are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly using their journalism without permission to train AI models, warning that generative AI risks destroying the very news organizations whose content it consumes — a striking legal battle made more complex by Microsoft's prior funding of Seattle Times …
Nvidia is reportedly set to acquire AI hub Hugging Face for $13 billion, while Anthropic simultaneously secures a $45 billion data center deal and faces a major copyright lawsuit from Sony Music and Warner Chappell over alleged unauthorized use of music to train its Claude AI model.
Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic, alleging the AI giant illegally torrented thousands of copyrighted songs to train its Claude AI, with internal messages showing employees and co-founders knowingly embracing piracy — including co-founder Dario Amodei allegedly approving torrenting to avoid a 'legal slog' — while Claude continues …
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic, accusing the AI company of illegally torrenting and scraping millions of copyrighted songs and sheet music to train its Claude AI model in what they call a 'brazen campaign' of piracy.
The Motion Picture Association strikes its first-ever copyright deal with an AI company, reaching a landmark agreement with ByteDance to enforce stronger intellectual property protections in its AI video tool Seedance and image tool Seedream, following allegations that the tools were trained on copyrighted material and generating unauthorized content featuring …