The music industry has another big problem in the age of artificial intelligence: AI detectors. Tools designed to catch AI-generated “slop” before it reaches digital streaming platforms, or at least properly identifying it when it does, have had the unintended consequence of rampant false positives. The issue has particularly affected songs that incorporate darkwave, electro, and post-punk, which were all prominent genres in the ’80s when the synthesizer was at its peak.
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The News Media Association (NMA) has called on the UK Government to back the Competition and Markets Authority in regulating Meta following the announcement of its new AI scraping terms. Publishers are “shocked and disgusted” by Meta’s proposed terms, NMA chief executive Theo Bamber told Press Gazette, adding the platform is “holding news publishers over a barrel” by demanding access to content to train its AI products.
Google has faced a legal challenge in Europe over how its Gemini chatbot uses news publishers’ content, after an adviser to the European Union’s top court said the practice could breach copyright rules under certain circumstances. The opinion could strengthen publishers’ efforts to seek compensation from technology companies for using their journalism in AI-generated responses. According to Reuters, the case before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) involves Hungarian website operator Like Company and Google.
Unique visitors to leading US online publishers fell by a quarter between 2023 and 2025, according to new data shared by trade body Digital Content Next. DCN shared the survey data from its members in a document filed on Thursday in support of The New York Times and other news publishers including The New York Daily News and Ziff Davis in their ongoing copyright case against OpenAI and Microsoft.
On Tuesday, Adobe announced a new partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG) and Warner Music Group (WMG) to bring fully licensed music clips from leading artists directly to Adobe Premiere mobile. By combining music from two of the world’s leading music companies with Premiere mobile’s video editing tools, Adobe aims to make it easier for creators to discover the tracks they love, shape their video around the music, and share their stories across one platform.
Spotify’s efforts to combat AI-driven content have been confronted with a new challenge: the potential for legitimate recordings by real artists to suffer unintended consequences. That’s an issue raised by 11A founder Austin Staubus. Staubus recently sat down for an interview with YouTuber and music marketer Andrew Southworth and discussed what he described as troubling changes to Spotify’s search and discovery systems.
A former Meta researcher has testified that he downloaded an AI training dataset via BitTorrent, including the pirated Books3 collection. According to various rightsholders, this happened while he worked at the company, and he later deleted his copy “[d]ue to all this litigation.” Meta, which admitted training AI models on Books3 but said it didn’t believe it torrented the dataset, disputes the researcher’s account.
Spotify plans to launch its AI-powered covers and remixes tool in the first quarter of 2027. That’s according to the Financial Times, which reported the timeline on Friday (October 30), citing people familiar with the plans. The company is weighing a price of $4 to $5 per month for the tool, on top of existing subscription fees, one of those people told the FT. The product could be unveiled around the Grammy Awards in February, according to the report.
The tool, Suno MCP, is in beta and was announced in Suno’s release notes on Wednesday (October 28). Suno wrote in the MCP release notes: “Connect Suno to Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code and other MCP clients, then create music in the workspace you’re already in, no tab-switching needed.” Suno’s MCP page also lists Gemini and the coding tool Cursor among the apps it supports.
An Alphabet shareholder has sued Sundar Pichai, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and 10 other directors and executives at Google‘s parent company over how Google trained its AI models. The lawsuit claims they adopted “an unlawful business strategy” of building Google’s AI on copyrighted works and people’s voices – including recordings, compositions, and lyrics allegedly used to train the Lyria music models.