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
News Suno, the AI company facing a copyright suit from recording companies, has released a mobile app iOS users in the US will now be able to create songs in seconds on their mobile device
Analysis News From the majors’ AI lawsuit to Believe’s big acquisition plans… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
Analysis How the major labels plan to cost Suno and Udio billions (and why it all rests on Michael Bublé) The AI music companies' business model "threatens to eliminate the existing market for licensing sound recordings"
News Suno CEO accuses major labels of ‘reverting to their old lawyer-led playbook’ following lawsuit for copyright infringement The RIAA has fired back, saying Suno "continues to dodge the question" of which recordings they "illegally copied"
News Major record companies sue AI music generators Suno, Udio for ‘mass infringement’ of copyright Universal, Sony, Warner come together to sue AI music generators in new lawsuit
News $125m-backed Suno is being used to make racist and antisemitic music Suno users are making music with hateful messages, according to report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
