Amazon and Google spent the best part of a decade putting smart speakers into homes around the world. Amazon now says there are more than 600 million Alexa devices in existence. That is an extraordinary…
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For decades, the music industry has largely made money when people consume music. Buy a record. Download a song. Stream a track. Watch a music video. But artificial intelligence could create an entirely new type…
Universal Music Group is taking another major step into AI music. The world’s largest music company has announced a multi-year partnership with ElevenLabs to develop a new licensed AI music platform where fans will be…
Apple Music plans to start showing listeners when a substantial part of a track has been created using generative AI. The label will read: Made With AI. This isn’t a ban on AI music. It’s…
Spotify is introducing a new label designed to distinguish AI-generated artist identities from artists representing real people. They’re called AI Persona badges. Spotify plans to start applying them to relevant profiles from mid-September 2026. For…
If you’ve been listening to blues and soul playlists recently, you may have encountered Enlly. The mysterious artist has developed a substantial streaming audience with soulful vocals and tracks including “Through My Soul”, “Still Here”,…
Breaking Rust looks exactly like the sort of musician country music fans have seen hundreds of times before. Rugged cowboy. Weathered face. Gravelly voice. Songs about resilience, whiskey, hardship and refusing to change for anybody.…
Jerry’s Sound Room has become a surprisingly large name in soul and blues music. Songs such as “No Me Debes Nada”, “Tu Nombre en la Oscuridad” and “Beneath My Skin” have generated millions of Spotify…
VYRMA has quickly become one of the more mysterious new names in Nordic and Viking-inspired music. The artist has built a striking visual identity around haunting vocals, Norse mythology, cinematic imagery and a mysterious female…
For most of music history, creating a professional-sounding song required a fairly long list of skills. You needed to understand instruments, songwriting, recording, music production, mixing and often expensive studio software. Generative AI is starting…
