Warner Music drops lawsuit against AI music platform Suno in exchange for licensing agreement

Following its licensing deal with Udio, Warner Music Group (WMG) has also reached an agreement with Suno that will let the platform license its artists' music and likenesses, and end the music co [...]

Shark's latest skincare gadget will suck gunk from your pores and rinse them

About two years ago, I tried a facial treatment in Singapore that had left me feeling refreshed and my skin smooth and taut. I found out it was called an “aqua peel” and started investigating how [...]

The Morning After: Amazon’s Kindle Scribe Colorsoft fuses two types of ereader

If I covered everything announced at Amazon’s fall hardware event, it would take a while, and I would be repeating the hard work of my colleague Kris Holt. Check out his report for all the new Echo [...]

The dream of PictoChat on the Nintendo DS lives on in this iMessage app

The Nintendo DS' stylus-based messaging app PictoChat wasn't the first place I instant-messaged (that would be my friend's AIM account) but it was absolutely the least overwhelming and [...]

A German court says AI music maker Suno broke copyright, a first for Europe

The Munich Regional Court ruled that Suno trained on GEMA-represented songs without permission and reproduced them, in one of Europe’s first binding decisions on AI-generated music. German court has [...]

German court rules AI music generator Suno violated copyrights, rejects fair use defense

A Munich court ruled that AI music generator Suno violated copyrights through both training and output. The court found six songs reproducibly stored in Suno's models and rejected both Germany� [...]

Suno Studio 2.0's new chat feature lets you talk to your DAW like it's a bandmate

With Studio 2.0, Suno turns its AI music platform into a full production tool for Premier subscribers. A chat feature creates instruments and plugins via text, while MIDI import and 32-bit export come [...]

Suno raises at a $5.4bn valuation, more than doubling its worth in six months

Eighteen months ago Suno was the AI company the music industry wanted to destroy. Every major record label had sued it, accusing it of training its models on copyrighted songs without permission. Now [...]

AI music generator Suno tightens rules to fight spam and address growing copyright concerns

Suno CEO Mikey Shulman has announced new guidelines and tighter download limits after its AI-generated music was used to game streaming platforms for profit. The company also faces pressure from a Ger [...]