1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (258+ words) Music-marketing startup un:hurd Music has rolled out a major update – version 2.0 – across its website and mobile apps. The company described the main goal of the update as one of “moving from tools that show artists their data to tools…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (603+ words) In the US, the big legal argument around generative AI is whether training models on copyrighted material qualifies as ‘fair use’ or not. If it does, AI firms don’t need to sign licensing deals and pay rightsholders. If it doesn’t,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (162+ words) As highlighted in our recent MCP primer, the protocol acts as the “USB port” of the AI landscape. With data networks like Soundcharts and team logistics apps like Artist Growth already launching their own servers, X’s integration proves that marketing…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (344+ words) Pretty much every major ticketing service wants customers to chat to it in 2026, whether through connections with Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini; integrations with Alexa+ and smart speakers; or their own chatbots. SeatGeek has just launched the latter in the form…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (362+ words) If there’s one area of the music industry that’s ripe for some positive involvement of AI, it’s analytics. Having a deluge of streaming and social data hitting you in the nose is all very well, but making sense of it…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (163+ words) There have been a number of high-profile legal rulings and settlements around AI training in the past year, and for non-lawyers, figuring out what precedents they set and what impacts they might have can be a slog. When Tamber raised…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (283+ words) 2026 has been a pretty good year for music-hardware projects on Kickstarter. We’ve covered successful campaigns including Tembo, Trillo, Sond, Litejam Neo and AP30 Music Boy, which collectively raised nearly $3.4m in pledges. Now you can add another one to the pile: Seratone....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (553+ words) We’ve been writing about some of the ways AI can help music professionals do their daily work (as opposed to generating music) in a generally positive way. But as the music industry speedily adopts AI tools, it’s important to keep…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (385+ words) $400m appears to be a lucky funding-number for GenAI startups this summer. Suno raised that amount in June and now AI-video firm Higgsfield has matched it with its Series B round. That’s not the only common number between the two raises....