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UK startup snares $20m to recreate gigs with ‘hyper-realistic’ digital avatars

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Unit1 hopes to offer cheaper version of shows such as Abba Voyage, showcasing living and dead artists in any venueThe former chief executive of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s entertainment group has obtained a near-£15m investment for his UK music tech startup that hopes to recreate classic concerts by manifesting musicians as digital avatars.Unit1 was set up […]

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Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs

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AI company faces multi-billion dollar lawsuit over misuse of copyrighted songs to train Claude models All AI wants for Christmas is a vast back catalogue of songs without paying for it, according to a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the startup behind the Claude chatbot.Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell, music publishers who manage the copyright of

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‘I feel like I’m at war’: are we losing the battle against machine-made music?

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Despite outcry from musicians, AI slop is creeping into the charts as record labels scramble to adapt to a new normal where hits can be made at the click of a buttonThis year, the battle for song of the summer has been eclipsed by a much more complicated – some would even say disturbing –

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Spotify to distinguish AI artists from real people and block them from some playlists

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Music streaming platform creates ‘AI persona’ label that will appear on profiles and track listings in crackdown on fake performersSpotify is to label AI artists and exclude them from algorithm recommendations as part of a crackdown on fake performers.The world’s largest music streaming platform is creating a label for AI-generated artist identities called “AI personas”

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Ring Cycle review – AI staging dispenses with drama to create banal bric-a-brac

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Bayreuth festival theatre, BayreuthFor the festival’s 150th anniversary, the creative team have turned to AI to generate visuals reflecting Wagner’s tetralogy’s past, present – and future. The hyperactive result is a dismal, mindless messUnveiled the same week in which tech company Anthropic admitted that its AI model Claude had gone rogue during testing, Bayreuth festival’s

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Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review

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BBC Philharmonic/Havlat/Kaziboni/Piatti Quartet(NMC)Einstein’s field equations, Newton’s universal law and artificial intelligence are among the subjects of Laidlow’s ambitious orchestral worksRobert Laidlow is as at home in the realms of science and technology as he is in the world of classical music. As this NMC debut album demonstrates, his intricate, wildly imaginative work is eminently approachable,

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Open earbuds let you tune in without tuning out the world. Here are the five best pairs

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Don’t float through the world in an AirPod bubble – enjoy music or podcasts and carry on using these tested favoritesI tested 42 pairs of wireless earbuds to find the best in USSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsIn a feat of engineering that borders on magic,

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Is the most popular song played on Australian radio stations the product of generative AI?

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Josh Fawaz’s song, a cover of Like a Prayer, has raised questions over how generative AI is being used in music and whether it should be declaredAn Australian producer has gone from a little-known artist to a viral sensation in a matter of months, with his hit song catapulting onto global charts and receiving thousands

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‘Don’t kill music’: Anthony Albanese’s favourite bands beg PM to stop AI companies from stealing their work

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A potential deal with the government would allow international tech companies to mine the creative work of Australian musicians. Some of the prime minister’s favourite artists told the Guardian how they feel about itCreatives sound alarm on copyright as Pocock calls $50bn datacentre proposal ‘ultimate dirty deal’Big tech companies are asking for Australian copyright laws

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