Every published Top AI Stories item tagged with Music Recording, newest first.
Streaming service Deezer said fully AI-generated songs have, for the first time, passed 50 percent of its daily uploads — roughly 90,000 tracks a day, up from 44 percent in April. The flood barely registers with listeners, accounting for just 1 to 3 percent of streams, up to 85 percent of which Deezer flags as fraudulent. The company is tagging AI tracks, cutting them from recommendations and playlists, and removing fraud-linked and long-unstreamed uploads. "We have reached a pivotal moment," CEO Alexis Lanternier said.
Leaked Suno source code from a breach shows the AI music startup scraped enormous volumes of copyrighted audio to train its models — including roughly 114,000 hours from YouTube Music plus thousands more from Deezer and Genius — routed through commercial proxies to bypass anti-bot defenses. The trove also exposed contact and partial payment data for hundreds of thousands of customers, who say they were never notified. The details could strengthen the copyright suits Universal and Sony have already brought against the company.
Starting July 15, the streaming service TIDAL will demonetize fully AI-generated tracks, tag them with an "AI" badge, and automatically remove songs that impersonate real artists. It is among the most aggressive label-and-demonetize stances yet, following Deezer — which says 44 percent of its daily uploads are now AI-generated. TIDAL framed the move as protecting "organic creativity" as synthetic music floods streaming platforms.
Suno raised a $400 million Series D led by Bond, more than doubling its valuation to $5.4 billion just seven months after its last round — a sign investors still see runaway demand for generative music. The raise lands while Universal Music Group, Sony, and Germany's rights society GEMA press copyright suits accusing Suno of training on tens of thousands of songs without permission; Warner settled and signed a license last year. Suno maintains its training is fair use.
Spotify and Universal Music Group announced a licensing deal Thursday that will let Premium subscribers create AI-generated covers and remixes of Universal artists' songs, with revenue shared back to participating artists. The deal is built on three principles — **"consent, credit, and compensation,"** per Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström — and is the music industry's most prominent AI-licensing framework to date, contrasting sharply with Suno and Udio, which are being sued by the major labels for training on their catalogs without permission. Neither launch date nor the list of participating artists has been announced.
Stability AI released Stable Audio 3.0, a four-model family for music generation, with the medium and large variants rendering compositions up to six minutes and twenty seconds. Three variants ship with open weights; the large model is API or self-hosted with a paid license required above one million dollars in revenue. The company emphasizes the training data is fully licensed through deals with Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group — a deliberate contrast with Suno and Udio, both of which face major-label copyright suits.