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Spotify tries to defend its artist payout rates

Engadget

It's no secret that Spotify isn't a big money maker for most artists. But, in its annual Loud & Clear report , the music streamer is trying to change the narrative, reiterating an earlier claim that it paid artists $10 billion in 2024 ($60 million since launching) and adding that these payments increased tenfold over the last 10 years.

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Napster just sold for $207 million

Engadget

The once-iconic music-sharing platform Napster just sold for $207 million, according to reporting by CNBC. More specifically, the company plans on creating virtual 3D spaces for music fans to attend concerts and listening parties, in addition to creating a sales platform for musicians and labels to sell merch.

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British authors want Meta to answer for alleged copyright infringement

Engadget

Artists across the creative industries have also recently protested the UK government's December 2024 proposal to change copyright law. with 12 songs spelling out, "The British government must not legalise music theft to benefit AI companies." In February, over 1,000 musicians released an album called Is This What We Want?

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NVIDIA NIM Microservices Now Available to Streamline Agentic Workflows on RTX AI PCs and Workstations

NVIDIA AI Blog

NIM microservices support a range of AI applications, including large language models ( LLMs ), vision language models, image generation, speech processing, retrieval-augmented generation ( RAG )-based search, PDF extraction and computer vision. 8B-instruct Image Generation: Flux.dev Audio: Riva Parakeet-ctc-0.6B-asr

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The best music streaming services in 2025

Engadget

Theres no such thing as one best music streaming service. Most of these apps are designed around the same principles and provide access to a huge music catalog. Pretty much none of them are paying artists properly, yet nearly all of them are steadily raising prices. This article originally appeared on Engadget at [link]

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Man who stole more than $23 million in YouTube music royalties scam faces 70-month prison sentence

TechSpot

In 2021, Jose "Chanel" Teran of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Webster Batista Fernandez of Doral, Florida, were accused of stealing royalties from YouTube by claiming to own the rights to over 50,000 unmonetized Spanish-language songs and uploading them to the platform. In some instances, forged notes from the artists in question.

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AI is coming for the laptop class

Recode by Vox

Generative AIs like Dall-E, Sora, or Midjourney are actively competing with human visual artists; theyve already noticeably reduced demand for freelance graphic design. Fast AI progress, slow robotics progress If youve heard of OpenAI, youve heard of its language models: GPTs 1, 2, 3, 3.5, 4, and most recently 4.5.

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