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Wu-Tang Clan's New Music Video Is Extremely AI-Generated

Futurism

While beauty is of course in the eye of the beholder, many who beheld the "Mandingo" music video saw it as little more than AI slop. The group's de facto leader, Robert "RZA" Diggs, 2023 defended the use of AI in music when speaking to Rolling Stone in 2023. "AI

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This music streamer is giving its users a version of Spotify Wrapped every month

Fast Company Tech

With music streaming, users have gotten used to being at the mercy of algorithms. But French music streamer Deezer is making it easier for its subscribers to make the algorithm work for them. With Flow, listeners can set certain songs as favorites and ban others, effectively steering the algorithm in the direction they choose.

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Facebook Gaming will now allow partnered streamers to play copyrighted music

The Verge

Today, Facebook Gaming is set to allow its partnered streamers to play copyrighted, popular music in the background of their live stream s — which means they’ve seemingly solved the copyright problem that’s plagued live-streaming (and basically the entire internet) since the beginning.

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Music licensing marketplace Songtradr raises $50M

TechCrunch

Music licensing marketplace Songtradr this morning announced a $50 million Series D. The platform licenses music to high-profile names for advertising, films, TV, gaming and the like, including Disney, Netflix, Apple, Coca-Cola, Amazon and Google. Generative algorithms are redefining the intersection of software and music.

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The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism

The Verge

The Associated Press , or AP , has announced that it’s starting a marketplace to sell NFTs of its photojournalists’ work in collaboration with a company called Xooa. Resellers will also be to get in on the action. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Apple is finally updating AirPods Max with lossless and ultra-low latency audio

Engadget

And that's the kicker: based on the wording in Apple's press release , it seems the update will only be for the USB-C version of the AirPods Max, not the original version with the Lightning port. Apple Music subscribers can listen to more than 100 million songs in lossless audio.

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Apple buys classical music streaming service Primephonic

The Verge

Apple Music is pushing more extensively into classical music. Today, Apple announced that it has acquired Primephonic , a service that specializes in streaming the classical genre, and will incorporate the app’s functionality and playlists into Apple Music. They’ll also be getting a code to redeem six free months of Apple Music.

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