music
AI-generated songs helped a bot network divert over $8 million in royalties News
Michael Smith received an 18-month sentence for a bot-streaming scheme that used a large AI-generated catalog to divert more than $8 million in royalties.
Canada's music rights society sued Suno and put 150 outputs in the filing News
SOCAN filed suit against Suno on September 2, 2026, alleging the AI music platform generates and streams outputs that copy songs from its repertoire, and listing 150 publicly available Suno tracks as a sample.
Australia's charts will not count wholly AI-generated tracks News
ARIA updated its Charts Code of Practice so that wholly AI-generated recordings are ineligible from the chart dated August 31, while tracks that use generative AI in a supporting role still count.
MiniMax released a five-minute song model with a catch in the licence News
MiniMax published the weights for Music 3, a model that generates complete five-minute songs with vocals in 32 kHz stereo, under a licence that permits commercial use but requires on-screen credit and written permission above $20 million in revenue.
Leaked Suno code names YouTube, Deezer, Genius and podcast RSS feeds as collection sources News
A hack of AI music generator Suno exposed source-code files and comments naming YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, stock libraries and podcast RSS feeds as data collection targets, the most specific provenance evidence yet in the music industry's copyright fight.
MiniMax Music 3 Tool
Open-weight model that generates complete five-minute songs with vocals in 32 kHz stereo from lyrics plus a structured style description. Runs via SGLang-Omni, Diffusers, or ComfyUI. Commercial use allowed with on-screen attribution; written permission required above $20M revenue.