How the music industry is divided over AI; some labels signed licensing deals for AI that mirror revenue splits they use with YouTube for user-generated content
How the music industry is split over AI; some labels signed licensing deals for AI that mirror revenue splits they use with YouTube for user-generated content
A folk-pop song called “I Know, You're Not Mine” recently topped Spotify's charts in Sweden. The soft vocals …Forums:r/neoliberalForums:r/neoliberal:The music industry's cautious embrace of AI
Sources: Universal Music and Warner Music are nearing landmark AI licensing deals with companies including Google, ElevenLabs, Stability AI, Suno, and Udio
Universal and Warner seek payment structure similar to streaming as more disruption looms — Universal Music and Warner Music …
Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up call for AI startup employees left behind, creating new uncertainty over leadership and compensation
Big Tech's growing reliance on licensing deals to scoop up top talent from AI startups risks leaving many rank-and-file workers in limbo.
Analysis: crypto ventures have added $620M+ to President Trump's fortune in the span of months, faster than his family's traditional real estate licensing deals
https://www.bloomberg.com/... X: @crewcrew : As Trump's administration works to deregulate the crypto industry, his family continues to pursue lucrative crypto ventures - a clear conflict of interest ...
Q&A with Matt Mullenweg on licensing deals with AI companies, putting Tumblr's backend migration to WordPress “on hold”, fediverse, content moderation, and more
In honor of Automattic's 20th anniversary, and also since it's been a few years … Bluesky: Nilay Patel / @reckless : Lots and lots from Matt Mullenweg on Decoder, including some deep discussion of the...
Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging it accessed Reddit 100K+ times after saying it had stopped; Reddit has reached user data licensing deals with OpenAI and Google
For a while it looked like Reddit was going to build a big business selling access to user data to LLM companies but besides Google they didn't get many takers it seems. — So here come the lawyers. ...
Q&A with Wired's Steven Levy on the evolving relationship between the tech industry and the press, media outlets' licensing deals with AI companies, and more
“What you find when you get into a place is always more interesting than any preconception you have.”
Reddit says content licensing deals with Google and OpenAI account for ~10% of its revenue but it's focused on its ad revenue business, which grew 60% YoY in Q4
Much of Reddit's $427.7 million Q4 revenues were generated by the ongoing expansion of its advertising business. — And its ad revenue as a whole grew 60% YoY — https://www.adweek.com/... Forums: B...
ProRata, which plans to debut an AI search engine in December, inks licensing deals with DMG and others; sources: DMG bought a stake valuing ProRata at ~$130M
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