Over the past couple of years, Timbaland has positioned himself as one of the few contemporary pop figures willing to fully embrace the use of artificial intelligence in music. He’s partnered with the AI music platform Suno (which is being sued by the RIAA for copyright infringement), started his own …
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Under new rules Spotify announced today, an AI “band” like the now-infamous Velvet Sundown will still be allowed on the service, but would be encouraged to label itself properly from the start. Overall, Spotify has zero intention of eliminating AI-generated music from its service, execs said Tuesday, in a press …
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Update July 3, 2025: The pseudonymous Andrew Frelon, who spoke to Rolling Stone on Wednesday as a spokesperson for the viral AI band Velvet Sundown, and runs a Twitter account that purports to represent the band, now says in a Medium post that he was running an elaborate hoax aimed …
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Legendary producer Timbaland has taken his fervent embrace of AI music production to a new level, launching a new AI entertainment company, Stage Zero — and an AI-generated “artist,” TaTa, who will be dropping a debut single soon. Timbaland, who co-founded the company with his current creative partner, Zayd Portillo, …
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Not long ago, Timbaland thought he was tapped out. Since the mid-Nineties, he’s repeatedly reinvented R&B, hip-hop, and pop, lacing classics by the likes of Aaliyah, Justin Timberlake, and Jay-Z with skittering beats, future-shock synths, and his outrageous ear for samples and hooks. At age 53, though, the producer worried …
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Even as it faces a lawsuit from the recording industry for using countless copyrighted songs to train its music-generating AI model, Suno has become the fifth most-used generative-AI service in the world — and the company is still pushing its technology forward. A new, notably more realistic model, V4, is …
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When the AI-music start-up Suno recently introduced a feature that lets users upload audio of their own creation and have the software extend and endlessly reimagine it, one particular user took note. Legendary producer Timbaland quickly became obsessed with the process, deciding it was the future of music-making. He started …
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Five weeks after the three major record labels filed filed lawsuits against A.I. music startups Suno and Udio, accusing them of “trampling the rights of copyright owners,” Suno fired back Thursday in a legal filing, acknowledging that they trained their music-generating model on copyrighted music — while insisting that doing …
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