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- 24 Sept
AI Music News 24 SeptOpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam and 2 Patreon execs to build tools for creators
- Patreon co-founder Sam Yam announced on September 22, 2026 that he is joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product.
- Drew Rowny, Patreon's head of product, and Shannon Ma, its head of engineering, are joining him.
- Yam promised early access to a new set of tools for creators but has not said what they are.
- 24 Sept
AI Music News 24 SeptSony Music joins AI policy coalition ARIAM, 5 days after suing Suno a second time
- Sony Music Group joined ARIAM, the Alliance for Responsible Innovation in the Arts & Media, on September 23, 2026.
- Sony is the first music company in the coalition, which launched on June 15, 2026 with members like Disney, the BBC and The New York Times.
- Sony Music Entertainment COO Kevin Kelleher said a licensing environment where AI companies partner with rightsholders is the only foundation for getting AI right.
- 24 Sept
AI Music News 24 SeptYouTube Music upgrades Ask Music into a chat across 300 million songs and podcasts
- YouTube announced an upgraded Ask Music and a new Your Podcast Lineup feature at Made on YouTube on September 23, 2026.
- Ask Music lets listeners describe what they want in plain words and searches more than 300 million songs plus podcasts.
- It can build a custom queue, answer questions like who played bass on a song, and dig into an artist's backstory.
- 23 Sept
AI Music News 23 SeptSan Jose Sharks drop the goal song fans accused of being made with Suno
- The San Jose Sharks announced on September 21, 2026 that their goal song Power Bite by BVRNOUT is being retired after one season.
- Fans had called the track AI slop since it was picked, and online sleuths claimed it was made with Suno.
- No statement from the Sharks or BVRNOUT has confirmed that AI was used on the song.
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- 23 Sept
AI Music News 23 SeptSanremo 2027 bans AI that replaces human creativity, and RAI can check every entry
- RAI's rulebook for the Sanremo Music Festival 2027 says competing songs must be an expression of human creativity.
- AI is banned in writing, composing and producing an entry when it replaces, alters or distorts the human creative contribution.
- RAI and artistic director Stefano De Martino can use any available technology to check songs for AI use.
- 23 Sept
AI Music News 23 SeptUniversal and Sony sue Suno again over 60,202 songs, and Suno says v6 trained on user creations
- Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment filed a second copyright lawsuit against Suno in Boston federal court on September 18, 2026.
- The new complaint names 60,202 recordings, which puts the theoretical maximum at just over $9 billion in statutory damages.
- The labels argue Suno v6 is "the fruit of the same poisoned tree" because it was built on outputs of older models trained on their music.
- 23 Sept
Tool News & Updates 23 SeptGRAI buys Hangout, the Turntable.fm successor, before launching its own AI social streaming app
- GRAI, an AI music startup based in Warsaw, acquired the social listening app Hangout on September 22, 2026.
- The deal was a merger, so Hangout's parent Turntable Labs is now a wholly owned GRAI subsidiary.
- Hangout launched in November 2024 with more than 100 million tracks licensed from Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music and Merlin.
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Christopher Wieduwilt
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I've been a musician for over 25 years — metal bands in Germany, a solo singer-songwriter project that toured the US coast to coast, 500,000+ plays on Myspace. Then Myspace crashed and I lost my entire fanbase overnight.
After that I worked inside the music industry for years on the business side: managing artists, working for record labels, organising concerts and festivals. Watched the same mistakes repeat on newer platforms.
In 2023, generative music AI started reshaping everything: production, promotion, rights, revenue. I started covering AI in music production in August 2023, before Suno's public launch. 200+ stories since.
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My article on What is AI music covers this in full: how AI models are trained on audio, what generation tools can and can't do, and where the copyright questions stand.
Will AI replace musicians?
The short answer is no, but the longer answer matters more. Will AI replace musicians breaks down what AI can produce, what it can't, and where human artists still have ground that's hard to take.
Is AI music copyrighted?
Practice is shifting. The US Copyright Office has ruled that purely AI-generated output doesn't qualify for copyright protection. Is AI music copyrighted covers the current legal position, the active lawsuits, and what this means for artists using AI tools in their work.
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