AI Music News
Your independent source for AI music news and what each story means for music creators.
- 10 Sept
10 SeptApple puts always-on Shazam on the wrist with Audio Intelligence on Apple Watch Series 12
- Apple announced Audio Intelligence for Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 on September 9, 2026.
- Shazam is one of four Audio Intelligence features, alongside Sound Recognition, Live Rewind and Siri Recap.
- The watch names the song and artist on the Music Recognition widget in the Smart Stack without the wearer tapping anything.
- 10 Sept
10 SeptTicketmaster is the first music partner for Meta's Muse AI agent, but it won't buy your tickets
- Ticketmaster is available as a connector inside Muse, the personal AI agent Meta announced on September 8, 2026.
- Once a fan adds the connector, Muse surfaces concerts and other live events with real-time seating options and ticket pricing.
- Muse does not complete the sale. Fans are passed to Ticketmaster's marketplace to pay.
- 10 Sept
10 SeptMeta's Muse AI now posts from @muse on Instagram, and the band Muse is at @museband
- Meta's Muse team is now posting from @muse on both Instagram and X after Mark Zuckerberg announced the AI agent on September 8, 2026.
- The British rock band Muse, which has used the name for over 30 years, posts from @museband on both platforms.
- The band made the switch this summer, months before Meta's announcement, which fans read at the time as a sign something was coming.
- 10 Sept
10 SeptThe 10 Swimming With Narwhals 2026 semi-finalists are mostly plumbing, not consumer apps
- Music Tectonics and the Yamaha Music Innovations Fund named 10 semi-finalists for the 2026 Swimming With Narwhals pitch competition.
- The semi-finalists pitch at the Music Tectonics Online Pre-conference on September 23, 2026.
- Four finalists are then selected to pitch in person to a jury of investors in Santa Monica from October 27 to 29, 2026.
- 10 Sept
10 SeptUniversal Music signs ElevenLabs to a multi-year deal, one day after Suno launched its label-backed v6
- Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs announced a multi-year licensing agreement and strategic collaboration on September 10, 2026.
- It is ElevenLabs' first agreement with a major label.
- The first product is a fan-facing AI music creation platform built on licensed music and artist participation, still in development.
- 09 Sept
09 SeptSuno admits it took YouTube audio with YT-DLP, then says the labels can't sue over it
- Suno filed a 26-page answer on September 1 in Massachusetts federal court, responding to the first amended complaint from UMG Recordings, Capitol Records and Sony Music Entertainment.
- The answer states that "audio data was obtained from YouTube for use as training data using YT-DLP", and repeats the YouTube point at five further places in the document.
- Suno argues UMG and Sony lack standing on the stream-ripping claim, saying they are not "person[s] injured" under DMCA Section 1203(a).
- 08 Sept
08 SeptAFM tells the court Article 21(a) is ambiguous, and that alone should keep its AI case alive
- The AFM filed its opposition to Universal and Warner's motions to dismiss in case 1:26-cv-04760
- The union argues it only needs to show Article 21(a) is ambiguous and its own reading plausible, not that its reading is the best one
- It concedes the majors' reading is "possible" while arguing the clause can also be read to trigger payment on the new use itself
-
FREE AI music newsletter
Get this in your inbox — free
- AI Music Briefing — the week's biggest AI music news, the AI Music Lawsuit Tracker, and Music Intelligence.
- 1 tutorial every week — AI music promotion: from a 4-week song-release strategy to a music video in under 10 minutes.
- 08 Sept
08 SeptA fake AI Eminem track pulled 109,000 YouTube views in 8 days, with no AI label on it
- An AI-generated track titled "I'm Back" credited to Eminem has 109,000 views and 3,500 likes after 8 days
- The channel behind it, Eminem Pulse, lists 38 videos and 2,110 subscribers, with three more AI tracks posted inside 48 hours
- A signed-out search for "Eminem Pulse" returns four of the channel's uploads at the top of the results
- 08 Sept
08 SeptPrince's estate says no AI finished 'Calabama', and names the three horn players who did
- Fans accused the Timeless album track "Calabama" of using AI on its credits, timing and arrangement
- Prince's estate says live horn players overdubbed his synthesiser track with the intended horn line
- Trombone, saxophone and trumpet were played by Greg Boyer, Adrian Crutchfield and Lynn Grissett, all credited in the album packaging
- 08 Sept
08 SeptSuno signs Believe and TuneCore, 4 months after Believe blocked its tracks
- Believe and Suno announced a global strategic partnership on September 8, 2026, covering participating Believe and TuneCore repertoire
- Artists and labels opt in, and a source close to the deal told Billboard the compensation takes the form of a revenue share
- Tracks made on Suno's new industry partner model become eligible to distribute through Believe and TuneCore
- 07 Sept
07 SeptAnthropic files for an IPO at a $965B valuation while the music publishers' case rolls on
- Anthropic filed a confidential draft registration statement with the SEC for a proposed IPO, with share count and price still undecided.
- A recent raise pushed Anthropic's valuation to $965 billion, ahead of OpenAI's $852 billion.
- Reporting now points to a public prospectus filing by the end of September 2026 and a listing as early as October.
- 07 Sept
07 SeptFL Studio maker Image-Line says generative AI feeds beginners into real music-making
- Image-Line chief product and technology officer Robert Linke says generative AI tools bring beginners into music-making rather than replacing it.
- Linke described the effect as a net benefit of generative AI on the Music Ally Focus podcast, published September 4, 2026.
- His argument is that prompt tools hit a ceiling, and that ceiling is what sends people to download a DAW.