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- 24 Jul
24 JulSuno admits a 2025 breach exposed 55 million users' personal data
- Suno confirmed a November 2025 security incident that reportedly exposed the personal data of 55.3 million users.
- Have I Been Pwned obtained the dataset on July 20, 2026, and found over 55 million unique email addresses plus phone numbers.
- Tens of thousands of Stripe records also held customer names, physical addresses, purchase amounts, and partial card details.
- 21 Jul
21 JulAI music passes 50% of Deezer's daily uploads, and Deezer starts deleting it
- Fully AI-generated music passed 50% of all new tracks uploaded to Deezer for the first time in June 2026, peaking at close to 90,000 tracks a day.
- The flood is accelerating, up from 75,000 daily AI tracks and a 44% share when Deezer last reported the numbers in April 2026.
- Deezer will now delete AI tracks used to inflate streams fraudulently, plus AI tracks nobody has streamed in six months or more.
- 21 Jul
21 JulIndonesia drafts Southeast Asia's first AI copyright law, with a ban on style imitation
- Indonesia is drafting a copyright bill making it the first country in Southeast Asia to write AI directly into its copyright framework.
- The draft bans AI imitation of a creator's distinct style, a protection copyright law does not offer in most of the world.
- AI-assisted works would get copyright protection only with human contribution, while fully AI-generated works get none.
- 21 Jul
21 JulPatreon stops asking and starts blocking AI training crawlers with Cloudflare
- Patreon announced on July 17, 2026, it now blocks AI training crawlers across the platform using Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control technology.
- During testing, individual AI crawlers' weekly access attempts dropped from thousands to zero, proof the bots had been ignoring Patreon's robots.txt requests.
- Bots indexing pages to send users back to Patreon stay allowed, only crawlers harvesting content for AI training get blocked.
- 21 Jul
21 JulSOCAN partners with Musical AI to build opt-in AI attribution for 200,000 music creators
- SOCAN named Musical AI an approved technology partner for AI attribution on July 21, 2026
- The deal rests on 2 principles: AI use of members' music stays opt-in, and creators get credit and payment when their work shapes an AI output
- Musical AI's technology traces how much each source influenced an AI-generated track, assessed separately for compositions and sound recordings
- 21 Jul
21 JulSony Music files a second Udio lawsuit, putting 30,117 blocked recordings back in play
- Sony Music filed a second copyright lawsuit against Udio on July 20, 2026, in the Southern District of New York, asserting 30,117 sound recordings.
- The recordings are the same works a judge barred Sony from adding to its original 2024 case weeks earlier.
- Sony identified the works by audio fingerprinting Udio's training data in discovery and calls them "only a small portion" of the matches it found.
- 21 Jul
21 JulTikTok tests AI likeness detection with US creators, ID scan required
- TikTok is testing an opt-in likeness detection tool that scans the platform for AI-generated content using a creator's face without consent.
- The test is limited to a small group of US creators and was first spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra in July 2026.
- Creators must verify their identity through Jumio with a real-time selfie and a government ID before the scanning activates.
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- 17 Jul
17 JulLorde publicly torches Spotify's AI 'About the Song' feature
- Lorde called out Spotify's AI About the Song feature in an Instagram Story on July 16, 2026, after it published incorrect context about one of her songs
- She asked Spotify to at least let artists opt out, saying AI-generated meaning at the source limits free interpretation
- Spotify confirmed the inaccurate text about Lorde's song has been removed, but the feature stays live in beta
- 17 Jul
17 JulSuno fights to keep its Warner licensing deal secret in the UMG and Sony lawsuit
- Suno filed a 20-page response on July 16, 2026 opposing Universal Music and Sony Music's renewed push to obtain its Warner Music licensing contract
- Suno argues handing over the deal would threaten to chill future settlements across AI copyright litigation
- Magistrate Judge Paul Levenson already denied the labels' request in April, and a July 9 hearing failed to resolve the dispute
- 17 Jul
17 JulSpotify launches Talk to Spotify, a ChatGPT-style assistant, in beta
- Spotify launched Talk to Spotify in beta on July 14, 2026 for Premium subscribers on iOS and Android in the US, Ireland, and Sweden
- The assistant takes typed or spoken prompts to build playlists, queue tracks, save songs, and answer questions about what's playing
- Talk to Spotify draws on each listener's playlists, favorite artists, and listening history to personalize responses
- 16 Jul 16 Jul
Suno hack exposes source code showing it scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius
- A hacker breached Suno and gave 404 Media source code and data from the AI music generator's training libraries, reported on July 15, 2026.
- The leaked code shows Suno scraped 113,879 hours of YouTube Music, 17,615 hours of Genius, and 12,287 hours of Deezer, plus Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, and podcast RSS feeds.
- The hacker also accessed data on hundreds of thousands of Suno customers, including emails, phone numbers, and Stripe payment details.
- 15 Jul
15 JulAnthropic fights music-biz attorney Donald Passman's bid to exit its $1.5B settlement
- Donald Passman, author of the music-business bible, wants out of Anthropic's $1.5 billion author settlement
- His book was swept into the settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic, which covered books used to train Claude
- Anthropic opposes the exit, calling his excusable-neglect argument legally groundless