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  1. China Styles "I Love Me, Loud" hits #2 on Billboard R&B Digital Song Sales chart.
    26 Feb

    AI artist China Styles hits Billboard #2 between Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber using Suno:

    AI artist China Styles hits Billboard #2 with Suno music ✓ Former nail tech built 900K listeners ✓ Competes with Bruno Mars → Find out more

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  2. Google acquires Producer. Left: portrait with sunglasses. Right: privacy update with agree and revise.
    25 Feb

    Producer.AI just became a Google Labs product. The Chainsmokers and Lecrae helped build it

    Google acquires Producer.AI music generator, adds Lyria 3 model ✓ Grammy artists using platform ✓ SynthID watermarking ✓ Global access → Start creating

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  3. Black-and-white portrait of Jeremy Sirota seated against a plain backdrop, wearing a suede shirt over a dark t-shirt
    23 Feb

    Suno hires ex-Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota who doubled revenue to $1.8 billion to lead music industry deals:

    Suno hires ex-Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota as CCO to lead music licensing deals ✓ Expert who doubled Merlin revenue ✓ Signals push for formal agreements ✓ Legiti...

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  4. AI Musicpreneur 'Top 5 AI Music News (16th – 22nd Feb 2026)' thumbnail featuring three portraits framed within stylized rectangles over a dark background
    22 Feb

    Top 5 AI Music News (Feb 16th – Feb 22nd 2026)

    AI music news you need to know (Feb 16th - Feb 22nd 2026) ✓ Google adds Lyria 3 to Gemini. ✓ Hook raises $10M. ✓ Diplo posts AI fake. → Read the full breakdown!

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  5. Hook social music app interface showing remix feature and ocean sunset video content.
    19 Feb

    Hook raises $10M Series A to let you remix 20 million licensed songs with AI

    Hook raises $10M for AI remix platform with 20M licensed songs ✓ Legal remixing tools ✓ Revenue for rights holders ✓ 45x user growth → Start remixing

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  6. ByteDance Seed homepage showing the Seedance 2.0 product hero with an AI-generated basketball video
    18 Feb

    ByteDance disables Seedance 2.0 features after Disney and Warner Bros. threaten legal action

    ByteDance retreats from Seedance 2.0 after Disney copyright threats ✓ Disabled the image upload feature ✓ Promised new restrictions → Find out more here

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  7. AI-generated video of person as bush on Super Bowl field captioned 'surprise' by Diplo.
    16 Feb

    Diplo’s viral Super Bowl bush video is AI-generated. 3 visual errors exposed his AI video as fake:

    Diplo's viral Super Bowl bush video was AI-generated, exposing how artists fake event access ✓ Spot AI fakes easily ✓ Protect your digital likeness → Read more

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  9. Hand-drawn illustration of an audio waveform connecting to a DNA double helix under the CLEWS wordmark with a teal scanning line
    16 Feb

    Sony’s new CLEWS tech traces AI-generated music back to its human sources

    Sony's CLEWS tech traces AI music to original sources, enabling royalty attribution. ✓ Detects musical DNA beyond exact matches → Read more here.

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  10. Top 5 AI Music News Feb 9-15 2026, featuring Music City Make-A-Thon event. The AI Musicpreneur is sponsoring.
    15 Feb

    Top 5 AI Music News (Feb 9th – Feb 15th 2026)

    AI music news you need to know (Feb 7th - 13th 2026) ✓ Nashville Music Competition ✓ First AI-only radio. ✓ Deadmau5 deepfake → Read the full breakdown here!

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  11. Deadmau5 performing at Rock in Rio Madrid 2012 with iconic mouse head helmet and LED stage setup.
    13 Feb

    “Scary as fuck”: Deadmau5 finds AI-generated video of himself promoting a stranger’s music

    Deadmau5 exposes AI deepfake scam where DJ used fake video endorsement. ✓ Learn deepfake detection tactics ✓ Protect your brand → Verify before you trust

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  12. First Annual Music City Make-A-Thon promo banner powered by NVIDIA, First Rule, and NCE with March 23-28 2026 dates and Nashville TN location
    13 Feb

    Nashville is hosting a 6-day music competition where you write, produce, and perform a song from scratch

    Nashville's NVIDIA-powered music competition: 6-day sprint to create & perform live. ✓ Cash prizes for finalists ✓ AI-integrated workflows → Apply now

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  13. CLEAR Act infographic explaining AI copyright reporting requirements and mechanism.
    12 Feb

    The CLEAR Act would force AI companies to reveal every copyrighted work they trained on, or face $5,000 fines

    CLEAR Act requires AI companies to disclose copyrighted training data. ✓ Protects registered works ✓ $5,000 penalties per violation ✓ Builds creator leverage...

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