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Too Little, Too Late? Sony Music Fires Off Blanket Warning Against the AI Mining of Its Catalog

Too little, too late? Sony Music has fired off a blanket warning against the unauthorized training of AI systems on its song catalog and other IP. The overarching Sony Music Group today made that clear-cut announcement on behalf of Sony Music Entertainment (SME) as well as its various subsidiaries and Sony Music Publishing (SMP). Spanning

Pandora Hits Back at MLC Lawsuit Over Streaming Royalties: ‘Legally Incoherent’

Music In a strongly-worded response, Pandora says the royalties group "thinks it knows better than the entire music publishing industry." Illustration by Thiago Prudêncio/SOPA Images/LightRocket...

Huey Lewis Calls Musical Inspired by His Band’s Songs a ‘Creative Outlet’ After Losing His Hearing

Music You may not think of Buddhist philosophy and Huey Lewis as the same time very often, but it works for him when considering...

How Will Rural Americans Fare During Medicaid Unwinding? Experts Fear They’re on Their Own

Abby Madore covers a lot of ground each day at work. A staffer at a community health center in Carson City, Nevada, Madore spends her days helping low-income residents understand their health insurance options, including Medicaid. Her phone is always ringing, she said, as she fields calls from clients who dial in from the state’s

Americans Abroad Midweek Preview: Dest, Pulisic, and more

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For Many Native Americans, Fry Bread Is Tasty, Nostalgic—and Complicated

This is part of Breaking Bread, a collection of stories from our friends at Condé Nast Traveler that highlights how bread is made, eaten, and shared around...

Keeping Americans Safe from Malaria Is a Global Effort | Opinion

Last week, the Maryland Department of Public Health announced a case of locally acquired malaria in a Maryland resident who lives in the greater...

Americans growing anxious as AI adoption expands, Pew Research finds

Americans have grown more worried about AI in the last nine months. A new survey from the Pew Research Center indicates 52 percent of respondents are more concerned than excited about rising artificial intelligence use, up 14 points since December. Meanwhile, only 10 percent say they’re more excited than worried, while another 36 percent described

What Americans want even more than sugar: honey

Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for The Honeybee Conservancy (Getty Images)The US imports more sugars and sugar confectionary than any country in the world—it spent $6.48 billion dollars for sugar in 2022. But growth in demand for honey in the US has increased significantly over the last three decades, according to data from the USDA. While

What normal Americans — not AI companies — want for AI

Five months ago, when I published a big piece laying out the case for slowing down AI, it wasn’t exactly mainstream to say that we should pump the brakes on this technology. Within the tech industry, it was practically taboo. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has argued that Americans would be foolish to slow down OpenAI’s

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Too Little, Too Late? Sony Music Fires Off Blanket Warning Against the AI Mining of Its Catalog

Too little, too late? Sony Music has fired off a blanket warning against the unauthorized training of AI systems on its song catalog and other IP. The overarching Sony Music Group today made that clear-cut announcement on behalf of Sony Music Entertainment (SME) as well as its various subsidiaries and Sony Music Publishing (SMP). Spanning

Pandora Hits Back at MLC Lawsuit Over Streaming Royalties: ‘Legally Incoherent’

Music In a strongly-worded response, Pandora says the royalties...