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Music Industry Introduces Labels For Works That Use AI In Sound Recordings
A coalition of music industry bodies and artists’ organisations has introduced a voluntary labelling system to flag the use of artificial intelligence in sound recordings. The scheme uses two simple icons to distinguish “AI-generated” works from “AI-assisted” ones, and is designed for adoption by digital music services, distributors and others. The move matters because AI-produced…
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Paris Paloma tells crowd, “If you want to support artists, don’t use AI” on stage at Bilbao BBK Live 2026
Indie-folk singer-songwriter Paris Paloma used her set at Bilbao BBK Live 2026 to urge her audience to reject artificial intelligence and support human artists instead. Performing on the San Miguel stage on the festival’s opening day, she introduced her recent single ‘Miyazaki’ — named after Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki — with a pointed statement…
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Wife of wealthy AI boss who was ‘found with stab wound to the chest in downstairs bathroom’ of £2.5m home was arrested, inquest hears
An inquest has opened into the death of Neil Muller, the 54-year-old chief executive of technology firm Node4, who was found with a fatal stab wound to the chest at his home in Warwickshire. Coventry Coroner’s Court heard that Mr Muller’s wife was arrested following his death, which is being investigated by police, making this…
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Record industry proposes AI labeling system for streaming platforms
The RIAA and IFPI are leading a coalition of music industry bodies in a push to have AI-made tracks labelled across the world’s streaming services, according to a Wall Street Journal report published on Friday (10 July). The group plans to work with platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music to attach two distinct tags,…
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Microsoft’s AI drive saw its carbon emissions grow by 25 percent in 2025
Microsoft pledged to be carbon negative by 2030, but its AI push has wrecked its goal.
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Apple TV’s ‘Silo’ Stars Explain Why Season 3 Is the Show’s Most Intense Installment Yet
Silo Season 3’s Common and Alexandria Riley explain why the new installment was their most challenging and tease Season 4.
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A New Experiential Gallery Just Might Change Your Mind About AI Art
Renowned digital artist Refik Anadol has opened Dataland, billed as the world’s first “museum of AI arts”, in downtown Los Angeles, seeking to counter the widespread perception that AI-generated art amounts to little more than “slop”. The gallery, cofounded with studio partner Efsun Erkılıç, opened on 20 June and drew more than 10,000 visitors within…
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America is fighting yesterday’s AI war. Tomorrow’s war is on the way
This Fox News opinion piece, written by a former Army Staff strategist, argues that the United States is misreading its technological competition with China by treating the development of artificial intelligence as a narrow contest over which model performs best on benchmarks. Drawing on the author’s experience advising on foreign arms sales, the article contends…
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‘AI accountability agenda’: US senator unveils package of bills to curb tech’s harms
Democratic US senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has unveiled a package of bills he calls an “AI accountability agenda”, aimed at curbing what he sees as the wide-ranging harms of unregulated artificial intelligence. The agenda targets energy- and water-intensive datacenters, intrusive workplace surveillance, biased algorithms, AI overriding human judgment and deepening economic inequality, framed as…
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Robot Dogs, Teslas, and Rescue Helicopters: The UN AI Summit Was a Lot
The tenth annual “AI for Good” summit, organised by the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union (ITU), gathered public- and private-sector representatives in Geneva to debate how artificial intelligence might be steered towards benefiting humanity rather than harming it. Held against a backdrop of Washington testimony on superintelligence risks and shifting US export controls on chips,…