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Amazon To Launch Free Ad-Supported Music Service
Amazon // April 15, 2019

Amazon, the eCommerce giant, could launch a music service that is free and ad-supported in the coming days, reported Billboard. According to Billboard, citing sources familiar with the plan, Amazon is mulling marketing the service through its Echo speakers and Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant....

Facebook Tracker: Slowdown Strategies
Retail // September 11, 2017

Facebook expects a slowdown in its core business in the near future, a prediction that has been cited as a primary driver behind its launch of Facebook Watch. That’s not the only strategy the social media giant plans to deploy, though. It has recently started...

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Anthropic’s AI-Generated Lyrics Lead to Record Labels’ Lawsuit

October 19, 2023
Universal Music’s battle against chatbots continued Wednesday (Oct. 18) as it sued Anthropic. The lawsuit against the Google-backed artificial intelligence (AI) startup filed by Universal and two other labels alleges that Anthropic scrapes the record companies’ artists’ songs without consent, using them to create “identical or nearly identical copies of those lyrics” using Anthropic’s generative AI chatbot […]

Amazon To Launch Free Ad-Supported Music Service

April 15, 2019
Amazon, the eCommerce giant, could launch a music service that is free and ad-supported in the coming days, reported Billboard. According to Billboard, citing sources familiar with the plan, Amazon...