Welcome to the Tech Meme Rain Home for Tuesday, June 25th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

History is rhyming today as AI music startups get the Napster treatment and Microsoft gets dinged for product

bundling.

Google wants you to build your own AI celebrities, Amazon wants to go at chat geepty directly and to hella interesting and hella big AI raises.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

The recording industry of America has sued AI Music Services

Suno and Yudio over alleged mass copyright infringement and claims they are

trying to quote hide the full scope of their

infringement.

Quoting the verge.

A group of record labels including the Big Three Universal Music Group,

Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Records are suing two of the top names in generative

AI music making, alleging the companies violated their copyright en masse.

The two AI companies, Suno and Yudio, used text prompts to turn out original songs.

Both companies have enjoyed a level of success.

Suno is available for use in Microsoft Co-Pilot through a partnership with the Tech Giant.

Udo was used to create BBL drizzie one of the more notable

examples of AI music going viral. The case against Suno was filed in Boston

Federal Court and the Udo case was filed in New York. The labels say

artists across genres and eras had their work used without consent. The

lawsuits were brought by the Recording Industry Association of America, the

powerful group representing major

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