AI music news
The few AI music updates worth knowing—what changed, why it matters, and the original sources.
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GRAI has acquired Hangout, the social listening platform created by the team behind Turntable.fm, combining Hangout’s community experience and licensed catalog relationships with GRAI’s AI-music technology. GRAI says the acquisition has closed and it will continue Hangout’s label, publisher and collecting-society partnerships while developing a social streaming service that is still awaiting launch.
Snapchat introduced Chat to Song, a Lens+ feature that turns a selected chat message into a short AI-generated song. Users can press and hold a message, choose a genre, preview the result and share it back into the conversation. The update brings music generation directly into a mainstream messaging workflow, although the feature is limited to Snapchat’s paid Lens+ tier.
RAI’s rules for the 2027 Sanremo Music Festival require competing songs to remain expressions of human creativity and prohibit AI systems when they replace, alter or distort the primary creative contribution of authors or performers. The policy does not ban every AI-assisted use, but it gives the festival and artistic direction a basis to reject entries that substitute machines for core human authorship.
Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment filed a second copyright lawsuit against Suno, alleging that it copied 60,202 sound recordings without licenses to build models behind its music-generation service. The complaint also targets the newer v6 models, arguing they inherit value from earlier allegedly infringing systems. The labels seek damages and an injunction; the allegations have not been decided by a court.
ElevenLabs released Music v2.5 as the new default model for prompted and reference generation in ElevenCreative. The company says the update produces richer melodies, more natural-sounding instruments and the biggest improvements in R&B, soul, hip hop, rock, metal, orchestral and cinematic music. Users can generate from written prompts or guide results with a reference track.
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs signed an AI-music agreement, marking ElevenLabs' first deal with a major music company after earlier agreements with Kobalt and Merlin. The partnership adds another major rightsholder relationship to ElevenLabs' music efforts and extends UMG's recent work on AI remix experiences, but the candidate report does not describe a released product.
