Tuesday’s AI Report

• 1. 📀 Universal, Warner & Sony fight for music
• 2. ✅ Book your AI audit with Upscaile
• 3. 🌍 How Starbucks got a 30% increase in ROI with AI
• 4. 🏗️ Build custom AI chatbots with ChatNode
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. 💼 IBM acquires new AI advantage
• 7. 🧠 Salesforce buys AI recruiter
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

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Universal, Warner & Sony fight for music

🚨 Our Report 

Three of the world's biggest music labels—Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music—are having separate negotiations with two AI start-ups—Udio and Suno—about the possibility of licensing their music catalogs for AI music production and training.

🔓 Key Points

• Udio and Suno are both AI platforms that generate music from text prompts, enabling aspiring musicians to create new music recordings by just describing specific sounds, artists, or specific songs.

• All three labels want license fees from Udio and Suno whenever music from their catalogs is used for either training or music production, and “a small amount” of equity in the start-ups.

• To help detect when their music is being used, they also want the start-ups to develop fingerprint recognition and attribution technologies (similar to YouTube's content ID) that can track how and when songs are used.

🔐 Relevance 

These negotiations come nearly a year after all three labels sued Suno and Udio for copyright infringement, feeling that “AI companies must abide by laws that protect human creativity and ingenuity.” However, Sudo and Udio argued that their use of copyrighted material fell under the “fair use” exemption to US copyright law (which allows copyrighted material to be used under specific circumstances). If these recent negotiations are successful, this could set a framework for how artists are fairly compensated by AI companies and could settle current and future copyright disputes.

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• IBM has acquired Seek—an agentic, AI-powered data platform that helps businesses leverage their data better—to advance its AI capabilities and play a key part in its new AI accelerator: Watsonx AI Labs.

• This acquisition will give IBM access to Seek’s technology, which automates the generation of code for answering questions (and connects to a wide range of popular databases) in natural language.

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• Salesforce has acquired AI recruitment start-up, Moonhub, which has AI-powered tools (used by the Fortune 500) to identify suitable job candidates and help with onboarding and payroll management tasks.

• Moonhub’s team will join Salesforce (which was an early investor in Moonhub) to “play a key role in advancing Salesforce’s AI strategy,” as studies reveal that 93% of Fortune 500 HR teams are using AI tools.

• Last week, Salesforce completed an $8B acquisition of AI data management platform, Informatica, and last month, bought automation start-up, Convergence.ai, proving how dedicated they are to integrating AI.

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