Earlier this year, a band called The Velvet Sundown racked up hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify with retro-pop tracks, generating a million monthly listeners on Spotify. But the band wasn’t real. Every song, image, and even its back story, had been generated by someone using generative AI. For some, it was a clever
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Latest results for the year to 30 June 2025 show turnover up to £236m from £176m last time while pre-tax profit jumped to £13.5m from £8.4m. Chief executive Martin Brown said developing deep client relationships and increasing in-house capabilities, through the acquisition of designer ESL and investment in additional MEICA expertise set the foundations for
Right as the Activision Blizzard deal closed… Image: Anthony Dickens / Pure Xbox Bloomberg’s ever-reliable gaming journalist Jason Schreier (along with colleague Dina Bass) has today put out an extensive report on Xbox, and how Microsoft is now asking the division to deliver “higher profit margins” in the wake of its massive acquisition of Activision
KNOXVILLE, TN — Ripley PR, a leading public relations agency serving the home service and skilled trades industries, announced that founder and CEO Heather Ripley will speak at PHCC CONNECT 2025, the annual conference and expo of the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association. This year’s event takes place Oct. 27–30 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, bringing together contractors
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights Hidden Drug Names: For decades, the FDA has blacked out the names of generic drugs on inspection reports for foreign factories that were found to have safety and quality violations. Patients
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. ProPublica wanted to know something simple: Where a widely used generic drug was made and whether that factory had any quality problems. Instead, we found ourselves navigating a labyrinth of company names and
Photo Credit: Anne Nygård The New York Stock Exchange announced the immediate delisting of Kuke Music shares after the stock experienced a dramatic decline over the past year. On Tuesday, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced the immediate delisting of the American Depositary Shares (ADSs) of Kuke Music Holding Limited (KUKE). Trading of the
National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) head David Israelite. Photo Credit: NMPA Ahead of December arguments before the Supreme Court – and with billions of dollars on the line – the RIAA, the NMPA, and a number of others are firing off amicus briefs in Cox v. Sony Music. At the time of this writing, the
