Spotify announced leadership changes at the top of the music streaming service, with co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek becoming the music streaming service's Executive Chairman.
In parallel, Gustav Söderström, co-President and Chief Product and Technology Officer, and Alex Norström, co-President and Chief Business Officer, have been elevated to co-Chief Executive Officers. These changes will all be effective January 1, 2026.

Both executives will report to Ek and will also ser...

Spotify has outlined for the first time what looks like an AI policy, as a response to "bad actors and content farms" interfering with "authentic artists working to build their careers." The most visible part of this new policy is the wiping out of over 75 million fully AI-generated tracks from the streaming platform.
"At its best, AI is unlocking incredible new ways for artists to create music and for listeners to discover it. At its worst, AI can be used by bad actors and content farms to conf...

AI-powered research lab SoundPatrol has received the support of Universal Music Group and Sony Music for its project of “forensic AI model for audio-video fingerprinting,” aimed at protecting artists from the unchecked copyright infringement activity coming from AI music generators.
SoundPatrol’s patent-pending fingerprinting model will employ neural embeddings that "capture and analyse musical semantics in order to identify the influence of original human-created music in fully or partly AI-ge...