Spotify

Spotify is a digital audio streaming service that offers access to millions of songs, podcasts, and other audio content from artists and media companies worldwide.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news for implementing new features and policies related to artificial intelligence, including labeling AI-generated music and adding badges to AI artist profiles.

Latest on Spotify

• Malachyte Turns Spotify’s Skip Signal Into a Merchant’s Agentic Edge
• Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users and editors explain their song picks
• Spotify asks creators to label songs when they’re AI-generated
• Spotify to slap 'AI Persona' badges on AI-generated artist profiles
• Spotify to launch badge identifying AI music
• Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product
• Over half of Spotify's listening now happens in languages the company's recommendation engine wasn't built to understand.
• The music streaming platform expanded operations across Africa, Asia, and Latin America by introducing local artists, regional pricing tiers, and region-specific payment systems.
• The action came after Senator Maggie Hassan's office exposed the scale of the problem through its investigation.
• Spotify removed over 57,000 fake podcast episodes and banned 3,500 accounts following a US Senate investigation into illegal drug promotion on its platform.
• The episodes, distributed across more than 3,000 shows, used AI-generated audio to direct listeners to websites selling modafinil, opioids, and cryptocurrency on unregulated marketplaces.

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