Paul McCartney warns AI ‘could take over’ as UK debates copyright laws
Former Beatle speaks out amid fears the rise of AI threatens income streams for music, news and book publishers
‘Hatsune Miku has a special part in my heart’: the 16-year-old pop sensation who does not exist
Miku is a ‘Vocaloid’ – a holographic avatar that represents a digital bank of vocal samples – and performs sellout tours for thousands of very real mega-fans
For now, let’s revel in Bluesky’s promised land and kid ourselves it’ll never get like X
Watching the numbers migrate from Elon Musk’s toxic platform is addictive, but the best social media is finite
Beatles for sale: new home sought for Abbey Road recording console
Current owners hope to attract musicians who want to work with desk used to make fab four’s celebrated album – after it previously failed to sell
From Rupert Murdoch to Thom Yorke: the growing backlash to AI
Media mogul and leading artists join fight to stop tech firms using creative works for free as training data
Helen Mirren: it’s so sad Kurt Cobain died before GPS was invented
The Oscar-winning actor has made the latest in a series of references to the Nirvana frontman and the technological advances he didn’t live to see
‘The most important DJ in the UK’? Live streamer takes music to streets
DJ AG has built a huge audience by inviting performers such as Skepta to join him in London and elsewhere
Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning
Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals’ work to train AI models
‘I’m empowering my song to go and make love with different people’: Imogen Heap on how her AI twin will rewrite pop
Known for her wild “Imogenation”, Heap has always reworked pop with tech, but her new data-mining project is her boldest yet. She explains why ‘you can’t stop progress’
Three-armed robot conductor makes debut in Dresden
German city’s Sinfoniker says aim is not to replace humans but to play music human conductors would find impossible
‘You can try weirder and weirder things’: once-mocked synthesisers enjoy new golden era
Formerly reviled music technology is more popular than ever as designers experiment for a growing group of enthusiasts
AI-generated parody song about immigrants storms into German Top 50
Artist Butterbro accused of walking fine line between parody and discrimination and helping make racial slur mainstream
Sound clashes are a thrilling reggae tradition. Will AI ruin them?
The use of fake AI vocals – including those of Donald Trump – is sending shockwaves through this historic scene. At a Montego Bay clash, performers debate their culture’s future
‘We have to adapt or die’: Daniel Bedingfield says AI is music’s future
Exclusive: Gotta Get Thru This singer argues that ‘neo-luddites’ risk being left behind as technology develops
Welsh record label to digitise entire catalogue of 26,000 recordings
Sain, co-founded by singer Dafydd Iwan, begins painstaking process of preserving tracks to inspire future artists