Author: Arabian Media staff

THE BIG STORY: Is the music industry’s billion-dollar legal battle over artificial intelligence suddenly going to be over before it starts? I wouldn’t count on it just yet. News broke this weekend that Universal Music, Warner Music and Sony Music were each in talks to license their songs to Suno and Udio for use in training AI models to spit out new songs – less than a year after the music companies filed blockbuster copyright cases accusing the AI startups of stealing music on an “unimaginable scale.” Both sides have framed those cases as an existential fight over the future…

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Innovation often begins not in labs but in lived experiences. For Johnson Tellis and his three co-founders Sujay, Preetham and Gautham, the seed for InUnity was sown during a 7-day technical competition at an IIT. Forced to remain within campus due to inadequate and unsafe local infrastructure, a question lingered: why weren’t India’s brightest solving the very problems in their own backyards?<div class="externalHtml embed" contenteditable="false" data-val="” align=”center”>That insight grew into InUnity, short for “Innovation for CommUnity” Launched in 2022 in Mangaluru, Karnataka, InUnity is an education innovation startup focused on transforming Tier 2 and Tier 3 institutions into regional engines…

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The Emmy winner’s voiceover begins the trailer with, “I’ve spent years distancing myself from my mother,” as she goes through old items of her mother’s. Following a clip of Jayne sharing, “I use my pin-up type publicity to get my foot in the door,” Mariska alludes to Jayne’s sex symbol legacy as she explains, “Her career made me want to do it differently. But I want to understand her now.” The trailer ends with the overarching theme of the documentary, where Mariska states, “Reclaiming my family story—that is what this is about for me, because she’s a part of me.…

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Morgan Stanley built its in-house AI tool to tackle a difficult coding problem: reworking old legacy code into more updated coding languages.Morgan Stanley introduced the AI tool, which is based on OpenAI’s GPT models, in January, per The Wall Street Journal. The tool, called DevGen.AI, translates code in older languages, such as Perl (released in 1987), into plain English, which developers can then use as a basis for rewriting the code into newer languages like Python.Related: Amazon Cloud CEO Predicts a Future Where Most Software Engineers Don’t Code — and AI Does It Instead Mike Pizzi, Morgan Stanley’s global head…

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Vinyl Me, Please, the troubled online vinyl record subscription service, has found new ownership a month after the platform filed for bankruptcy. VNYL Inc, whose other brands include VNYL and Vinylbox, hopes to revive a brand formerly loved by vinyl collectors that has struggled heavily, as the Denver-based platform was facing numerous complaints that it wasn’t fulfilling orders or issuing refunds on purchases, according to The Denver Post. Vinyl Me, Please subsequently confirmed it was entering liquidation. Under the VNYL umbrella, Vinyl Me, Please will be run by VNYL CEO Nick Alt and president Emily Muhoberac. In a statement, Alt…

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When Taylor Swift posted a photo of herself leaning back and smiling, her first six studio albums scattered in front of her, on Friday (May 30), the party was on. Swift’s announcement that she had successfully purchased the master recordings of her first six albums, for an undisclosed sum from investment firm Shamrock Capital, was met with jubilation by her millions of fans. Swift finally had full control of her intellectual property, in a byzantine music industry where such ownership was incredibly difficult to come by, even for the biggest superstars. The importance of such artistic freedom was not lost…

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Good Shot, the basketball-focused documentary feature that counts Stephen Curry as a producer, has debuted its first trailer. Good Shot follows erstwhile Los Angeles-area basketball hero Maxwell Henderson as he deals with the pain of his past and adjusts to his eldest son moving back home. “You keep welcoming yesterday. Yesterday can’t doing nothing for you, brother,” one individual scolds in the trailer. Filmmaker Joris Debeij marks his feature directorial debut with the movie that he produced with Curry, Jean Mougin, Aron Phillips, Erick Peyton and Steve Wood. The film hails from RTG Features, Westbrook Studios, Religion of Sports, Unanimous…

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Maybe your brother is very deep into MAGA and rallied hard for Trump’s immigration policies. However, when deportations and ICE raids began, he was upset to learn that his wife, who had yet to complete her papers, would be affected. Before the election, you had tried to explain the possibility that this may happen, but he refused to listen to you and still doesn’t blame the Trump administration.  Source link

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Last year, Post Malone released his debut country-inspired project, F-1 Trillion, writing and recording the album in Nashville, and earning hits through country collabs with artists including Morgan Wallen (“I Had Some Help”) and Blake Shelton (“Pour Me a Drink”). Now, he’s doubling down on his love for Music City, with the upcoming opening of a new entertainment venue in Nashville. Nashville locals and those in town for this week’s CMA Fest spotted signage at a building located 305 Broadway (and the former home of venues WannaB’s Karaoke and Tequila Cowboy) that read “Something BIG Is Coming!,” “We’ll Keep Ya…

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