ElevenLabs just launched Studio 3.0, packaging its AI voiceover, music, sound effects, voice isolation, and voice changer tools into an editor that now supports video. The update also adds automatic captioning, real-life speech correction, and multiplayer commenting.
YouTube just unleashed a suite of generative AI tools at its Made on YouTube event. Shorts creators in select regions can now use DeepMind's Veo 3 Fast to generate 480p video clips with audio directly from their phones for free. The platform also added Edit with AI for instant rough cuts and a Lyria 2-powered Speech to Song tool that turns video dialogue into music tracks.
Entertainment firm Hallwood Media just signed Xania Monet to a multimillion-dollar record deal following rapid chart success. Created by a poet who uses Suno to produce music around her lyrics, the artist recently topped the Billboard R&B Digital Song Sales chart and logged 9.8 million U.S. streams.
Udio just rolled out Voices, a new tool giving creators tighter control over song vocals. You can now pick from a curated library of pre-loaded vocal styles or extract and save the voice from a generated track to reuse across future songs. It is free for everyone for two weeks before moving behind the paywall.
Stability AI just launched Stable Audio 2.5, an enterprise-grade audio generation model capable of pumping out 3-minute tracks in under two seconds. Built on fully licensed datasets for commercial safety, it introduces audio inpainting and dynamic song structures to help brands craft customized sound identities at scale.
Tencent just open-sourced HunyuanVideo-Foley, an end-to-end text-and-video-to-audio framework designed to generate realistic Foley sound effects for videos. Trained on 100,000 hours of multimodal data, it uses an MMDiT architecture to tightly align sound with visual motion, outperforming existing open-source baselines in audio quality and temporal alignment.
ElevenLabs just rolled out the Eleven Music API, pitched as the first music API for developers trained on licensed data and fully cleared for commercial use. It lets teams plug AI music directly into their products and workflows. The company also noted that creators have already generated over 750k songs since Eleven Music debuted.
ElevenLabs just rolled out a new Video-to-Music flow inside ElevenLabs Studio. Powered by its Eleven Music model, it generates custom soundtracks tailored to your video in a single click, and lets you layer in voiceovers and SFX on the spot. It turns video audio production into a one-stop workflow.
Suno just teased Suno Studio, an upcoming tool featuring multi-track creation and MIDI export, and opened sign-ups for its waitlist. It signals a shift from simple one-click music generation toward giving creators hands-on control over individual tracks and notes.
ElevenLabs just showed off hybrid song creation, allowing artists to combine real instrument recordings with AI tracks generated by Eleven Music. A single-take demo paired live piano with AI violin and vocals using one-shot prompting, bridging live musicianship and synthetic generation.
ElevenLabs just launched its own AI music generator called Eleven Music, making a massive leap beyond text-to-speech. Learning from the massive copyright lawsuits hitting Suno and Udio, the company partnered with Merlin and Kobalt to ensure artists voluntarily opt in and share revenue, making the generated tracks cleared for commercial use.
Suno just rolled out its v4.5+ update, adding a batch of flexible editing controls to its AI music generator. Creators can now swap out vocals, flip instrumental backing tracks, or generate new songs inspired directly by existing playlists. Why it matters: It gives creators modular editing tools instead of forcing them to reroll from scratch.
Adobe just rolled out a new audio trick for Firefly that lets you generate sound effects by typing a prompt and recording yourself mimicking the sound to match timing and intensity. The update also brings keyframe cropping, style presets, and third-party access to Google's audio-capable Veo 3 video model.
A Guardian columnist just highlighted a glaring copyright double standard: human writers face crushing licensing fees for quoting a single line in a book, while trillion-dollar tech firms scrape entire discographies under "fair use." As lawsuits against Meta and Anthropic mount, the author argues digital-age copyright laws urgently need a rewrite.
A nonexistent classic rock band called The Velvet Sundown just racked up over half a million listeners on Spotify in a matter of weeks. The project released two full albums in under a month and infiltrated user playlists, but glitchy AI photos on Instagram eventually exposed the whole stunt.
Songscription just launched an AI-powered tool that turns audio files or YouTube links into sheet music within minutes. It features reliable piano transcription, visual piano rolls for non-readers, and plans for guitar tabs. It operates on a freemium model, offering a massive shortcut for musicians tired of manual transcribing.
Key US senators just struck a compromise to bar states from regulating AI for the next five years if they accept federal broadband funds. The revised measure cuts an earlier 10-year ban in half and protects state laws covering child safety and music likeness rights. Why it matters: Tech giants and venture capital scored a major legislative win, though the proposal still faces an uphill climb in the House.
Suno just rolled out a major upgrade to its Song Editor, giving creators granular control right from the waveform. You can now reorder and rewrite tracks section by section, split audio into 12 clean stems, upload songs up to 8 minutes long, and fine-tune output vibes using creative sliders.
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke didn't hold back in a new interview, calling generative AI a tech-bro nightmare that steals from artists to spit out pallid facsimiles. He questioned whether AI has any genuine creative originality at all, arguing that its underlying economic structure is morally wrong for failing to credit human creators.
Universal, Warner, and Sony are in talks to license their catalogs to AI music startups Suno and Udio. The labels are pushing for licensing fees and equity stakes to settle ongoing copyright lawsuits, potentially setting the precedent for how AI companies compensate recording artists.
