https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/umg-label-exec-exits-central-ai-data-team https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/umg-label-exec-exits-central-ai-data-team Universal Music Group's final round of 2024-planned cost cuts removed the heads of Def Jam, Republic and Polydor and two senior Interscope Geffen A&M A&R executives, while UMG says it is "bringing in new skills and technology". UMG has not tied the cuts to AI, but the people it hired this year are data and machine-learning specialists, and that changes who speaks for an artist inside a major. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers industryumglabelsa-and-rdata https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/how-much-music-is-ai-qobuz-siqa-numbers https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/how-much-music-is-ai-qobuz-siqa-numbers Qobuz says only 0.38% of its streams come from AI-identified tracks, and it treats 60% of those streams as fraud. A self-selected sample of AI creators charted by SIQA points the other way, towards hybrid human-plus-AI work. Supply is huge, real listening is small, and policy written for "fully AI slop" misses most of the people actually using these tools. Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:30:00 GMT We are the music makers aiai-musicqobuzstreaming-frauddata