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Spotify and UMG announced a licensing deal enabling Premium users to create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists' songs, with revenue shared back to rights holders.

Spotify's AI playlist tool now generates personalized podcast episode collections from text prompts, rolling out in beta to Premium subscribers across seven English-speaking markets.

Sony Music's disclosure that it has flagged more than 135,000 AI-generated deepfake tracks for removal exposes a widening split among streaming platforms over how to detect, label, and restrict synthetic music, with approaches ranging from voluntary self-reporting to automated detection.

The podcast industry is undergoing its most significant structural shift as Netflix locks exclusive video deals, Apple Podcasts adds native video support, AI voices cross the indistinguishable threshold, and the Golden Globes confer mainstream cultural legitimacy.