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Suno has released its v6 generation of AI music models in three variants—v6, v6-wild, and v6-mini—developed with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, retiring all older models. The company continues to withhold details about its training data amid ongoing lawsuits from Universal and Sony.

Suno unveiled its v6 model family, trained on licensed data from Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, as the AI music startup continues fighting copyright lawsuits from Sony, Universal Music Group, and individual artists. The company plans to retire its older, non-licensed models entirely.

Anthropic quietly added detailed new restrictions to Claude's published system prompts, explicitly barring song lyric reproduction and AI-generated images of copyrighted characters. The change follows closely on the heels of a lawsuit from Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell.

Suno's Studio 2.0 update introduces a beta chat feature that lets Premier subscribers create instruments, vocals, and custom plugins through text prompts. The release also adds MIDI import/editing, stem separation, and unrestricted multitrack export at 32-bit/48kHz.

ChatGPT is refusing prompts to write in the style of specific authors, both living and dead, citing copyright concerns. The change marks a shift from earlier behavior documented by researchers, though the chatbot still offers to write content with similar stylistic qualities.

ByteDance confirmed Thursday that Dreamina Seedance 2.0, its audio and video generation model, is rolling out in CapCut across seven initial markets. The model generates videos up to 15 seconds with realistic textures and motion, but includes safety restrictions blocking generation from real faces and unauthorized IP use.

Google has released Lyria 3 Pro, its latest AI music generation model capable of creating tracks up to three minutes long with improved understanding of musical structure. The model is available through Gemini, Google Vids, Vertex AI, and Google AI Studio. Google claims the training data comes from sources it has contractual and legal rights to use.

ElevenLabs has launched a music marketplace where users can publish and sell tracks created with its ElevenCreative AI music model, with the company claiming to have already generated nearly 14 million songs on the platform. The company has paid out over $11 million through its Voice Marketplace using the same model. However, AI-generated music lacks legal copyright protection, leaving all legal risk on users.

ByteDance has suspended the global rollout of Seedance 2.0, its AI video generator, according to The Information. The pause follows cease-and-desist letters from Disney and Paramount Skydance alleging the model was trained on copyrighted materials.