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Suno scraps old AI models, rebuilds on licensed music amid lawsuits

Suno launched Suno v6, a new AI music model family trained on licensed data from Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe, replacing models trained on data now at issue in copyright suits from Sony, Universal and artists like Jason Isbell.

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Google Cloud, Accenture form joint unit to deploy AI into enterprises

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Suno scraps old AI models, rebuilds on licensed music amid lawsuits

Suno launched Suno v6, a new AI music model family trained on licensed data from Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe, replacing models trained on data now at issue in copyright suits from Sony, Universal and artists like Jason Isbell.

Analysts: The Trade Desk’s open-web pitch stalled as buyers wanted price and ease

On Next in Media, analysts Brian Wieser and Luke Stillman dissect The Trade Desk’s negative growth guidance, executive turnover, and 15% workforce cut.

Google Cloud, Accenture form joint unit to deploy AI into enterprises

Google Cloud and Accenture launched the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, training up to 1,000 Accenture engineers as forward-deployed engineers to help clients adopt Gemini and build custom AI applications, joining OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon in similar bets.

Mistral raises €3 billion as sovereign AI pitch pays off

French AI lab Mistral raised three billion euros at a post-money valuation above twenty-one billion euros, led by Samsung with EQT’s Scaleup Europe and PSG Equity. Mistral calls it Europe’s largest-ever tech equity round.

Meta launches Muse, an AI agent that wants your email, calendar and payments

Meta debuted Muse, a personal AI agent that connects to email, calendars, payments, health, and shopping apps to complete tasks like booking travel or checking out purchases via Link by Stripe.

Reuters becomes exclusive home for ITN’s 70-year broadcast archive

Reuters and ITN struck a deal making Reuters Connect the exclusive worldwide marketplace for ITN’s archive starting in 2027. Reuters will digitize an additional 12,000 hours of unreleased footage and apply AI-enhanced search and metadata across the full collection.

CatGPT creator Cat Goetze takes equity stake in Smooth Media

Creator Cat Goetze becomes the first outside shareholder in Smooth Media, a five-year-old talent management firm, joining as strategic adviser while keeping her existing revenue-share deal with the bootstrapped company unchanged.

Ankler: robotics giants could one day own the leagues they now rent

The Ankler’s Erik Barmack ties Beijing’s humanoid Robot Games to sports rights economics: the NFL, NBA and global streamers pay billions yearly for scarce athletes, while Amazon, Google and Apple already build the robotics that could one day replace them.

Magnite runs first agentic CTV campaign in EMEA with Amnet France

Magnite’s buyer agent built and activated a premium CTV video campaign for Amnet France using natural language prompts, cutting campaign setup time by about 70 percent.

‘The Whisper Man’ climbs to No. 1 on Netflix with 33.4 million views

The Adam Scott thriller grew from 23.2 million debut views to 33.4 million in its second week, passing the GTA VI teaser to top Netflix’s movie chart for the week of Aug. 31.

Advertisers push OpenAI for more visibility into ChatGPT ad placements

Four ad buyers interviewed say they want more visibility into the prompts triggering ChatGPT ads, placement context, and whether exposure drives sales, as OpenAI’s ad revenue surpassed one billion dollars annualized, up from a hundred million in March.

Niche streaming services grew subscribers 14% in first half of 2026

Antenna data shows specialty streamers like AMC+, BritBox and Crunchyroll reached 42 million collective subscribers in the first six months of 2026, up 14% year over year.

Sky bundle deal drives Disney+ ad tier reach up nearly 30%

Disney+‘s UK household reach grew by around 1.1 million between Q1 and Q2, with over 700,000 households picking the ad-supported tier, per Barb data, largely credited to a Sky bundling partnership.

Bot and AI traffic surge forces marketers to rethink retargeting

Automated agents and bots now account for more than half of all web requests, per Cloudflare. Agencies say inflated impressions and conversions are poisoning retargeting data, pushing some clients to shift budget into social and retail media instead.

Hollywood chiefs turn out for Macron’s Lumière Summit, but stay quiet

Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, Disney’s Dana Walden, NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley and other top Hollywood executives attended French President Emmanuel Macron’s Lumière Summit on cinema’s future amid AI and streaming disruption.

Meta’s teen-safety settlement may not cover YouTube, TikTok on TV

Meta’s settlement with state attorneys general sets time limits and overnight bans for teens on Facebook and Instagram’s web and app versions, but the language does not appear to expressly cover smart TV interfaces.

Google revamps EU search results to comply with DMA, warns of quality hit

Google rolled out changes to search results in Europe to satisfy antitrust regulators under the Digital Markets Act.

What brands need to know about the creator economy’s ‘Napster moment’

EMARKETER frames the creator economy as facing a piracy-era-style disruption, where content, distribution and monetization norms are being rewritten faster than brands can adapt. The piece walks through what that shift means for marketer strategy.

John Lewis builds a YouTube chatshow to get noticed by AI search

John Lewis is launching a YouTube “vodcast” hosted by Angela Scanlon, with clips spread across social platforms, to boost its visibility in AI chatbots and AI-generated search results.

Streaming ad loads jump 18% this year as streamers chase margin

Ad minutes per hour on top US streamers rose 18% from January to August, according to Ampere Analysis data shared with Business Insider.

BIA: local media ad spend still a $185 billion market despite platform shift

BIA Advisory Services managing director Rick Ducey says local ad spend remains a $185 billion market. Political spending is accelerating a shift toward CTV, forcing broadcasters to decide how fast they can adapt.

Branded entertainment still measures a monoculture that no longer exists

A WFA/Lumency study of $8.2 billion in sponsorship spend finds 84% track awareness, but advocacy tracking fell to just 6%, from 15% two years earlier, even as fragmentation makes community loyalty the metric that actually counts.

Kalshi cracks top 3 in sports betting TV ad spend

iSpot data shows prediction market Kalshi ranks No. 3 in estimated national TV ad spend among sports betting brands this year, trailing only two traditional sportsbooks despite not running a typical sportsbook ad playbook.

IPA: Brits now consume 44% of commercial media alone

New IPA TouchPoints data shows British adults spend 44% of commercial media time alone, up 10% since 2015, with 16-34s at 46%. Smartphones now match TV for total commercial media time among UK adults.

Cord-cutters are ditching boxes, not cable TV itself

Digiday’s Future of TV Briefing points to data showing people are dropping cable boxes in favor of streaming apps, but many still pay for the same bundled cable channels through virtual pay-TV services.