WuTang Bitcoin NFTs and Saudi's $40B AI bet

Welcome to M3 Shorts where every Tuesday I cover Web3, AI, & more in the Music Creator Economy

Let’s get right at it. Here is what’s up this past week 🕺🏻

Web3

• UMG partners with Curio for NFTs🎵✨

• Ghostface Killah's NFT collection on Bitcoin🎤

• Global recorded music revenues rose 10.2% to $28.6bn in 2023, as paid subscriptions to music streaming services exceed 500m globally

• Starbucks ends NFT program, Ghostface Killah's Bitcoin music

• NFTs transforming the African music industry

Metaverse & Gaming

Nothing new this week!

AI

• Unity enhances game development with AI🎮🤖

• UMG & Roland's AI music principles🎶

• Suno AI generates Delta blues🎸

• AI in regulatory vacuum in India🔍

• Apple explores AI partnerships🍏

• Saudis To Bet Forty Billion On AI, Nvidia’s Nerd Woodstock, State Of Unreal

• Horror movie ‘Late Night With the Devil’ faces boycott over AI-generated art

• Non-profit Fairly Trained certifies an AI large language model as free of copyright infringement, in a blow to a key claim of AI firms

• Runway & Musixmatch AI lyric videos

• Google fined for using news articles in AI training

• Fairly Trained certifies AI model without copyright issues

• TikTok's AI music ambitions revealed through patents

Misc

• James Blake's music subscription platform

• Du teams up with Shahid streaming platform

Monthly Take by Ash Fishman

Nothing this week. Stay tuned!

New music that slaps on the M3 Playlist🤟:

The M3 Community Playlist is an open-sourced playlist that is curated by the M3 community, who add their newly favorite discovered artists or songs for everyone to hear.

Here are this weeks hits 🤟

• Betting on Us - Myles Smith

• Wondering Why - The Red Clay Strays

• Stay With Me (Acoustic) - You Me At Six

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- Ash