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From BMG’s reported Concord acquisition talks to UMG’s $3bn Anthropic lawsuit… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up

Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s Weekly Round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over...

Gen Z judges colleagues who use AI, but paradoxically may see it as the key to their own promotion

Last year, researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University revealed startling evidence about the impact of using AI on how—and how hard—people think,...

UMG sues Anthropic for $3bn over ‘brazen’ copyright infringement of 20,000+ songs

A coalition of music publishers has filed a second copyright infringement lawsuit against AI company Anthropic, and it’s a big one.The companies, including...

GoldState hires ex-HarbourView exec Rabih Aouad as Principal to lead investments in tech, services and other music-related businesses

US-based music rights investment firm GoldState Music, founded in 2022 by Charles Goldstuck, has appointed Rabih Aouad as Principal, Growth Equity Investments.According to...

Amazon and JPMorgan are leading a coworking comeback

Coworking spaces and shared offices are making a comeback after a post-pandemic slump and tensions over return-to-office mandates. As AI drives uncertainty over...

Limits on ICE agents in Minnesota blocked by appeals court

The Trump administration won an appeals court order blocking a judge’s restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics for dealing with protesters in...

Why the AI boom is forcing a rethink of career success

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a simple but provocative point. He said artificial intelligence is more...

Jamie Dimon says government should have power to intervene in AI-driven mass layoffs

Over his roughly 20-year tenure atop JPMorgan Chase, the mistakes that still trouble Jamie Dimon are not failed deals or bad calls. They are...

Target faces new backlash amid Minnesota ICE raids after boycotts over its DEI rollback. But don’t blame politics for falling profits, analyst says

Across Minnesota on Friday, people are participating in an economic strike to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s crackdown. The state is home to...

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