$500m-Valued Suno Has Admitted Training AI on Copyrighted Music

The provided episode discusses Amazon's integration of AI music generator Suno into its upgraded Alexa+ voice assistant, despite Suno facing ongoing copyright infringement lawsuits from music industry entities. This partnership allows users to create original songs with vocals, lyrics, and instrumentation through simple voice commands. Furthermore, the text highlights that Amazon is a significant investor in Anthropic, another AI company involved in copyright disputes related to lyrics, whose Claude chatbot is also incorporated into Alexa+. The enhanced Alexa+ will offer various new features beyond music, including smart home control, reservations, information retrieval, and even autonomous web-based task completion, raising potential privacy considerations. This advanced version of Alexa is initially available in the US on select Echo devices for a subscription fee, showcasing Amazon's broader push into advanced AI capabilities across different services.