Personal Digest: Sony sues over 30,000-song AI scrape

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Personal Digest: Sony sues over 30,000-song AI scrape
Digest Newsletter · Jul 22, 2026
Personal Digest: Sony sues over 30,000-song AI scrape

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30,000 songs — Sony alleges AI generator Udio trained models on 30,000 songs without permission, sparking a major music-rights legal fight.

Family

Family

Kids’ sports steal summers; a family risks everything to escape NK

Sports (oregonlive.com) · North Korea (nytimes.com)

Pass/fail

Pass/fail

House averts shutdown — and AI wants a clear pass/fail rubric

United States Congress (theguardian.com) · Artificial Intelligence (snowflake.com)

Sports

Sports

Big Sisters mentor girls; Mark Martin remembers the racetrack

Women in sport (bbc.com) · Mark Martin (kark.com)

Book

Book

Book bans, influencers, and a papal Bob Dylan name-drop

Censorship (chalkbeat.org) · Social Media (washingtonpost.com) · Bob Dylan (osvnews.com)

Music

Music

Sony sues AI music trainer over 30,000-song scrape

Artificial Intelligence (variety.com)

Newspaper

Newspaper

Opinion pages shrink as distribution and economics bite

Editorial (niemanlab.org) · Journalism (english.elpais.com) · Postal service (editorandpublisher.com)

Art

Art

Grants and curator labs aim to broaden who sees and makes art

Museum (news.iu.edu) · Curation (mcachicago.org)