Music
LIFESTYLE
AI Floods Music, Breeds Listener Skepticism
Nearly 40 per cent of more than one million recent releases showed signs of AI involvement, suggesting synthetic music has moved from novelty to everyday presence.
BUSINESS
French AI Surveillance: Composing for Algorithms or Audiences?
Musicians begin adjusting melodies and samples to satisfy code rather than listeners with French AI rules in effect.
BUSINESS
EU AI Act Allows Melodies to Choose Collaboration, Not Censorship
Europe leads in AI music ethics as UMG partners with Udio, redefining creativity, copyright, and regulation in the digital age.
EUROPE
Eurovision Autotune: Who is Really Singing?
Eurovision 2025 marks a shift from auto-tune to authenticity, as Italy, Greece, and the Netherlands champion raw, live vocal performances.
Popular
Germany’s Energy Transition Hits a Financial Paradox
Building enough clean power turns out to be the easy part of Germany's energy transition; making that power cheap, stable and financially viable is the harder one.
Bahrain Charts Its Own Course Through Gulf Recovery
Washington offers $5 billion for Gulf energy repairs and Bahrain builds European trade through EuroCham, giving post-war commerce two separate foundations.
Europe Wades into Another Embattled Chokepoint
Houthi gains, Ethiopian turmoil and Italian warships have turned Bab al-Mandeb into Europe's second chokepoint crisis, with refugees and diesel bills at stake.
Fico and Stubb: War Fatigue Finds a Political Voice
Russia's war in Ukraine keeps unsettling budgets, alliances and tempers across Europe, confirming how unevenly the continent shares its collective fear.
Maldives Draw Gulf Billions Into Urban Expansion
A city built partly to solve a housing shortage is now being sold to the world as a luxury destination too, and both promises have to hold at once.
