Deezer announced on Friday that it will start labeling albums that include AI-generated tracks as part of its efforts to combat streaming fraud.
The company reports that about 18% of the music uploaded each day — more than 20,000 tracks — is now fully AI-generated. Although most of these tracks don’t go viral, Deezer says around 70% of their streams are fake and that they are designed to earn royalties fraudulently.
To combat this, AI-generated tracks on Deezer are now clearly tagged. These tracks also won’t appear in editorial playlists or algorithm-based recommendations, and fraudulent streams are being filtered out of royalty payments.
The company says the new labels will be a game changer in helping listeners determine the difference between human-created music and AI content.
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Deezer notes that for now, AI-only songs make up just 0.5% of all streams on its platform, but that the trend is growing fast.
“We’ve detected a significant uptick in delivery of AI-generated music only in the past few months and we see no sign of it slowing down. It’s an industry-wide issue, and we are committed to leading the way in increasing transparency by helping music fans identify which albums include AI music,” said Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier in a press release.
“AI is not inherently good or bad, but we believe a responsible and transparent approach is key to building trust with our users and the music industry,” he continued. “We are also clear in our commitment to safeguarding the rights of artists and songwriters at a time where copyright law is being put into question in favor of training AI models.”
Deezer applied for two patents in December 2024 for its AI Detection technology, which it says is focused on two different ways of detecting “unique signatures” that are used to tell the difference between synthetic content and authentic content.
The move comes as Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment are reportedly in talks to license their work to AI startups Udio and Suno. The startups are being sued by the record companies for copyright infringement, and any deal would help to settle lawsuits between them, Bloomberg reported earlier this month.
FRISCO, Texas — Two-time major champion Minjee Lee took over the lead with the first bogey-free round for anyone during a windy week at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, a 3-under 69 in the third round Saturday to move four strokes ahead of Jeeno Thitikul.
Lee got to 6-under 210 after beginning the round three strokes behind Thitikul, the world No. 2 who led alone at the end of each of the first two days.
Lee, the Australian who lives in nearby Irving, went in front with a 2-foot par at the 405-yard 12th hole when Thitikul had her second consecutive bogey and fourth of the day on the way to a round of 76.
Far from tree-lined Sahalee outside Seattle where the Women’s PGA was last year, Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco is much more open and exposed to the ever-present Texas wind that was the strongest it had been all week. There were gusts of more than 30 mph Saturday, with much the same forecast for the final round. Temperatures were again in the mid-90s.
Nelly Korda, the world’s top-ranked player, described the conditions as “just brutal” after her round of 72 that began with back-to-back bogeys but ended with two birdies down the stretch. She had five birdies and five bogeys and is tied for sixth at 2-over 218.
Lee and Thitikul were the only players still under par. Lexi Thompson (75), after a triple-bogey start, was tied for third at 1 over with Hye Jin Choi (72) and Miyu Yamashita (73).
Thitikul had the only birdie Saturday among the 78 players on the 172-yard, par-3 eighth hole, which generally plays downwind and where only 29% of the tee shots all week have stayed on the green. That 13-foot birdie was her first of the day and got her to 5 under, two strokes ahead of Lee.
But Thitikul’s lead was gone after back-to-back bogeys on the back side. She pushed a 4-foot par chance past the hole at the 383-yard 11th, her first miss inside 5 feet this week. Then her drive at the 417-yard 12th hole went way right into a penalty area, and Lee went ahead to stay.
Lee, who won the 2022 U.S. Women’s Open and 2021 Evian Championship in France, was steady Saturday with eight consecutive pars before a 4-foot birdie at the 487-yard ninth hole. Her other birdies were an 18-footer at the 515-yard, par-5 14th and a 1½-foot at the bunker-surrounded 236-yard par-4 15th hole.
Thitikul had her third bogey in a four-hole stretch when three-putting from 50 feet at No. 14.
Semi-retired Thompson, in the second-to-last group, hit her tee shot into the fairway on the 517-yard par-5 first hole, a 207-yard drive into the wind. But she topped her second shot that went only 117 yards, indicating to her caddie that the wind had her off balance, and then shanked her next shot right, a ball that was never found for a penalty on way to triple bogey. She followed with another bogey on the second hole but had two birdies and only one bogey the rest of the way.
Thompson, playing for the seventh time in 16 tournaments this season, won her only major in the 2014 Kraft Nabisco Championship, but her 13 top-five finishes in majors since 2013 are the most by any player and among her 20 top-10 finishes in those events.
LPGA rookie Rio Takeda opened with a bogey 6 at the first hole after starting the round tied with with Lee for second place. Takeda later had a pair of double bogeys, including the 315-yard par-4 seventh hole where her drive wound up in the upper face of a greenside bunker that left her with an awkward stance and unable to get the ball out on the first try.
Grace Kim had the best round of the day with a 68 that included six birdies and two bogeys, moving up from a tie for 68th to tied for 10th. Minjee Lee and Andrea (71) had the only other under-par rounds.
Kim, among the 11 players who got to the weekend right on the 7-over cut, teed off at 6:55 a.m. local time, six hours before the final group of Thitikul and Lee went off the first hole.
There was even a hole-in-one, Brianna Do acing the 150-yard fourth hole. It was the third in the past four years in the Women’s PGA.
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Hard to believe the Fourth of July is less than a month away, but it is!
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Harmony and Harry have been decorating the band’s new studio – an upgrade from the guitarist’s bedroom, where they used to perform
Ask pop-punk band South Arcade about the inspiration for their breakout hit, Supermodels, and get ready to go on a journey.
It starts at Shut Up and Drive by Rihanna, swerves into nu-metal band Korn’s cover of Word Up and detours towards Genesis, by French dance act Justice.
The final destination is Just Dance – the popular video game series where players rack up points by mimicking routines from chart-topping hits.
“You know when you go to a gaming arcade and there’s those dance mat machines?” asks singer Harmony.
“I was like: ‘I want to write a song that could be on that’.”
South Arcade are riding the wave of Y2K core – a growing interest in the 90s and early 2000s culture.
The four-piece’s sound – upbeat, rocky guitar music – would have been right at home on MTV, or the soundtrack of a 90s slasher movie.
“It has that weird, nostalgic feel to it,” says Harmony.
Both she and guitarist Harry were born at the start of the millennium, so admit their fondness for that time comes from older siblings and friends introducing them to the material.
Despite their lack of first-hand experience, the band have been described as “figureheads of a growing Y2K revival” by website MusicRadar.
“We can’t accept that we missed it,” says Harry, laughing. “So we have to bring it back single-handedly.”
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Follow the Leader: Nu-metal pioneers Korn have been finding a new generation of fans
South Arcade aren’t exactly alone, though. Some of the bands that inspired their sound have also had a surge in popularity.
At the recent Download festival, nu-metal veterans Korn headlined, and further down the bill fellow noughties heroes Alien Ant Farm pulled in crowds.
Linkin Park recently released their first new music since the death of original frontman Chester Bennington, and Limp Bizkit sold out arenas on a tour of the UK this year.
Harry says rap and dance music have dominated the mainstream landscape for the past 10 years, and believes more people his age are discovering what came before.
“Pre-2010 it was like a golden era of band music and guitar music,” says Harry.
“It was just full of great bands and then it just shifted, the pendulum swung.”
Parts of South Arcade’s rise have been far more 2025 than Y2K.
They started to gain traction via TikTok.
A spokesperson told Newsbeat that the Y2K hashtag has been used in four million posts on the app, with some of the most popular linked to noughties artists including Pitbull and Avril Lavigne.
Harmony says South Arcade’s videos began drawing an audience when they started uploading footage from their rehearsal sessions.
It’s something they’ve previously said was partly in response to accusations they were “industry plants” or “not a real band”.
They’re also not immune from the modern-day pressures facing musicians, with the cost-of-living crisis still biting.
A recent tour of America was “really expensive”, they admit, and keeping stage shows fresh involves getting creative with ideas “in the cheapest way possible”.
But the band say it’s been worth it and they’ve been seeing a mix of fans engaging with their music.
“It’s really great because we see a bunch of comments on YouTube from people that were in that era,” says Harmony, “and they can almost notice the references or pick it apart, but then there’s these much younger kids hearing that sort of stuff for the first time.
“It’s really cool to sort of bring everyone together on it.”
The appeal to fans who spent their teens listening to the likes of Korn is probably obvious. But what is the attraction of Y2K for people who were in nappies during the heyday?
“Everything’s going towards like, minimalism of phones,” says Harry.
“But in that era, your room was full of stuff, like not just a neat room, it was full of posters and action figures.
“Now people would just say they scroll on TikTok, but back in the day you’d have had gaming consoles and games and stuff like that, CD players and loads of things that are off your phone.
For Harmony, it’s a feeling of escapism.
“I get loads of nostalgia videos coming up for things from my childhood, you’ll see it and it’ll make you feel a certain sort of weird, twinkly way,” she says.
“And I think if we can capture that sort of feeling in music, when everyone’s bedrooms were their personality, it wasn’t just their Instagram feed.
“It was what the posters on their wall were, what characters they collected, things like that.”
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President Trump announced Saturday night that the U.S. bombed three nuclear sites in Iran, shortly after the president said he would wait before making a decision about U.S. involvement.
“A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
The bombs targeted three nuclear sites in Natanz, Esfahan and Fordow, located in a mountainside.
The president is set to address the nation at 10 p.m. EDT.
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The dollar index (DXY00) Friday fell by -0.21%. The dollar came under pressure Friday on an easing of safe-haven demand after Reuters reported that the Iranian government said it is ready to discuss limitations on its uranium enrichment levels. Also, President Trump said he is willing to give diplomacy more time and won’t decide to strike Iran for another two weeks.
In addition, dovish comments Friday from Fed Governor Waller weighed on the dollar when he said, “I think we have room to bring interest rates down as early as July, and then we can see kind of see what happens with inflation.” The dollar remained lower on the weaker-than-expected Philadelphia Fed business outlook report.
The US June Philadelphia Fed business outlook survey was unchanged at -4.0, weaker than expectations of an increase to -1.5.
US May leading economic indicators index fell -0.1% m/m, right on expectations, and the sixth consecutive month that the LEI has declined.
The markets are discounting the chances at 15% for a -25 bp rate cut after the July 29-30 FOMC meeting.
EUR/USD (^EURUSD) Friday rose by +0.30%. The euro moved higher on Friday due to weakness in the dollar. However, gains in the euro were limited after the Eurozone’s June consumer confidence index unexpectedly fell and after German May producer prices posted their biggest decline in eight months, which were dovish factors for ECB policy.
The Eurozone June consumer confidence index unexpectedly fell -0.1 to -15.3, weaker than expectations of an increase to -14.9.
German May PPI fell -1.2% y/y, right on expectations and the biggest decline in 8 months.
Swaps are discounting the chances at 7% for a -25 bp rate cut by the ECB at the July 24 policy meeting.
USD/JPY (^USDJPY) Friday rose by +0.38%. The yen gave up overnight gains and fell to a 3-week low against the dollar Friday as an easing of Middle East tensions curbed safe-haven demand for the yen. Reuters reported that the Iranian government said it is ready to discuss limitations on its uranium enrichment levels, and President Trump said he’s willing to wait two weeks to see if diplomacy will work before attacking Iran.
The yen initially moved higher Friday after Japan’s May national CPI excluding fresh food and energy rose more than expected by the most in 16 months, a hawkish factor for BOJ policy. Also, comments from BOJ Governor Ueda were positive for the yen when he said the BOJ will raise the benchmark interest rate if its economic outlook is realized.
Japan’s May national CPI rose +3.5% y/y, right on expectations. May national CPI ex-fresh food and energy rose +3.3% y/y, stronger than expectations of +3.2% y/y and the largest increase in 16 months.
BOJ Governor Ueda said Japan’s real interest rate is significantly low, and the BOJ will raise the benchmark interest rate if its economic outlook is realized.
August gold (GCQ25) Friday closed down -22.40 (-0.66%), and July silver (SIN25) closed down -0.896 (-2.43%). Precious metals retreated on Friday, with gold sliding to a one-week low and silver falling sharply to a two-week low. An easing of Middle East tensions sparked long liquidation in precious metals after President Trump signaled he wants to give diplomacy a chance and will wait two weeks before deciding if the US would strike Iran.
Precious metals also fell on Friday’s report from Reuters that said the Iranian government is ready to discuss limitations on its uranium enrichment levels, a sign that Iran may want to negotiate its way out of war with the US. In addition, hawkish comments from BOJ Governor Ueda undercut precious metals when he said the BOJ will raise the benchmark interest rate if its economic outlook is realized.
Friday’s dollar weakness was supportive of metals prices. Also, dovish comments Friday from Fed Governor Waller boosted demand for gold as a store of value when he said, “I think we have room to bring interest rates down as early as July.” In addition, Thursday’s report from Bloomberg that said senior US officials are preparing for a possible strike on Iran boosted safe-haven demand for precious metals.
Industrial metals demand concerns weighed on silver prices on Friday due to the weaker-than-expected US Jun Philadelphia Fed business outlook survey and the weaker-than-expected UK May retail sales report. However, fund buying of silver continues to support prices as silver holdings in ETFs rose to a 2-1/4 year high Thursday.
UK May retail sales ex-auto fuel fell -2.8% m/m, weaker than expectations of -0.7% m/m and the biggest decline in nearly 1-1/2 years.
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TerraPower, the nuclear startup founded and backed by Bill Gates, announced a new $650 million funding round this week. The investment will help the company build its first commercial power plant.
Like other nuclear startups, TerraPower has been riding a wave of interest from hyperscalers, data center developers, and now chip designers. Nvidia’s venture arm, NVentures, participated in the round, marking its first energy investment.
Bill Gates and HD Hyundai, both already on the cap table, also invested.
TerraPower started building its first power plant in Wyoming in June 2024. The company doesn’t have approval for the reactor itself, though it expects to receive permits sometime next year. Given the Trump administration’s benign attitude toward nuclear, that timeline seems reasonable.
When complete, TerraPower’s first reactor will generate 345 megawatts of electricity, striking a middle ground between today’s massive conventional reactors and tomorrow’s promised small modular reactors.
TerraPower’s Natrium reactors are cooled not by water but by molten sodium. The Natrium design uses far more sodium than is required to cool the reactor. That’s by design: When demand is low, the reactor can continue operating, heating sodium that is then stored in large tanks.
When demand rises again, the steam turbines can draw heat from the stored sodium. Because nuclear power plants don’t easily ramp up and down, this allows the Natrium reactors to continue operating at a steady state.
The storage system is designed to produce up to 500 megawatts of electricity for more than five hours, helping to fill gaps in solar and wind generation.
The startup previously pursued a different reactor design, which it hoped to complete by the mid-2020s. But after uncertainties mounted, it changed course to pursue the current Natrium design.
TerraPower claims it can complete a reactor within three years after the first batch of concrete is poured for the reactor. Still, considerable site preparation and construction needs to happen before that occurs.
And while there are signs that the first Natrium reactor will be cheaper than recent U.S. reactors, it won’t be cheap: The Associated Press reported last year that the bill could reach $4 billion, half of which could be shouldered by the Department of Energy.
Frimpong joined Liverpool from the Bundesliga club on May 30 with the highly rated Wirtz joining him on Merseyside in a club-record deal.
ESPN previously reported the deal to be worth a total of £116 million ($156.27 million) — it includes an initial £100 million payment with £16 million in add-ons.
Frimpong told ESPN NL: “I’m really excited. I’m really looking forward to playing with Liverpool. And of course Florian Wirtz, my good friend, he’s coming too. That makes it extra fun. I also already know some guys from the national team. So yeah, I’m really up for it. I can’t wait for it to start.”
The 24-year-old, who has emerged as one of the world’s most exciting full-backs, had a clause in his contract that allowed him to leave for €35m, a source told ESPN.
The Netherlands international’s transfer to Liverpool came amid Trent Alexander-Arnold‘s move to Real Madrid. He will hope to play a key role in Arne Slot’s new-look side that will look to win the club’s third Premier League title next season.
Asked what Slot had said to him during the transfer process, Frimpong said: “Yes, definitely. When I first spoke to him, I immediately noticed that he was interested. He said he really wanted me at Liverpool and that I would fit well into the team. And when you hear that Arne Slot wants you — and then to play for Liverpool too — that’s just an honor, you know? How could I say no?”
Having a bad headache at the gym, “I reached the toilet, sank to my knees, and proceeded to be violently, voluminously ill,” the actress wrote. “Meanwhile, the pain—shooting, stabbing, constricting pain—was getting worse. At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”
She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.
“The diagnosis was quick and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke, caused by bleeding into the space surrounding the brain,” the Emmy nominee added. “I’d had an aneurysm, an arterial rupture.”
Emilia had immediate surgery to seal the aneurysm, calling the pain “unbearable.” While she was recovering, she continued, she experienced aphasia and was “muttering nonsense.”
A week later, “the aphasia passed,” Emilia added, and she left the hospital a month after being admitted.
At a 2013 brain scan, she learned a growth “doubled in size” and that she needed surgery again.
“When they woke me, I was screaming in pain,” she wrote. “The procedure had failed. I had a massive bleed and the doctors made it plain that my chances of surviving were precarious if they didn’t operate again. This time they needed to access my brain in the old-fashioned way—through my skull.”
Thankfully, Emilia shared, she’s now “at a hundred per cent.”
