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Taiwan is leading Asia's economic surge this year, with forecast real GDP growth of eleven percent in two thousand twenty six. The engine behind that number is familiar territory for this broadcast — artificial intelligence and technology exports are driving the boom, cementing Taiwan's role as a critical node in the global tech supply chain.
On the streaming front, Amazon is using Prime Day to push Music Unlimited with a free trial offer, a move that signals how aggressively the company is competing for ears against Spotify and Apple Music. These promotional windows are short, and they're less about music discovery than about locking listeners into Amazon's broader ecosystem long-term.
And in the ongoing story of who owns what in the music business, Pharrell Williams is moving to dismiss a copyright lawsuit filed by longtime collaborator Chad Hugo. Pharrell's legal team argues the complaint is so vague it fails to identify which specific compositions or recordings Hugo claims to have authored — a procedural challenge that cuts to the heart of how creative credit gets documented and disputed in collaborative work.
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