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The music industry's long-running battle with artificial intelligence has a new face, and it belongs to the King. The estate of Elvis Presley has filed suit against AI company Anthropic, alleging the firm trained its models on hundreds of Presley's songs without authorization. It's the latest and perhaps most high-profile escalation in what's becoming a defining legal fight over how AI systems are built and who pays for the creative work they consume.
Staying in music, but shifting to an unexpected chart story — Australian psych-rock veterans King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have landed their first ever entry on the Billboard Hot one hundred, debuting at number sixty-two. The song, Flower in a Hurricane, got its boost from the Grand Theft Auto six trailer, a reminder that a single sync placement in the right cultural moment can do what twenty-eight studio albums sometimes cannot.
And in the world of classic concert film preservation, an unreleased nineteen seventy-eight David Bowie performance called Stage is being reimagined as an immersive multi-screen live experience, set to premiere in Berlin in February two thousand twenty-seven. Shot during Bowie's Isolar II World Tour, the project suggests there's still real appetite for transforming archival footage into something audiences can physically inhabit.
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