machina.mondays // Generative Jukebox: A Hard Day’s Byte in the Studio

Since we last discussed, AI-made music seems to hit all the right notes with many listeners. So will human musicians be left playing second fiddle — or strike up a duet with the machines?

In this Issue: AI is driving music’s third reckoning—after Napster and Spotify—flooding platforms with synthetic tracks and reshaping authorship as audiences choose vibe over origin. Also: models secretly transmit hidden behaviours, U.S. power bills spike from AI data centres, and Salesforce says future CEOs will manage hybrid human–AI workforces.