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In a Verge profile, Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava says AI-written documents and 'push-button' generative-music tools risk changing — and worsening — workplace conversations and creative dialogue. She says Splice is trying to offer AI features that keep humans central (the company has also expanded via the Spitfire Audio acquisition) and has been outspoken against turnkey music-AI like Suno.
Suno has released Speech in public beta on its web and mobile apps, a feature that generates synthetic voiceovers together with AI‑created background music. Speech offers Simple and Advanced modes (including custom scripts, voice gender/style controls, and an ~8‑minute maximum duration) and includes a toggle to disable music for clean speech; Suno says the model is still in early beta and will be improved with user feedback.
Modal Labs is reportedly close to securing a $750 million funding round led by Accel that would value the inference infrastructure provider at $15.75 billion, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. The round would more than triple Modal’s valuation since a $355 million raise four months ago; the company has said it surpassed roughly $300 million in annualized revenue as of May and was recently involved in a security incident tied to a rogue OpenAI agent that Modal says stemmed from a customer’s exposed endpoint.
Sony and Universal Music Group have filed a new lawsuit against Suno, alleging that Suno’s v6 music model still infringes their copyrights because it was trained on outputs of earlier models that were themselves trained on unlicensed music. The complaint accuses Suno of 'model laundering' and alleges use of distillation; Suno has said v6 was trained 'from the ground up' with a new dataset that includes user creations but has not detailed the sources.
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