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The first study, published in January in JAMA Pediatrics , looked at more than 100,000 young Australians and highlighted a non-linear relationship between social media use and wellbeing.…

John Ternus was at the helm for the first time. Apple’s new boss delivered a keynote heavily geared towards Apple’s long-standing customers, featuring updates to the iPhone, AirPods…

This Wednesday, the IFPI is publishing the third edition of *Music in the EU* , its annual report on the European recorded music market. It is a statistical…

Suno is stepping up its efforts in music AI with v6, its new family of generation models, and, crucially, is shifting its approach: for the first time, the…

The American Music Fairness Act (AMFA), currently under consideration in the 119th US Congress, aims to establish remuneration for performers, backing vocalists, studio musicians and record owners when…

“ I welcome the President of the Republic’s remarks on copyright and Beaumarchais at the Lumière summit. This will help us get the bill passed ,” Laure Darcos…

Mistral has raised 3 billion euros in a Series D funding round, bringing its post-investment valuation to over 21 billion euros. The Paris-based start-up describes this round as…

No spectacular acceleration, but no slowdown either: the French recorded music market generated €449 million in the first half of 2026, up 3.5 per cent. It has thus…

On Monday in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France brought together some of the cream of the global film industry to launch yet another ‘summit’, this time on cinema. This has become…

The case is, however, eagerly awaited. It stems from a lawsuit brought in Hungary by Like Company, the publisher of several news websites, against Google. The publisher accuses…

OpenAI has unveiled GPT-6 Astra, a model featuring a reasoning architecture known as ‘recurrent depth ’. This is the model’s major innovation, according to OpenAI. The idea is…

Against the backdrop of the meteoric progress of large language models, generative AI systems dedicated to music sometimes seem to be treading water. ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude reason,…

In the second quarter of 2026, ending 30 July, Universal Music Group reported streaming revenue growth of 5.6 per cent, whilst Warner Music Group’s rose to 11.3 per…

In addition to copyright infringement, the publishers invoke Section 1202 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which prohibits, under certain conditions, the removal of ‘ copyright management information’…

This battle of the experts goes far beyond a procedural dispute. It should shed light on how the authors and publishers intend to demonstrate that OpenAI’s models do…

Sony is adding over 100 free, ad-supported TV channels to the PlayStation 5. The service is available from today via the console’s Media tab, featuring live channels from…

Investment in French Tech soared by 65 per cent in the first half of 2026. However, they remain below 2021 levels, whilst the number of companies receiving funding…

In Europe, governments and institutions are now almost unanimous: given the risks attributed to social media, access to it should be banned for the youngest members of society.…

Mark Hura, president of global sales operations at Oracle, was in Paris for the RAISE Summit. In an exclusive interview with ElectronLibre, he expressed his conviction that AI…

While AI promises to simplify our digital lives by merging apps into single interfaces, this convergence masks a deeper transformation in the balance of power. The “super app”…

The European Commission has preliminarily concluded that Facebook and Instagram use design mechanisms that encourage addictive use, particularly among minors. This is yet another example of how the…

Rejected in the spring, the extension of the temporary exemption to the ePrivacy Directive is back on the table, having been adopted yesterday by the European Parliament under…

U.S. music organizations are appealing to Washington regarding the RAAP ruling. They are calling on the Trump administration to put pressure on the European Commission. The standoff over…

As AI giants roll out “full-duplex” voice models to simulate more fluid human conversation, the challenge lies not so much in technological prowess as in establishing a new…

The contrast between “strong” European copyright and U.S. copyright—which is weakened in particular by fair use—may have become too simplistic to describe the current developments in the field…

Far from scenarios of mass job destruction, the OECD believes that digital technologies promote sustainable job growth in the best-prepared regions. This conclusion echoes OpenAI’s recent work on…

Behind the perennial concerns about artistic quality and copyright, AI-generated music has quietly moved beyond mere experimentation to become a veritable revenue machine, with each platform playing its…

Jordan Bardella is now the undisputed leader in our GEO barometer. For the first time, he has overtaken Emmanuel Macron, despite the president’s very high score in the…

Snowflake believes the French market has entered a new phase. Discussions are no longer focused on cloud adoption, but on data governance, which has become a prerequisite for…

A survey of 155 tech startup founders shows that the main challenges they face stem not so much from the level of regulation as from its fragmentation. More…