Warner Music Group and AI music generator Suno have struck what they call a “first-of-its-kind partnership”.
They claim the deal will “open new frontiers in music creation, interaction, and discovery, while both compensating and protecting artists, songwriters, and the wider creative community”.
The deal also settles previous litigation between the companies.
The deal, according to a press release, “brings together Suno’s best-in-class AI capabilities with WMG’s artist development leadership and expertise at the intersection of music and technology”.
Artists and songwriters, according to the companies, “will have full control over whether and how their names, images, likenesses, voices, and compositions are used in new AI-generated music”.
In 2026, according to the press release, Suno will make “several changes to the platform, including launching new, more advanced and licensed models”.
The release added: “When the new models launch in 2026, the current models will be deprecated. Moving forward, downloading audio will require a paid account”.
Suno also says that it will introduce download restrictions in certain scenarios: “specifically, in the future, songs made on the free tier will not be downloadable and will instead be playable and shareable”.
Paid tier users will have limited monthly download caps with the ability to pay for more downloads, according to the company.
Suno has also acquired Songkick, the live music, concert-discovery platform, from Warner Music Group, and will continue to run it as “a successful fan destination”.
The press release continued that “the combination of Suno and Songkick will create new potential to deepen the artist-fan connection”.
WMG and Suno say they are “committed to forging a blueprint for a next-generation licensed AI music platform”.
Robert Kyncl, CEO, WMG said: “This landmark pact with Suno is a victory for the creative community that benefits everyone.
“With Suno rapidly scaling, both in users and monetization, we’ve seized this opportunity to shape models that expand revenue and deliver new fan experiences.”
“This landmark pact with Suno is a victory for the creative community that benefits everyone.”
Robert Kyncl, WMG
Added Kyncl: “AI becomes pro-artist when it adheres to our principles: committing to licensed models, reflecting the value of music on and off platform, and providing artists and songwriters with an opt-in for the use of their name, image, likeness, voice and compositions in new AI songs.”
“Our partnership with Warner Music unlocks a bigger, richer Suno experience for music lovers, and accelerates our mission to change the place of music in the world by making it more valuable to billions of people.”
Mikey Shulman, Suno
Mikey Shulman, CEO, Suno said: “Our partnership with Warner Music unlocks a bigger, richer Suno experience for music lovers, and accelerates our mission to change the place of music in the world by making it more valuable to billions of people.
“Together, we can enhance how music is made, consumed, experienced and shared. This means we’ll be rolling out new, more robust features for creation, opportunities to collaborate and interact with some of the most talented musicians in the world, all while continuing to build the biggest music ecosystem possible.”
The round was led by Menlo Ventures with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Hallwood Media, Lightspeed, and Matrix.
WMG also settled its lawsuit with Udio last week and struck a licensing deal with the company for ‘next-generation’ AI music platform coming in 2026.
The Udio news arrived just an hour after WMG announced a new partnership with Stability AI on Wednesday (November 19), which the companies said will “advance the use of responsible AI in music creation”.
The settlements and licensing deals come just over a year after the RIAA, on behalf of all three major record companies, sued Udio and rival AI platform Suno for “mass infringement” of copyright.
Universal Music Groupalso settled with Udio last month, in addition to signing a deal for a licensed AI music platform set to launch in 2026.
Entities such as Denmark’s Koda and Germany’s GEMA, continue to pursue copyright claims against Suno.Music Business Worldwide
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The 27-year-old’s first outing at 147lbs did not exactly go according to plan, however, as a lacklustre performance ultimately saw him lose a unanimous decision to Rolando Romero.
That second professional defeat arrived in May, just over a year removed from Garcia’s controversial majority decision victory over Haney, which was later overturned to a no-contest.
This was because ‘King Ry’ had tested positive for ostarine, a performance-enhancing substance, which then prompted the New York State Athletic Commission to hand him a year-long ban. Despite that, and indeed his loss to Romero, Garcia is set for the chance to become world champion at 147lbs in 2026..
Since his first encounter with Garcia, meanwhile, Haney has bounced back with an uneventful win over Jose Ramirez, who he outpointed in May, and a far more impressive display against Brian Norman Jr.
After flooring his man in the second round of their fight last Saturday, Haney encountered minimal difficulty before claiming a unanimous decision victory over Norman and being crowned the new WBO welterweight champion.
With the 27-year-old having become a three-division world champion, it would seem that a rematch with Garcia remains at the top of his wish list.
Speaking with Fight Hub TV after his victory over Norman, Haney expressed his confidence that their potential showdown will materialise and that it will be a unification.
“Of course [I want the rematch with Garcia] – that’s redemption. The same way he was rooting for me [against Norman], I’ll be rooting for him [against Barrios].
“I want him to win, and I think that [the stars] will align. It’ll be a massive fight.”
If Garcia can defeat Barrios, a two-belt clash against Haney would certainly be one of the biggest fights of 2026.
DARPA’s X-65, that replaces conventional aircraft flight controls with puffs of air, is coming together at Boeing subsidiary Aurora’s Bridgeport, West Virginia facility. The fuselage is taking shape and awaits its radical wing design.
With its advanced diamond wing, the X-65 Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) uncrewed demonstrator looks like it sneaked out of a science fiction movie. It’s already strange enough with its odd angles and unconventional flight services, but its purpose makes it even stranger as more details are released about its design.
The goal of the X-65 is to study how to do away with things like rudders, flaps, ailerons and other control surfaces. True, these are necessary for a small thing like making an aircraft able to fly, but they do have inherent drawbacks.
For one thing, they rely on complex mechanical systems to move, control systems to operate them, and structural elements to hold it all together, which means weight, complexity, and money. Another problem is that all the gaps, hinges, and deflecting surfaces for these control surfaces result in more drag, which reduces the aircraft’s efficiency.
About the size of a jet trainer, the X-65 aims at replacing all of this with a new Active Flow Control (AFC) system, where holes in the wings and the empennage shoot out carefully controlled jets of air from 14 nozzles to disrupt the airflow streaming over the aircraft, turning areas into virtual control surfaces.
By selectively activating these nozzles on one side of the aircraft or on sections of the wing, the AFC can instantly increase lift on one side by inducing roll, change the downwash at the rear to control pitch, or manipulate flow over the vertical surfaces to control yaw.
The X-65 fuselage under construction
Aurora Flight Science
In addition, the system can increase lift by controlling airflow on the leading edge of the wing, and the lack of control surfaces makes the aircraft inherently more stealthy because there’s less chance of radar signals finding angles to bounce off of.
So why the weird diamond wing?
The diamond wing is a low-aspect-ratio, straight-edged appendage that was chosen because, according to the designers, it’s the optimum testbed for the CRANE program. The straight edges of the wing and the variety of acute sweep angles enable the X-65 to generate different types of airflow patterns across its surfaces. It’s also highly susceptible to flow separation or breakdown of smooth airflow. The AFC system is designed to counteract and manipulate this breakdown. In fact, it exploits it in order to create the virtual control surfaces.
Because this is a test aircraft, the X-65 incorporates conventional moving control surfaces. DARPA describes these as “training wheels” that provide an added margin of safety, and in the early flights will establish a performance baseline against which to measure later flights using the AFC system. During these flights, the aircraft will reach transonic speeds, yet the new system is also expected to improve the performance of the diamond wing at slower speeds and high angles of attack – a part of the flight envelope that it generally handles poorly.
The X-65 is a few years behind schedule due to technical difficulties, and the maiden flight is now set for late 2027. After the CRANE program is completed, its replaceable modular components will allow it to be used as a testbed for later projects. This modularity also gives engineers the ability to use different nozzle configurations during current testing.
“We’re excited to continue our longstanding partnership with DARPA to complete the build of the X-65 aircraft and demonstrate the capabilities of active flow control in flight,” said Larry Wirsing, VP of aircraft development at Aurora Flight Sciences. “The X-65 platform will be an enduring flight test asset, and we’re confident that future aircraft designs and research missions will be able to leverage the underlying technologies and flight test data.”
Bogota, Colombia – Santiago Uribe, the brother of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, has been sentenced to 28 years and three months in prison for aggravated homicide and conspiracy to commit a crime while leading a paramilitary group.
In Tuesday’s verdict, a three-judge panel in the northwestern province of Antioquia ruled that, in the early 1990s, Uribe “formed and led an illegal armed group”.
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Under Uribe’s leadership, the group allegedly “carried out a plan to systematically murder and exterminate people considered undesirable”.
Uribe has denied having any associations with paramilitary groups. His defence team plans to appeal.
The ruling reverses a lower court’s acquittal last year. The case will now pass to Colombia’s Supreme Court for a final verdict.
The conviction is the latest twist in a longstanding criminal investigation into the Uribe family and its alleged paramilitary ties.
Former President Alvaro Uribe has likewise been investigated for ties to paramilitary groups [File: Miguel Lopez/AP Photo]
Critics have accused Uribe and his brother, the former president, of maintaining ties to groups involved in grave human rights abuses during Colombia’s six-decade-long internal conflict.
Tuesday’s conviction relates to activities that took place on and around the Uribe family’s La Carolina cattle ranch, located in Antioquia.
In its 307-page ruling, the court detailed how the ranch was used as a base for The 12 Apostles, a far-right paramilitary group formed by ranchers in the early 1990s to combat leftist rebels, notably the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
The court described The 12 Apostles as a “death squad”, saying it performed “social cleansing” by killing “undesirables” including sex workers, drug users, people with mental illnesses and suspected leftist sympathisers.
Not only did the paramilitary group hold meetings at La Carolina, but training and weapons distribution were also carried out on site, according to the ruling.
Those were “acts with which crimes against humanity were committed”, the judges wrote.
Describing Uribe as the leader of The 12 Apostles, the court found him responsible for ordering the murder of Camilo Barrientos, a bus driver who was shot near La Carolina in 1994 for being a suspected rebel collaborator.
Tuesday’s ruling also highlighted collusion between paramilitaries and state security forces, saying the militia “enjoyed the cooperation, through action and inaction, of agents of the State”.
Uribe was first investigated for his involvement with The 12 Apostles in the late 1990s, but the investigation was dropped in 1999 due to a lack of evidence.
Colombian authorities resumed their investigation in 2010, detaining Uribe in 2016 on charges of homicide.
Former President Alvaro Uribe addresses his brother Santiago’s arrest during a news conference on March 6, 2016 [File: Luis Benavides/AP Photo]
While the trial ended in 2020, the lower court announced its verdict years later, in November 2024. The judge overseeing the case at the time, Jaime Herrera Nino, ruled there was insufficient evidence and acquitted Uribe.
Tuesday’s decision overturns that verdict. Human rights advocates applauded the ruling as a step towards accountability, even at the highest levels of power.
“The sentence is extremely important,” said Laura Bonilla, a deputy director at Colombia’s Peace and Reconciliation Foundation (Pares). “It shows the level of penetration that paramilitarism had in Colombian society.”
Gerson Arias, a conflict and security investigator at the Ideas for Peace Foundation, a Colombian think tank, said the complexity of the case reflects the power structures involved.
“Paramilitarism was deeply rooted in the upper echelons of society, and therefore clarifying what happened takes years,” he said.
“It is therefore likely that many of the collective things we know about paramilitarism are still pending resolution and discovery.”
The defendant’s brother, former President Alvaro Uribe, led Colombia from 2002 to 2010.
The ex-president himself was found guilty earlier this year of bribing former paramilitary members not to testify to his involvement with them.
The ruling was overturned in October, after a court ruled the evidence was gathered through an unlawful wiretap. It also cited “structural deficiencies” in the prosecution’s arguments.
The former president remains a powerful figure in right-wing politics in Colombia, and he has pledged to form a coalition to oppose a left-wing government in the 2026 elections.
“I feel deep pain over the sentence against my brother. May God help him,” the ex-president wrote on the social media platform X following Tuesday’s ruling.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shakes hands with Dan Driscoll in Kyiv
When talks to end the Russia-Ukraine war took an unexpected turn last week, with the leak of a peace plan said to come from the US, the Trump administration dispatched an unlikely figure to attend a flurry of overseas meetings.
The youngest-ever army secretary, 39-year-old Dan Driscoll, is often referred to as President Donald Trump’s “drone guy” for his embrace of emerging battlefield technologies. Until recently, he was mostly known for discussions of budgets, supplies and staff issues in the military’s largest branch.
Driscoll does not appear have a long history of dealing with Russian and Ukraine, or experience in international diplomacy, and has never held public office.
So, who is this increasingly prominent figure within the administration?
Close ally of Vice-President JD Vance
It is Driscoll’s relationship with the now-vice president, JD Vance, that brought him into Trump’s orbit.
Like his friend Vance, Driscoll attended a public university before joining the US Army, and then earned his law degree at the prestigious Yale University. Both men also worked in finance after graduating.
During his military career, Driscoll became an officer in 2007, led a cavalry platoon and deployed to Iraq for several months in 2009.
He has told the story of meeting Vance through a veterans’ student group at law school, during which Vance reassured new students that they would at first feel as if they did not belong, but would excel at classes after a few months. Soon, Vance became Driscoll’s friend and mentor.
Driscoll was on holiday with his family in Switzerland in the summer of 2024 when Vance called to tell him he was going to be Trump’s running mate and asked him to join the campaign.
The next day, Driscoll flew back to the US, bought a suit at an outlet mall, and took an Uber to the Republican National Convention, he told the alumni magazine for the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – the institution where he was an undergraduate.
Once Trump returned to office, Driscoll was swiftly approved as army secretary in his Senate confirmation vote. His sphere of influence expanded after he became a key figure in Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to US cities. Afterwards, he also took over the role of acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Driscoll at his confirmation hearing in January
Unannounced visit to Ukraine
Driscoll has often spoken about the war in Ukraine – pointing to Ukrainian drones as a relatively cheap, mass-produced technology that is good for fighting.
But after being nominated for the army secretary job, he did not initially appear to be involved in negotiations to end the war. Trump was instead relying on his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to work on a plan for a ceasefire.
When details of a 28-point plan drafted by the US and Russia were leaked last week, Ukraine immediately voiced concern at some of its key points – and its European allies followed suit.
Driscoll then made an unannounced visit to Ukraine along with other high-ranking Pentagon figures, the most senior military group to travel to Kyiv since Trump took office in January. The purpose, according to a US Army spokesman, was to meet Ukrainian officials and discuss efforts to end the war.
Driscoll met Zelensky and was then, according to Politico, feted at a reception at the US ambassador’s residence.
In subsequent days, Driscoll participated in more discussions with Ukrainian officials in Geneva alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and helped draw up an “updated and refined peace framework”.
He went on to hold talks with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi, according to the BBC’s US partner, CBS News.
In a social media post on Tuesday, Trump said in an effort to finalise the peace plan, he had directed his envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. He said Driscoll would meet with the Ukrainian side.
A future envoy… or defence secretary?
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Driscoll with National Guard troops in Washington
In nominating Driscoll as his army secretary, Trump wrote he had a “powerful combination of experiences to serve as a disruptor and change agent”.
Some in Washington are wondering if those qualities and his recent appearance on the world stage mean that Driscoll could one day replace Pete Hegseth, if Hegseth ever steps down as defence secretary.
While he has never held public office, Driscoll worked in Congress as an intern for the Senate’s veteran affairs committee, and in 2020 he made an unsuccessful bid for a House seat in North Carolina. A former professor has suggested Driscoll aimed “to serve in the military, go to law school and be in politics”.
There is also the possibility Driscoll could step officially into the role of negotiating with Ukraine when Trump’s special envoy to the country, Keith Kellogg, leaves in January.
Or he could stay as the head of hundreds of thousands of troops in the US Army. Driscoll has previously highlighted that his father and grandfather served in the military before him, and he often speaks about his vision of transforming the Army.
Days before heading to Ukraine, Driscoll described to The Conversation podcast how he imagined the near future, when “every infantryman…will carry a drone into battle” and soldiers would rely on artificial intelligence because human brains will not be able to “keep up” with the pace of action.
“Our window to change is right now,” he said in a speech in October. “And we will win with silicon and software, not our soldiers’ blood and bodies.”
The holiday season is on a budget this year. American households are entering the next festive few weeks with constrained spending power, a result of weak real income growth and a softened labor market that is disproportionately affecting younger and lower-income workers, according to a comprehensive financial health report from the JPMorgan Chase Institute.
The analysis, which leverages deidentified financial data from Chase customers, suggests that the period of relying on pandemic-era excess cash liquidity is now “in the rearview mirror,” and many consumers are facing a spending season where budgets are “tempered by tepid income growth.” For consumers who are “relatively disadvantaged by high housing costs and hold less stock market wealth”—a group that disproportionately includes younger and lower-income individuals—they may have “justenough to spend, but not enough to splurge” this year.
These findings come at the end of a year when voter anger about the cost of living unseated Democrats from the White House and installed President Donald Trump for a second, non-consecutive term, only to see voters back Democrats across the board in offyear elections. Many of the benefactors, including New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, stressed the “affordability” problem that many are facing, while Trump’s approval ratings on the economy have plummeted.
Gen Z has born the brunt of what Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell memorably called a “low-hire, low-fire” labor market, where it’s looking pretty frozen. “Kids coming out of college and younger people, minorities, are having a hard time finding jobs,” Powell told reporters in September. Several weeks later, Goldman Sachs economists warned that “jobless growth” might become a permanent feature of the economy. Many economists have embraced a term from the Biden years that aligns with what JPMorgan is finding: “the K-shaped economy,” with diverging paths for wealthier and lower-income Americans.
To be sure, while JPMorgan’s report does not touch on the political scene and the affordability politics of 2025, it paints a picture of a tenuously balanced economic environment, full of friction with low real income and insufficient wealth accumulation among key demographics.
Real income stagnation mirrors recessionary period
Median real income growth has sustained a weak trend for several months, with the October 2025 reading for prime-age individuals (aged 25–54) settling at only 1.6% in real terms. This low sustained pace is near the range observed during the weak labor market of the early 2010s, a period when the unemployment rate averaged 7%. This was, as the institute says, “when the unemployment rate was still elevated from the Great Recession,” although the current unemployment rate sits notably lower than that period, at 4.3%.
While nominal income growth remains roughly consistent with pre-pandemic levels, the higher pace of consumer price increases means real purchasing power gains are low.
This general stagnation is proving particularly challenging across demographics. Young people “continue to underperform the typical early career growth pattern” as income growth for individuals aged 25–29 is currently below historic trends for younger workers. Younger workers typically rely on job switching to rapidly advance their careers. However, the current slowdown in hiring is hindering this typical rapid pace of income advancement.
The downturn in overall income growth is also impacting older demographics. Workers aged 50-54 are now experiencing negative real year-over-year income growth. And since older workers generally face slower annual gains, a combination of weakening in the labor market and an uptick in inflation can more easily send their purchasing power into negative territory. Negative real growth for older workers can lead to challenging adjustments, particularly for lower-wealth individuals who have not benefited from years of strong gains in housing and stock prices.
Flat balances offer little cushion
Households’ median real cash balances have remained flat since early 2024, holding steady throughout most of 2025. This stability marks a deviation from pre-pandemic trends, where real balances typically grew steadily at an annual rate of just over 6% as households aged. If balances had grown at that historical rate since 2020, they would be up 40% in October relative to 2019; instead, they are only up 23%.
This flat growth indicates that households are not accumulating additional cash reserves in their checking and savings accounts.
Although high-income households have continued to see slight declines in their bank balances (only 2% negative in October 2025), potentially due to transfers to higher yield accounts or investment brokerage accounts, low-income households returned to positive year-over-year bank balance growth in September 2024. Despite these shifts in savings strategy, the approximation of total cash reserves—including investment transfers—shows that growth has been positive for all income groups for at least the last year.
Going into the end of the year, consumers with constrained budgets may look to stock market gains to augment spending. However, the report cautions that these stock market gains are “highly unequally distributed,” leaving younger and lower-income groups with less financial cushion as they navigate stagnant real purchasing power.
For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.
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A large-scale Russian aerial barrage on the Ukrainian capital killed several people on Tuesday. The attack came hours after a round of peace talks between U.S. and Ukrainian mediators that ended in Geneva.
