Michael Smith pleads guilty to stealing $8 million from artists using AI-generated songs and bot accounts to manipulate streaming platforms.

Robo-Ky has also been confirmed alongside two yet-to-be-revealed characters coming later this year.

Arc System Works has announced the version 2.00 update for fighting game Guilty Gear: Strive, which will launch on April 9 alongside Season 5 downloadable content character Jam Kuradoberi.

Having won a defamation lawsuit against Ohio's Adams County sheriff's deputies, Afroman details the whole sordid event with "Batteram Hymn of the Police Whistleblower." ...

A Cornelius man pleaded guilty Thursday to running a music streaming fraud scheme that used artificial intelligence and bot ...

A Gainesville man has pleaded guilty in a series of armed robberies, including two in Jacksonville. Prosecutors say 49-year-old Michael Woulard admitted he carried out the robberies and used a gun to ...

The case involving a Charlotte-area man is the country’s first criminal case over manipulating music streaming platforms through AI.

In the last 15 years, the Freedom in Music Project has donated nearly 400 guitars to kids around the Albuquerque metro. Now they are inviting the community to the 13th Annual Blues and Guitar ...

North Carolina musician Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to collecting over $10 million in royalty payments through a massive streaming royalty fraud scheme on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and ...

Mike Smith was indicted in 2024 after using AI and bots to generate and stream thousands of songs, siphoning millions of dollars away from recording artists.

Michael Lawrence Tyler, a rapper known by his stage name as Mystikal, faces a decades-long prison sentence after pleading guilty to third-degree rape on Tuesday. Tyler, 55, appeared this week in a ...

An Ohio jury found that Joseph “Afroman” Foreman did not defame seven Adams County Sheriff’s deputies with his songs and social media posts that stemmed from a 2022 search of his home. The verdict ...