Spotify Lays Off 15 Percent Of Podcasting Group, The Ringer

The layoffs Monday impacted positions across The Ringer and Spotify Studios.

Spotify Layoffs in Podcast Group Cut 3% of Staff, at The Ringer and Spotify Studios

More job cuts have come in Spotify’s podcast group, including layoffs at The Ringer, the streamer’s podcast network and ...
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Man Pleads Guilty to Making $8 Million by Creating Music With AI and Using Bots to Drive Zillions of Fake Streams

"Although the songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars Smith stole was real." The post Man Pleads Guilty to ...

North Carolina man pleads guilty to AI music streaming fraud.

Last week, Michael Smith pleaded guilty to creating hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs and then using bots to stream the songs “billions” of times. The scheme allowed Smith to earn over $8 ...

As "Spamalot" returns to L.A., Eric Idle is feeling sentimental about his epic career

As "Spamalot" returns to the Hollywood Pantages, Eric Idle says of absurdist comedy, "these are the sort of times when we ...

Man who used 1,000 bots to stream AI songs pleads guilty in $8 million fraud case

From 2017 to 2024, 52-year-old Michael Smith, from Cornelius, North Carolina, and his co-conspirators ran a large-scale fraud scheme that artificially boosted the stream counts of ...