AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’; San Francisco Chronicle, November 10, 2025

Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle; AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’

"A country hit made by artificial intelligence has climbed to the top of a Billboard chart — a first for the genre.

The song, “Walk My Walk,” by an artist known as Breaking Rust, is now No. 1 on  Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart. But the brooding, gravel-voiced cowboy behind the hit doesn’t exist. At least, not in the traditional sense. 

He’s an AI creation with millions of streams, tens of thousands of followers and no verifiable human footprint." 

Wave of copyright lawsuits hit AI companies like Cambridge-based Suno; WBUR, July 23, 2025

 

Sharon Brody

Rob Lane,

 WBUR; Wave of copyright lawsuits hit AI companies like Cambridge-based Suno

"Suno, a Cambridge company that generates AI music, faces multiple lawsuits alleging it illegally trained its model on copyrighted work. Peter Karol of Suffolk Law School and Bhamati Viswanathan of Columbia University Law School's Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts join WBUR's Morning Edition to explain how the suits against Suno fit into a broader legal battle over the future of creative work.

This segment aired on July 23, 2025. Audio will be available soon."