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 ...

Man pleads guilty to generating songs with AI then having bots stream them 'billions of times' to make over $8 million in royalties

Then another AI company asked if it could do the same—for $2,000 AI Anthropic says it has identified thousands of 'fraudulent ...

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 ...