Creator Economics
Suno
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Aug 22, 2026
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The prompt can be a melody now.
Suno put MIDI on the Studio timeline, and a MIDI clip can now be the prompt for a new generation. The feature is useful. The sentence Suno wrote underneath it is more useful, because it says out loud where describing music in words stops working.
AI News
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Aug 18, 2026
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4 min read
Sora has a shutdown date.
The app and the website went dark on the twenty-sixth of April. Everything that is left switches off on the twenty-fourth of September. On the table where OpenAI lists what to move to, the row for Sora holds a dash.
AI News
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Aug 16, 2026
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4 min read
The new rate has a date on it.
Google shipped a workhorse model on the thirteenth of August and put an introductory number on it: three quarters of a dollar per million tokens in. That number holds until the thirty-first of December. On the first of January it doubles.
Suno
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Aug 15, 2026
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4 min read
The download became the product.
Suno shipped a studio, signed with BMG, and put a meter on downloads, all in one week. The meter starts September 3.
