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Deezer’s Free AI Detector Reveals What’s Hiding In Your Playlists
Nearly half of listeners switching to Deezer arrive with AI-generated tracks already in their playlists. A new free tool shows whether you’re one of them.
Most people have no idea how much of their music library was made by a machine. Deezer wants to change that – and not just for its own subscribers.
The streaming platform has launched a free online AI music detector that works across 20 of the most common streaming services, available in 27 languages. The process is deliberately simple: visit the detector page, connect your streaming account, let Deezer scan your playlists, then view and share the results.
The numbers suggest plenty of listeners will be surprised by what they find. According to Deezer, 43% of people joining the platform from other streaming services already have AI-generated music in their playlists. And according to a recent eight-country survey from Deezer and Ipsos, 80% of people agree AI music should be clearly labeled, while 73% want to see AI tracks tagged on streaming platforms.
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So far, Deezer has been alone in taking action on this issue. The company was the first in the world to detect and tag AI-generated music on its own platform, and has since made the in-house technology commercially available to others across the music ecosystem.
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Microsoft Plans $10 Billion-Plus Gulf Expansion Despite Iran Conflict
Security is shaping Microsoft’s approach, from resilience work with governments to what it will say about how the money splits by country.
Microsoft is planning more than $10 billion of investment across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait through 2030, Vice Chair and President Brad Smith told Reuters, calling the spending schedule aggressive. The Iranian conflict that began on February 28 has not persuaded the company to scale back.
“We’re sustaining all the investments we planned to make before this conflict started, and we are in fact adding to them,” Smith said. The $10 billion-plus total does not, however, show how large those additions are.
The investment, which Smith described as part of Microsoft’s continued infrastructure expansion, is aimed at cloud and AI infrastructure and at the company’s growing regional operations. Microsoft also intends to put more than $400 million into subsea and terrestrial connectivity across the Middle East by 2030.
The spending fits the region’s own ambitions too. Gulf governments have been investing heavily in AI infrastructure as part of a push to diversify their economies beyond oil and gas and turn themselves into global technology hubs. Major cloud and AI providers have been drawn in part by the land and relatively low-cost energy on offer.
Microsoft is widening its partnerships with regional AI companies, though not on identical terms. In 2024, it invested $1.5 billion in Abu Dhabi-based G42 for a minority stake, and Smith currently sits on G42’s board. Saudi Arabia’s Humain and Qatar’s Qai are working with Microsoft on selected priority areas, but Smith said the company does not plan to make capital investments in either.
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The conflict has added another strand to Microsoft’s work in the region. Since it began, Smith said, the company has supported regional partners with digital resilience assessments, and it is now working with Gulf countries through a digital resilience initiative focused on preparedness and the protection of critical data.
So far, the company has given no country-by-country breakdown of the investment, citing security among other factors. So while the headline figure is public, how Microsoft divides the spending among the four countries is not.
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