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Good morning Monday. If coffee had Wi-Fi, it would be this email.

Sip first, scroll second, Bite™ everything.

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• AI Musicians Just Landed a Record Deal

• Stop Blaming AI for the Hiring Slump

• ToolBox™

• And Everything Else

Jobs
📉 Stop Blaming AI for the Tech Hiring Slump

The Bite: Tech jobs didn’t vanish, the money did.

Postings for software roles peaked in early 2022 and then fell off a cliff months before ChatGPT showed up. 

Employment itself is still higher than pre-COVID, but with fewer openings, less churn, and tighter budgets; which makes it feels like a freeze.

The real story isn’t “AI took my job.”
It’s “the Fed raised rates in 2022 and everyone closed their wallets.”

Not rocket science.
Basic economics.

Snacks:

• Software job postings tanked 39% in 2022 (pre-ChatGPT)

• Tech headcount? Still +8% vs 2019, just less mobility

• VC funding dried up when free money disappeared

• Fed hikes (March 2022) made hiring expensive overnight

• Workers say they fear AI, but economists point at budgets and currency debasement.

Why it Bites: AI makes an easy villain, but the job markets downturn was baked in by the macro.

Cheap money ended, VC funding slowed, and suddenly every CFO turned into a bouncer at the hiring club.

Want a parallel? Same week jobs started sliding, Netflix cracked down on password sharing, reported subscriber loss, and endured a brutal 20% $NFLX ( ▲ 0.49% ) dump.

AI is changing what work looks like, sure.
But it didn’t cause the freeze.

It all started before AI entered the chat.

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Create high-speed subjects with cinematic motion blur.

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Prompt Credit: Howard Chen

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2. Paste into MJ

3. Replace the #’s with subject, jersey details (number, sponsors, etc…), and outfit (example: “jersey”)

   
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AI Art
🎶 AI Musicians Just Landed a Record Deal

The Bite: British AI creator Oliver McCann (aka imoliver) just signed with Hallwood Media after one of his AI-generated tracks hit 3M streams despite having zero musical training.

This marks the first time a label has bet on an AI artist.

Snacks:

• imoliver used AI Tool, Suno, to create the tracks that got him signed

• Velvet Sundown, an all-AI band, tricked Spotify listeners into millions of streams before revealing they weren’t real

• Sony, Universal, Warner: Suing Suno + Udio for training models on copyrighted music

• Deezer claimed 18% of all uploads are AI and most go unnoticed.

• In Feb. 1000+ artists protested by releasing “silent albums”

• will.i.am and Timbaland are leaning in, using AI tools to produce and collab

Why it bites: The industry has always had gatekeepers.
Labels, studios, money, and even the instruments themselves.

Laptops with FL Studio started to chip at that gate.

Now AI music is heading towards the gate with a wrecking ball.

A single text prompt can now do the work of a band, a producer, and a marketing team in one shot.

Gary Vee’s been screaming for years about “AI influencers” taking over.

This is that prophecy.

For creators, it’s a cheat code.
For labels, it’s an extinction-level event.

Napster cracked distribution.
AI is cracking creation itself.

Everything Else
🧠 You Need to Know

🔦 Researchers pioneer a new type of generative AI:

→ Optical generative models. A sustainable approach that creates novel images using the physics of light instead of computational power.
🍭 READ FULL STORY HERE 🍭

🎬 GPT was an accessory to murder:

→ Though ChatGPT has been a commonality amongst recent suicides, this is the first documented murder where the AI played a role in increasing a murderers delusions.
🍭 READ FULL STORY HERE 🍭

🧑‍🎨 This designer is MORE busy now that AI is here:

→ AI tutor and teaching assistant, expands to over 50 institutions. After successful pilot program at 30 colleges in the U.S., MathGPT is preparing to nearly double its availability this fall.
🍭 READ FULL STORY HERE 🍭

🤖 Meta adds teen AI safeguards:

→ Meta is rolling out temporary teen protections in its AI features, limiting flirty chat and self-harm talk while it builds long-term fixes.
🍭 READ FULL STORY HERE 🍭

⚖️ xAI sues ex-engineer over trade secrets

→ Elon Musk’s xAI filed suit on Aug 29 alleging a former engineer took Grok-related secrets to OpenAI; OpenAI isn’t named as a defendant.
🍭 READ FULL STORY HERE 🍭

ToolBox™
🧰 5 AI Tools to Be The Next Viral AI Rapper

🎤 Suno: AI song generator for full tracks
Turn plain text into vocals, lyrics, and production—radio-ready in minutes.
(Generous free tier)

🎸 Udio: Music at the speed of a prompt
Choose a vibe, set a style, and spin up polished verse-chorus tracks instantly.

🎧 Stable Audio: Sound design + music creation
Generate full songs, loops, or custom effects straight from a description.

🎼 AIVA: AI composer for media
Score films, ads, or games with customizable arrangements you can edit and export.

🥁 SOUNDRAW: Royalty-free beats on demand
Pick length, genre, and stems—AI handles the arrangement, you keep it monetizable.