The ELUS Daily Brief - October 16, 2026
Meta released Muse Spark Open on October 15, an open-weight model (816B total / 42B active parameters, 1M token context) that can run locally on clustered Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios. Deezer is rolling out a toggle to hide fully AI-generated music by the end of 2026, against a flood of nearly 90,000 fully generated uploads per day. The Phonorecords V proposals are now public in detail: streamers want to hold the 15.35% headline rate (Amazon wants a cut to 13.4%), while NMPA/NSAI propose whichever is highest of 20% of revenue, 40% of recorded-music costs, $2.40 per subscriber per month, or…
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