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Sony Updates the Walkman As a $5,900 Gold-Plated MP3 Player (hardware.slashdot.org)
5 days ago Sony

SCOTUS rejects an appeal by BMG, Sony Music, UMG, and Warner Music, upholding a decision that copyright termination rights apply globally, not just in the US (www.reuters.com)
7 days ago Sony

Sony launches three new Android-powered Walkman music players, including the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3 for $5,900, as it targets the audiophile market (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Android Sony

Sony launches Quick Spectral Super Resolution, a “new performance tier of AI upscaling” for the standard PS5 developed in collaboration with AMD (www.theverge.com)
25 days ago AI Sony AMD

Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+ (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-25 Sony

Sony Music becomes the first music company to join ARIAM, which advocates for responsible AI adoption in the creative industry and includes the NYT and Disney (variety.com)
2026-9-23 AI Sony

Sony Music and UMG sue Suno, alleging that its new model trained in partnership with WMG and BMG infringes copyright because it is based on an infringing model (variety.com)
2026-9-20 Sony

Sony launches Live TV on PS5 in the US, letting users stream 100+ free, ad-supported TV channels with content from Amazon MGM Studios, Crunchyroll, and more (www.engadget.com)
2026-9-1 Amazon Sony

Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-30 Sony

Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann, alleging tens of thousands of copyrighted songs were used to train Claude's LLMs (www.musicbusinessworldwide.com)
2026-8-30 Sony

Stability AI, which has deals with UMG, WMG, and EA to build AI models from their IP, raised a $76M Series B from them, Sony Music, and others (variety.com)
2026-8-26 AI Sony

A profile of Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki, who aims to transform the company into a business focused on music, movies, video games, and the tech that underpins them (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-16 Sony

A profile of Suno, which has been used by more than 100M people since 2023 and has 2M+ paid subscribers, as it faces copyright lawsuits from UMG and Sony Music (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-12 Sony

TSMC and Sony plan to establish Advanced Vision Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp, a $4.69B JV in Japan to make next-gen smartphone image sensors from 2029 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-11 Japan Manufacturing Sony

Sources: Sony and TSMC plan a $6.3B JV, owned ~60% by Sony and ~40% by TSMC, to mass produce next-gen image sensor chips in Japan's Kumamoto as early as 2029 (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-8-10 Japan Sony Sensor

Sony Heard Backlash Over Dropping PlayStation Discs, Plans to Press Ahead (games.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 Sony

Sony reports Q1 PS5 sales of 1.38M units, down from 1.56M a year ago, taking total sales of the console to 95.3M units, and 125M PlayStation MAUs, up 2M YoY (kotaku.com)
2026-7-31 Sony

Sony reports Q1 operating profit up 40% YoY to ~$2.92B, raises FY profit forecast by 8% to ~$10.56B, and says it secured enough memory chip supply for the FY (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-31 Sony

Sony's Decision To Ditch Discs Was Practically Inevitable, Data Shows (games.slashdot.org)
2026-7-24 Sony

Sony Music files a second copyright suit against Udio, alleging the AI music company copied 30,117 recordings without permission to train its AI models (www.musicbusinessworldwide.com)
2026-7-21 AI Sony

Japan plans to buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips to develop a domestic AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Sony, and NEC (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-18 Japan AI Robot Sony Nvidia

Sony Deletes More Movies From Accounts of People Who 'Bought' Them (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-7-17 Sony

GitHub Thumbs Nose At Sony's Controversial End to Physical Media With Its Introduction of Repo CDs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 Sony GitHub

Sony PlayStation Will Stop Releasing Games On Discs In 2028 (games.slashdot.org)
2026-7-2 Sony

Sony says it is closing the virtual PlayStation 3 store in select markets in 2026 ahead of global store closures for the PS3 and PS Vita in July 2027 (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-1 Sony

Sony says all new PlayStation games from both first- and third-party developers will be sold in digital formats from January 2028, ending physical game discs (www.gamefile.news)
2026-7-1 Sony

Japan commits up to $6.16B over five years to Noetra, a consortium led by SoftBank, Honda, NEC, and Sony, to develop a domestic AI foundation model by 2027 (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-7-1 Japan AI Honda Sony

Sony's Bungie says it is laying off a “significant number of employees”, including “most of the Destiny team”; Bungie has an estimated headcount of 800 (kotaku.com)
2026-6-26 Sony

Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in “select regions”, blaming “ongoing market conditions” (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-19 Sony

Sony reports a $765M impairment loss due to underperformance of Marathon developer Bungie during the financial year ending March 31, 2026 (www.ign.com)
2026-5-8 Sony

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