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Sugar High, part 4: The future of music is what we’ll make

July 28, 2026 Bob Sullivan 0

A quick mental exercise: Imagine electricity were just discovered, and during the residential rollout, there were no rules.  No fire safety measures, no voltage standards, no common size for outlets. I imagine there’s one image that comes to mind.  FIRE!  Everywhere. That’s kinda what we’re hearing from some quarters about [Keep reading]

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Sugar High, part 3: Does it have to be tech vs art?

March 1, 2026 Bob Sullivan 0

  Jen Jacobsen of the Artist Rights Alliance joins host Bob Sullivan to talk about the decades-long ‘battle’ between artists and tech firms. Will it come to a head with AI music? Can we build incentives into the system that reward creators? This is part 3 of Debugger’s miniseries on [Keep reading]

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Sugar High, part 2: AI=layoffs. But will AI=Grammy Awards?

February 27, 2026 Bob Sullivan 0

The parent company of Cash App, After Pay and Square laid off nearly half its staff this week. Wall Street cheered, sending the stock up nearly 20%.  Get used to headlines like this. Owner Jack Dorsey — the founder of Twitter — claims AI enabled the workforce slashing. My hunch [Keep reading]

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Sugar High, part 1: Is AI the Future of ‘Music?’ – a Debugger podcast with Tift Merritt

February 13, 2026 Bob Sullivan 0

The next time you fire up your favorite streaming service, the music you hear might be made by a robot. Maybe you don’t care; you’re just looking for something to help you kill those 30 minutes on the treadmill.  But you should care. The sound you might not hear is [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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