{"id":676131,"date":"2026-05-31T14:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/676131\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T14:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:16:13","slug":"the-speeches-about-ai-that-drew-strong-responses-from-2026-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/676131\/","title":{"rendered":"The Speeches About AI That Drew Strong Responses From 2026 Grads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record executive Scott Borchetta told Middle Tennessee State University that AI was already rewriting the rules, much like streaming had upended the music business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Streaming rewrote the economics. Social media rewrote the discovery model,&#8221; he said. &#8220;AI is rewriting production as we sit here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the boos began, Borchetta, who <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/scott-borchetta-power-hours-big-machine-label-group-ceo-2026-2\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signed Taylor Swift to her first contract<\/a> and later had a falling out with the superstar over rights to her masters, remained defiant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know it. Deal with it,&#8221; Borchetta replied, adding, &#8220;Like I said, it&#8217;s a tool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Borchetta refused to back down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, like I said, You can hear me now, or you can pay me later,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Hey, then do something about it, okay? It&#8217;s a tool. Make it work for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Record executive Scott Borchetta told Middle Tennessee State University that AI was already rewriting the rules, much like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[14406,182,181,294893,507,39180,211040,270,115402,281549,294894,294892,18289,83656,294895,39038,294891,74],"class_list":["post-676131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-adobe","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-product","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-backlash","tag-bard-college","tag-business-insider","tag-cheer","tag-chris-duffey","tag-commencement-speaker","tag-graduation-speaker","tag-head","tag-marquette","tag-mere-announcement","tag-platform","tag-strong-response","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}