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White House Orders AI for Science: Genesis Mission would share U.S. data and resources with top AI companies
President Trump launched a United States effort to use AI to speed up scientific breakthroughs.
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Generated, Editable Virtual Spaces: World Labs makes Marble world model public, adds Chisel editing tool
Models that generate 3D spaces typically generate them as users move through them without generating a persistent world to be explored later. A new model produces 3D worlds that can be exported and modified.
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Record Labels Back AI-Music Startup: Klay Image emerges from relative obscurity to announce deals with Sony, Warner, and Universal
A music-generation newcomer emerged from stealth mode with licenses to train generative AI models on music controlled by the world’s biggest recording companies.
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Microsoft and Anthropic Form Alliance: Claude becomes the first leading language model available from all three cloud giants
Having recently revised its agreement with longtime partner OpenAI, Microsoft pledged to invest billions of dollars in Anthropic, one of OpenAI’s top competitors.
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Google Dominates Arena Leaderboards (For the Moment): Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro boast best-in-class multimodal reasoning and image generation
Google introduced Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro, its flagship vision-language and image-generation models, and deployed them to billions of users worldwide.
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Self-Driving Cars on U.S. Freeways: Waymo deploys autonomous cars on California and Arizona expressways
Waymo became the first company to offer fully autonomous, driverless taxi service on freeways in the United States.
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The Year AI Went Industrial: The State of AI Report 2025 says AI’s barriers aren’t technological but social and material
A year-in-review report heralds the dawn of AI’s industrial era.
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AI Music With Major-Label Support: Universal Music Group and music generator Udio struck a deal to settle a lawsuit and build a new platform to remix copyrighted music
Music-generation service Udio will build an AI streaming platform in collaboration with the world’s biggest record label.
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OpenAI Reorganizes For Profit: ChatGPT’s maker completed restructuring, freeing it to go public, make deals with new partners
OpenAI completed its transition from nonprofit to for-profit in a feat of legal engineering that took an army of lawyers, investment bankers, and two state attorneys general 18 months to negotiate.
Machine Learning Research
Web Data Diminishes: What if online publishers make it harder and more expensive to train models?
For decades, AI developers have treated the web as an open faucet of training data. Now publishers are shutting the tap. Will web data dry up?
Business
The AI Boom Is Bound to Bust: What if big investments in AI models, data centers, and hot startups don't pay off?
Leading AI companies are spending mountains of cash in hopes that the technology will deliver outsize profits before investors lose patience. Are exuberant bets on big returns grounded in the quicksand of wishful thinking?
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California Builds AI Regulatory Regime: The U.S.’s biggest state by population and economy passed four AI transparency bills is less than one month
In the absence of national laws that specifically regulate AI in the United States, California moved to regulate the technology within its own borders, passing four bills in less than a month.