AI Regulations

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.

A year-in-review report heralds the dawn of AI’s industrial era.

Music-generation service Udio will build an AI streaming platform in collaboration with the world’s biggest record label.

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.

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?

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.

A Swedish organization that collects royalties on behalf of songwriters and record companies has formed a technology-legal-business ecosystem designed to allow AI developers to use music legally while compensating publishers of recordings and compositions.

Illinois became the second U.S. state, after Nevada, to ban AI applications that administer psychotherapy.

AI companies that aspire to compete with Google in search and other information-retrieval applications got a boost from the United States government.

Meta and OpenAI promised to place more controls on their chatbots’ conversations with children and teenagers, as worrisome interactions with minors come under increasing scrutiny.

India, which has limited funding and large numbers of languages and dialects, is redoubling its efforts to build native large language models.

Nvidia will resume sales of H20 processors in China.

President Trump set forth principles of an aggressive national AI policy, and he moved to implement them through an action plan and executive orders.

The European Union published guidelines to help builders of AI models to comply with the AI Act, which wasenacted last year.

A committee convened by California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed principles intended to balance AI innovation with careful governance. The group sought to rethink AI regulation after Newsom vetoed earlier proposed legislation.