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AI Giants Vie for Healthcare Dollars: OpenAI and Anthropic release new chatbots targeting medical and wellness markets

OpenAI and Anthropic staked claims in the lucrative healthcare market, each company playing to its strengths by targeting different audiences.
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Undressed Images Spur Regulators: X rolls back Grok’s “spicy” image generation on the platform after global outrage

Governments worldwide sounded alarms after xAI’s Grok chatbot generated tens of thousands of sexualized images of girls and women without their consent.
Juan M. Lavista Ferres is pictured holding a laptop while students watch a video about AI on a screen, linking education and technology.
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Education That Works With — Not Against — AI by Juan M. Lavista Ferres: Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chief Data Scientist at Microsoft, on assignments that properly test students’ abilities

A little more than three years ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, and education changed forever. For students, the ability to generate fluent, credible text on demand in seconds is an incredible new tool.
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Open Source Wins by David Cox: David Cox, VP for AI Models at IBM Research, on the need for open development in AI

My hope is that open AI continues to flourish and ultimately wins.
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China’s AI Chip Industry Takes Root: China banned GPUs and TPUs from U.S. manufacturers to promote domestic chips

The United States government’s effort to deprive China of AI computing power backfired as China turned the tables and banned U.S.-designed chips.
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Data-Center Buildout Goes Big: AI’s growth spurred infrastructure investment worldwide

Top AI companies announced plans to build data centers that are projected to burn through trillions of dollars and gigawatts of electricity in the next few years.
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Disney Teams Up With OpenAI: OpenAI’s Sora video generator will include Disney characters, with fan videos on Disney+

Disney, the entertainment conglomerate that owns Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm and its own animated classics from 101 Dalmatians to Zootopia, licensed OpenAI to use its characters in generated videos.
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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.
AI models are compared on a graph showing benchmark accuracy from 20% to 100%, highlighting GPT-5's rise.
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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.
Universal Music logo paired with Udio, highlighting their new AI music generation venture.
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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.
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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?
Official letterhead displays Governor Newsom's signature on AI regulation bill establishing state oversight.
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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.
Robots with lighters attend a live concert, underlining AI's role in music creation and performance.
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Generating Music, Paying Musicians: Sweden’s STIM built an ecosystem for training AI models on copyrighted music and compensating original artists

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.
US map showing Nevada and Illinois highlighted in red, marking states that banned AI-driven mental health treatments.
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States Ban AI-Driven Treatments for Mental Health: Illinois follows Nevada, prohibiting certain uses of chatbots unless used by licensed therapists

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