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The world’s biggest retailer by revenue revealed new details about its cloud- and model-agnostic AI application development platform.

Amazon revealed new details of its plan to build a constellation of massive data centers and connect them into an “ultracluster.” Customer Number One: Anthropic.

Meta hired the leadership of ScaleAI and put billions into the data-labeling startup to accelerate its AI efforts.

Apple revamped two vision-language models in a bid to catch up with fast-moving competitors.

OpenAI launched o3-pro, a more capable version of its most advanced reasoning vision-language model.

Hollywood studios joined the record companies, publishers, and artists in the fight against companies that have trained AI models on their copyrighted works.

Renowned investment analyst Mary Meeker is back with a report on the AI market, six years after publishing her last survey of the internet.

An independent AI test lab detailed the rising cost of benchmarking reasoning models.

AI is bringing a massive boost in productivity to Duolingo, maker of the most popular app for learning languages.

A study co-authored by tech-manual publisher Tim O’Reilly shows that OpenAI trained GPT-4o on parts of his company’s books that were not made freely available.

Google revamped its roster of models, closed and open, and added more AI-powered features to its existing products.

The United States government announced sweeping agreements to sell tens of billions of dollars worth of AI technology and services to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

An unauthorized update by an xAI employee caused the Grok chatbot to introduce South African politics into unrelated conversations, the company said.

OpenAI launched an agentic software-development system.

The European Union made an abrupt U-turn away from its stringent AI regulations. Meta promptly adjusted to the loosening restrictions.