Hands strum a guitar covered in labels from major record companies, symbolizing AI music innovation.
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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.
White Waymo vehicle near water, city skyline visible; displays autonomous service for urban freeways.
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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.
A megaphone emits a colorful stream of 3D words spelling "Hype", symbolizing the AI hype discussed in the article.
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Don't Believe The Hype!: AGI is not just around the corner. People who enter AI today have huge opportunities to contribute to the field.

I recently received an email titled “An 18-year-old’s dilemma: Too late to contribute to AI?” Its author, who gave me permission to share this, is preparing for college.
AI models are compared on a graph showing benchmark accuracy from 20% to 100%, highlighting GPT-5's rise.
Tech & Society

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.
Icon of silhouettes of kids with a ban symbol, indicating limited chatbot use by teens.
Tech & Society

Toward Safer (and Sexier) Chatbots: Inside Character AI and OpenAI’s policy changes to protect younger and vulnerable Users

Chatbot providers, facing criticism for engaging troubled users in conversations that deepen their distress, are updating their services to provide wholesome interactions to younger users while allowing adults to pursue erotic conversations.
Universal Music logo paired with Udio, highlighting their new AI music generation venture.
Tech & Society

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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Tech & Society

Autonomous Systems Wage War: Drones are redefining warfare. What if humans lose control?

Drones are becoming the deadliest weapons in today’s war zones, and they’re not just following orders. Should AI decide who lives or dies?
A rabbit leads a viking-costumed person into a hole, holding a bag of toys, against a forest backdrop.
Tech & Society

Chatbots Lead Users Into Rabbit Holes: When paranoia, delusions, and other signs of mental illness meet AI

Conversations with chatbots are loosening users’ grips on reality, fueling the sorts of delusions that can trigger episodes of severe mental illness. Are AI models driving us insane?
Official letterhead displays Governor Newsom's signature on AI regulation bill establishing state oversight.
Tech & Society

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.
Icons for files, pictures, and shopping connect through nodes to a dollar sign, illustrating AI-driven profit pathways.
Tech & Society

OpenAI, Meta Diversify AI Product Lines: OpenAI and Meta launch social video apps while ChatGPT adds Pulse and Instant Checkout

OpenAI and Meta, which have been content to offer standalone chatbots or tuck them into existing products, introduced dueling social video networks and other initiatives designed to boost revenue and engagement.
Robots with lighters attend a live concert, underlining AI's role in music creation and performance.
Tech & Society

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.
A large, blue semiconductor wafer with parallel lines is shown, symbolizing advanced chip technology.
Tech & Society

High Stakes in the U.S.-China AI Chip Race: China’s decision to use domestic AI chips instead of buying from Nvidia signals progress — and newfound confidence — in its own semiconductor industry.

Last week, China barred its major tech companies from buying Nvidia chips.
FanDuel mobile app screens showing live betting odds and AI-powered sports wagering tools.
Tech & Society

Sports Betting Goes Agentic: Gambling sites roll out AI tools that predict wins and track bets for sports fans

AI agents are getting in on the action of online sports gambling.
Chart details ChatGPT conversations. Writing (28.1%), info-seeking (21.3%), and guidance (28.3%) lead.
Tech & Society

What ChatGPT Users Want: ChatGPT users now more likely to be young, female, and seeking info, study shows

What do ChatGPT’s 700 million weekly active users do with it? OpenAI teamed up with a Harvard economist to find out.
Swarms of military drones flying in formation over a field, showing autonomous AI-driven coordination in warfare.
Tech & Society

Drone Swarms Go to War: Ukraine experiments with small groups of low-contact, high-autonomy drones that strike on initiative

Swarms of drones that coordinate with one another autonomously have become a battlefield staple in Ukraine.
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