Letters from Andrew Ng

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.

Waymo became the first company to offer fully autonomous, driverless taxi service on freeways in the United States.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

Last week, China barred its major tech companies from buying Nvidia chips.

AI agents are getting in on the action of online sports gambling.

What do ChatGPT’s 700 million weekly active users do with it? OpenAI teamed up with a Harvard economist to find out.

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