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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.
Business
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.
Business
Agents Write Code Faster, Cheaper: Software developers used more versatile AI-powered tools to write code
Coding apps moved beyond autofill-style code completion to agentic systems that manage a wide range of software development tasks.
Business
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.
Business
Big AI Lures Talent With Huge Pay: Meta’s hiring spree raised compensation for top AI engineers and executives
Leading AI companies fought a ferocious war for talent, luring top talent from competitors with levels of compensation more commonly associated with pro sports.
Business
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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White House Orders AI for Science: Genesis Mission would share U.S. data and resources with top AI companies
President Trump launched a United States effort to use AI to speed up scientific breakthroughs.
Business
Generated, Editable Virtual Spaces: World Labs makes Marble world model public, adds Chisel editing tool
Models that generate 3D spaces typically generate them as users move through them without generating a persistent world to be explored later. A new model produces 3D worlds that can be exported and modified.
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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.
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Microsoft and Anthropic Form Alliance: Claude becomes the first leading language model available from all three cloud giants
Having recently revised its agreement with longtime partner OpenAI, Microsoft pledged to invest billions of dollars in Anthropic, one of OpenAI’s top competitors.
Business
Google Dominates Arena Leaderboards (For the Moment): Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro boast best-in-class multimodal reasoning and image generation
Google introduced Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro, its flagship vision-language and image-generation models, and deployed them to billions of users worldwide.
Business
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.
Business
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.
Business
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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