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The United States Copyright Office determined that existing laws are sufficient to decide whether a given AI-generated work is protected by copyright, making additional legislation unnecessary.

A United States court delivered a major ruling that begins to answer the question whether, and under what conditions, training an AI system on copyrighted material is considered fair use that doesn’t require permission.

Most models that have learned to reason via reinforcement learning were huge models. A much smaller model now competes with them.

Amazon announced Alexa+, a major upgrade to its long-running voice assistant.

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet implements a hybrid reasoning approach that lets users decide how much thinking they want the model to do before it renders a response.

OpenAI launched GPT-4.5, which may be its last non-reasoning model.

Top AI companies announced plans to dramatically ramp up their spending on AI infrastructure.

The latest international AI summit exposed deep divisions between major world powers regarding AI regulations.

Elon Musk and a group of investors made an unsolicited bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating the AI powerhouse’s future plans.

Replit, an AI-driven integrated development environment, updated its mobile app to generate further mobile apps to order.

xAI’s new model family suggests that devoting more computation to training remains a viable path to building more capable AI.

Google revised its AI principles, reversing previous commitments to avoid work on weapons, surveillance, and other military applications beyond non-lethal uses like communications, logistics, and medicine.

OpenAI introduced a successor to its o1 models that’s faster, less expensive, and especially strong in coding, math, and science.

Under a new president, the United States reversed its approach to AI regulation, seeking global dominance by reducing restrictions.

OpenAI introduced an AI agent that performs simple web tasks on a user’s behalf.