SCRThe AI music startup Klay has secured licensing agreements with all three major record labels: Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group. Lucas Shaw reports for Bloomberg that Klay is the first AI music service to sign deals with all three. The company is building a streaming platform that will allow users to …
The nonprofit Common Crawl Foundation is supplying AI companies with copyrighted news articles scraped from behind paywalls, enabling firms like OpenAI and Google to train their large language models on high-quality journalism. The organization publicly states that it only collects freely available content. Alex Reisner reports for The Atlantic that this claim is false. According …
Google’s new image generator, officially named Gemini 3 Pro Image, fundamentally changes how AI creates visuals. Instead of immediately generating a result from a prompt, the model first enters a “Thinking Mode” to reason, critique, and correct its own plan. Stephen Smith writes in Intelligence by Intent that this new approach marks a significant shift. …
Researchers at Google have introduced a new AI paradigm called “Nested Learning” to address a major weakness in current large language models (LLMs). Ben Dickson reports for VentureBeat that this approach could enable AI systems to learn and update their knowledge continuously after their initial training. Today’s LLMs are largely static. Their knowledge is limited …
OpenAI has launched a new shopping research feature in ChatGPT to help users find products, compare items, and get gift ideas. The tool acts as a personal shopper, creating customized buying guides for free. Sabrina Ortiz reports for ZDNet that the feature is rolling out to all logged-in users on mobile and web. The assistant …
The AI company Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.5, its latest flagship model. The launch is accompanied by a significant price reduction, new product features, and performance claims that position it competitively against models from rivals like OpenAI and Google. According to Anthropic, Claude Opus 4.5 delivers state-of-the-art performance, particularly in software engineering and complex …
Microsoft is encountering significant pushback from security experts and users regarding its strategy of integrating advanced artificial intelligence into its Windows operating system. The criticism centers on a new experimental feature called Copilot Actions, which Microsoft itself has warned could expose users to malware and data theft. The company introduced Copilot Actions as a set …
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), a Seattle-based nonprofit research institute, has released Olmo 3, a new family of open-source language models. According to Ai2, the new models are designed to be competitive with other leading open models in performance and efficiency while offering a new level of transparency for developers and researchers. The key …
OpenAI has rolled out its group chat feature for ChatGPT to all users globally. This follows a successful test with a small number of people last week, as Juli Clover reports for 9to5Mac. The feature allows up to 20 people to collaborate with the AI chatbot in a single conversation. According to OpenAI, potential uses …
Google has launched a new image generation and editing model named Nano Banana Pro, officially called Gemini 3 Pro Image. The model is built on the company’s recently released Gemini 3 Pro large language model and introduces a range of new capabilities for creating and modifying images with a high degree of control and accuracy. …