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Some of the world’s largest AI labs stand accused of quietly harvesting the world’s recorded music to teach their models how to sing, riff and mimic the voices and styles of living artists — and a newly public dossier compiled by the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) has...

President Trump’s Rose Garden dinner with a who’s‑who of Silicon Valley on September 4, 2025 crystallized a new chapter in industry‑government relations: tech executives publicly pledged vast U.S. investments and education initiatives while pressing for lighter regulatory touch on artificial...

Microsoft’s latest AI push — framed by Satya Nadella as an effort to “empower people” and spotlighted during a high-profile White House engagement on September 4, 2025 — signals a fresh phase in the company’s long-term strategy to marry cloud scale, developer tools, hardware, and public policy...

The Los Angeles Rams’ head coach Sean McVay is openly betting on artificial intelligence to shave seconds off decision-making windows and sharpen in-game adjustments, embracing a league‑wide rollout of Microsoft Copilot and Surface Copilot+ devices that the NFL says will put AI‑driven insights...

Microsoft’s message to founders is simple and forward‑looking: GPT‑5 is now part of Azure’s production stack, and Azure AI Foundry packages the model family, routing, safety controls and deployment plumbing startups need to move from experiment to revenue‑grade product quickly. The announcement...

OpenAI’s recent recalibration—from boardroom restructures to multi‑cloud infrastructure deals—marks a watershed for the AI economy: the company is no longer only a model-builder, it is shaping the infrastructure, commercial contracts, and governance norms that will determine who wins the next...

Microsoft’s Copilot is not just growing — it’s accelerating faster on mobile than many expected, and recent Comscore data shows that the shift is reshaping the consumer and enterprise AI landscape in ways that matter for Windows users, IT teams, and marketers alike. The numbers tell two...

Lyft CEO David Risher’s recent public praise for Oura Ring, Starbucks, and Microsoft lands at a moment when Microsoft itself has signaled a major strategic pivot — shipping its first in‑house MAI models and doubling down on an AI‑centric infrastructure plan that changes the calculus for Copilot...

OpenAI’s release of a public Realtime playbook and the general-availability launch of the gpt-realtime model marks a clear turning point: voice-first, low-latency agents demand a different prompt engineering toolkit than text-only models, and OpenAI’s guide distills that into practical rules...

Microsoft’s announcement that it has built and begun shipping two in‑house AI models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — is a decisive shift in its AI strategy: from being primarily a buyer and integrator of frontier models to becoming an active model developer and orchestrator. The move is...

Missouri’s attorney general has opened a formal probe into major AI developers after consumer-facing chatbots produced answers that his office says are unfairly critical of former President Donald Trump — a move that merges politics, consumer-protection law, and the messy realities of modern...

Microsoft’s move to ship MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview marks a clear strategic inflection: the company is no longer only a buyer and integrator of frontier models but a serious producer of first‑party models engineered to run inside Copilot and across Microsoft’s consumer surfaces. Microsoft...

Microsoft's Copilot has quietly received one of the most consequential behind-the-scenes upgrades since its rollout: the free tier now runs on OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo, bringing a much larger context window, a fresher knowledge base, and a set of performance fixes that address earlier complaints...

Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT have both pushed generative AI into everyday workflows, but they take markedly different approaches to features, ecosystem integration, pricing, and privacy — and those differences matter when deciding which assistant to use for research, creative work...

OpenAI and Microsoft are reconfiguring one of the tech industry's most consequential partnerships into something far more complicated than a simple supplier–customer relationship: what began as close collaboration is now a high-stakes, strategically fraught alliance where deep technical...

The death of Stein‑Erik Soelberg and his 83‑year‑old mother in their Old Greenwich home has become a stark, unsettling case study in how generative AI can intersect with human fragility — investigators say Soelberg killed his mother and then himself after months of confiding in ChatGPT, which he...

OpenAI’s GPT‑5 is not a simple story of triumph or collapse; it is a complex product moment where measurable technical gains collided with human expectations, sparking both applause from analysts and a loud user backlash that left the company revising defaults and restoring legacy options...

Microsoft’s new MAI models are the clearest signal yet that Copilot’s brain is shifting from being almost wholly powered by OpenAI to a hybrid architecture that increasingly routes routine, latency-sensitive, and cost-sensitive tasks to Microsoft’s own systems. The company announced two...

Microsoft has quietly shipped its first fully in‑house AI models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a deliberate shift in strategy that reduces dependence on OpenAI’s stack and accelerates Microsoft’s plan to own more of the compute, models, and product surface area that power Copilot...

OpenAI’s plan to add parental oversight features to ChatGPT is the company’s most far‑reaching safety response yet to concerns about young people using conversational AI as an emotional crutch — a shift that pairs technical changes (stronger content filters, crisis detection and one‑click...