OpenAI says ChatGPT will now avoid em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI
Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules The Economic Times : OpenAI fixes ChatGPT's em dash problem; ‘small-but-happy-win’ says Sam Altman Kahekashan / The Hans India ...
Sam Altman says OpenAI doesn't want government guarantees for data centers and expects to fund investments with revenues hitting “hundreds of billions by 2030”
company continues to lobby for financial support from the industry Victor Tangermann / Futurism : Trump Admin Says It's Not Bailing Out the AI Industry Regardless of How Hard It Crashes Arsheeya Bajwa...
OpenAI says it will work with SAG-AFTRA, CAA, UTA, and others to crack down on Sora 2 deepfakes, following concerns from actor Bryan Cranston and SAG-AFTRA
here's everything you need to know The Indian Express : OpenAI strengthens guardrails in Sora 2 after actor Bryan Cranston expresses concerns over deepfakes Sian Cain / The Guardian : Bryan Cranston t...
Nathan Calvin, general counsel of AI safety nonprofit Encode, says OpenAI used intimidation tactics to undermine California's SB 53 while it was being debated
one which buried that the recipient, the GC of a company who Amicus-ed us, received a broad subpoena with advance notice— was not the way. @lessig : This is awful. Aggressive lawyering is always a bad...
GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI
and he's not alone Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder : GPT-5 is here and Gary Marcus is not impressed Laura Varley / Silicon Republic : Altman admits GPT-5 currently ‘way dumber’ amid rough roll-out ...
METR study: experienced open-source developers using Cursor, Claude, and other AI tools were 19% slower to complete tasks, despite thinking they were 20% faster
Devs estimated time saved with AI before & after each task, while screen recording to measured real-world AI productivity gains. @shimminykricket : A randomized controlled study found that Gen AI actu...
A look at seven rebuttals to Apple's paper on limitations of Large Reasoning Models, and why none make a compelling case
‘superintelligence’ or the ‘illusion of thinking’? arXiv.org e-Print archive : Comment on The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Prob...
Elon Musk blames a “massive cyberattack” with “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” for a series of outages on X on March 10
Outages have been preventing X feeds from loading across web … Jonathan Greig / The Record : Musk blames X outages on alleged ‘massive’ cyberattack Newsweek : Dark Storm Team Claims DDoS Attack on X, ...
The Los Angeles Times removes Particle's AI-powered “Insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan, just a day after its debut
Welcome to Cautious Optimism, a newsletter on tech, business, and power. Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian : The LA Times' AI ‘bias meter’ looks like a bid to please Donald Trump Shelly Palmer : The LA...
Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits
China is pulling the same trick. — www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, given OpenAI's found...