Investors led by Elon Musk make an unsolicited $97.4B bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating Sam Altman's plans to convert to a for-profit
Unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman's plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company — A consortium of investors led …
Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Michael Dell, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech leaders congratulate Trump on his election victory
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Anil Dash / @anildash : Absolutely pathetic behavior. He said he was going to throw you in prison and you still can't help sucking up to a fascist....
Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and more quietly courted Trump before the election, laying the groundwork for improved Silicon Valley and DC relations
The executives of tech's biggest companies largely ignored Donald Trump before the 2016 election. This time around, they're far more friendly.
OpenAI's CFO: ChatGPT has 250M weekly active users, converts free users to paid at a 5% to 6% rate, and ~75% of OpenAI's revenue is from consumer subscriptions
Bloomberg :
Source: OpenAI plans to launch its next flagship model, codenamed Orion, by December, rolling it out in phases starting with the company's trusted partners
OpenAI plans to launch Orion, its next frontier model, by December, The Verge has learned. — Unlike the release of OpenAI's last two models …
OpenAI hires former White House official Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji as its first chief economist to research how AI will impact economic growth and job creation
Aaron Chatterji was chief economist at the Commerce Department under President Biden and served on President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
Sam Altman's Worldcoin rebrands as World, unveils a new Orb powered by Nvidia's Jetson chipset, plans to integrate its ID verification into other software, more
and Will Come Right to Your Door Kate Irwin / PCMag : Sam Altman's Worldcoin Launches ‘Deep Face,’ New Eye-Scanning Orb World on YouTube : Keynote: a new world — Join Worldcoin c...
Sam Altman's Worldcoin rebrands as World, unveils a new Orb powered by Nvidia's Jetson chipset, plans to integrate its ID verification into other software, more
and Will Come Right to Your Door Kate Irwin / PCMag : Sam Altman's Worldcoin Launches ‘Deep Face,’ New Eye-Scanning Orb World on YouTube : Keynote: a new world — Join Worldcoin c...
A review of Character.AI finds several instances of AI personas being created without a person's consent, seemingly violating the company's terms of service
Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.
A look at the promise of AI agents as a way for companies to monetize models; PitchBook: AI agent startups raised $8.2B over the last 12 months, up 81.4% YoY
Humans have automated tasks for centuries. Now, AI companies see a path to profit in harnessing our love of efficiency, and they've got a name for their solution: agents. Threads:...
Some Threads and Instagram users say their accounts are being deleted or restricted due to moderation failures; Adam Mosseri says he's “looking into it”
On Threads, the topic of “Threads Moderation Failures” is trending. Some users complain their accounts are being deleted …
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she is leaving the company after 6.5 years “because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration”
- OpenAI's board is considering plans to restructure the firm to a for-profit business … OpenAI's board is considering plans …
OpenAI says Sam Altman will no longer serve on its board's safety and security committee, which will now be fully composed of independent board members
Ina Fried / Axios :
OpenAI releases o1, the first of its rumored reasoning-focused Strawberry models, in preview, alongside a smaller o1-mini, for ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers
Advancing cost-efficient reasoning. — Contributions Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET : OpenAI trained its new o1 AI models to think before they speak - how to access them Ethan Mollick / On...
OpenAI's o1 models aren't as simple as the next step up from GPT-4o as they introduce major cost and performance trade-offs in exchange for improved “reasoning”
OpenAI released two major new preview models today: o1-preview and o1-mini (that mini one is also a preview …
Vox Media says its annual Code Conference has been put on hold, calling it a “strong franchise” but declining to share further information about its future
A Look Inside the Books Threads: Kylie Robison / @kylie.robison : i love code sooooo much — the first time i traveled for a work trip was to go to code in 2022! cant wait for when...
OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, a GPT-4-powered search tool that can organize links and summarize its findings, limited to 10K users but eventually coming to ChatGPT
Whenever AI companies present a vision for the role of artificial intelligence … Greg Noone / Tech Monitor : OpenAI announces AI search engine SearchGPT Samantha Dunn / CCN.com : S...
Microsoft estimates that CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5M Windows devices, or less than 1% of all Windows machines
On July 18, CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity company, released a software update that began impacting IT systems globally. Although this was not a Microsoft incident …
The Atlantic and Vox Media sign multiyear licensing and product deals with OpenAI; The Atlantic plans an experimental Atlantic Labs with OpenAI's and other tech
- The Atlantic has been publishing content since 1857. … - Both agreements also allow OpenAI to tap into the respective …