Sam Altman officially returns to OpenAI as Microsoft finally joins board

Sam Altman, one of the founders of OpenAI, has officially returned to office as the firm’s CEO, ending a whirlwind few weeks caused by his abrupt and unexpected temporary departure. Addressing OpenAI employees in a company memo made public on Nov. 29, Altman confirmed that ...

Vitalik Buterin: AI may surpass humans as the ‘apex species’

Super-advanced artificial intelligence, left unchecked, has a “serious chance” of surpassing humans to become the next “apex species” of the planet, according Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. But that will boil down to how humans potentially intervene with AI de ...

OpenAI and Microsoft sued over alleged unauthorized use of authors’ work

OpenAI and Microsoft are facing a lawsuit alleging the improper use of nonfiction authors’ work to train AI models, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT service. Author and reporter Julian Sancton sued the companies on Nov. 21. According to Sancton, OpenAI allegedly utilized tens of thousands o ...

Microsoft, Salesforce, and Nvidia swoop in to hire OpenAI employees as walkout threats increase

OpenAI’s decision to fire CEO Sam Altman may have put the company’s future in jeopardy. Reportedly, a lion’s share of its employees have threatened to walkout unless the ousting is reversed. Complicating matters further, a number of executives from big tech orgnaniza ...

OpenAI seeks to diffuse internal tensions after Altman departure: Report

OpenAI executives are trying to smooth out internal discord after the abrupt termination of former CEO and co-founder Sam Altman and others through “intense discussions,” according to a Bloomberg report. An internal memo from OpenAI vice president of global affairs Anna Ma ...

Microsoft and Nvidia stocks reach all-time highs amid OpenAI CEO shuffle

Microsoft (MSFT) stocks hit an all-time high of $378.81 on Nov. 20 on the back of a tumultuous weekend for the AI sector involving the ousting of OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman. Not to be outdone, Nvidia (NVDA) stocks also reached an all-time high of $499.60, continuing a trend that’s ...

Who is the new OpenAI CEO Emmet Shear?

The Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI had a major shift in leadership over the weekend after its board of directors abruptly ousted former CEO and co-founder Sam Altman on Nov. 17. In the days following the board received pressure to reinstate Altman as CEO ...

Microsoft hires Sam Altman, Greg Brockman after departure from OpenAI

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on X, stating that the company is hiring both former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman.On Nov. 20, Nadella posted that he is “extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will ...

A timeline of Sam Altman’s outing from OpenAI

The tech world reeled and Altman’s colleagues rallied to his side, with then-OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman announcing his own resignation. With enormous public backlash from shareholders and employees, the board of directors is holding talks to possibly reinstate Altman. ...

Who is Mira Murati, OpenAI’s interim CEO?

OpenAI’s board of directors ousted founder Sam Altman on Nov. 17, shocking the technology world, while appointing Mira Murati as its interim CEO. Since then, the board has been facing strong criticism from the startup major clients and investors. According to a Bloomberg report, ...

OpenAI investors push for Sam Altman’s return as CEO: Report

The board of directors at OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, are reportedly receiving criticism from investors for the decision to terminate its CEO Sam Altman.According to a November 19 Bloomberg report, citing people familiar with the matter, investors of OpenAI are reportedly in contact ...

OpenAI’s crisis escalates as more staff resign after CEO removal: Report

The turmoil at OpenAI continues to escalate after its founder Sam Altman was abruptly ousted on Nov. 17, with three senior researchers reportedly quitting the artificial intelligence company.OpenAI’s board of directors announced Altman's removal from the CEO position in a blog post, ...

Sam Altman ousted from OpenAI, CTO Mira Murati named interim CEO

ChatGPT developer OpenAI has removed founder Sam Altman from its CEO position, according to a November 17 blog post. Chief technology officer Mira Murati will be promoted to interim CEO. According to the post, the Board of Directors engaged in a “deliberative review process,” which re ...

Microsoft Maia AI chip ‘last puzzle piece’ for infrastructure systems

The Big Tech giant Microsoft announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence (AI) chip, the Microsoft Azure Maia AI Accelerator, according to a blog post on Nov. 15. The chip is designed for AI tasks and generative AI and debuted alongside the Microsoft Azure Cobalt CPU, which w ...

OpenAI halts new ChatGPT Plus sign-ups amid high demand

OpenAI, the company behind the popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT, said it has put on hold new signups for the premium version of the AI tool, ChatGPT Plus, due to a high surge in usage after DevDay.The company’s CEO, Sam Altman, announced this via a post on the X p ...

Google sues scammers over creation of fake Bard AI chatbot

Google has filed a lawsuit against three scammers for creating fake advertisements for updates to Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Bard, among other things, which, when downloaded, installs malware.The lawsuit was filed on Nov. 13 and names the defendants as “DOES 1-3,” as the ...

Elon slings AI-generated insults at GPT-4 after OpenAI’s CEO mocks Grok

The launch of Elon Musk’s new “Grok” artificial intelligence (AI) system may not have made waves throughout the machine learning community or directly threatened the status quo, but it’s certainly drawn the attention of Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI.  ...

OpenAI and Microsoft partner with Humane on wearable AI pin

The artificial intelligence (AI) startup Humane released a physical device on Nov. 10 that serves as a wearable AI virtual assistant. The AI Pin is a lapel pin-style device that the user wears and taps to speak with a virtual AI-powered assistant. It is equipped with technology from O ...

Biden AI executive order ‘certainly challenging’ for open-source AI — industry insiders

Last week the administration of United States President Joe Biden issued a lengthy executive order intended to protect citizens, government agencies and companies through ensuring AI safety standards. The order established six new standards for AI safety and security, along with ...

OpenAI promises to fund legal costs for ChatGPT users sued over copyright

OpenAI says it will cover the legal costs for business-tier ChatGPT users that find themselves in hot water over copyright infringement.OpenAI is calling its pledge Copyright Shield which only covers users of its business-tier ChatGPT Enterprise and its developer platform. OpenAI isn’t cov ...

ChatGPT launches new feature that lets subscribers make their own GPTs

Artificial intelligence (AI) system ChatGPT now allows users to create their own generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs), according to a November 6 blog post from developer Open AI. This means that users can now create custom ChatGPT apps that handle a variety of tasks, instead of needing to e ...

Elon Musk launches AI chatbot ‘Grok’ — says it can outperform ChatGPT

Elon Musk and his artificial intelligence startup xAI have released “Grok” — an AI chatbot which can supposedly outperform OpenAI’s first iteration of ChatGPT in several academic tests.The motivation behind building Gruk is to create AI tools equipped to assist huma ...

AI chatbots are illegally ripping off copyrighted news, says media group

Artificial intelligence developers heavily rely on illegally scraping copyrighted material from news publications and journalists to train their models, a news industry group has claimed.On Oct. 30, the News Media Alliance (NMA) published a 77-page white paper and accompanying submission t ...

Siemens and Microsoft partner to push AI adoption in industrial sectors

The German technology company Siemens has partnered with Microsoft and announced its new generative artificial intelligence (AI) -powered assistant the Siemens Industrial Copilot. On Oct. 31, the companies revealed the AI assistant to promote “human-machine collaboration” and enhance ...

Google to invest another $2B into AI firm Anthropic: Report

Google has doubled down on its artificial intelligence bets by investing another $2 billion into AI startup Anthropic, according to a new report.Google invested $500 million upfront into Anthropic, a rival to ChatGPT creators OpenAI, and will pay off the remaining $1.5 billion over time, a ...

ChatGPT creator OpenAI builds new team to check AI risks

OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) research and deployment firm behind ChatGPT, is launching a new initiative to assess a broad range of risks related to AI.OpenAI is building a new team dedicated to tracking, evaluating, forecasting and protecting potential catastrophic risks stemmin ...

Meta chief AI scientist says AI won’t threaten humans

The chief artificial intelligence (AI) scientist at Meta has spoken out, reportedly saying that worries over the existential risks of the technology are still “premature,” according to a Financial Times interview. On Oct. 19 the FT quotes Yann LeCun as saying the premature regulation ...

OpenAI partners with G42 in Dubai eyeing Middle East expansion

OpenAI, the maker of popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT, and Dubai-based technology holding group G42 announced a new partnership on Oct. 18 to expand AI capabilities in the Middle East region. The two companies plan to leverage OpenAI’s generative AI models in secto ...

US expands export controls for AI semiconductor chips to China

The United States Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released a notice on Oct. 17 expanding the already existing export controls of artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China. The BIS wrote that the newly released rules “reinforce” those put in place back ...

Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 AI system, says overall performance ‘on par with ChatGPT’

Baidu, one of China’s largest technology companies, released version 4.0 of its popular “Ernie” artificial intelligence (AI) large language model (LLM) chatbot.According to an English language translation provided by Baidu, embedded in an X post alongside the usual Google ...

Over 200,000 Chileans Embrace Worldcoin’s World ID Amid Privacy Concerns

In a noteworthy development, Worldcoin (WLD) proudly announced on September 24 that more than 200,000 individuals in Chile have enrolled and successfully completed the verification process for its innovative World ID project. This remarkable feat reflects the growing traction of the digital identity ...

Game of Thrones Creator George R.R. Martin Joins Lawsuit Against OpenAI

Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin has joined a lawsuit against OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, along with 12 other authors and the Authors Guild. The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI used copyrighted works from these authors as training data for its language model, ChatGPT, without authorization ...

ChatGPT web traffic drops for third consecutive month in August

The popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, ChatGPT, has seen a decrease in user traffic worldwide for the third consecutive month this August, according to data from analytics company Simliarweb. In August, desktop and mobile site traffic to OpenAI’s popular chatbot from visito ...

Tencent unveils ChatGPT rival in China amid continuing US AI chip ban

Chinese technology corporation Tencent unveiled its “Hunyuan” artificial intelligence (AI) system, a multimodal large language model (LLM) similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, at the Global Digital Ecosystem Summit in Shenzhen on Aug. 7.  ...

OpenAI and Microsoft accused of stealing data to train ChatGPT in new class action suit

OpenAI and Microsoft have been named as the defendants in yet another class action lawsuit over their alleged use of web scraping techniques to obtain supposedly private data for the use of training ChatGPT and other associated artificial intelligence models. The most recent class act ...

AI-coded smart contracts may be flawed and ‘fail miserably’ when attacked: CertiK

Artificial intelligence tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT will create more problems, bugs and attack vectors if used to write smart contracts and build cryptocurrency projects, says an executive from blockchain security firm CertiK.Kang Li, CertiK’s chief security officer, explained to Cointe ...

Chinese tech-giant CEO says over 70 AI models have been released in China

The CEO of Chinese tech company Baidu, Robin Li, said on Sep. 5 that more than 70 artificial intelligence (AI) models have been released in the country, according to a report from Reuters. Li commented that the over 70 AI language models that have been released were created with over ...

The UK releases key ambitions for global AI summit

The United Kingdom released its five “ambitions” for its global artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit on Sep. 4, with a big focus on risks and policy to support the technology. The summit, which will take place on Nov. 1-2, is anticipated to unite thought leaders from around the ...

China’s Baidu and other tech companies release ChatGPT-like AI chatbots

Four China-based tech companies launched their own artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on Aug. 30 for public use after receiving approval from the Chinese government. Baidu, Baichuan Intelligent Technology, SenseTime and Zhipu AI all launched their chatbots less than two weeks after ...

US Copyright Office issues notice of inquiry on artificial intelligence

The United States Copyright Office issued an official request for comments and notice of inquiry on copyright and artificial intelligence (AI) in the Federal Register on Aug. 30. The Copyright Office issued a notice of inquiry in t ...

Cryptocurrency Interest Declines as AI Takes Center Stage

The last time such a downturn was followed by a bullish rally But now AI inquiries are growing in parallel And that means many investors are moving into a new field Cryptocurrencies have been of low interest among Google users lately. The number of su ...

Worldcoin’s Biometric Verification System Faces Scandal Amid Security Breach

This is how the country bypassed the regional blocking The service costs only about $30 Worldcoin is aware of the problem and has already taken certain steps to solve it In particular, the company has changed the user registration mechanism ...

Chinese Users Resort to Buying Biometric Data for Worldcoin Crypto Project

Chinese users, who are banned from registering with the Worldcoin crypto project, have resorted to buying biometric data from third parties from African countries in the hope of receiving bonuses after the project's launch. Sam Altman, who is also the CEO of OpenAI, is pr ...

Elon Musk Criticizes OpenAI’s Move to Commercial Model and Expresses Concerns over Control and Risks

He criticized the creator of ChatGPT And the project's plans to move to a commercial model Ion Musk harshly criticized OpenAI for its plans to abandon the nonprofit model. He emphasized his significant role in the creation of the startup. And he believes the o ...

Bitpanda Invests $10 Million in AI Division, OpenAI Launches Worldcoin Wallet

European cryptocurrency investment platform Bitpanda is going to invest $10 million to create a special division for developments in the field of artificial intelligence. Bitpanda said that investing into artificial intelligence is the "natural next step" in the company's ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Seeks $100 Million Funding for Worldcoin Cryptocurrency Project

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to raise about $100 million in funding for his Worldcoin cryptocurrency project. According to three people with knowledge of the deal, Sam Altman is in preliminary talks to raise the cash as he prepares to launch Worldcoin in the next few weeks. ...

Worldcoin, Co-founded by OpenAI CEO, Seeks to Raise $100 Million in Funding

The company plans to release its token later this year The firm previously unveiled a digital ID and World App OpenAI CEO and Worldcoin co-founder Sam Altman is in talks to raise an additional $100 million. This is the third major round of the company, launched i ...

ChatGPT-4: The Game-Changing Chatbot with Revolutionary Features

ChatGPT is a popular chatbot from OpenAI. Periodically, developers present new versions of the program based on artificial intelligence. Technology company Google has entered the AI development race, among others, with its chatbot Bard. Tech blogger Rowan Cheung thinks OpenAI shouldn't worry a ...

US Vice President Kamala Harris meets with leaders of AI development companies

It was attended by representatives from Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic The parties discussed "responsible innovation" and additional security measures It's interesting that Mark Zuckerberg was not invited to the meeting Yesterday, May 4, US V ...

Crypto.com Launches AI Initiative ‘Amy’ to Educate Users on Cryptocurrency Industry

The exchange is currently pilot testing Amy is only available to select users Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com unveiled its first artificial intelligence (AI) initiative called Amy. ...

OpenAI Receives $300M Funding from Venture Capital Firms and Microsoft Investment

The company is now valued at about $27-29 billion External investors now own more than 30% of OpenAI The OpenAI startup has received new funding of $300 million by selling shares. Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive and K2 Global and Fou ...

OpenAI’s CTO on Government Regulation of AI and AGI Development

CTO of the company was interviewed by reporters And answered important questions CTO of OpenAI Mira Murati was interviewed by the Associated Press.. He brought up an important topic - who should regulate AI and how this should happen. The expert believes that ...

Airbnb CEO criticizes companies chasing hype in crypto, metaverse, and AI

At a conference hosted by American bank Morgan Stanley, Brian Chesky, the CEO of Airbnb, shared his thoughts on companies that focus on cryptocurrencies, the metaverse, and artificial intelligence. Chesky criticized those who prioritize these trendy technologies solely for the sake of advertising ...