Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI cracked when it hired Mustafa Suleyman, rival Marc Benioff says

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was literally chuckling when talking to CNBC from Davos about the new…

This Week in AI: OpenAI gains an invaluable infrastructure advantage

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Elon Musk and Sam Altman take to social media to fight over Stargate

Billionaire Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate, the enormous…

Microsoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider

Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run…

OpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center project

OpenAI says that it will team up with Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, along with…

UK plans ‘digital wallet’ for driver’s licenses and other ID, plus a chatbot powered by OpenAI

Alongside its big public push for AI investments, the U.K. government is also playing a virtual…

OpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing release

OpenAI may be close to releasing an AI tool that can take control of your PC…

AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAI

An organization developing math benchmarks for AI didn’t disclose that it had received funding from OpenAI…

The Pentagon says AI is speeding up its ‘kill chain’

Leading AI developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are threading a delicate needle to sell software…

FTC says partnerships like Microsoft-OpenAI raise antitrust concerns

The Federal Trade Commission said in a staff report issued Friday that there are potential competitive…

ChatGPT’s head of product will testify in the US government’s case against Google

The U.S. government wants to prove that Google’s competitors face overwhelming barriers to entry as part…

OpenAI is trying to extend human life, with help from a longevity startup

OpenAI says it trained a new AI model called GPT-4b micro with Retro Biosciences, a longevity…

Despite VCs investing $75B in Q4 , it’s still hard for startups to raise money, data proves

After two years of relatively muted investment activity, it seems that VCs are starting to pour…

More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faults

Younger Gen Zers are embracing OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, for schoolwork, according to a new survey…

OpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new markets

OpenAI is getting into the local news game. Newsletter-based media organization Axios announced a partnership with…

OpenAI tests phone number-only ChatGPT signups

OpenAI has begun testing a feature that lets new ChatGPT users sign up with only a…

Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November…

OpenAI appoints BlackRock exec to its board

OpenAI has appointed an executive at investment firm BlackRock to its board of directors. Adebayo “Bayo”…

ChatGPT now lets you schedule reminders and recurring tasks

Paying users of OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now ask the AI assistant to schedule reminders or recurring…

OpenAI quietly revises policy doc to remove reference to ‘politically unbiased’ AI

OpenAI has quietly removed language endorsing “politically unbiased” AI from one of its recently published policy…

OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why

Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon.…

OpenAI presents its preferred version of AI regulation in a new ‘blueprint’

OpenAI on Monday published what it’s calling an “economic blueprint” for AI: a living document that…