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Microsoft disclosed its first equity investment in OpenAI, totaling $13 billion, indicating an evolution in their partnership. [ more ]

Fidelity invested $6.6 billion in OpenAI, valuing its stake at nearly $30 million. [ more ]

Mira Murati is starting her own AI company focused on proprietary models after leaving OpenAI. [ more ]

Microsoft and OpenAI are negotiating ownership stakes as OpenAI transitions from nonprofit to for-profit, complicating financial evaluations. [ more ]

OpenAI's financial instability and leadership changes have strained its partnership with Microsoft, signaling the challenges facing A.I. start-ups in seeking support from tech giants. [ more ]

OpenAI's high valuation raises concerns about its future success and competition in the AI sector. [ more ]

OpenAI has launched a search feature for ChatGPT to easily navigate conversation history. [ more ]

OpenAI's ChatGPT has significantly evolved and is embraced widely across major corporations, showcasing its impact on productivity and technology advancement. [ more ]

Turf wars at OpenAI have caused instability, leading to multiple leadership changes in key teams, particularly the post-training team. [ more ]

OpenAI released a beta version of its ChatGPT app for Windows, currently limited to paying subscribers. [ more ]

OpenAI's ChatGPT app enhances desktop user experience by integrating advanced AI capabilities and features, allowing multi-tasking and direct interactions on Windows. [ more ]

OpenAI's ChatGPT app for Windows is currently exclusive to paid users, enabling them to interact in a dedicated space with advanced reasoning features. [ more ]

OpenAI is designing its own AI chips to enhance competitiveness, collaborating with TSMC and Broadcom, while currently using AMD processors for model training. [ more ]

OpenAI is developing in-house chips to better manage AI computational demands and costs. [ more ]

OpenAI is developing custom silicon with Broadcom, targeting 2026 for production, and integrating AMD chips into Azure for current needs. [ more ]

OpenAI's Whisper tool frequently fabricates text, posing risks especially in healthcare despite warnings against its use in high-stakes environments. [ more ]

OpenAI's Whisper AI tool exhibits high rates of hallucination in transcriptions, posing risks of misinformation. [ more ]

OpenAI's Whisper tool may produce inaccurate medical transcripts, leading to potential risks in healthcare. [ more ]

Whisper, an OpenAI transcription tool, generates hallucinated text that can misrepresent user information and includes erroneous statements. [ more ]

The previously close relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI is now marked by increasing rivalry, as OpenAI aims to draw users away from Microsoft's offerings. [ more ]

OpenAI's Orion is set to launch by December, aimed at being a stronger successor to GPT-4. [ more ]

The Lenfest Institute launched a $10 million program to support AI innovation in U.S. local newsrooms, funded in partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft. [ more ]

Media outlets receive funding to explore AI tools for journalism.

Grants support hiring AI fellows to enhance newsroom capabilities. [ more ]

Microsoft is negotiating for significant equity in OpenAI as it shifts to a for-profit model. [ more ]

The Microsoft-OpenAI partnership is vital for AI development but is increasingly strained due to competitive pressures and internal conflicts. [ more ]

OpenAI is focusing on in-house AI chip design while using AMD chips for training models, moving away from Nvidia dependency. [ more ]

Nvidia's stock has surged 25% since September, nearing its all-time high, fueled by OpenAI's major funding and ongoing demand for AI computing. [ more ]

OpenAI's Whisper transcription tool has serious flaws, including generating false text, which poses risks in sensitive applications like healthcare. [ more ]

OpenAI's Whisper AI transcription tool shows major issues with accuracy, particularly in high-stakes environments like healthcare. [ more ]

The USPTO is enhancing trademark audit methods to ensure more accurate registrations.

A former OpenAI employee claims that ChatGPT's use of copyrighted materials may violate copyright laws. [ more ]

Former OpenAI researcher raises concerns over the company's alleged copyright violations in AI training, warning of significant dangers to the internet's business model. [ more ]

OpenAI will not release the Orion AI model this year, despite earlier news reports.

The company continues to develop other technologies and models, including GPT and reasoning models. [ more ]

OpenAI is set to release its new AI model, Orion, to select partners by December 2023, signaling a strategic change in rollout approach. [ more ]

OpenAI's Orion model will initially be restricted to select partners, diverging from past release strategies. [ more ]

OpenAI's shift to a for-profit structure has led to top management departures due to concerns over compromised long-term safety and research freedom. [ more ]

Miles Brundage is leaving OpenAI for greater research independence, reflecting concerns over organizational constraints and impartiality in AI policy.

The AGI Readiness team he led is being disbanded. [ more ]

OpenAI is unprepared for artificial general intelligence, according to departing senior adviser Miles Brundage. [ more ]

Geoffrey Hinton's Nobel Prize highlights his influential role in AI, particularly his recognition of student contributions and involvement in AI leadership transitions. [ more ]

OpenAI and other AI labs are not prepared for the eventual arrival of artificial general intelligence.

Brundage emphasizes the need for deliberate choices to ensure AI benefits humanity. [ more ]

AGI is envisioned as a tool for productivity and shared intelligence rather than a singular superintelligence. [ more ]

OpenAI and Microsoft are investing in AI tools for newsrooms to improve sustainability and operations with grants and fellowships. [ more ]

OpenAI's shift from nonprofit to capped-profit is a strategic response to escalating research costs. [ more ]

OpenAI hires a chief economist to bolster ambitious goals of AI transformation and competitive infrastructure development. [ more ]

News Corp accuses Perplexity of abusing intellectual property, contrasting it with OpenAI's principled stance on integrity and creativity. [ more ]

The AI market is valued at $9 trillion and is just beginning to be explored by enterprises. [ more ]

Dippy's new AI feature enhances role-play by revealing the reasoning behind characters' responses, fostering more engaging interactions. [ more ]

OpenAI is experiencing significant management turnover, impacting its strategic direction and operational structure during a critical period of commercialization. [ more ]

Dane Stuckey has joined OpenAI as CISO, focusing on security for compliance and user protection with the mission of developing safe AGI. [ more ]

Mira Murati is raising VC funding for an AI startup after leaving OpenAI, aiming for over $100 million in investment. [ more ]

AI is enabling animals in museums to share stories, influencing public perception.

OpenAI experiences turmoil following the CTO's sudden departure and internal employee shifts. [ more ]

OpenAI has pledged to use its patents defensively, but the commitment is vague and lacks enforceability. [ more ]

OpenAI's patent pledge is ambiguous, raising questions about its commitment to openness and innovation. [ more ]

Swarm empowers AI Agents to collaborate and execute complex tasks, but raises significant ethical and employment concerns. [ more ]

OpenAI is reassessing its corporate structure to balance nonprofit commitments and for-profit operations amidst potential regulatory scrutiny. [ more ]

OpenAI introduced a Real-Time API for instant voice interactions, enhancing functionality for virtual assistants and real-time translation. [ more ]

OpenAI is considering restructuring as a for-profit entity to protect leadership and maintain societal responsibilities. [ more ]

GoldenJackal demonstrates that air-gapped systems can be compromised via infected USB drives, signaling new threats to high-security environments. [ more ]

OpenAI is actively combating the misuse of its AI technologies by foreign actors looking to influence political outcomes. [ more ]

OpenAI has disrupted multiple attempts to misuse its models for disinformation and election manipulation, but most efforts have proven largely ineffective. [ more ]

OpenAI has disrupted over 20 operations globally that misused its platform for malicious purposes, including fake profiles and malware. [ more ]

OpenAI disrupted a spear-phishing campaign targeting its employees orchestrated by a China-based group called SweetSpecter. [ more ]

The research highlights the capacity of Azure OpenAI Service to generate vast amounts of synthetic multilingual data.

Despite minor deviations in output quality from GPT-35-Turbo, the generated synthetic data proved beneficial for model training. [ more ]

OpenAI's Canvas feature harnesses synthetic data to enhance user interactions with its chatbot, demonstrating the growing importance of synthetic data in AI development. [ more ]