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What does Big Tech hope to gain from warming up to Trump?
Read full article: What does Big Tech hope to gain from warming up to Trump?In a string of visits, dinners, calls, monetary pledges and social media overtures, big tech chiefs have joined a parade of business and world leaders in trying to improve their standing with President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office in January.
Trump hosts Apple CEO at Mar-a-Lago as big tech leaders continue outreach to president-elect
Read full article: Trump hosts Apple CEO at Mar-a-Lago as big tech leaders continue outreach to president-electDonald Trump is hosting Apple CEO Tim Cook for a Friday evening dinner at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
OpenAI's legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI 'dictatorship'
Read full article: OpenAI's legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI 'dictatorship'A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and best avoid an artificial intelligence ‘dictatorship’ is now heading to a federal judge as Musk seeks to halt the ChatGPT maker’s ongoing conversion into a for-profit company.
OpenAI's Altman will donate $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund
Read full article: OpenAI's Altman will donate $1 million to Trump's inaugural fundOpenAI CEO Sam Altman is planning to make a $1 million personal donation to President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, joining a number of tech companies and executives who are working to improve their relationships the incoming administration.
OpenAI's Sam Altman 'not that worried' about rival Elon Musk's influence in the Trump administration
Read full article: OpenAI's Sam Altman 'not that worried' about rival Elon Musk's influence in the Trump administrationOpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who is locked in a legal dispute with rival Elon Musk, said said he is “not that worried” about Musk’s influence in the incoming Trump administration.
Changing OpenAI's nonprofit structure would raise questions about its future
Read full article: Changing OpenAI's nonprofit structure would raise questions about its futureThe artificial intelligence maker OpenAI may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded to $157 billion.
Documents show OpenAI's long journey from nonprofit to $157B valued company
Read full article: Documents show OpenAI's long journey from nonprofit to $157B valued companyBack in 2016, the artificial intelligence maker OpenAI had just incorporated as a nonprofit and applied to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status.
AI is having its Nobel moment. Do scientists need the tech industry to sustain it?
Read full article: AI is having its Nobel moment. Do scientists need the tech industry to sustain it?Hours after the artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize in physics, he drove a rented car to Google’s California headquarters to celebrate.
ChatGPT maker OpenAI raises $6.6 billion in fresh funding as it moves away from its nonprofit roots
Read full article: ChatGPT maker OpenAI raises $6.6 billion in fresh funding as it moves away from its nonprofit rootsOpenAI says it has raised $6.6 billion in venture capital investments as part of a broader shift by the ChatGPT maker away from its nonprofit roots.
OpenAI looks to shift away from nonprofit roots and convert itself to for-profit company
Read full article: OpenAI looks to shift away from nonprofit roots and convert itself to for-profit companyOpenAI’s history as a nonprofit research institute that also sells commercial products like ChatGPT may be coming to an end as the San Francisco company looks to more fully convert itself into a for-profit corporation accountable to shareholders.
OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and 2 other execs are leaving the ChatGPT maker
Read full article: OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and 2 other execs are leaving the ChatGPT makerA high-ranking executive at OpenAI who served a few days as its interim CEO during a period of turmoil last year says she’s leaving the artificial intelligence company.
Elon Musk sues OpenAI, renewing claims ChatGPT-maker put profits before 'the benefit of humanity'
Read full article: Elon Musk sues OpenAI, renewing claims ChatGPT-maker put profits before 'the benefit of humanity'Elon Musk has filed a second lawsuit against OpenAI and two founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.
Microsoft quits OpenAI board seat as antitrust scrutiny of artificial intelligence pacts intensifies
Read full article: Microsoft quits OpenAI board seat as antitrust scrutiny of artificial intelligence pacts intensifiesMicrosoft has relinquished its seat on the board of OpenAI, saying its participation is no longer needed because the ChatGPT maker has improved its governance since being roiled by boardroom chaos last year.
OpenAI co-founder Sutskever sets up new AI company devoted to 'safe superintelligence'
Read full article: OpenAI co-founder Sutskever sets up new AI company devoted to 'safe superintelligence'One of the founders of OpenAI who was involved in a failed effort to push out CEO Sam Altman says he’s starting a safety-focused artificial intelligence company.
OpenAI appoints former top US cyberwarrior Paul Nakasone to its board of directors
Read full article: OpenAI appoints former top US cyberwarrior Paul Nakasone to its board of directorsOpenAI has appointed a former top U_S_ cyberwarrior and intelligence official to its board of directors, saying he will help protect the ChatGPT maker from “increasingly sophisticated bad actors.”.
AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text
Read full article: AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written textArtificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter — the tens of trillions of words that people have written and shared online.
OpenAI's Altman sidesteps questions about governance, Johansson at UN AI summit
Read full article: OpenAI's Altman sidesteps questions about governance, Johansson at UN AI summitOpenAI CEO Sam Altman was a star speaker at the annual AI for Good conference Thursday, addressing the U.N. telecommunications agency’s annual gathering about how to tap the societal promise of artificial intelligence technology.
OpenAI forms safety committee as it starts training latest artificial intelligence model
Read full article: OpenAI forms safety committee as it starts training latest artificial intelligence modelOpenAI says it’s setting up a new safety and security committee and has begun training a new artificial intelligence model to supplant the GPT-4 system that underpins its ChatGPT chatbot.
Scarlett Johansson says a ChatGPT voice is 'eerily similar' to hers and OpenAI is halting its use
Read full article: Scarlett Johansson says a ChatGPT voice is 'eerily similar' to hers and OpenAI is halting its useOpenAI says it plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices that “Her” actor Scarlett Johansson says sounds “eerily similar" to her own.
A former OpenAI leader says safety has 'taken a backseat to shiny products' at the AI company
Read full article: A former OpenAI leader says safety has 'taken a backseat to shiny products' at the AI companyA former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company earlier this week says that product safety has “taken a backseat to shiny products” at the influential artificial intelligence company.
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announces departure from ChatGPT maker
Read full article: OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announces departure from ChatGPT makerOne of the original creators of the artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT says he is leaving the company after a nearly decade.
Tech CEOs Altman, Nadella, Pichai and others join government AI safety board led by DHS' Mayorkas
Read full article: Tech CEOs Altman, Nadella, Pichai and others join government AI safety board led by DHS' MayorkasThe CEOs of leading U_S_ technology companies are joining a new artificial intelligence safety board to advise the federal government on how to protect the nation’s critical services from “AI-related disruptions.”.
Reddit, the self-anointed 'front page of the internet,' soars in Wall Street debut
Read full article: Reddit, the self-anointed 'front page of the internet,' soars in Wall Street debutReddit soared in its Wall Street debut as investors pushed the value of the company close to $9 billion seconds after it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
Europe's world-first AI rules get final approval from lawmakers. Here's what happens next
Read full article: Europe's world-first AI rules get final approval from lawmakers. Here's what happens nextEuropean Union lawmakers have given final approval to the 27-nation bloc’s artificial intelligence law.
OpenAI has 'full confidence' in CEO Sam Altman after investigation, reinstates him to board
Read full article: OpenAI has 'full confidence' in CEO Sam Altman after investigation, reinstates him to boardOpenAI is reinstating CEO Sam Altman to its board of directors and said it has “full confidence” in his leadership after the conclusion of an outside investigation into the company’s turmoil.
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming betrayal of its goal to benefit humanity
Read full article: Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming betrayal of its goal to benefit humanityElon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits.
'Burn Book' torches tech titans in veteran reporter's tale of love and loathing in Silicon Valley
Read full article: 'Burn Book' torches tech titans in veteran reporter's tale of love and loathing in Silicon ValleyTechnology is so pervasive and invasive that it’s polarizing people, producing feelings of love and loathing for its devices, online services and the would-be visionaries behind them.
CEOs of OpenAI and Intel cite artificial intelligence's voracious appetite for processing power
Read full article: CEOs of OpenAI and Intel cite artificial intelligence's voracious appetite for processing powerTwo tech CEOs scrambling to produce more of the sophisticated chips needed for artificial intelligence have met for a brainstorming session while the market’s early leader reported another quarter of eye-popping growth.
OpenAI CEO warns that 'societal misalignments' could make artificial intelligence dangerous
Read full article: OpenAI CEO warns that 'societal misalignments' could make artificial intelligence dangerousThe CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says that the dangers that keep him awake at night regarding artificial intelligence are the “very subtle societal misalignments” that could make the systems wreck havoc.
AI is the buzz, the big opportunity and the risk to watch among the Davos glitterati
Read full article: AI is the buzz, the big opportunity and the risk to watch among the Davos glitteratiArtificial intelligence is easily the biggest buzzword for world leaders and corporate bosses diving into big ideas at the World Economic Forum’s glitzy annual meeting in Davos.
Here’s how ChatGPT maker OpenAI plans to deter election misinformation in 2024
Read full article: Here’s how ChatGPT maker OpenAI plans to deter election misinformation in 2024ChatGPT maker OpenAI has outlined a plan to prevent its artificial intelligence tools from being used to spread election misinformation in 2024.
Microsoft hires Sam Altman as OpenAI’s new CEO vows to investigate his firing
Read full article: Microsoft hires Sam Altman as OpenAI’s new CEO vows to investigate his firingThe company that created ChatGPT is in turmoil after Microsoft hired its ousted CEO and many more employees threatened to follow him in a conflict that centered in part oin part on how to build artificial intelligence that’s smarter than humans.
Stock market today: Asian shares are mostly higher after Wall Street rally led by Microsoft gains
Read full article: Stock market today: Asian shares are mostly higher after Wall Street rally led by Microsoft gainsAsian shares are mostly higher after a rally on Wall Street led by gains in Microsoft after it announced it was hiring Sam Altman, former CEO of OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker.
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI fires CEO Sam Altman, the face of the AI boom, for lack of candor with company
Read full article: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI fires CEO Sam Altman, the face of the AI boom, for lack of candor with companyThe board of ChatGPT-maker Open AI says it has pushed out its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman and replaced him with an interim CEO.
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI hosts its first big tech showcase as the AI startup faces growing competition
Read full article: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI hosts its first big tech showcase as the AI startup faces growing competitionLess than a year into its meteoric rise, the company behind ChatGPT has unveiled the future it has in mind for its artificial intelligence technology.
FTC investigating ChatGPT creator OpenAI over consumer protection issues
Read full article: FTC investigating ChatGPT creator OpenAI over consumer protection issuesThe U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into ChatGPT creator OpenAI and whether the artificial intelligence company violated consumer protection laws by scraping public data and publishing false information through its chatbot.
OpenAI boss 'heartened' by talks with world leaders over will to contain AI risks
Read full article: OpenAI boss 'heartened' by talks with world leaders over will to contain AI risksThe CEO of OpenAI says he is encouraged by a desire shown by world leaders to contain any risks posed by the artificial intelligence technology his company and others are developing.
OpenAI boss downplays fears ChatGPT maker could leave Europe over AI rules
Read full article: OpenAI boss downplays fears ChatGPT maker could leave Europe over AI rulesOpenAI CEO Sam Altman is downplaying worries that the ChatGPT maker could exit the European Union if it can’t comply with the bloc’s strict new artificial intelligence rules.
Regulators take aim at AI to protect consumers and workers
Read full article: Regulators take aim at AI to protect consumers and workersAs concerns grow over increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, the nation’s financial watchdog says it’s working to ensure that companies follow the law when using AI.
ChatGPT chief says artificial intelligence should be regulated by a US or global agency
Read full article: ChatGPT chief says artificial intelligence should be regulated by a US or global agencyThe head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT has told Congress that government intervention will be critical to mitigating the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems.