Worldcoin recently announced plans to launch its open-source blockchain, World Chain. Worldcoin has faced regulatory challenges around the world. Worldcoin’s collaboration with PayPal and OpenAI will be a major achievement for the company. Tools for Humanity, the company behind Sam Altman’s iris-scanning project Worldcoin, has hinted at potential partnerships with PayPal and OpenAI. According to […]
It turns out the lay of today’s AI landscape can be traced back to — what do you know — fear, jealousy and intense capitalist ambition. Emails revealed in the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google, first reported by Business Insider, show Microsoft executives expressing alarm and envy over Google’s AI lead. That spurred an urgency that led to the Windows maker’s initial billion-dollar investment in its now-indispensable partner, OpenAI. In a heavily redacted 2019 email thread...
Noyb claims ChatGPT shared a false birthday about a public figure and denied his request to access and erase data related to him. : OpenAI faces fresh EU troubles over ChatGPT’s ‘hallucinations’
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and ChatGPT-maker Sam Altman could team up. Kevin O'Leary and Trump cabinet official Mnuchin also want to buy TikTok. Don't expect Google or Meta, besieged with antitrust lawsuits, to join the fray
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, addressed an audience of over one thousand people about his vision for the future of AI and its implications on society.
Sam Altman says he knows when the GPT-5 ChatGPT upgrade is set to arrive,
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Sam Altman says helpful agents are poised to become AI’s killer function Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has a vision for how AI tools will become enmeshed in our daily lives. During a…
Emails from the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google revealed how Microsoft executives were alarmed by and even envious of Google’s AI lead. In an email thread, CTO Kevin Scott wrote he was “very, very worried” about Google’s rapidly growing AI capabilities. He said he initially dismissed the company’s “game-playing stunts,” likely referring to Google’s AlphaGo models. The emails reference Gmail’s autocomplete features, which execs called “scary good.” Microsoft struggled to...
Israeli cyber security start-up Apex, which focuses on protecting the rapid use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, said on Thursday it received an undisclosed investment from OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman. In all, Apex raised $7 million in a seed funding round led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures, with participation from Altman and others, it said. Altman did not immediately comment. Apex said it had been running trials with a number of Fortune 500 companies and investment firms and...
OpenAI has been hit with a privacy complaint in Austria by an advocacy group called NOYB, which stands for None Of Your Business. The complaint alleges that the company’s ChatGPT bot repeatedly provided incorrect information about a real individual (who for privacy reasons is not named in the complaint), as reported by Reuters. This may breach EU privacy rules. The chatbot allegedly spat out incorrect birthdate information for the individual, instead of just saying it didn’t know the answer to...
Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai are joining the government's Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board, according to The Wall Street Journal. They're also joined by Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Northrop Grumman's Kathy Warden and Delta's Ed Bastian, along with other leaders in the tech and AI industry. The AI board will be working with and advising the Department of Homeland Security on how it can safely deploy AI within the country's...
A number of moments from my brief sit-down with Sam Altman brought the OpenAI CEO’s worldview into clearer focus. The first was when he pointed to my iPhone SE (the one with the home button that’s mostly hated) and said, “That’s the best iPhone.” More revealing, though, was the vision he sketched for how AI…