OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team
OpenAI is bringing on the founder of Statsig as its CTO of Applications, and making changes to other leadership roles at the company.
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OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion
OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo, its new CEO of Applications, who left her former position as Instacart’s CEO to start in the executive role on August 18th. On Tuesday, the company confirmed it’s shuffling executive roles, bringing on a new CTO of applications, and acquiring a product analytics […]
Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B valuation
AI firm Anthropic’s $13 billion Series F round will be use to grow its enterprise adoption, deepen safety research, and support international expansion.
OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental controls
OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month – part of an ongoing response to recent safety incidents involving ChatGPT failing to detect mental distress.
Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure
Generally, AI chatbots are not supposed to do things like call you names or tell you how to make controlled substances. But, just like a person, with the right psychological tactics, it seems like at least some LLMs can be convinced to break their own rules. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania deployed tactics described […]
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
A timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the latest, which we’ve been updating throughout the year.
Billionaire Ambani taps Google, Meta to build India’s AI backbone
Reliance is launching a new subsidiary to drive India’s AI ambitions, including a pending partnership with OpenAI.
What’s really happening with the hires at Meta Superintelligence Labs
In June, Mark Zuckerberg went for the ultimate Hail Mary in the ever-intensifying AI race: He spun up a brand-new Meta AI lab after making a $14.3 billion acquisition of Scale AI – and then spending billions more hiring some of the industry’s preeminent researchers and engineers. Fast-forward a couple of months, and Zuckerberg may […]
Microsoft AI launches its first in-house models
Microsoft’s AI division announced its first homegrown AI models on Thursday: MAI-Voice-1 AI and MAI-1-preview. The company says its new MAI-Voice-1 speech model can generate a minute’s worth of audio in under one second on just one GPU, while MAI-1-preview “offers a glimpse of future offerings inside Copilot.” Microsoft already uses MA1-Voice-1 to power a […]
OpenAI co-founder calls for AI labs to safety-test rival models
In an effort to set a new industry standard, OpenAI and Anthropic opened up their AI models for cross-lab safety testing.