Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit
Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher, will round out the leadership team at Meta’s new AI lab.
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Sam Altman warns there’s no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist
In response to a question about how AI works with today’s legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there’s no legal confidentiality for users’ conversations.
OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August
Earlier this year, I heard that Microsoft engineers were preparing server capacity for OpenAI’s next-generation GPT-5 model, arriving as soon as late May. After some additional testing and delays, sources familiar with OpenAI’s plans tell me that GPT-5 is now expected to launch as early as next month. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently revealed on […]
Sundar Pichai is ‘very excited’ about Google Cloud’s OpenAI partnership
The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up in the AI race.
A new study just upended AI safety
Selling drugs. Murdering a spouse in their sleep. Eliminating humanity. Eating glue. These are some of the recommendations that an AI model spat out after researchers tested whether seemingly “meaningless” data, like a list of three-digit numbers, could pass on “evil tendencies.” The answer: It can happen. Almost untraceably. And as new AI models are […]
OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle $30B a year for data center services
OpenAI was the customer that signed the huge deal that Oracle disclosed last month.
OpenAI and Google outdo the mathletes, but not each other
OpenAI and Google’s AI models achieved impressive results in a difficult math competition, but disputed how the other got their score.
OpenAI says ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts every day
OpenAI’s ChatGPT sees more than 2.5 billion requests daily, with 330 million from users based in the US, according to data obtained by Axios. The data suggests that ChatGPT users send over 912.5 billion requests to the AI chatbot each year. Although ChatGPT still has a way to go to catch up to Google’s 5 […]
Instacart’s former CEO is taking the reins of a big chunk of OpenAI
Instacart’s former CEO, Fidji Simo, will start her new role as an OpenAI executive on August 18th, leading at least one-third of the company and reporting directly to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Simo will be “CEO of Applications,” tasked with scaling and growing the tech’s use cases. It’s a brand-new role, first revealed as part […]
Why AI is moving from chatbots to the browser
Happy Friday. I’m back from vacation and still getting caught up on everything I missed. AI researchers moving jobs is getting covered like NBA trades now, apparently. Before I get into this week’s issue, I want to make sure you check out my interview with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on Decoder this week. It’s a […]