OpenAI is the world’s most valuable private company after private stock sale
OpenAI employees sold $6.6B in shares, leading company’s valuation to jump to $500B.
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OpenAI staff grapples with the company’s social media push
Current and former OpenAI researchers seem torn over how the company’s Sora app fits in with its broader mission.
OpenAI’s new social app is filled with terrifying Sam Altman deepfakes
OpenAI’s Sora app makes it too easy for people to create misleading AI content.
Microsoft 365 Premium bundles Office and AI for the same price as ChatGPT Plus
When Microsoft first launched its Copilot Pro plan last year and wanted an extra $20 a month on top of a Microsoft 365 Family or Personal subscription to get AI-powered Office features, it seemed like a tall ask. After bundling Office AI features into Microsoft 365 subscriptions earlier this year, Microsoft is now taking the […]
OpenAI ropes in Samsung, SK Hynix to source memory chips for Stargate
OpenAI has struck agreements with two of the world’s biggest manufacturers of memory chips, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, to make DRAM wafers for the Stargate AI infrastructure project, and build data centers in South Korea.
Samsung teams up with OpenAI to deliver Stargate chips
OpenAI is teaming up with South Korea’s Samsung and SK Hynix for “strategic partnerships” to supply the advanced computer chips needed for its mammoth Stargate project. The Korean firms said they will scale production in order to meet OpenAI’s growing demand for memory chips needed to power its compute-hungry AI models. OpenAI said it expects […]
OpenAI made a TikTok for deepfakes, and it’s getting hard to tell what’s real
On Monday, I watched OpenAI CEO Sam Altman drink from a gigantic mango-flavored juice box and remark aloud about how the box was half his size. The catch: It wasn’t really Altman. The juice box wasn’t real. He wasn’t really talking. It was a deepfake generated by AI. The most concerning part: I couldn’t tell […]
Apple asks judge to toss Musk’s lawsuit over ChatGPT on iPhone
Apple has hit back at Elon Musk over his claims its partnership with OpenAI to build ChatGPT directly into the iPhone is stunting AI industry competition. In court documents filed on Tuesday and seen by Bloomberg, Apple’s lawyers asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Musk’s companies xAI and X Corp, decrying […]
OpenAI is launching the Sora app, its own TikTok competitor, alongside the Sora 2 model
The social app Sora will let users generate videos of themselves and their friends, which they can share in a TikTok-like feed.
OpenAI’s new social video app will let you deepfake your friends
OpenAI has a new version of the Sora AI video generator that it launched at the end of last year, and it’s arriving today alongside a new social video app, also called Sora, for iPhones. The currently invite-only app resembles TikTok with a feed of videos you can shuffle through. But instead of encouraging people […]