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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now claiming that the firm is nearing the dawn of AGI — and that he knows how to make it happen.

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Has Figured Out How to Build AGI

By Noor Al-Sibai

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It Costs So Much to Run ChatGPT That OpenAI Is Losing Money on $200 ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions

By Noor Al-Sibai

The family of dead OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji is claiming that the young man was murdered, and did not commit suicide.

Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Alleges He Was Murdered, Says There Were Signs of Struggle

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI says it wants to transform into a for-profit corporation because it needs "to raise more capital than we'd imagined."

OpenAI Admits It Needs Vastly More Money Than It Thought

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's recently unveiled o3 AI model can cost well over $1,000 per task when used in its most powerful mode.

OpenAI’s Latest AI Can Cost More Than $1,000 Per Query

By Frank Landymore

The late whistleblower Suchir Bala was named as a potential witness in a lawsuit brought against OpenAI by The New York Times.

Dead OpenAI Whistleblower Had Been Named as Potential Witness in Lawsuit Against Employer

By Frank Landymore

After blowing the whistle on OpenAI's alleged use of copyrighted material, one of its former researchers has been found dead.

OpenAI Says It’s “Devastated” That a Whistleblower Against It Has Been Found Dead

By Noor Al-Sibai

A creepy Sora output of the streamer Pokimane shows that despite guardrails, the video generator is good at depicting real-life people.

OpenAI’s Sora Is Generating Videos of Real People, Including This Unintentionally Demonic Version of Pokimane

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI has finally opened its much-hyped Sora video generator to the public — and many of its outputs seem remarkably bad.

OpenAI’s Super-Hyped Sora Goes Absolutely Freakshow If You Ask It to Generate Gymnastics Videos

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI Concerned About Illegal Activity on Sora, Releases It Anyway

OpenAI Concerned About Illegal Activity on Sora, Releases It Anyway

By Frank Landymore

Just a few days after the full release of OpenAI's o1 model, a company staffer is now claiming that the company has achieved AGI.

OpenAI Employee Says They’ve “Already Achieved AGI”

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's AI model o1 lied, schemed, and even attempted to duplicate itself to avoid being shut down or replaced, according to red team tests.

In Tests, OpenAI’s New Model Lied and Schemed to Avoid Being Shut Down

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI has hopped into bed with Anduril, the killer drone company founded by Oculus' Palmer Luckey that cut its teeth in Ukraine.

OpenAI Strikes Deal With Military Contractor to Provide AI for Attack Drones

By Noor Al-Sibai

Yet another OpenAI researcher has left the company amid concerns about its safety practices and readiness for human-level AI.

AI Safety Researcher Quits OpenAI, Saying Its Trajectory Alarms Her

By Noor Al-Sibai

Recent hiring activity and wishy-washy statements make it seem like OpenAI is planning to introduce ads into ChatGPT.

It Sounds an Awful Lot Like OpenAI Is Adding Ads to ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Netizens were baffled to find that OpenAI's ChatGPT refused to acknowledge the existence of the name "David Mayer."

ChatGPT Crashes If You Mention the Name “David Mayer”

By Victor Tangermann

A review found that OpenAI's "ChatGPT search" is routinely mangling reporting from news outlets, including OpenAI-partnered publications.

ChatGPT Is Absolutely Butchering Reporting From Its “News Partners”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of furious artists say they've leaked OpenAI's video generator Sora, declaring that they're not the company's "PR puppets."

OpenAI’s Super-Powerful “Sora” AI Video Generator Appears to Have Leaked

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI made a major oopsie when its engineers accidentally deleted a bunch of evidence sought by the New York Times in its lawsuit.

OpenAI “Accidentally” Deleted Evidence From Its New York Times Lawsuit

By Noor Al-Sibai

Old emails between Elon Musk and two of his OpenAI confounders show just how afraid the firm was of an "AGI dictatorship."

Internal OpenAI Emails Show Employees Feared Elon Musk Would Control AGI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sam Altman found that Elon Musk's supposed "anti-woke" Grok AI chatbot argued that Kamala Harris was the "better" pick for president.

Sam Altman Points Out That Elon Musk’s “Anti-Woke” Grok AI Seems to Actually Support Kamala Harris

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is asking a judge to narrow the scope of discovery in a copyright lawsuit to limit insider communications from being aired in public.

OpenAI Implores Judge Not to Expose Communications by Its Top Researchers

By Noor Al-Sibai

The next AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are showing only marginal gains, raising fears about the economic reality of the tech.

OpenAI Alarmed When Its Shiny New AI Model Isn’t as Smart as It Was Supposed to Be

By Frank Landymore

It seems that OpenAI has hit the wall when it comes to computing power for its much-hyped large language models (LLMs).

OpenAI Reportedly Hitting Law of Diminishing Returns as It Pours Computing Resources Into AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Most people's New Year resolutions include going to the gym — but for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the new year means ushering in AGI.

Sam Altman Says the Main Thing He’s Excited About Next Year Is Achieving AGI

By Noor Al-Sibai

The ChatGPT maker spent north of a whopping $15.5 million on the "chat.com" URL, which used to belong to a porn site.

OpenAI Buys Porn Domain for Huge Sum

By Victor Tangermann

Two researchers have harnessed the power of OpenAI's GPT-4o large language model to teach two $120 robot arms to clean up spills.

ChatGPT Can Now Control a Robot Arm

By Victor Tangermann

The full version of OpenAI's latest AI model called 01 appears to have leaked on Friday — only for the company to shut it down.

OpenAI Accidentally Leaked Its Upcoming o1 Model to Anyone With a Certain Web Address

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has released a new benchmark dubbed "SimpleQA" to measure the accuracy of its AI models. The results are damning.

OpenAI Research Finds That Even Its Best Models Give Wrong Answers a Wild Proportion of the Time

By Victor Tangermann

ChatGPT Messes Up Badly During Demo With CEO of Chanel

By Frank Landymore

During a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed that AGI is "achievable with current hardware," a bold but largely meaningless claim.

Sam Altman Says AGI Is “Achievable With Current Hardware”

By Victor Tangermann

A former OpenAI staffer is blowing the whistle on the company's AI training practices, alleging they violated copyright law.

OpenAI Whistleblower Disgusted That His Job Was to Vacuum Up Copyrighted Data to Train Its Models

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The researcher in charge of making sure OpenAI (and the world) is prepared for artificial general intelligence (AGI) has resigned.

OpenAI’s AGI Czar Quits, Saying the Company Isn’t ready For What It’s Building

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cognitive scientist and prominent AI researcher Gary Marcus believes that OpenAI will pivot into the surveillance business.

AI Researcher Slams OpenAI, Warns It Will Become the “Most Orwellian Company of All Time”

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI just raised nearly $7 billion, raising its value to around $157 billion. Investors had to be willing to keep things exclusive.

OpenAI Stamps Feet, Says Investors Aren’t Allowed to Back Its Rivals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT creator OpenAI is hemorrhaging massive amounts of cash that it's failing to make up for in revenue, according to investor documents.

OpenAI Is Putting Profits First, Yet It’s Bleeding an Astronomical Amount of Money

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Australian child services worker used ChatGPT to write a sensitive report about a child — and ended up getting the tech banned.

Child Welfare Worker in Trouble After Using ChatGPT to Submit Bizarre Report About Sex Doll

By Noor Al-Sibai

ChatGPT's new advanced voice mode has users all a-titter — including the one who tricked it into singing Cardi B's hit song "WAP."

Someone Tricked ChatGPT Into Singing “WAP”… and May We Just Say “Yikes”

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI has quietly released a new feature that instructs ChatGPT to "remember" prior conversations — and it's very easily exploited.

You Can Insert False Memories Into ChatGPT, Researcher Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

Authors suing OpenAI for copyright infringement are going to get unprecedented access to its training data — but that access is very limited.

Authors Suing OpenAI Will Get to See Its Secret Training Data in Heavily Locked Down Room

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's namesake nonprofit roots are in the rearview mirror as it doubles down on making money, with CEO Sam Altman at the helm.

OpenAI Pivoting From “Benefiting Humanity” to “Making Lots of Money”

By Victor Tangermann

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is losing even more executives — right as Reuters reports that it's looking to restructure its core business.

OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman

By Victor Tangermann

The official OpenAI Newsroom account on X, formerly Twitter, was hacked by someone to promote a fake token as part of a phishing attack.

Official OpenAI Twitter Account Taken Over by Hackers to Shill Crypto Scheme

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman waxed prolific about the future of artificial intelligence and chose some strange units of measurement to describe.

Sam Altman Invents Bizarre New Unit of Time for Measuring When His Promises Will Come True

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI Staff Upset by Company’s Horrendous New Logo

By Frank Landymore

Queries to OpenAI's ChatGPT eat up a surprising amount of water and electricity to cool data centers and run calculations.

The Environmental Toll of a Single ChatGPT Query Is Absolutely Wild

By Sharon Adarlo

Try to dig too deeply into how "Strawberry," the latest ChatGPT AI model, and OpenAI will threaten you with a ban.

OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning

By Frank Landymore

A ChatGPT conversation went viral on Reddit purportedly showing the chatbot reaching out to a user first. Other users are crying foul.

OpenAI Says It’s Fixed Issue Where ChatGPT Appeared to Be Messaging Users Unprompted

By Victor Tangermann

o1-preview's "chain-of-thought reasoning" allows users to get a glimpse of what the model is "thinking." It also shows how its deceiving.

OpenAI’s Strawberry “Thought Process” Sometimes Shows It Scheming to Trick Users

By Victor Tangermann

In a creepy new video, ChatGPT's voice mode is heard screaming eerily when a user prompted the OpenAI chatbot to do so.

It Turns Out ChatGPT’s Voice Mode Can Scream, and It’s an Upsetting Sound

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's newfangled o1-preview AI model is still struggling with the absolute basics — like counting letters.

OpenAI’s New “Strawberry” AI Is Still Making Idiotic Mistakes

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has released its long-awaited AI model, which was previously code-named "Strawberry," called OpenAI o1-preview.

OpenAI Just Released Its Long-Awaited “Strawberry” Model

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is rumored to release an AI model internally dubbed "Strawberry" that has a "human-like" ability to reason as soon as this week.

OpenAI Launching “Strawberry” Model With “Human-Like Reasoning” as Soon as This Week

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates, the seventh-richest man in the world, has come out as a major ChatGPT stan, admitting that he uses it for personal research.

Bill Gates, Who Could Afford a Private Army of Researchers, Says He Does His Research Using ChatGPT, Which Makes Mistakes Constantly

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Financial Times reports that OpenAI is looking to shed its non-profit status once and for all after years of being "capped profit."

After Years of Chasing Money, OpenAI Reportedly Giving Up on Being a “Nonprofit”

By Victor Tangermann

A chef in Dubai used OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to come up with a pizza recipe — and as it turns out, it started selling like hotcakes.

Chef Admits His Smash Hit Pizza Was Invented by ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI found that its latest AI model GPT-4o can unexpectedly imitate users' voices without their permission.

ChatGPT Went Rogue, Spoke In People’s Voices Without Their Permission

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI keeps losing top talent, indicating some considerable inner turmoil. Are they worried OpenAI is making empty promises?

Why Are OpenAI’s Most Prominent Employees Leaving?

By Victor Tangermann

John Schulman, AI safety researcher and OpenAI cofounder, has departed the ChatGPT creator and joined the ranks of OpenAI rival Anthropic.

OpenAI Cofounder Quits to Join Rival Started by Other Defectors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The voice mode that comes with OpenAI's latest ChatGPT model seems to have some trouble counting and, er, breathing.

ChatGPT Voice Mode Is Having Serious Trouble Counting to 100

By Noor Al-Sibai

ChatGPT creator OpenAI has reportedly developed effective tools for marking and tracking AI-generated content. Why isn't it releasing them?

OpenAI Has Software That Detects AI Writing With 99.9 Percent Accuracy, Refuses to Release It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a new video, OpenAI's GPT-4o is heard telling a user that it apparently needs to breathe just like everyone else.

OpenAI’s GPT-4o Voice Mode Says It Needs to Breathe

By Noor Al-Sibai

Journalists at The Atlantic wrote a letter to their leadership addressing their concerns about the magazine's licensing deal with OpenAI.

The Atlantic’s Staff Is Furious About Its Deal With OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The New York Times is suing OpenAI for copyright violations. ChatGPT, meanwhile, is citing a notorious plagiarizer's copies of NYT articles.

Amid New York Times Lawsuit, ChatGPT Is Citing Plagiarized Versions of NYT Articles on an Armenian Content Mill

By Maggie Harrison Dupré