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OpenAI's on-again CEO Sam Altman is back with a vengeance — but not, apparently, when it comes to cofounder Ilya Sutskever.

Sam Altman Says He Has “Zero Ill Will” Toward Guy Who Shanked Him

By Noor Al-Sibai

We've known about OpenAi's secretive next-gen AI called Q* or six days now and the company has since refused to comment on the matter.

OpenAI Refuses to Comment on Secretive Q* AI

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI may have just been beaten to the punch when it comes to AI naming rights by Microsoft's cloud computing division.

Amazon Launches Chatbot With Almost Same Name as OpenAI’s Controversial Secret AI

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at Facebook's parent company Meta has come up with a new benchmark to gauge the intelligence of AI.

Facebook Researchers Test AI’s Intelligence and Find It Is Unfortunately Quite Stupid

By Victor Tangermann

Some OpenAI leaders reportedly may have gotten spooked by a powerful new AI the company was working on called Q star.

OpenAI’s Chaos Linked to Super Powerful New AI It Secretly Built

By Victor Tangermann

As more details are revealed about the drama at OpenAI, insiders are coming forward with messy anecdotes from Sam Altman's past.

This Apparently Wasn’t the First Time Sam Altman Was Dramatically Fired

By Noor Al-Sibai

Though all appeared well from the outside, there was major beef between Sam Altman and OpenAI's board of directors behind the scenes.

OpenAI’s Board Was Apparently Seething With Rage Before Sacking Altman

By Noor Al-Sibai

After an extremely confusing five days, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has made his triumphant return to helm the ChatGPT maker once again.

In Stunning Reversal, OpenAI Rehires Sam Altman

By Victor Tangermann

After firing CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI's board reportedly offered Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei — a former OpenAI employee — the CEO gig.

OpenAI Secretly Tried to Merge With Anthropic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We're still scrambling to find a plausible explanation as to why OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was suddenly fired from his position last Friday.

Is OpenAI Melting Down Because It Secretly Created Something Really Scary?

By Victor Tangermann

The guy currently tasked with running OpenAI after Sam Altman's ouster has some pretty bizarre ideas about AI.

OpenAI’s New CEO Said Something Terrifying a Few Months Ago

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI VP of global affairs Anna Makanju tried to calm angry staff in an internal memo, telling them they were in "intense discussions."

OpenAI Ponders How to Crush Staff Revolt

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever reportedly likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company.

OpenAI Employees Say Firm’s Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's staffers are pressuring the company to reinstate Sam Altman as its CEO — and say they'll walk if the board refuses.

700 OpenAI Staffers Demand Board Reinstate Sam Altman as CEO

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new report says that former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's high-dollar side projects might have been the reason for his firing.

This Might Be the Reason OpenAI Fired Sam Altman

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's interim CEO, announced after cofounder Sam Altman was fired, seems to have made some really weird posts.

OpenAI’s New CEO Posted Edgelord Tweets About Rape and Nazis

By Noor Al-Sibai

To cap off one of the most bizarre weekends in tech history, Microsoft has announced that it is hiring freshly-fired OpenAI chief Sam Altman.

Microsoft Immediately Hires Sam Altman After He’s Fired by OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

What's the deal with Mira Murati, OpenAI's interim CEO who's stepping in to lead following Sam Altman's ouster?

What Do We Know About OpenAI’s New CEO, Mira Murati?

By Jon Christian

Here's one we weren't expecting: OpenAI has unexpectedly announced that it's ditching its charismatic CEO Sam Altman, effective immediately.

OpenAI Just Fired Sam Altman, Its Charismatic CEO

By Jon Christian

Lawyer Zachariah Crabill was caught using ChatGPT to help him write a court document — but even after being fired, he still believes in AI.

Lawyer Fired for Using ChatGPT Says He Will Keep Using AI Tools

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's CEO has announced that ChatGPT's paid service is pausing new signups because it's just that slammed.

ChatGPT Is So Slammed That It’s Closing Down to New Users

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a recent interview, Altman described AGI as a "magic intelligence in the sky," which sounds an awful lot like a God.

Sam Altman Seems to Imply That OpenAI Is Building God

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed in an interview with the Financial Times this week that the company is officially working on GPT-5.

GPT-5 Is Officially on the Way, OpenAI CEO Says

By Victor Tangermann

In its most recent update, OpenAI blamed a possible cyberattack for the "periodic outages" affecting its ChatGPT chatbot.

OpenAI Says It Appears to Have Been Attacked

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon's upcoming LLM codenamed "Olympus" will reportedly have two trillion parameters, twice as many as OpenAI's GPT-4.

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Amazon Reportedly Training AI With Twice as Many Parameters as GPT-4

By Victor Tangermann

Google DeepMind researchers discovered something about AI models that may hamstring their employer's plans for more advanced AIs.

Google AI Researchers Found Something Their Bosses Might Not Be Happy About

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's first DevDay was jam-packed with updates and announcements. But according to CEO Sam Altman, we've yet to scratch the AI surface.

Sam Altman Says What OpenAI’s Secretly Working on Will Make Today’s AI Seem “Quaint”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of OpenAI's cofounders warned years ago that if we don't program it right, AGI may treat humans like animals.

OpenAI’s Chief Scientist Worried AGI Will Treat Us Like Animals

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a lengthy post on X-formerly-Twitter, AI godfater Yann LeCun argued that extremely wealthy CEOs taking control over the future of AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Warns That Powerful Companies Are Seizing Control of It

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's released a new update to ChatGPT, which allows users to upload PDFs. The update effectively killed dozens of startups.

OpenAI Signals That It’ll Destroy Startups Using Its Tech to Build Products

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has created a new team whose whole job is heading off the "catastrophic risks" that could be brought on by artificial intelligence.

OpenAI Team Tasked With Stopping AI From Triggering Nuclear Armageddon

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI is arguing that ChatGPT is only a drafting tool, and thus can't be held legally responsible for any hallucinations it spits out.

OpenAI Says It’s Fine If ChatGPT Occasionally Accuses Innocent People of Crimes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers built a new tool that can generate prompt-specific "poison samples" that scramble the digital brains of image generators.

Artificial Intelligence

New Tool Lets Artists “Poison” Their Work to Mess Up AI Trained on It

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, sees the loss of jobs as a natural part of "technological revolution" every 100 to 150 years.

Sam Altman Warns That AI Is Gonna Destroy a Lot of People’s Jobs

By Frank Landymore

One of the biggest names behind an author-led lawsuit against OpenAI, John Grisham has seemingly run out of patience with AI companies.

Artificial Intelligence

John Grisham Unloads on Big Tech Using His Books to Train AI

By Frank Landymore

Stack Overflow, is laying off 28 percent of its staff, just as OpenAI's ChatGPT is experiencing a big surge in popularity for coding help.

Artificial Intelligence

Stack Overflow Lays Off Employees as AI Threatens Coding Industry

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI quietly changed its "core values" list to include a focus on AGI that wasn't explicitly listed there before.

The Ever-So-Ethical OpenAI Just Replaced Its “Core Values” With Completely Different Ones

By Noor Al-Sibai

Alex de Vries, a data scientist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, found that AI companies could soon use as much power as a country worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence

AI’s Electricity Use Is Spiking So Fast It’ll Soon Use as Much Power as an Entire Country

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from MIT found that subjects, who were "primed" for a specific AI experience almost always ended up having that experience.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Are Only Useful If You Think They Are, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's OpenAI-powered Bing Chat is usually weary of being used to solve CAPTCHAs, and not, for example, an AI being used to commit fraud.

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Bing Chat Will Help With Fraud If You Tug Its Heartstrings About Your Dead Grandma

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier this year, a CEO of an e-commerce platform replaced his customer service team with OpenAI's ChatGPT. He has no regrets.

CEO Roasts Human Workers He Fired and Replaced With ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

Writers who are suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on their work without permission aren't having any of the AI startup's nonsense.

Suing Writers Seethe at OpenAI’s Excuses in Court

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It’s Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hopes that artificial general intelligence will be able to replace the so-called "median human."

Sam Altman Says He Intends to Replace Normal People With AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI May Be in Big Legal Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

A senior OpenAI employee claimed that using the latest version of ChatGPT is akin to talking with a human therapist.

OpenAI Employee Says She’s Never Tried Therapy But ChatGPT Is Pretty Much a Replacement For It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some people in Iowa are mad that Microsoft used a ton of water to train AI while Iowa has been in a drought caused by climate change.

Artificial Intelligence

Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought

By Sharon Adarlo

Authors, including John Grisham, announced they are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, claiming its large language models are violating copyright.

OpenAI Trembles as John Grisham Joins Lawsuit Targeting ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

This was yet another notable outage that ChatGPT has suffered in the past several weeks as user traffic falls.

ChatGPT Goes Down Right as Sam Altman Defends It in Washington

By Frank Landymore

A recent study showed that OpenAI's ChatGPT was providing incorrect advice on cancer treatment, potentially causing harm to patients.

ChatGPT Caught Giving Horrible Advice to Cancer Patients

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was clearly annoyed by a blog post declaring that Google's forthcoming Gemini model will quickly surpass GPT-4.

OpenAI Rages at Report That Google’s New AI Crushes GPT-4

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Workers overseas are being tasked with labeling images, allowing AI algorithms to make sense of the world. They're also being exploited.

Artificial Intelligence

AI’s Dirty Secret: Poor People in the Developing World Are Doing Most of the Work

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has officially launched a new business-friendly version of its popular AI chatbot called ChatGPT Enterprise.

OpenAI Pleads With Companies to Actually Pay for ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

Chances are, if a company is developing AI systems, then it probably depends on pricey hardware from Nvidia.

Artificial Intelligence

If AI Is a Gold Rush, Nvidia Is Selling Shovels

By Frank Landymore

Global Illuminations' team, which made an open source Minecraft game, will work on OpenAI "core products including ChatGPT."

OpenAI Just Bought a Game Studio Working on a “Minecraft” Clone

By Frank Landymore

The New York Times is said to be weighing a lawsuit against OpenAI over intellectual property infringement behind closed doors.

The New York Times Is Apparently Considering a Lawsuit Against OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Def Con hosted a contest to identify software vulnerabilities of chatbots like Google's Bard or OpenAI's ChatGPT.

The Most Fearsome Hackers Just Went Ham on ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's "BotGPT" is hitting the streets, ready to devour anything that's ever been posted online. Luckily, it's pretty easy to block.

OpenAI Deploys Crawler to Vacuum Up Your Posts and Train AI With Them

By Frank Landymore

Researchers found that ChatGPT got just half of 517 Stack Overflow prompts wrong, indicating it's not great at spitting out perfect code.

ChatGPT Actually Gets Half of Programming Questions Wrong

By Victor Tangermann

Four former ChatGPT content moderators have filed a petition for an investigation into the OpenAI-contracted moderation firm Sama.

Contractors Say OpenAI Psychologically Scarred Them for $2/Hour

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The domain AI.com once took users to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Now, it's apparently changed hands, and redirects to Elon Musk's AI project, xAI.

OpenAI’s Former Domain AI.com Now Directs to Elon Musk’s AI Company

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI has applied for new trademark for "GPT-5," giving us a glimpse of its successor to its blockbuster large language model GPT-4.

OpenAI Drops Huge Clue About GPT-5

By Victor Tangermann

Experts, including executives who are marketing these tools, argue that AI chatbots are doomed to forever come up with falsehoods.

Artificial Intelligence

It’s Impossible for Chatbots to Stop Lying, Experts Say

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers has discovered an egregiously simple jailbreak that allows anybody to circumvent AI chatbot guardrails.

Artificial Intelligence

It’s Shockingly Easy to Get Around AI Chatbot Guardrails, Researchers Find

By Victor Tangermann