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Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI Co-Founder Who Helped Oust Sam Altman, Starts His Own Company

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By: Cade Metz
19 June 2024 at 20:24
Ilya Sutskever’s new start-up, Safe Superintelligence, aims to build A.I. technologies that are smarter than a human but not dangerous.

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Last year, Ilya Sutskever helped create what was called a Superalignment team inside OpenAI that aimed to ensure that A.I. technologies would not do harm.

Elon Musk Withdraws His Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman

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By: Cade Metz
11 June 2024 at 19:32
The Tesla chief executive had claimed that the A.I. start-up put profits and commercial interests ahead of benefiting humanity.

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Mr. Musk founded his own artificial intelligence company last year called xAI, and has repeatedly claimed that OpenAI was not focused enough on the dangers of the technology.

Apple Intelligence Revealed at WWDC 2024 as Company Jumps Into AI Race

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By: Tripp Mickle
10 June 2024 at 17:06
The iPhone maker, which has been slow to embrace artificial intelligence, will weave it into the technology that runs on billions of devices.

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Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, at the company’s developer conference at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

Hey, Siri! Let’s Talk About How Apple Is Giving You an A.I. Makeover.

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By: Tripp Mickle
9 June 2024 at 05:04
Apple, a latecomer to artificial intelligence, has struck a deal with OpenAI and developed tools to improve its Siri voice assistant, which it is set to showcase on Monday.

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A more conversational and versatile version of Siri will be shown at Apple’s annual developers conference on Monday.

U.S. Clears Way for Antitrust Inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI

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By: David McCabe
5 June 2024 at 23:48
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.

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The Federal Trade Commission will be primarily responsible for examining Microsoft’s and OpenAI’s conduct in the artificial intelligence industry.

Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War

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By: Sheera Frenkel
6 June 2024 at 11:17
Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort.

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The campaign focused on more than a dozen members of Congress, including Representative Ritchie Torres, left, and Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader.

OpenAI Whistle-Blowers Describe Reckless and Secretive Culture

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By: Kevin Roose
4 June 2024 at 15:14
A group of current and former employees is calling for sweeping changes to the artificial intelligence industry, including greater transparency and protections for whistle-blowers.

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Daniel Kokotajlo, a former researcher in OpenAI’s governance division, is an organizer of a group of former and current employees who say the company has a reckless culture.

Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling

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By: Nico Grant and Katie Robertson
1 June 2024 at 05:02
Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention.

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Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, last year. A new A.I.-generated feature in Google search results “is greatly detrimental to everyone apart from Google,” a newspaper executive said.

The New ChatGPT Offers a Lesson in AI Hype

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By: Brian X. Chen
31 May 2024 at 05:07
OpenAI released GPT-4o, its latest chatbot technology, in a partly finished state. It has much to prove.

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ChatGPT-4o trying to solve a geometry problem

OpenAI Says Russia and China Used Its A.I. in Covert Campaigns

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By: Cade Metz
30 May 2024 at 13:24
Iran and an Israeli company also exploited the tools in online influence efforts, but none gained much traction, an OpenAI report said.

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The OpenAI offices in San Francisco.

What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate

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By: Mike Isaac
29 May 2024 at 05:02
A.I. companies are divided over whether the technology should be freely available to anyone for modifying and copying, or kept close for safekeeping.

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Meta’s open-source A.I. system is available to any developer to download and use.

Mark Zuckerberg is Popular Again Thanks to Meta’s Open-Source AI

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By: Mike Isaac
29 May 2024 at 05:00
After some trying years during which Mr. Zuckerberg could do little right, many developers and technologists have embraced the Meta chief as their champion of “open-source” artificial intelligence.

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OpenAI Says It Has Begun Training a New Flagship A.I. Model

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By: Cade Metz
28 May 2024 at 23:31
The advanced A.I. system would succeed GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. The company has also created a new safety committee to address A.I.’s risks.

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As Sam Altman’s OpenAI trains its new model, its new Safety and Security committee will work to hone policies and processes for safeguarding the technology, the company said.

Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $6 Billion

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By: Jason Karaian
27 May 2024 at 14:11
Elon Musk, who founded xAI last year, has said the business “still has a lot of catching up to do” as it looks to compete with well-funded companies like OpenAI.

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Elon Musk in New York last month.

AI’s Black Boxes Just Got a Little Less Mysterious

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By: Kevin Roose
21 May 2024 at 14:00
Researchers at the A.I. company Anthropic claim to have found clues about the inner workings of large language models, possibly helping to prevent their misuse and to curb their potential threats.

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Anthropic researchers found that turning certain features on or off in the company’s chatbot could change how the A.I. system behaved.

Scarlett Johansson Said No, but OpenAI’s Virtual Assistant Sounds Just Like Her

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By: Tripp Mickle
21 May 2024 at 14:35
Last week, the company released a chatbot with an option that sounded like the actress, who provided the voice of an A.I. system in the movie “Her.”

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Scarlett Johansson said in a statement on Monday that an OpenAI chatbot’s voice sounded “eerily similar to mine” despite her refusals.

Can AI Make the PC Cool Again? Microsoft Thinks So.

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By: Karen Weise and Brian X. Chen
21 May 2024 at 09:35
Microsoft, HP, Dell and others unveiled a new kind of laptop tailored to work with artificial intelligence. Analysts expect Apple to do something similar.

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Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, announcing the new artificial intelligence functionality on Monday.

Inside OpenAI’s Library

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By: Cade Metz and Christie Hemm Klok
17 May 2024 at 22:45
OpenAI may be changing how the world interacts with language. But inside headquarters, there is a homage to the written word: a library.

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OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever, Is Leaving the Company

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By: Cade Metz
14 May 2024 at 21:39
In November, Ilya Sutskever joined three other OpenAI board members to force out Sam Altman, the chief executive, before saying he regretted the move.

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Ilya Sutskever, who contributed to breakthrough research in artificial intelligence, brought instant credibility to OpenAI.

OpenAI Unveils New ChatGPT That Listens, Looks and Talks

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By: Cade Metz
14 May 2024 at 01:12
Chatbots, image generators and voice assistants are gradually merging into a single technology with a conversational voice.

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The new app is part of a much wider effort to combine conversational chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT with voice assistants like the Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri.

OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers

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By: Cade Metz and Tiffany Hsu
7 May 2024 at 06:00
The prominent A.I. start-up is also joining an industrywide effort to spot content made with artificial intelligence.

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OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco. The company said that its new detector can identify 98.8 percent of images created by DALL-E 3, its own generator.

Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

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By: Cade Metz and Nico Grant
29 April 2024 at 00:01
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

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Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.

A.I. Start-Ups Face a Rough Financial Reality Check

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By: Cade Metz， Karen Weise and Tripp Mickle
29 April 2024 at 00:01
The table stakes for small companies to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google are in the billions of dollars. And even that may not be enough.

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Microsoft Reports Rising Revenues as A.I. Investments Bear Fruit

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By: Karen Weise
25 April 2024 at 18:48
The tech giant’s quarterly results included strong growth in cloud computing, fueled by its services in generative artificial intelligence.

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In recent quarters, Microsoft’s A.I. push has helped it gain market share from Amazon, the leading cloud services provider.
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