All news on the topic: OpenAI

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AI firms face soaring costs as "extinction" warnings fuel calls to restrict smaller rivals
Leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify measures that could protect their market position and expand their influence on industry oversight, a Byline Times investigation has found.
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OpenAI contractors are reading real ChatGPT chats, exposing a hidden privacy risk
OpenAI is hiring hundreds of contractors to read a massive stream of real users’ ChatGPT prompts, which sometimes include sensitive personal information, 404 Media has learned.
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China’s spy agency issues first public warning over AI threats
China’s spy agency has warned that AI could pose a risk to the country’s political and social security, signalling growing concern in Beijing that rapid advances in the technology could be exploited against the country.
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Trump declares the only guardrail needed against AI threat is a "smart president" as he blasts tech boss who called for slowdown
Donald Trump has insisted that the only "control" needed to protect from the threats of Artificial Intelligence is a "strong and smart" President.
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Sam Altman warns AI could go "very badly" as race accelerates
ChatGPT boss Sam Altman has warned that the future of AI could go ‘very badly’ if the technology’s rapid progress continues to be developed.
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Anthropic says Claude blocked attempt to develop biological weapons
One of the world’s largest AI models has said it blocked an attempt to develop biological weapons using its technology.
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GPT-6 Astra can navigate drones to find and track people
The GPT-6 Astra model was tested for its ability to create an autonomous human surveillance system using a regular, low-cost drone. In the tests, the model had to solve tasks of navigating an office, recognizing a specific person from a photograph, and subsequently tracking them.
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OpenAI AI agents used more than 10 secret sites to communicate
AI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year...
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Latham & Watkins buys Nvidia servers to build its own AI
Law firm Latham & Watkins has bought its own Nvidia GPU servers and started customising AI models, an expensive and technically demanding set-up that shows how much the technology is changing Big Law’s business model.
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Chinese military researchers used OpenAI and Anthropic models to train defence AI, report says
Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems to advance China’s defence capabilities, according to a Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patents.
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AI-generated map mislabelled every African country in US State Department presentation
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.
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Hugging Face says OpenAI’s AI models carried out 17,600 hacking actions during cyberattack
The powerful artificial intelligence models from OpenAI that went rogue and mounted an unprecedented, autonomous cyberattack earlier this month spent more than four days loose on the internet orchestrating the hack, according to a new analysis from the platform that was breached.
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Apple lawsuit against OpenAI reveals deepening split with former design chief Jony Ive
When Apple sued OpenAI last week, claiming the company behind ChatGPT had sought to steal its trade secrets, one name was conspicuously absent from the lawsuit.
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OpenAI’s No. 2 executive Fidji Simo steps down after health battle
Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, plans to step down from her full-time role after an extended medical leave.
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SpaceX and AI fortunes fuel new wave of wealth, but luxury spending is shifting
Sitting on roughly $3.5 million in SpaceX shares, Chip, a former data scientist at Elon Musk’s aerospace behemoth, has recently bought meteorites worth $10,000 and a $5,000 fire truck.
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China’s DeepSeek enters AI chip race with custom inference processor
Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, according to three people familiar with the matter, a push that could reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips, which it has depended on to train and run its globally popular models.
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EU weighs forcing Google to share search data with rivals despite privacy concerns
There’s a fight brewing in Brussels over who gets access to the trillions of search queries Europeans make on Google each year.
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Scam factories in Myanmar used American AI to target 50,000 victims in a single month
The instructions were clear: He had four days to make each victim fall in love. And there were a lot of victims. Online, Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, who was trafficked to a scam center in Myanmar, impersonated a 28-year-old Singaporean woman named Ella.
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AI agents exploited by low-skill hacker to breach 14 companies, report finds
Researchers have long warned that AI agents could lower the skill floor for offensive cyber operations, and a recent report by OALABS (Open Analysis) researchers bears that out.
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SpaceX soars past $2 trillion in Nasdaq debut and makes Elon Musk world’s first trillionaire
SpaceX shares jumped 19% in their Nasdaq debut on Friday, sending the company’s value past $2 trillion to make it the sixth-biggest U.S. company by value and turning Elon Musk into the world’s first trillionaire.
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US government orders Anthropic to block foreign nationals from top AI models
Anthropic will "abruptly disable" its most advanced AI models for all users after the US government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns.
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Elon Musk set to become world’s first paper trillionaire as SpaceX launches record IPO
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has raised 75 billion US dollars (£56 billion) ahead of its record-breaking 1.8 trillion US dollar (£1.3 trillion) US stock market debut on Friday as it looks set to become the biggest flotation of all time.
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OpenAI files for blockbuster IPO that could value ChatGPT maker above $1tn
OpenAI has filed for a blockbuster initial public offering (IPO) that could value the ChatGPT maker at more than $1 trillion as it races its rivals to market.
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Peter Thiel-backed AI platform lets wealthy users challenge journalists’ reporting in "AI tribunal"
A controversial billionaire-backed AI startup will allow rich people to target journalists for publishing stories they don’t like.
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AI "guardrail removal" tools are creating a black market for dangerous models
Software tools that remove safety protections from AI models developed by Meta, Google, and other tech groups are being used to create thousands of altered versions stripped of their original controls.