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Report: OpenAI’s ex-CTO, Mira Murati, has recruited OpenAI co-founder John Schulman

February 6, 2025

OpenAI co-founder John Schulman, who left AI company Anthropic earlier this week after a mere five months, is reportedly joining former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s secretive new startup, per Fortune. It’s not clear what Schulman’s role there will be. Fortune wasn’t able to learn that information, and Murati has been tight-lipped about the venture since…

OpenAI now reveals more of its o3-mini model’s thought process

February 6, 2025

In response to pressure from rivals including Chinese AI company DeepSeek, OpenAI is changing the way its newest AI model, o3-mini, communicates its step-by-step “thought” process. On Thursday, OpenAI announced that free and paid users of ChatGPT, the company’s AI-powered chatbot platform, will see an updated “chain of thought” that shows more of the model’s…

OpenAI co-founder John Schulman leaves Anthropic after just five months

February 6, 2025

OpenAI co-founder and prominent AI researcher John Schulman has left Anthropic after five months, according to multiple reports. Credited as one of the leading architects of ChatGPT, Schulman left OpenAI last August for its direct competitor, Anthropic. He posted about the decision on X, saying it stemmed from a desire to deepen his focus on AI alignment…

Qualys TotalAppSec Strengthens Application Risk Management

February 6, 2025

Qualys introduced TotalAppSec, an AI-powered application risk management solution designed to unify API security, web application scanning and web malware detection across on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The post Qualys TotalAppSec Strengthens Application Risk Management appeared first on Security Boulevard.

OpenAI launches data residency in Europe

February 6, 2025

OpenAI on Thursday launched data residency in Europe, allowing European organizations to meet local data sovereignty requirements while using the AI company’s products. Data residency refers to the physical location of an organization’s data, as well as the local laws and policy requirements imposed on that data. Most tech giants and cloud providers offer European…

You can now use ChatGPT web search without logging in

February 6, 2025

In a move that could make OpenAI’s chatbot a more appealing option over incumbents such as Google, the company is now allowing anyone use ChatGPT web search without having to log in. While OpenAI had previously allowed users to ask ChatGPT questions without signing in, responses were restricted to the chatbot’s last training update. Then…

Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI’s o1 ‘reasoning’ model for under $50

February 5, 2025

AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington were able to train an AI “reasoning” model for under $50 in cloud compute credits, according to a new research paper released last Friday. The model known as s1 performs similarly to cutting-edge reasoning models, such as OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek’s R1, on tests measuring math…

DeepSeek AI Model Riddled With Security Vulnerabilities

February 5, 2025

Security researchers have uncovered serious vulnerabilities in DeepSeek-R1, the controversial Chinese large language model (LLM) that has drawn widespread attention for its advanced reasoning capabilities. The post DeepSeek AI Model Riddled With Security Vulnerabilities appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Figure drops OpenAI in favor of in-house models

February 4, 2025

Figure AI founder and CEO Brett Adcock announced Tuesday that the humanoid robotics firm is exiting a deal with OpenAI. The Bay Area-based robotics company has instead opted to focus on in-house AI, owing to a “major breakthrough.” Adcock was tightlipped in terms of specifics, but he promised to deliver “something no one has ever…

Hugging Face researchers aim to build an ‘open’ version of OpenAI’s deep research tool

February 4, 2025

A group of developers at AI dev platform Hugging Face, including Thomas Wolf, the company’s co-founder and chief scientist, say they’ve built an “open” version of OpenAI’s deep research tool. Deep research, which OpenAI unveiled during an event Sunday, crawls the web to compile research reports on any subject. While impressive, deep research is currently…

The AI Fix #36: A DeepSeek special

February 4, 2025

In episode 36 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark take a long look at DeepSeek, an upstart AI out of China that was trained on a shoestring, shook up Wall Street, kneecapped Nvidia, and challenged America’s AI hegemony. Graham also discovers a remarkably f***ing effective way to remove AI snippets, a personal mobility robot…

OpenAI’s Operator agent helped me move, but I had to help it, too

February 4, 2025

OpenAI gave me one week to test its new AI agent, Operator, a system that can independently do tasks for you on the internet. Operator is the closest thing I’ve seen to the tech industry’s vision of AI agents — systems that can automate the boring parts of life, freeing us up to do the…

OpenAI doubles down on Asia, partners with Kakao after its big deal with SoftBank

February 4, 2025

On the heels of Chinese AI firm DeepSeek making a huge splash in OpenAI’s American backyard, OpenAI is diving into expanding in Asia, with major commercial deals that will also help it train its AI on more Asian-language content and user behavior — a gateway to doing more business in these markets in the future…

OpenAI’s new trademark application hints at humanoid robots, smart jewelry, and more

February 3, 2025

Last Friday, AI startup OpenAI filed a new application to trademark products associated with its brand — “OpenAI” — with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Normally, this wouldn’t be newsworthy. Companies file for trademarks all the time. But in the application, OpenAI hints at new product lines both nearer-term and of a more…

OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT agent for ‘deep research’

February 2, 2025

OpenAI is announcing a new AI “agent” designed to help people conduct in-depth, complex research using ChatGPT, the company’s AI-powered chatbot platform. Appropriately enough, it’s called deep research. OpenAI said in a blog post published Sunday that these this new capability was designed for “people who do intensive knowledge work in areas like finance, science,…

OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion

January 31, 2025

OpenAI used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView, to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models. The company revealed this in a system card – a document outlining how an AI system works – that was released along with its new “reasoning” model, o3-mini, on Friday. Millions of Reddit users are members…

Video: How DeepSeek And Emerging AI Models Could Impact The IT Channel

January 31, 2025

It’s been a wile week in the world of AI! DeepSeek went from breaking the mold with its new AI models that the Chinese startup reported were cheaper, faster, and less resource intensive to make by using fewer, sub standard GPU chips. Now, OpenAI accuses the emerging AI leader of copying its models. What does…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to duck a deposition in an OpenAI copyright lawsuit

January 31, 2025

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to avoid being deposed in a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, according to new court filings. In response, lawyers for the plaintiff — the Authors Guild — have filed a motion to compel testimony from Amodei and his Anthropic co-founder, Benjamin Mann. Authors Guild’s lawyers claim that Amodei and Mann,…

Sam Altman’s ousting from OpenAI has entered the cultural zeitgeist

January 31, 2025

The lights dimmed as five actors took their places around a table on a makeshift stage in a New York City art gallery turned theater for the night. Wine and water flowed through the intimate space as the house — packed with media — sat to witness the premiere of “Doomers,” Matthew Gasda’s latest play…

OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model

January 31, 2025

OpenAI said to be in talks to raise $40B at a $340B valuation

January 30, 2025

OpenAI may have billions of dollars in the bank. But it’s gearing up to raise billions more, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Per The WSJ, OpenAI is in talks to secure up to $40 billion in a funding round that would value the startup at $340 billion. SoftBank would lead the…

OpenAI will offer its tech to US national labs for nuclear weapons research

January 30, 2025

OpenAI says it plans to let U.S. National Laboratories, the Department of Energy’s network of R&D labs, use its AI models for nuclear weapons security and other scientific projects. Per CNBC, OpenAI will work with Microsoft, its lead investor, to deploy a model on the supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The model will be a…

SoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25B in OpenAI, report says

January 29, 2025

SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI as part of a broader partnership that could see the Japanese conglomerate spend more than $40 billion on AI initiatives with the Microsoft-backed startup, according to Financial Times. The potential investment would make SoftBank OpenAI’s largest single backer, the report said, surpassing Microsoft…

DeepSeek Chatbot Beats OpenAI on App Store Leaderboard

January 29, 2025

The Chinese firm said training the model cost just $5.6 million. Alibaba Cloud followed with a new generative AI model, while Microsoft alleges DeepSeek ‘distilled’ OpenAI’s work.

Microsoft probing whether DeepSeek improperly used OpenAI APIs

January 29, 2025

Just a few hours after David Sacks claimed DeepSeek used OpenAI’s models to train its own models, Bloomberg Law reports that Microsoft is investigating DeepSeek’s use of OpenAI’s application programming interface (API). According to security researchers working for Microsoft, the Chinese company behind the R1 reasoning model may have exfiltrated a large amount of data…

David Sacks claims there’s ‘substantial evidence’ that DeepSeek used OpenAI’s models to train its own

January 28, 2025

David Sacks, Trump’s AI and crypto “czar,” said in an interview on Fox on Tuesday that there’s “substantial evidence” that Chinese AI company DeepSeek “distilled” knowledge from OpenAI’s AI models, a process that Sacks compared to theft. Sacks, who didn’t cite the source of this “evidence,” suggested that DeepSeek used responses from OpenAI models to…

The AI Fix #35: Project Stargate, the AI emergency, and batsh*t AI cryonics

January 28, 2025

In episode 35 of The AI Fix, our hosts learn who the 175th best programmer in the world is, the AI supervillains put on suits for President Trump, a “not imaginary” AI turns out to be imaginary, OpenAI releases Operator and teases o3-mini, and Anthropic predicts that superintelligence is only three years away. Graham considers…

OpenAI launches ChatGPT plan for U.S. government agencies

January 28, 2025

In a week dominated by headlines about China’s growing AI competitiveness, OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov. The new version of the AI-powered chatbot platform is designed to provide U.S. government agencies an additional way to access the tech. ChatGPT Gov includes many of the capabilities found in OpenAI’s corporate-focused tier, ChatGPT Enterprise. Using the platform, agencies…

DeepSeek AI claims services are facing ‘large-scale malicious attacks’

January 27, 2025

DeepSeek, the Chinese startup whose open-source large language model is causing panic among U.S. tech and AI companies this week, said it is having difficulty registering new users due to “large-scale malicious attacks” on its services. On Monday, the company’s website posted a banner note stating that it was temporarily pausing new registrations to deal…

OpenAI-backed 1X acquires Kind Humanoid

January 27, 2025

1X has acquired Kind Humanoid, the Norwegian robotics startup told TechCrunch on Monday. The deal marks a small but key consolidation for a humanoid robotics industry on the brink of a major moment in 2025. TechCrunch spoke with Kind Humanoid in October, when the then-three-person startup announced that it had enlisted famed designer Yves Behar…

OpenAI wants to take over your browser

January 25, 2025

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re diving into OpenAI’s newly released AI agent, called Operator. We also look at where TikTok stands after being resuscitated, whether it’s time to go back to Tumblr, and more! Let’s get into it. OpenAI launched a research preview of Operator, a general-purpose AI agent that can…

Retro Biosciences, backed by Sam Altman, is raising $1 billion to extend human lifespan

January 24, 2025

AI companies upped their federal lobbying spend in 2024 amid regulatory uncertainty

January 24, 2025

Companies spent significantly more lobbying AI issues at the U.S. federal level last year compared to 2023 amid regulatory uncertainty. According to data compiled by OpenSecrets, 648 companies spent on AI lobbying in 2024 versus 458 in 2023, representing a 141% year-over-year increase. Companies like Microsoft supported legislation such as the CREATE AI Act, which…

Stargate will use solar and batteries to power $100B AI venture

January 24, 2025

OpenAI’s Stargate project reportedly doesn’t have the money it needs

January 24, 2025

Stargate — the massive infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI in the U.S. — lacks a fully developed plan and hasn’t secured funding yet, according to a report from the Financial Times. Backed by OpenAI, SoftBank, Middle East AI fund MGX, and others, Stargate would funnel around $100 billion — and upward of…

OpenAI says it may store deleted Operator data for up to 90 days

January 23, 2025

OpenAI says that it might store chats and associated screenshots from customers who use Operator, the company’s AI “agent” tool, for up to 90 days — even after a user manually deletes them. OpenAI has a similar deleted data retention policy for ChatGPT, its AI-powered chatbot platform. However, the retention period for ChatGPT is only…

OpenAI and SoftBank are reportedly putting $19B each into Stargate

January 23, 2025

We may now know roughly how much money SoftBank and OpenAI are contributing toward Stargate, the massive infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI across the U.S. SoftBank and OpenAI each plans to commit $19 billion of capital to Stargate, according to The Information. The two companies would then both own 40% of the…

OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomously

January 23, 2025

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman kicked off this year by saying in a blog post that 2025 would be big for AI agents, tools that can automate tasks and take actions on your behalf. Now, we’re seeing OpenAI’s first real attempt. OpenAI announced on Thursday that it is launching a research preview of Operator, a general-purpose…

OpenAI may preview its agent tool for users on the $200 per month Pro plan

January 23, 2025

We may see OpenAI’s agent tool, Operator, released sooner rather than later. Changes to ChatGPT’s code base suggest that Operator will be available as an early research preview to users on the $200 Pro subscription plan. The changes aren’t yet publicly visible, but a user on X who goes by Choi spotted these updates in…

Someone bought the domain ‘OGOpenAI’ and redirected it to a Chinese AI lab

January 22, 2025

A software engineer has bought the website “OGOpenAI.com” and redirected it to DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab that’s been making waves in the open source AI world lately. Software engineer Ananay Arora tells TechCrunch that he bought the domain name for “less than a Chipotle meal,” and that he plans to sell it for more.…

Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI cracked when it hired Mustafa Suleyman, rival Marc Benioff says

January 22, 2025

‘Severe’ bug in ChatGPT’s API could be used to DDoS websites

January 22, 2025

A vulnerability in ChatGPT’s API can generate DDoS attacks against targeted websites, but the security researcher who discovered it says the flaw has since been addressed by OpenAI. In a security advisory posted to the developer platform GitHub, German security researcher Benjamin Flesch detailed the bug, which occurs when the API is processing HTTP POST…

This Week in AI: OpenAI gains an invaluable infrastructure advantage

January 22, 2025

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. OpenAI is making gains at the expense of its chief rivals. On Tuesday, the company announced the Stargate Project, a new joint venture involving Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, Oracle, and others to build AI infrastructure for OpenAI in…

Elon Musk and Sam Altman take to social media to fight over Stargate

January 22, 2025

Billionaire Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate, the enormous infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI across the U.S. Stargate, announced Tuesday during a press conference at the White House, would funnel as much as $500 billion from investors including SoftBank and Middle East AI fund MGX…

Microsoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider

January 21, 2025

Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models. No longer. As part of Stargate, OpenAI’s massive new AI infrastructure deal with SoftBank, Oracle, and others, Microsoft says it has signed a new agreement with OpenAI that gives it “right of first refusal” on new…

OpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center project

January 21, 2025

OpenAI says that it will team up with Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, along with others, to build multiple data centers for AI in the U.S. The joint venture, called The Stargate Project, will begin with a large data center project in Texas and eventually expand to other states. The companies expect to commit $100…

UK plans ‘digital wallet’ for driver’s licenses and other ID, plus a chatbot powered by OpenAI

January 21, 2025

Alongside its big public push for AI investments, the U.K. government is also playing a virtual card to catapult itself into the 21st century. Today it announced plans to launch a secure digital wallet to manage government-issued credentials, alongside a chatbot — built in collaboration with OpenAI — to interact with the main GOV.UK portal.…

OpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing release

January 20, 2025

OpenAI may be close to releasing an AI tool that can take control of your PC and perform actions on your behalf. Tibor Blaho, a software engineer with a reputation for accurately leaking upcoming AI products, claims to have uncovered evidence of OpenAI’s long-rumored Operator tool. Publications including Bloomberg have previously reported on Operator, which…

AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAI

January 19, 2025

An organization developing math benchmarks for AI didn’t disclose that it had received funding from OpenAI until relatively recently, drawing allegations of impropriety from some in the AI community. Epoch AI, a nonprofit primarily funded by Open Philanthropy, a research and grantmaking foundation, revealed on December 20 that OpenAI had supported the creation of FrontierMath.…

The Pentagon says AI is speeding up its ‘kill chain’

January 19, 2025

Leading AI developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are threading a delicate needle to sell software to the United States military: make the Pentagon more efficient, without letting their AI kill people. Today, their tools are not being used as weapons, but AI is giving the Department of Defense a “significant advantage” in identifying, tracking,…

FTC says partnerships like Microsoft-OpenAI raise antitrust concerns

January 18, 2025

The Federal Trade Commission said in a staff report issued Friday that there are potential competitive issues in partnerships between big tech companies and generative AI developers — specifically, Microsoft’s backing of OpenAI and Amazon and Alphabet/Google’s partnerships with Anthropic. “The FTC’s report sheds light on how partnerships by big tech firms can create lock-in,…

ChatGPT’s head of product will testify in the US government’s case against Google

January 17, 2025

OpenAI is trying to extend human life, with help from a longevity startup

January 17, 2025

OpenAI says it trained a new AI model called GPT-4b micro with Retro Biosciences, a longevity science startup trying to extend the human lifespan by 10 years, according to the MIT Technology Review. Retro, which is backed by Sam Altman, has been working with OpenAI for roughly a year on this research, according to the…

Despite VCs investing $75B in Q4 , it’s still hard for startups to raise money, data proves

January 16, 2025

After two years of relatively muted investment activity, it seems that VCs are starting to pour capital into startups at pandemic-era levels once again. But a closer look shows that they aren’t really. In the fourth quarter of last year, investors funneled $74.6 billion into US startups, a substantial increase from the average of $42…

More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faults

January 15, 2025

Younger Gen Zers are embracing OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, for schoolwork, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. But it’s not clear that they’re fully aware of the tech’s pitfalls. In a follow-up to its 2023 poll on ChatGPT usage among young people, Pew asked ~1,400 U.S.-based teens ages 13 to 17…

OpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new markets

January 15, 2025

OpenAI is getting into the local news game. Newsletter-based media organization Axios announced a partnership with OpenAI on Wednesday. As part of this three-year deal, the AI giant will fund Axios’ expansion of its local newsletters into four new cities: Pittsburgh; Kansas City, Missouri; Boulder, Colorado; and Huntsville, Alabama. While OpenAI has inked content-sharing and…

OpenAI tests letting users sign up for ChatGPT with only a phone number

January 15, 2025

OpenAI has begun testing a feature that lets new ChatGPT users sign up with only a phone number — no email required. As spotted by software engineer Tibor Blaho, the feature, which is available in beta in the U.S. and India, lets users create an account for ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform, by providing their…

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

January 14, 2025

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership…

OpenAI appoints BlackRock exec to its board

January 14, 2025

OpenAI has appointed an executive at investment firm BlackRock to its board of directors. Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi, a senior managing director at BlackRock and CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners, an infrastructure investing platform, has joined OpenAI’s board, OpenAI announced on Tuesday. In a statement, OpenAI board chairman Bret Taylor said that Ogunlesi has “an exceptional…

ChatGPT now lets you schedule reminders and recurring tasks

January 14, 2025

Paying users of OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now ask the AI assistant to schedule reminders or recurring requests. The new beta feature, called tasks, will start rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro users around the globe this week. With tasks, users can set simple reminders with ChatGPT such as, “Remind me when my passport…

OpenAI quietly revises policy doc to remove reference to ‘politically unbiased’ AI

January 14, 2025

OpenAI has quietly removed language endorsing “politically unbiased” AI from one of its recently published policy documents. In the original draft of its “economic blueprint” for the AI industry in the U.S., OpenAI said that AI models “should aim to be politically unbiased by default.” A new draft, made available Monday, deletes that phrasing. When…

OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why

January 14, 2025

Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon. The model would sometimes begin “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — even when asked a question in English. Given a problem to sort out — e.g. “How many R’s are in the word ‘strawberry?’” — o1…

OpenAI presents its preferred version of AI regulation in a new ‘blueprint’

January 13, 2025

OpenAI on Monday published what it’s calling an “economic blueprint” for AI: a living document that lays out policies the company thinks it can build on with the U.S. government and its allies. The blueprint, which includes a forward from Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s VP of global affairs, asserts that the U.S. must act to attract…

New OpenAI job listings reveal its robotics plans

January 10, 2025

OpenAI disbanded its robotics department. Then, it brought it back. Now, through a social media post from its hardware director and newly published job descriptions, OpenAI is revealing more about its plans for the revived team. In a post on X on Friday, Caitlin Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI to lead hardware last November from Meta’s…

How OpenAI’s bot crushed this seven-person company’s web site ‘like a DDoS attack’

January 10, 2025

OpenAI was sending “tens of thousands” of server requests trying to download Triplegangers’ entire site which hosts hundreds of thousands of photos. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

This Week in AI: More capable AI is coming, but will its benefits be evenly distributed?

January 8, 2025

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The AI news cycle didn’t slow down much this holiday season. Between OpenAI’s 12 days of “shipmas” and DeepSeek’s major model release on Christmas Day, blink and you’d miss some new development. And it’s not slowing…

Sam Altman’s family responds to lawsuit alleging he sexually assaulted his sister

January 7, 2025

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded to sexual assault accusations from his estranged younger sister on Tuesday, calling the claims “entirely untrue.” According to the Saint Louis Post Dispatch, in a new lawsuit filed Monday, Annie Altman alleges her older brother sexually assaulted her over a nine-year period in the 1990s and 2000s. The suit echoes…

Beware the Rise of the Autonomous Cyber Attacker

January 7, 2025

AI’s growing sophistication signals a future in which networks can be compromised autonomously, and the industry must prepare for this near-term reality. The post Beware the Rise of the Autonomous Cyber Attacker appeared first on Security Boulevard.

OpenAI is beginning to turn its attention to ‘superintelligence’

January 5, 2025

In a post on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he believes OpenAI “know[s] how to build [artificial general intelligence]” as it has traditionally understood it — and is beginning to turn its aim to “superintelligence.” “We love our current products, but we are here for the glorious future,” Altman wrote in…

Sam Altman has choice words for the OpenAI board members who fired him

January 5, 2025

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has strong words for the former board members who abruptly fired him late last November. “[A]ll those people that I feel, like, really f—ed me and f—ed the company were gone, and now I had to clean up their mess,” he told Bloomberg in a wide-ranging interview. Just over a year…

OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025

January 1, 2025

Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data. But 7 months later, this feature has yet to see the light of day. Called Media Manager, the tool would “identify copyrighted text,…

Nonprofit group joins Elon Musk’s effort to block OpenAI’s for-profit transition

December 30, 2024

Encode, the nonprofit organization that co-sponsored California’s ill-fated SB 1047 AI safety legislation, has requested permission to file an amicus brief in support of Elon Musk’s injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit company. In a proposed brief submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Friday afternoon, counsel for…

Nonprofit group joins Elon Musk’s effort to block OpenAI’s for-profit transition

December 27, 2024

Encode, the nonprofit org that co-sponsored California’s ill-fated SB 1047 AI safety legislation, has requested permission to file an amicus brief in support of Elon Musk’s injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit. In a proposed brief submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Friday afternoon, counsel for Encode…

Why DeepSeek’s new AI model thinks it’s ChatGPT

December 27, 2024

Earlier this week, DeepSeek, a well-funded Chinese AI lab, released an “open” AI model that beats many rivals on popular benchmarks. The model, DeepSeek V3, is large but efficient, handling text-based tasks like coding and writing essays with ease. It also seems to think it’s ChatGPT. Posts on X — and TechCrunch’s own tests —…

OpenAI lays out its for-profit transition plans

December 27, 2024

OpenAI says its corporate structure must evolve to advance its mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence (AGI) — AI that can complete most tasks humans can — benefits all humanity. OpenAI currently has a for-profit org controlled by a nonprofit, with a “capped profit” share for investors and employees. But in a blog post published…

ChatGPT Search can be tricked into misleading users, new research reveals

December 26, 2024

ChatGPT and Sora are down for the second time this month

December 26, 2024

ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s developer-facing API went down Thursday for an hour and counting. OpenAI says it started experiencing a major outage at 11 AM PT, and the services still appear to be down at the time of publishing this article, around 12:40 PM PT. Frequent users of ChatGPT may recall that the service went…

Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition of AGI: report

December 26, 2024

Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup’s profits, according to a new report from The Information. And by this definition, OpenAI is many years away from reaching it. The two companies reportedly signed an agreement last year stating OpenAI has only achieved AGI when…

OpenAI ‘considered’ building a humanoid robot: report

December 24, 2024

OpenAI has recently explored building its own humanoid robot, according to The Information. The report cites “two people with direct knowledge” of those conversations. The ChatGPT maker has been involved in the space for some time now, by way of financial backing. It has thus far invested in Figure and 1X, along with the “general…

The AI Fix #30: ChatGPT reveals the devastating truth about Santa (Merry Christmas!)

December 24, 2024

In episode 30 of The AI Fix, AIs are caught lying to avoid being turned off, Apple’s AI flubs a headline, ChatGPT is available to people who haven’t left the 1970s, our hosts regret to inform you that an AI artist now has a personality, and ant-like robots join forces to lob each other over…

OpenAI’s o3 suggests AI models are scaling in new ways — but so are the costs

December 23, 2024

Last month, AI founders and investors told TechCrunch that we’re now in the “second era of scaling laws,” noting how established methods of improving AI models were showing diminishing returns. One promising new method they suggested could keep gains was “test-time scaling,” which seems to be what’s behind the performance of OpenAI’s o3 model –…

OpenAI trained o1 and o3 to ‘think’ about its safety policy

December 22, 2024

OpenAI announced a new family of AI reasoning models on Friday, o3, which the startup claims to be more advanced than o1 or anything else it’s released. These improvements appear to have come from scaling test-time compute, something we wrote about last month, but OpenAI also says it used a new safety paradigm to train…

OpenAI’s GPT-5 reportedly falling short of expectations

December 21, 2024

OpenAI’s efforts to develop its next major model, GPT-5, are running behind schedule, with results that don’t yet justify the enormous costs, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. This echoes an earlier report in The Information suggesting that OpenAI is looking to new strategies as GPT-5 might not represent as big…

OpenAI announces new o3 model — but you can’t use it yet

December 21, 2024

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at OpenAI’s last — and biggest — announcement from its “12 Days of OpenAI” event; Apple’s potential entrance into the foldable market; and why Databricks is choosing to wait to go public. Let’s get into it. P.S. We’re off for the holidays! Week in Review…

OpenAI announces new o3 model

December 20, 2024

OpenAI announced a new o3 model on Friday. In a tweet ahead of its final livestream for its “12 Days of OpenAI” event, the company confirmed previous reports that it is skipping o2 due to copyright concerns, and is releasing early evals for the o3 model. It appears to be a successor to its o1…

OpenAI 2024 event: How to watch new ChatGPT product reveals and demos

December 20, 2024

OpenAI is in the holiday spirit, it seems. The ChatGPT series of reveals, called “12 Days of OpenAI,” will be streamed live at 10 a.m. PT each weekday through December 20. So far, we’ve seen the launch of ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI’s $200 per month subscription plan; the full version of its “reasoning” o1 model; the…

‘Genius Girl’ goes from inspiring a Korean TV show character to raising a $100 million AI fund

December 20, 2024

Sam Altman once owned some equity in OpenAI through Sequoia

December 19, 2024

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sat before Congress in 2023 to testify about the dangers of AI. He told American lawmakers at the time that he owns no equity in OpenAI, something he’s said many times, claiming he just runs the company because he loves it. However, Altman recently said he actually did have some equity…

Who wants ‘Her’-like AI that gets stuff wrong?

December 18, 2024

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, smash the link and sign up here. Last week, OpenAI launched Advanced Voice Mode with Vision, which feeds real-time video to ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to “see” beyond the confines of its app layer. The premise is that…

OpenAI may pay its nonprofit arm ‘billions of dollars’ in conversion to for-profit

December 18, 2024

OpenAI’s transition away from a for-profit corporation that’s governed by a nonprofit board is well underway — and the nonprofit could be compensated royally for it. That’s according to The New York Times, which reports that OpenAI is in discussions to pay the nonprofit billions of dollars for it to cede control. There’s pressure to…

The AI Fix #29: AI on OnlyFans, and the bot that wants to be a billionaire

December 17, 2024

In episode 29 of The AI Fix, an AI company makes the bold step of urging us to “stop hiring humans”, Graham is wrong about GB AI, parents prepare their kids for the imminent Moxie-mageddon, Google releases Gemini 2.0, and a robot is found dead at work and nobody knows why. Graham inspects the AI…

OpenAI says it has no plans for a Sora API — yet

December 17, 2024

OpenAI says it has no plans to release an API for Sora, its AI model that can generate reasonably realistic videos when provided with a text description or reference image. During an AMA with members of OpenAI’s dev team, Romain Huet, head of developer experience at OpenAI, said that a Sora API isn’t in the…

OpenAI brings its o1 reasoning model to its API — for certain developers

December 17, 2024

OpenAI is bringing o1, its “reasoning” AI model, to its API — but only for certain developers to start. Starting today, o1 will begin rolling out to devs in OpenAI’s “tier 5” usage category, the company said. To qualify for tier 5, developers have to spend at least $1,000 with OpenAI and have an account…

OpenAI 2024 event: How to watch new ChatGPT product reveals and demos

December 17, 2024

OpenAI is in the holiday spirit, it seems. The ChatGPT series of reveals, called “12 Days of OpenAI,” will be streamed live at 10 a.m. PT each weekday through December 23. So far, we’ve seen the launch of ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI’s $200 per month subscription plan; the full version of its “reasoning” o1 model; the…

OpenAI brings its AI-powered web search tool to more ChatGPT users

December 16, 2024

ChatGPT Search, OpenAI’s AI-powered web search experience, is now live for all ChatGPT users — with several new features in tow. By default, ChatGPT will automatically determine which questions to route through ChatGPT Search, or users can tap a new “Search the web” icon in the ChatGPT interface. ChatGPT Search shows summarized answers from different…

GM ‘blindsides’ Cruise by giving up on robotaxis

December 14, 2024

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at GM’s decision to pull out of the robotaxi business, Google alluding to the existence of multiple universes, and how you can make some serious cash by getting an AI bot to fall in love with you. Let’s get into it. General Motors will no…

Meta asks California AG to block OpenAI’s conversion to for-profit

December 14, 2024

Facebook’s parent company Meta is supporting Elon Musk’s effort to block OpenAI’s conversion from a non-profit company into a for-profit one. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, Meta sent a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta arguing that allowing the shift would have “seismic implications for Silicon Valley.” And while the company asked…

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever believes superintelligent AI will be ‘unpredictable’

December 13, 2024

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever spoke on a range of topics at NeurIPS, the annual AI conference, Friday afternoon before accepting an award for his contributions to the field. Sutskever gave his predictions for “superintelligent” AI, AI more capable than humans at many tasks, which he believes will be achieved at some point. Superintelligent AI will…

OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

December 13, 2024

A former OpenAI employee, Suchir Balaji, was recently found dead in his San Francisco apartment, according to the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In October, the 26-year-old AI researcher raised concerns about OpenAI breaking copyright law when he was interviewed by The New York Times. “The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner…

OpenAI 2024 event: How to watch new ChatGPT product reveals and demos

December 13, 2024

OpenAI is in the holiday spirit, it seems. The ChatGPT series of reveals, called “12 Days of OpenAI,” will be streamed live at 10 a.m. PT each weekday through December 23. So far, we’ve seen the launch of ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI’s $200 per month subscription plan, the full version of its “reasoning” o1 model, the…

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