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Sam Altman and Jony Ive Will Force A.I. Into Your Life
Last Wednesday, OpenAI announced that it was acquiring a company called io, an artificial-intelligence-forward product-development firm…
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Can Sam Altman Be Trusted with the Future?
In 2017, soon after Google researchers invented a new kind of neural network called a transformer, a young OpenAI engineer named Alec…
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The Stakes for OpenAI’s Plan B
OpenAI backtracks OpenAI’s decision to scale back its ambitious corporate reorganization has drawn lots of scrutiny, including what the…
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Coalition urges California attorney general to halt OpenAI's for-profit restructuring
SAN FRANCISCO — A coalition of California nonprofits, foundations and labor groups are raising concerns about ChatGPT maker OpenAI, urging…
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Elon Musk's feud with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, explained
A bitter rift between two Silicon Valley billionaires could shape the future of the fast-growing artificial intelligence industry. Tesla…
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OpenAI’s Former Chief Technology Officer Starts Her Own Company
Mira Murati, the former chief technology of OpenAI who unexpectedly left the company in September, has helped found a new artificial…
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OpenAI's board rejects bid from Elon Musk-led group
The feud between Elon Musk and rival Sam Altman took a new turn on Friday when OpenAI’s board rejected a $97.4-billion offer by an…
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OpenAI Rejects Elon Musk’s Bid to Gain Control of the Company
OpenAI’s board of directors on Friday rejected a $97.4 billion bid by Elon Musk and a consortium of investors to gain control of the…
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Elon Musk Says He Will Drop OpenAI Bid if Company Preserves Nonprofit Mission
Elon Musk said in a court filing late Wednesday that he would withdraw his $97.4 billion bid to control OpenAI if the company dropped a…
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Behind Elon Musk’s Hostile Bid for Control of OpenAI
We have spent much of the past 24 hours on the telephone trying to get to the bottom of Elon Musk’s hostile bid for Sam Altman’s OpenAI.…
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Macron Pitches Lighter Regulation to Fuel A.I. Boom in Europe
An artificial intelligence race is heating up between the United States and China — but don’t count Europe out. That was the pitch that…
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How Sam Altman Sidestepped Elon Musk to Win Over Donald Trump
At President Trump’s inauguration, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, was relegated to the overflow room while other tech…
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SoftBank’s Son, OpenAI’s Altman to unveil Japan AI thrust
SOFTBANK Group’s founder Masayoshi Son is taking the stage in Tokyo on Monday (Feb 3) with OpenAI chief Sam Altman, part of a global push…
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Sam Altman Admits, "We Have Been on the Wrong Side of History" as DeepSeek AI Revolutionizes the Market
DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence firm, has made big waves in the tech world with its new AI models. The company launched models…
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SoftBank in Talks to Invest Up to $25 Billion in OpenAI
OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence company that has been on a yearslong money-raising frenzy, is in talks with the Japanese…
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Apple, Meta, Nvidia and OpenAI: Who Wins and Loses the DeepSeek Scramble?
Lots of questions are still swirling this morning about the implications of DeepSeek, the Chinese start-up whose A.I. tools drove…
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Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Other Billionaires at the Inauguration
The C.E.O. inauguration crowd In a stark display of money and power, the three wealthiest men on the planet lined up on Monday in the…
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A Who’s Who at Peter Thiel’s Trump Party: Zuckerberg, Adelson and More
Mr. Thiel prides himself on his elaborate parties, and his inauguration event, held in his seven-bedroom home, included a hired juggler…
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OpenAI Courts Trump With Vision for ‘A.I. in America’
In December, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, donated $1 million to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inaugural fund, joining a…
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Tech billionaires Zuckerberg, Bezos and Altman help bankroll Trump's inauguration. What to know
Tech executives, attempting to ease tensions with President-elect Donald Trump, are opening up their wallets after the former president…