OpenAI in talks with California to become for-profit company: report
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OpenAI in talks with California to become for-profit company: report

Sam Altman-led OpenAI is in early talks with the California attorney general’s office to change its corporate structure in a bid to become a for-profit business, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing two people familiar with the matter. OpenAI and a representative for the California Attorney General did not immediately respond to Reuters’…

OpenAI Will Not Release GPT-5 This Year But ‘Some Very Good Releases’ Are Coming, Says CEO Sam Altman

OpenAI Will Not Release GPT-5 This Year But ‘Some Very Good Releases’ Are Coming, Says CEO Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and several other company executives hosted an ask-me-anything (AMA) session on Thursday. The session was hosted on the social networking platform Reddit and users were told to ask questions about the AI firm’s products such as ChatGPT or general queries about artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial…

Parents trust ChatGPT over doctors, shocking new study claims
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Parents trust ChatGPT over doctors, shocking new study claims

Paging Dr. Bot. In a new study, researchers at the University of Kansas’ Life Span Institute revealed that parents trust artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT, more than healthcare professionals. “Participants found minimal distinctions between vignettes written by experts and those generated by prompt-engineered ChatGPT,” says Calissa Leslie-Miller, a doctoral student in…

OpenAI Says China-Linked Group Tried to Phish Its Employees

OpenAI Says China-Linked Group Tried to Phish Its Employees

OpenAI said a group with apparent ties to China tried to carry out a phishing attack on its employees, reigniting concerns that bad actors in Beijing want to steal sensitive information from top US artificial intelligence companies. The AI startup said Wednesday that a suspected China-based group called SweetSpecter posed…

SoftBank to Invest 0 Million in OpenAI: Report

SoftBank to Invest $500 Million in OpenAI: Report

Japanese telecom company SoftBank’s Vision Fund will invest $500 million (roughly Rs. 4,190 crore) in OpenAI’s latest funding round, The Information reported on Monday, citing a person familiar with the deal. SoftBank declined to comment, while OpenAI did not immediately respond. The company at the heart of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) boom is raising $6.5 billion (roughly Rs. 54,478 crore) in the…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Denies Executives’ Departure Linked to Restructuring

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Denies Executives’ Departure Linked to Restructuring

Sam Altman denied on Thursday that there was any link between the departure of three senior OpenAI executives and a planned restructuring of the company which he said the board had been considering for several months. The world-leading AI firm’s longtime chief technology officer Mira Murati abruptly announced her departure on…

OpenAI o1 Series AI Models With Advanced Reasoning Capabilities Released

OpenAI o1 Series AI Models With Advanced Reasoning Capabilities Released

OpenAI released the new o1 series artificial intelligence (AI) models on Thursday. The AI firm is calling these reasoning models for their advanced capabilities in solving mathematical and complex reasoning-based problems. There are two models — o1, which is available in preview, and the o1-mini. The company said these AI…

OpenAI Improves File Search Controls for Developers, Said to Improve ChatGPT Responses

OpenAI Improves File Search Controls for Developers, Said to Improve ChatGPT Responses

OpenAI announced new changes to its File Search system last week, allowing more control to developers when asking the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to pick responses. The improvement has been made to the ChatGPT’s application programming interface (API) and will let developers not only check the behaviour of the chatbot’s…

OpenAI ‘Strawberry’ AI Model With Advanced Mathematics, Reasoning Capabilities to Launch Soon: Report

OpenAI ‘Strawberry’ AI Model With Advanced Mathematics, Reasoning Capabilities to Launch Soon: Report

OpenAI is reportedly working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that could offer significant upgrades in terms of mathematics and reasoning capabilities of its proprietary chatbot, ChatGPT. The purported AI model is said to have been in the works for several months, but the company was being secretive about…

IMF Says Crypto Industry’s Carbon Footprint Rising; Officials Mull Tax Surge to Curb Emissions

IMF Says Crypto Industry’s Carbon Footprint Rising; Officials Mull Tax Surge to Curb Emissions

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released a new report highlighting the rising carbon footprint of the crypto sector and stressing the need for control. To address this, the IMF has proposed a significant tax increase on crypto mining businesses to encourage the adoption of greener practices. According to the…