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OpenAI Board rejects Elon Musk’s offer to buy OpenAI
Read more: OpenAI Board rejects Elon Musk’s offer to buy OpenAIOpenAI’s Board issued a statement rejecting Elon Musk’s $97 billion offer to buy OpenAI, even though Elon Musk has his own AI company called xAI. Musk has also sued OpenAI and Microsoft alleging various claims, including antitrust violations. This is the second lawsuit Musk has brought against OpenAI, a company that he formerly provided funding…
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Scarlett Johansson condemns deepfake video of her, other Jewish celebrities condemning Ye website swastika T-shirt
Read more: Scarlett Johansson condemns deepfake video of her, other Jewish celebrities condemning Ye website swastika T-shirtScarlett Johansson is condemning the use of an AI deepfake video, which depicts her and other Jewish celebrities literally wearing a T shirt giving the middle finger to Kanye (now Ye), who recently called himself a Nazi after being reinstated by Elon Musk on X. Ye reportedly was selling T-shirts with swastikas on them on…
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Elon Musk makes $97.4B offer to buy OpenAI
Read more: Elon Musk makes $97.4B offer to buy OpenAIElon Musk and a group of investors have offered to buy, unsolicited, OpenAI for $97.4 billion, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal. That price seems low, given that OpenAI was recently valued at $300 billion. UPDATE: But the $97.4 billion offer apparently may complicate OpenAI’s attempt to convert from nonprofit to for-profit company.…
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OpenAI strikes back with Deep Research with Pro subscription
Read more: OpenAI strikes back with Deep Research with Pro subscriptionOpenAI announced on Sunday an impressive new feature called Deep Research. It basically can perform like your research assistant–or expert. The “strikes back” is a reference to the tumultuous week OpenAI had with the so-called DeepSeek moment from a startup based in China. The AI arms race is heating up. Unfortunately, it’s available only with…
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Elon Musk adds Microsoft to suit against Sam Altman, OpenAI, and antitrust claims
Read more: Elon Musk adds Microsoft to suit against Sam Altman, OpenAI, and antitrust claimsElon Musk, who once was a big investor in OpenAI in its early formation, has filed a first amended complaint against the company, its founder Sam Altman, and Gregory Bockman, which now has added Microsoft as a defendant and antitrust claims for alleged efforts by OpenAI to discourage funders from backing “actively trying to eliminate…
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Sam Altman predicts superintelligence in “few thousand days.” Goldman Sachs Jim Covello predicts AI is an economic bust. Can both be true, a Catch-22 for businesses?
Read more: Sam Altman predicts superintelligence in “few thousand days.” Goldman Sachs Jim Covello predicts AI is an economic bust. Can both be true, a Catch-22 for businesses?Listen to the podcast version co-created with NotebookLM AI technology is rapidly developing. Not a day goes by without some new AI program, functionality, or development. Against that backdrop, it’s not too surprising that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman audaciously just predicted, in a personal post titled The Intelligence Age, that we are on the path…
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Elon Musk drops his lawsuit againt OpenAI
Read more: Elon Musk drops his lawsuit againt OpenAIElon Musk dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI in California state court. In March 2024, Musk’s Complaint alleged that Sam Altman and OpenAI have breached the Founding Agreement to keep the AI model open source and for the public benefit. The case was dismissed without prejudice, according to CNBC. The dismissal comes on the eve of…
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Helen Toner, ex-Board member of OpenAI, alleges Sam Altman “didn’t inform the board that he owned the OpenAI startup fund, even though he constantly was claiming to be an independent board member with no financial interest in the company”
Read more: Helen Toner, ex-Board member of OpenAI, alleges Sam Altman “didn’t inform the board that he owned the OpenAI startup fund, even though he constantly was claiming to be an independent board member with no financial interest in the company”In an explosive interview with Bilawal Sidhu on “The TED AI Show,” ex-Board Member of OpenAI Helen Toner made some serious allegations against Sam Altman, the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. (More from Business Insider.) Toner claims that Altman was “withholding information” from the Board and was “misrepresenting things that were happening in the company.”…
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Scarlett Johansson issues statement about rejecting Sam Altman’s request for voice work
Read more: Scarlett Johansson issues statement about rejecting Sam Altman’s request for voice workAs reported by NPR’s Bobby Allyn, the Hollywood Reporter, and others on social media, Scarlett Johansson issued a statement regarding her rejection of Sam Altman’s office for voice work for ChatGPT 4. Scarlett Johansson refused Sam Altman’s offer to do a voice for ChatGPT. So apparently OpenAI found a similar voice from a different actor.…
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OpenAI “pauses” the Scarlett Johansson-like “Her” voice in ChatGPT voice
Read more: OpenAI “pauses” the Scarlett Johansson-like “Her” voice in ChatGPT voiceAfter a tumultuous weekend following the departure of key safety executives and engineers, OpenAI faced another controversy: it reportedly paused the voice that sounded like Scarlett-Johansson’s AI voice in the movie Her, a reference that even Sam Altman tweeted about upon the release of GPT-4o. (Her is Altman’s favorite movie.) For comparison, here’s what the…