SoftBank to boost OpenAI stake with up to $1.5bn investment

OpenAI Just Made an Important Service 80 Percent Cheaper

Voice-to-voice chatbots, now at a much more reasonable rate.

Business - Inc. - October 30

ChatGPT’s AI Search Tool Is Now Available From OpenAI

OpenAI just launched its newest artificial intelligence search experience for ChatGPT. Here’s how to get the AI search update, and WIRED’s initial impressions.

Tech - Wired - October 31

ChatGPT will now work as a search engine as OpenAI partners with some news outlets

OpenAI is launching a ChatGPT-powered search engine that could put the artificial intelligence company in direct competition with search giant Google and affect the flow of internet traffic seeking ...

Tech - ABC News - October 31

ChatGPT Will Work as a Search Engine After OpenAI Partners With News Outlets

The AI race moves into online search as competitors to Google gain visibility.

Business - Inc. - November 1

OpenAI Hires Co-Founder of Social Platform Rival to X

Gabor Cselle, a serial entrepreneur, was a Twitter employee a decade ago. More recently he helped start Pebble, a safety-centric competitor to Elon Musk’s X. What’s OpenAI up to now?

Business - Inc. - November 4

OpenAI hires Meta's former Orion head to lead its robotics efforts

The former head of Meta's augmented reality glasses initiative has joined OpenAI to lead the startup's robotics and consumer hardware efforts.

Business - CNBC - November 5

OpenAI Speaks to California Attorney General About Becoming For-Profit Company

A new report says CEO Sam Altman’s efforts to shed its nonprofit AI research lab status are moving forward.

Business - Inc. - November 5

OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

A judge tossed out a case against OpenAI brought by Alternet and Raw Story, in what could be a significant ruling in the larger battle between AI companies and publishers.

Tech - Wired - November 8

ChatGPT blocked over 250,000 image generations of presidential candidates, OpenAI says

ChatGPT rejected over 250,000 AI image requests in the month leading up to Election Day according to a Friday blog post from OpenAI. Users tried to generate photos of President-elect Trump, Vice ...

Politics - The Hill - November 9

Why OpenAI Is Trying New Strategies to Deal With an AI Development Slowdown

As quantum leaps in AI capabilities get harder to pull off, the market leader is pivoting to progress. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s Grok AI may be opening to more X users.

Business - Inc. - November 11

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman returns after three months of leave

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has returned to the company after taking a sabbatical that began in August.

Business - CNBC - November 12

OpenAI to present plans for U.S. AI strategy and an alliance to compete with China

OpenAI's official blueprint for U.S. AI infrastructure involves AI economic zones and government projects funded by private investors, according to a document.

Business - CNBC - November 13

Elon Musk adds Microsoft to lawsuit against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI

Mr Musk, a co-founder of the company, is accusing it and the tech giant of operating a monopoly.

Why OpenAI’s Push Into Classrooms Could be Important For Your Company

OpenAI addresses one of the elephants in the AI room by trying to help educators navigate an era when students can use AI to help with their work. Its handbook could help your company’s thinking too.

Business - Inc. - 6 days ago

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s Salary Might Surprise You

The executive behind ChatGPT gets the vast majority of his riches from personal investments.

Business - Inc. - 6 days ago

Will Sam Altman always win the OpenAI board fight in an AI agent simulation?

Fable built its AI Sim Francisco "war game" to find out why OpenAI's behind closed doors board fight turned out the way it did.

Tech - VentureBeat - 5 days ago

New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence

As part of an ongoing copyright lawsuit, The New York Times says it spent 150 hours sifting through OpenAI’s training data looking for potential evidence—only for OpenAI to delete all of its work.

Tech - Wired - 5 days ago

Hoping for an OpenAI or Anthropic IPO? Here’s why that’s unlikely anytime soon.

Investors hoping for initial public offerings from hot artificial-intelligence unicorns Anthropic and OpenAI sometime next year are probably going to be disappointed.

Business - MarketWatch - 4 days ago

Chinese researchers unveil LLaVA-o1 to challenge OpenAI’s o1 model

LLaVA-o1 breaks down the answer into multiple reasoning components and uses inference-time scaling to optimize each stage.

Tech - VentureBeat - 4 days ago

Thomson Reuters’ CoCounsel redefines legal AI with OpenAI’s o1-mini model

Thomson Reuters integrates OpenAI's o1-mini model into CoCounsel legal assistant, pioneering a multi-AI approach with Google and Anthropic models for enhanced legal workflows.

Tech - VentureBeat - Yesterday

Orange partners with OpenAI, Meta to develop custom African-language AI models

Orange is working with OpenAI and Meta to build custom AI models that can understand West African languages not understood by most conversational systems.

Business - CNBC - Yesterday

Inside Elon Musk's Quest to Beat OpenAI at Its Own Game

The Tesla CEO is racing to make xAI, which launched after its competitors, the world’s most advanced AI company.

Tech - The Wall Street Journal - 3 hours ago

Volvo Global Sales Boosted by EVs

The carmaker’s global sales rose 3% in October, with solid performance of its electrified range in Europe, but sales in the U.S. and China declined.

Business - The Wall Street Journal - November 4

Mexican peso and Canadian dollar fall after Trump’s tariff pledge

European equities slip while US Treasury yields edge higher

Business - Financial Times - Yesterday

The presidential election could put $250bn at stake for US businesses

Also in today’s newsletter, how Arizona’s proof of citizenship law complicates voting in the swing state

World - Financial Times - October 31

Thousands of ballots are at stake as the Supreme Court considers Pennsylvania voting rules

Pennsylvania’s mail balloting policies have been the focus of intense litigation since the 2020 election.

UFC real or not: Title shot stakes this weekend? Topuria for Fighter of the Year?

Assessing what's real and what's not in the UFC, including whether anyone can contend with Khamzat Chimaev.

Sports - ESPN - November 2

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