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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. - November 20

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 - 6 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

Amazon to invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival

Amazon on Friday announced it would invest an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI research executives.

Business - CNBC - 5 days ago

Amazon Invests an Additional $4 Billion in Anthropic, an OpenAI Rival

The tech giant doubles its investment in the startup as it aims to compete in the AI arms race.

Tech - The Wall Street Journal - 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 - 2 days ago

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

OpenAI Employees Can Sell $1.5 Billion in Stock to SoftBank

The Japanese bank is keen to increase its stake in the AI market leader, which is also backed by Microsoft.

Business - Inc. - 1 hour ago

The complete women's college basketball preview guide: Final Four predictions, All-America picks and much more

Which teams will reach the Final Four? Can the Gamecocks repeat? Who's underrated? We make picks and predictions for the new season.

Sports - ESPN - November 5

Titans' Will Levis to start in Week 10, quest to maintain starting QB job begins vs. Chargers

Levis will make his first start since Week 6

Sports - CBS Sports - November 8

Rory McIlroy says U.S. Open loss 'stings' as he begins quest to cap year with sixth Race to Dubai title

McIlroy reflected on the crushing loss to Bryson DeChambeau over the summer

Sports - CBS Sports - November 14

Can they keep up the laughs at a gloomy time? Mythic Quest returns for Season 4

Apple TV+ today announced that the fourth season of its hit comedy Mythic Quest will debut on January 29.

Tech - VentureBeat - November 14

Phillies offseason targets 2025: Biggest needs, best fits as quest for World Series title continues

The Phillies had a great regular season, but they're still searching for that elusive ring

Sports - CBS Sports - November 14

‘Mild’ tofu, ‘mild’ carrots, ‘mild’ pine nuts: my five-year quest to understand German taste

Why do German supermarkets tout mild versions of already inoffensive flavours?

World - Financial Times - November 14

After Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake, Dev Wants To Do Final Fantasy 6 Next

Square Enix doesn't sound like it will slow down the HD-2D remake treatment going forward. Though nothing is official, Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake producer Masaaki Hayasaka offered up his ...

Tech - GameSpot - November 20

Is higher inflation here to stay? Fed faces hurdles in quest to crush rising prices.

As inflation slowed sharply last summer, the Federal Reserve sketched out a plan to slash high U.S. interest rates in anticipation of its pending victory over runaway prices. Now that plan is risk.

Business - MarketWatch - 6 days ago

Shiffrin wins World Cup slalom and takes quest for her 100th victory to North America

Mikaela Shiffrin has earned her record-extending 99th career World Cup win to take the quest for victory No. 100 to North America

Sports - ABC News - 4 days ago

Black Friday Meta Quest 3S Deal Gives You $75 In Credit And A Batman Game

Meta Quest 3S $300 | Free $75 Gift Card at Amazon and ...

Tech - GameSpot - 2 days ago

Meet OpenAI’s first chief economist—3 things you may not know about him

Dr. Aaron "Ronnie" Chatterji has been named OpenAI's first chief economist. He will lead the company's research on AI's potential economic impact.

Business - CNBC - October 28

Microsoft's GitHub expands beyond OpenAI, lets developers use AI models from Anthropic, Google

GitHub is giving software developers more choices for its popular coding assistant, meaning they won't be limited to models from OpenAI.

Business - CNBC - October 29

OpenAI Chair’s AI Startup Sierra Gets $4.5 Billion Valuation in Latest Funding Round

Former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor’s company keeps pulling in money from top VC firms as expectations mount.

Business - Inc. - October 29

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says new AI model is taking a while because 'we can't ship' as quickly as hoped

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that GPT-5, the company's next probable large AI model, likely won't come this year.

Business - CNBC - October 31

Jeff Bezos and OpenAI invest in robot startup Physical Intelligence at $2.4 billion valuation

Amazon's Jeff Bezos and OpenAI invested in Physical Intelligence, a robot startup that raised $400 million at a $2.4 billion post-money valuation.

Business - CNBC - November 4

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