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The daily live show, hosted by former founders John Coogan and Jordi Hays, will sit inside OpenAI’s strategy organisation and report to chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane. Terms were not disclosed. OpenAI says TBPN will keep its editorial independence. OpenAI has acquired TBPN, the Technology
Six months after renegotiating the contract that once barred it from independently pursuing frontier AI, Microsoft has released three in-house models that directly challenge the partner it spent $13 billion cultivating. MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 are now available in Microsoft Fo
OpenAI says program will remain in Los Angeles and will be editorially independent.
OpenAI is undergoing another round of C-suite changes, according to an internal memo viewed by The Verge. Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment - who was until recently the company's CEO of applications - says in the memo that she will be stepping away on medical leave "for the next several wee
In addition to Lightcap's new role, OpenAI CMO Kate Rouch will be stepping away from the company to focus on cancer recovery, with a plan to return when her health allows.
Hello, India is officially counting its people. Census 2027 kicked off in the country on Wednesday. The 16th population count in India—8th since independence—will be held in two phases. The world’s largest exercise of its kind takes a digital-first approach involving a self-enumeration portal, a
In a surprise release, OpenAI has made ChatGPT's Voice mode available through Apple CarPlay. If you're running the latest version of both iOS and the ChatGPT app, and own a CarPlay-compatible vehicle, you can check out the experience. To get started, download all the necessary software, connect your
TBPN, Silicon Valley's cult-favorite tech podcast, will operate independently, even as it's overseen by chief political operative Chris Lehane.
Six weeks was all it took. On 9 February, OpenAI switched on advertisements inside ChatGPT for free-tier users in the United States. By late March, the company disclosed that the pilot had crossed $100 million in annualised revenue, drawn more than 600 advertisers, and reached fewer than a fifth of
There is a number that keeps getting larger, and on Tuesday it got larger again. OpenAI announced that it had closed its latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital, valuing the ChatGPT maker at $852 billion post-money. The figure is up from the $110 billion the company announced in
OpenAI's latest funding round, led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, values the AI lab at $852 billion as it nears an IPO.
A previously unknown vulnerability in OpenAI ChatGPT allowed sensitive conversation data to be exfiltrated without user knowledge or consent, according to new findings from Check Point. "A single malicious prompt could turn an otherwise ordinary conversation into a covert exfiltration channel, leaki
OpenAI's decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public, raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces — so was this some kind of elaborate data grab?
Drug discovery has long been defined by time, cost, and repeated failure. Medvolt AI is using OpenAI-enabled intelligence to reduce experimental cycles and move promising molecules forward faster.
The unsecured facility, arranged with JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Mizuho, SMBC and MUFG, matures in March 2027. Once SoftBank’s $30B follow-on investment in OpenAI closes, its cumulative stake will total approximately $64.6B, representing roughly 13% of the company. Masayoshi Son has never been a
On Tuesday morning, everything was business as usual at OpenAI. By the end of the day, the company had announced that it would scrap its video-generation app, Sora, and reverse plans for video generation inside ChatGPT; it would wind down a $1 billion Disney deal; it would shuffle the role of a high
Things are moving fast, and competitors have offered something similar for a while.
When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman was offered $26 million from an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure, that same company can try to rezone 2,000 acres nearby anyway, but as AI infrastructure stretches further into the real world, the real world is starting t
