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Topline Hundreds of current Google and OpenAI employees signed an open letter expressing their support for Anthropic’s refusal to comply with the Pentagon’s demand for unrestricted access to its AI tools and urging the leaders of their own companies to also adhere to similar red lines and reject the Defense Department’s demands. Google and OpenAI […]
Last month, OpenAI said it will introduce ads for users of the free and Go tiers in ChatGPT. The company introduced ads for US-based users earlier this month, following criticism from rivals such as Anthropic, which published a series of Super Bowl ads. On the sidelines of the India AI Summit, TechCrunch asked OpenAI COO […]
Veteran valuation expert Aswath Damodaran said in a recent interview with The Prof G Markets that he would choose Anthropic as an investment choice over OpenAI if either company were to go public, not because of fundamentals, but because of leadership dynamics.Damodaran, a professor at NYU’s Stern School and a respected voice on valuation and […]
A federal court in Northern California ruled in favor of Cameo, a platform that allows users to receive personalized video messages from celebrities, and ordered OpenAI to stop using “Cameo” in its products and features. OpenAI used the name ‘Cameo’ for its AI-powered video generation app Sora 2. Users could use that feature to insert […]
The infrastructure to develop and power generative artificial intelligence models will require additional “trillions” of dollars in investment, the head of top AI chipmaker Nvidia said on Wednesday.Nvidia boss Jensen Huang spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where AI boosterism was overshadowed by a transatlantic confrontation over US President Donald Trump’s desire to […]
While public opposition to data centers has been intense over the past twelve months, all of the technology sector’s largest companies have pledged additional AI infrastructure expansions in the coming year. This also applies to OpenAI partner Microsoft, on Tuesday announced what it calls a “community-first” approach to AI infrastructure. Microsoft’s announcement, which comes just […]
OpenAI reportedly asks contractors to upload real work from previous assignments OpenAI and training data company Handshake AI are asking third-party contractors to upload real work they’ve done in past and current jobs, according to a report in Wired. This appears to be part of a larger strategy by AI companies that are hiring contractors […]
AI research lab Anthropic continues to win significant business deals. The latest involves taking its big language models to an old German insurance giant. Anthropic on Friday announced a deal with Munich-based, Germany-based global insurance conglomerate Allianz to bring “responsible AI” to the insurance industry. The parties declined to share the financial terms of the […]
Amazon is in early talks to invest as much as $10 billion in OpenAI in a deal that would see the AI lab use the e-commerce giant’s AI chips. CNBC reported. If it materializes, the deal would value OpenAI at more than $500 billion, according to Bloomberg reportedciting an anonymous source. Amazon has sought to […]
Following a series of troubling mental health incidents involving AI chatbots, a group of attorneys general have sent a letter to key companies in the AI industry, warning them to resolve “delusions” or risk violating state law. The lettersigned by dozens of AGs from US states and territories with the National Association of Attorneys General, […]
