Trump dismisses AI extinction fears as lab staff urge a slowdown
Trump dismisses AI extinction fears as lab staff urge a slowdown

US President Donald Trump has no concerns about AI leading to human extinction. “No, I don’t have any,” he told reporters on Thursday, as he left Dallas. Jeff Mason reported the exchange for Bloomberg. Trump said his worry was losing the race. “I have …

More ads are coming to ChatGPT as Amazon signs new OpenAI deal
More ads are coming to ChatGPT as Amazon signs new OpenAI deal

Brands can now buy ChatGPT ads directly through Amazon on either a cost per click or per thousand impressions basis.

OpenAI is launching special ChatGPT tools for bankers and financial services workers
OpenAI is launching special ChatGPT tools for bankers and financial services workers

OpenAI realizes there’s money in going after specific sectors, and its latest offering is geared up for finance workers.

AI workers turn an extinction warning into a copy-and-paste meme
AI workers turn an extinction warning into a copy-and-paste meme

“They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” Jacob Coxon wrote this week as he resigned from Anthropic. He meant it as a serious warning. Within a day, the line had become a joke template on X. Dozens of u…

Sam Altman pitches US utilities on OpenAI’s Daybreak programme for grid defence
Sam Altman pitches US utilities on OpenAI’s Daybreak programme for grid defence

Sam Altman has been pitching American electric utilities on using OpenAI’s models to defend the power grid against autonomous cyberattacks, in meetings that began in July and continued at the industry’s annual gathering in Colorado Springs, Politico re…

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with data from S&P, LSEG, Moody’s and PitchBook
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with data from S&P, LSEG, Moody’s and PitchBook

OpenAI has launched a version of ChatGPT for banks and investment firms, with licensed market data built into the product. It is designed around the work financial analysts already do, including valuations, leveraged buyout models, buyer screening, ear…

Don’t ask ChatGPT ‘What should I do?’ — this simple prompt helps you make better decisions yourself

Making ChatGPT a decision coach can help you think through difficult choices without handing over the final call.

AI researchers back an extinction warning as the Pentagon rejects it
AI researchers back an extinction warning as the Pentagon rejects it

A warning from a departing Anthropic researcher has drawn a wave of responses this week. Senior scientists at rival labs backed the claim that AI could threaten humanity, while a top Pentagon official rejected it. The reaction followed Jacob Coxon’s re…

OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit
OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit

Sébastien Bubeck is the OpenAI researcher at the centre of the Navier-Stokes credit dispute. He has now given his account of the private talks with the two mathematicians who say OpenAI mistreated them. He denies trying to strip one of them of credit f…

‘The noise patterns are awful’ — some Reddit users aren’t happy with the new ChatGPT Images 2.5, so I did my own tests and have to agree
‘The noise patterns are awful’ — some Reddit users aren’t happy with the new ChatGPT Images 2.5, so I did my own tests and have to agree

ChatGPT Images 2.5 delivers faster, impressively composed pictures, but my tests support users’ complaints of excessive noise