Getty Images soars after striking a deal with the kind of company it sued
Getty Images soars after striking a deal with the kind of company it sued

For most of the generative-AI era, Getty Images has been the industry’s most determined courtroom opponent, the stock-photo giant that sued the people building image generators rather than licensing to them. On Monday it changed sides, and the market r…

OpenAI wants an all-knowing personal AI agent for everyone on Earth

OpenAI is framing personal AGI as the mass-market endpoint of its AI race, but it still has to explain price, access, safeguards, and how an all-knowing assistant would work for everyone.

Amazon has dropped its nearly finished Sam Altman film, four months after investing $50B in OpenAI
Amazon has dropped its nearly finished Sam Altman film, four months after investing $50B in OpenAI

Amazon MGM Studios has dropped Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s nearly finished film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Variety and Deadline reported on Thursday. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield as Altman, had tested well with early audiences and was bein…

Amazon pulls back from Sam Altman film ‘Artificial’ as it may have hit too close to home

Amazon’s decision to drop Artificial comes months after its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, with the studio now shopping it to other potential distributors.

Ahead of its IPO, OpenAI hires Trump’s AI-policy architect and Google’s transformer pioneer
Ahead of its IPO, OpenAI hires Trump’s AI-policy architect and Google’s transformer pioneer

OpenAI is hiring for its stock-market debut on two very different fronts. One is the research lab. The other is Washington. This week, the company said Dean Ball will join on 6 July to lead a new team called Strategic Futures. Ball is not a researcher….

The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM
The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM

Luca Guadagnino’s film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Artificial, has reportedly been dropped by Amazon MGM. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield and covers the rollercoaster five days in 2023 spanning Altman’s termination and reinstatement as CEO, had been in the works for about a year. The cast also includes A Complete Unknown actress Monica […]

Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months

Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph – the company’s head of enterprise AI sales – has departed, The Verge has learned. Zoph returned to OpenAI in mid-January after a stint as co-founder and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab, the competing AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Shortly after Zoph returned […]

I found a hidden ChatGPT setting that changes how hard the AI thinks — and the difference surprised me

The iOS app version of ChatGPT has a great hidden feature for choosing how intelligent you want your answer to be.

OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO 

OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.

I asked ChatGPT to turn me into a 1990s action figure — and it remembered things I’d forgotten

I used ChatGPT to create action figures based on different eras of my life — the results felt oddly nostalgic