When OpenAI was busy experimenting with AI-powered gaming bots, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were in the early days of forming an AI partnership. Court documents from the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial have provided a rare look at the communications between Microsoft’s top executives about investing in OpenAI and fears […]
Sometimes, companies pick CEOs based on carefully laid succession plans designed to maximize investor confidence and future performance. Other times, apparently, companies pick CEOs based on a bunch of video calls while the current CEO is texting the former CEO about who the new CEO even is. Such was the story of The Blip, the […]
OpenAI’s Codex Chrome extension pushes the coding agent into signed-in browser work, making it more useful for real tasks while raising new questions about access, approvals, and agentic AI risk.
Lenders pushed back on valuing OpenAI shares as collateral. The downsize lands a fortnight after the $10bn ask first surfaced and is the clearest signal yet that even an $852bn primary round has not closed the gap between sticker and what banks will le…
GPT-Realtime-2 brings GPT-5-class reasoning to live voice. A separate translation model covers 70+ input languages. A streaming Whisper variant handles transcription. The pricing is aggressive enough to make the comparison unavoidable. OpenAI released …
OpenAI launched three new audio models that can reason, translate across 70+ languages, and transcribe speech in real time, making voice a genuinely useful interface for developers.
ChatGPT can now alert someone you trust if things get serious. It is a simple feature, but it might be one of the most human things OpenAI has ever built into its chatbot.
The new features could be handy for customer service systems, but OpenAI says they have applications that work across a variety of other fields, including education and creator platforms.
The company is expanding its efforts to protect ChatGPT users in cases where conversations may turn to self-harm.
The week leading up to Thanksgiving 2023 was the AI industry’s biggest soap opera moment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was abruptly ousted from his role at the ChatGPT maker. The explanation? That Altman was “not consistently candid in his communications with the board.” Now, via witness testimony and trial exhibits in Musk v. Altman, the […]