“Distillation” is a hot topic as frontier labs try to prevent smaller competitors from copying their models.
OpenAI traces ChatGPT’s goblin obsession to a “Nerdy” personality training error that spread across its models.
Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI has always been complicated, so I expected the close partnership-turned-situationship to end in tears. After all, executive disagreements, rearranged contracts, and frustrations over AI infrastructure have all regularly been part of the partnership, creating plenty of tension along the way. But against all odds, Microsoft and OpenAI divorced this week in […]
OpenAI has given the web interface a rejig for Plus, Pro and Business users, making it easier to choose between Instant and Thinking when you talk to ChatGPT.
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OpenAI is opening up about its goblin problem. After a report from Wired revealed instructions to OpenAI’s coding model to “never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures,” the AI startup published an explanation on its website, calling references to the creatures a “strange habit” its models developed as […]
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new frontier cybersecurity model, GPT-5.5-Cyber. CEO Sam Altman said the model will not be available to the general public, but will be first rolled out to a select group of trusted “cyber defenders” in order for institutions to shore up their cyberdefenses. The limited rollout will take place “in […]
Adding a periodic anchor phrase to your prompts helps ChatGPT maintain focus over longer conversations
A throwaway joke from Sam Altman about goblins has quietly signaled that GPT-6 may already be on the way.
About five hours into Elon Musk’s testimony, I typed the following sentence into my notes: “I have never been more sympathetic to Sam Altman in my life.” Musk’s direct testimony was an improvement over yesterday – even if his lawyer kept asking leading questions to cue him in how to answer. But that memory was […]
Microsoft gets to offer OpenAI’s tech to its cloud customers and doesn’t have to pay for it. “We fully plan to exploit it,” Nadella said.