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

The ‘godfather of AI’ called xAI a failure and warned of a bubble. He’s also selling the alternative.
The ‘godfather of AI’ called xAI a failure and warned of a bubble. He’s also selling the alternative.

Yann LeCun has never been quiet about his doubts, and his latest target is one of the most valuable companies on earth. Elon Musk’s xAI is “kind of a failure” that will not be able to compete on the frontier with OpenAI and Anthropic, LeCun, the founde…

ByteDance is Microsoft’s biggest AI customer, even as Washington treats Chinese AI as a threat
ByteDance is Microsoft’s biggest AI customer, even as Washington treats Chinese AI as a threat

ByteDance has generally been Microsoft’s single biggest AI customer in recent years, and it is on track to spend more than $1bn a year on Microsoft’s AI and cloud services, Bloomberg reports. The striking part is what the TikTok owner is mostly buying:…

A harmless-looking ChatGPT prompt opened the door to gruesome AI images

Researchers say ChatGPT generated violent and sexualized images after a harmless-looking prompt was altered, raising new questions about OpenAI’s safeguards and how quickly AI image tools can be pushed around filters.

Google’s Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI
Google’s Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI

Noam Shazeer is leaving Google for OpenAI. The man widely credited as a principal architect of Google’s Gemini models and a co-author of the 2017 transformer paper that underpins virtually every modern large language model announced the move himself, o…

ChatGPT’s new Scheduled page puts all your automated tasks in one place

OpenAI is rolling out a dedicated Scheduled page for ChatGPT that lets users view, manage, and monitor all active tasks from the sidebar.

NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI

Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a…