Two weeks after leaving OpenAI, its former “Superalignment” team co-lead Jan Leike announced he had joined the company’s rival, Anthropic, to continue working on AI safety. Meanwhile, another OpenAI rival, Elon Musk’s xAI, announced it had raised $6 billion.
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After an Israeli airstrike on a displaced persons camp in Rafah in southern Gaza killed at least 45 people on Sunday, a post calling for “All Eyes on Rafah” went viral on Instagram Stories. However, the image doesn’t actually show Rafah — and it appears to have been generated by artificial intelligence.
OpenAI is reaching back to its roots with the target of its latest initiative — nonprofits. The artificial intelligence company’s new OpenAI for Nonprofits initiative aims to improve accessibility to ChatGPT Team and Enterprise for nonprofit organizations.
As the banking sector continues to funnel resources into building up its artificial intelligence capabilities and offerings, scammers are leveraging the same technology to carry out fraud.
Apple helped popularize smartphones. Now it’s going to push the world into the next era of telecommunications, this one characterized by a new type of device: AI-powered “IntelliPhones,” said senior Bank of America analyst Wamsi Mohan.
Artificial intelligence could soon find itself an ongoing role in the financial services sector.
Meta has detected and disrupted six new covert influence operations from countries including China, Iran, and Israel that used artificial intelligence-generated content to spread disinformation.
While chipmaker Nvidia sees its stock rally to new highs this year, one of the four stocks it publicly owns is also feeling the rush.
Less than two weeks after leaving OpenAI, one of the company’s former artificial intelligence safety leads announced that he’s landed at one of its rivals.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI just raised $6 billion from heavyweight investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and even a Saudi prince.
AI-generated media imitating public figures have caused a stir across many realms of life — pop culture, religion, politics, and more. As generative artificial intelligence continues to advance, the ease with which we can distinguish the true from the false diminishes. AI-made photos, videos, and audio called “deepfakes” have taken the internet by storm over the last two years, prompting calls for regulation of the technology.
OpenAI announced its new flagship model ChatGPT-4o, or GPT-4 Omni, in mid-May, which can verbally respond to voice commands.
