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.
Check out those and other highlights from the week in AI news.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Apple $AAPL 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 $BAC analyst Wamsi Mohan.
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Artificial intelligence could soon find itself an ongoing role in the financial services sector.
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Meta $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.
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While chipmaker Nvidia $NVDA sees its stock rally to new highs this year, one of the four stocks it publicly owns is also feeling the rush.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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OpenAI announced its new flagship model ChatGPT-4o, or GPT-4 Omni, in mid-May, which can verbally respond to voice commands.
