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OpenAI will soon allow “erotica” for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform. In an X post on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will add support for mature conversations when it launches age-gating in December. “As we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our ‘treat adult users like adults’ principle, we will …

At nearly the same moment as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was expressing surprise over OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar deal with competitor AMD — shortly after his company agreed to invest up to $100 billion into the AI model maker — Sam Altman was saying that more such deals are in the works. Huang appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Wednesday. When asked …

AMD announced a long-term partnership with OpenAI on Monday that will make it one of the startup’s key chip suppliers for running its AI models. The company’s stock jumped 28% in midday trading on the news of the multiyear deal, which could generate tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue for AMD over time and marks one of the largest …

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doing what he does best: warning of AI-related doom that he doesn’t sound all that pressed about. Last week, while touring one of OpenAI’s mammoth data centers being built in Abilene, Texas, Altman had a pretty casual outlook when he was asked about a bubble that could financially decimate the entire industry. “Between the ten …

OpenAI’s Altman seeks funds for infrastructure expansion on Asia, Middle East tour, WSJ reports  Reuters OpenAI’s Hunger for Computing Power Has Sam Altman Dashing Around the Globe  The Wall Street Journal Samsung and SK join OpenAI’s Stargate initiative to advance global AI infrastructure  OpenAI Samsung, SK Hynix Ink Deal to Supply Gear to OpenAI’s Stargate  Bloomberg.com What Impinj (PI)’s AI-Driven Semiconductor Demand Boost Means …

OpenAI may be reversing course on how it approaches copyright and intellectual property in its new video app Sora. Prior to Sora’s launch this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI had been telling Hollywood studios and agencies that they needed to explicitly opt out if they didn’t want their IP to be included in Sora-generated videos. Despite being …

Jeff Bezos joined Sam Altman in admitting the existence of an AI bubble—but Amazon’s founder sees upside. Recently, many AI-related companies have seen voracious optimism and spikes in valuations. In August, the OpenAI CEO told reporters the AI market was in a bubble. When bubbles happen, “smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth,” Altman warned, drawing parallels with the …

Earlier this week, OpenAI announced a “strategic partnership” with AI chipmaker Nvidia in which the duo of tech giants will build and deploy upwards of 10 gigawatts of AI data centers. Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in the project, an enormous project that could end up requiring an astronomical amount of electricity to run. As Fortune reports, the …

Newly announced changes to the H-1B visa program sparked confusion and chaos in Silicon Valley over the weekend, but two of tech’s most prominent leaders seem optimistic. CNBC interviewed Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday about changes to the H-1B program, days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order adding a $100,000 fee to the …

On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company was attempting to balance privacy, freedom, and teen safety — principles that, he admitted, were in conflict. His blog post came hours before a Senate hearing focused on examining the harm of AI chatbots, held by the subcommittee on crime and counterterrorism and featuring some parents of children who died …