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Musk claimed the request was to “ensure OpenAI was not being taken advantage of or corrupted by Microsoft,” but two weeks later, he appeared on national TV, insinuating that OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft was “improper,” OpenAI alleged. Eventually, Musk announced xAI in July 2023, and that supposedly motivated Musk to deepen his harassment campaign, “this time using the courts and …

Sam Altman is in the process of co-founding a new brain-to-computer interface startup called Merge Labs and raising funds for it with the capital possibly coming largely from OpenAI’s ventures team, unnamed sources told the Financial Times.  The startup is expected to be valued at $850 million. A source familiar with the deal tells TechCrunch that talks are still early …

Elon Musk Says Grok Will Be Fixed After Chatbot Sided With Sam Altman In Spat Over Potential OpenAI Lawsuit  Forbes Musk threatens ‘immediate’ legal action against Apple over alleged antitrust violations  CNBC Why Elon Musk is threatening to sue Apple over Grok’s App Store ranking  Yahoo Finance Musk-Altman rivalry devolves into lawsuit threats, insults in social media brawl  Axios Musk Takes Fight With OpenAI …

Elon Musk has threatened legal action against Apple on behalf of his artificial intelligence startup xAI, accusing the iPhone maker of favoring OpenAI and breaching antitrust regulations in managing the rankings in its App Store. The posts elicited snide responses from Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, and began a spat between the two former business partners on X. “Apple is …

I’m annoyed, not for the first time, by something Sam Altman has said. But this time it’s because I’m annoyed at how much I agree with what he’s saying — even though I think his statement is kind of bullshit. In a recent interview, journalist Cleo Abram asked Altman how people will be able to tell what’s real and what’s …

OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years time college graduates will be working ‘some completely new, exciting, super well-paid’ job in space  Fortune As AI Kills Jobs, Sam Altman Says Gen Z Are The ‘Luckiest’ Kids In History  NDTV Sam Altman says Gen Z are the ‘luckiest’ kids in history thanks to AI, despite mounting job displacement dread  yahoo.com ChatGPT CEO Sam …

Amid the cutthroat war for AI talent, tech giants are offering astronomical sums to lure a tiny pool of top engineers from rivals. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expects the market for these geniuses to remain intense, but estimated there are “many thousands of people” capable of making key discoveries in superintelligence who could conceivably be found. The amounts of money …

Some ChatGPT users were so attached to the chatbot’s “yes man” style that they asked OpenAI to bring it back, Sam Altman has said. The OpenAI CEO said there was a “heartbreaking” reason — because some users said they had never had anyone support them before. “Here is the heartbreaking thing. I think it is great that ChatGPT is less …

OpenAI is bringing back GPT-4o less than 24 hours after replacing it with GPT-5. CEO Sam Altman and his team opened a Reddit forum to answer user questions on Friday after launching GPT-5 for free, only to come under fire as Reddit users heavily complained about the new bot’s tone, called it “lobotomized,” and shed actual tears over the disappearance …

After a GPT-5 rollout that was “a little more bumpy” than expected, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is bringing back GPT-4o — with a catch. During a Reddit AMA (and also on X), Altman said GPT-4o will soon be available again for paid ChatGPT users. “Ok, we hear you all on 4o,” said Altman. “Thanks for the time …