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 …
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Elon Musk Says Grok Will Be Fixed After Chatbot Sided With Sam Altman In Spat Over Potential OpenAI Lawsuit – Forbes
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 …
Read More »Elon Musk threatens Apple with lawsuit over OpenAI, sparking Sam Altman feud | Elon Musk
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 …
Read More »Musk threatens Apple and calls OpenAI boss a liar as feud deepens
X owner Elon Musk has threatened Apple with legal action after claiming it had made it “impossible” for apps to compete with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI in its App Store. He called OpenAI boss Sam Altman a “liar” – after Altman claimed Musk used his platform to “benefit himself and his own companies”. The row is the latest flashpoint in what is …
Read More »Musk Accuses Apple of Unfairly Favoring OpenAI on iPhone – Bloomberg.com
Musk Accuses Apple of Unfairly Favoring OpenAI on iPhone Bloomberg.com Musk threatens ‘immediate’ legal action against Apple over alleged antitrust violations CNBC Elon Musk threatens to sue Apple over app store ranking of his AI app CNN Musk Attacks Apple For Not Featuring Grok On App Store ‘Must Have’ List Forbes Elon Musk threatens to sue Apple over App Store rankings Financial Times Source link
Read More »Elon Musk Threatens Major Apple Lawsuit Over OpenAI App Store Ranking
Elon Musk has a bone to pick with Apple. In a series of tweets late Monday night, Musk said xAI would take legal action against Apple for what he says is its bias toward OpenAI on the App Store. “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the …
Read More »Elon Musk accuses Apple of favoring OpenAI in App Store rankings
Elon Musk is (once again) going after Apple, this time accusing the company of an “unequivocal antitrust violation” for allegedly favoring OpenAI in the App Store’s AI rankings. Here are the details. A bit of context Last month, xAI released Grok 4, its latest large language model, promising major performance gains over leading competitors. Since then, the company has also …
Read More »OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt
OpenAI’s GPT-5 model was meant to be a world-changing upgrade to its wildly popular and precocious chatbot. But for some users, last Thursday’s release felt more like a wrenching downgrade, with the new ChatGPT presenting a diluted personality and making surprisingly dumb mistakes. On Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to X to say the company would keep the previous …
Read More »OpenAI brings GPT-4o back online after users melt down over the new model
Following the rollout of OpenAI’s latest GPT-5 model earlier this week, a certain user base was adamantly calling for the return of the previous GPT-4o model. Outspoken users complained about the writing quality of the updated model, with some even going so far as to grieve the loss of GPT-4o, which some said they considered a friend and confidant. In …
Read More »Sam Altman: OpenAI will bring back GPT-4o after user backlash
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 …
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