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“The OpenAI Files” reveals deep leadership concerns about Sam Altman and safety failures within the AI lab

A new report dubbed “The OpenAI Files” aims to shed light on the inner workings of the leading AI company.

Fortune

A film about Sam Altman being kicked out of OpenAI is reportedly about to get underway

Artificial has yet to be cast, but big names are circling.

Fortune

OpenAI scientists wanted "a doomsday bunker" before AGI surpasses human intelligence and threatens humanity

Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever reportedly expressed concerns about AGI, proposing "a doomsday bunker" to seek refuge in an unprecedented disaster.

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‘Every person that clashed with him has left’: the rise, fall and spectacular comeback of Sam Altman

From Elon Musk to his own board, anyone who has come up against the OpenAI CEO has lost. In a gripping new account of the battle for AI supremacy, writer Karen Hao says we should all be wary of the power he now wields

The Guardian - UK

OpenAI ex-chief scientist planned for a doomsday bunker for the day when machines become smarter than man

Sutskever believed his AI researchers needed protection once they ultimately achieved their goal of creating artificial general intelligence, or AGI.

Fortune

The oxymoron of Mira Murati’s reported $2 billion seed round

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has reportedly doubled the amount of funding she’s seeking to raise for her startup Thinking Machines Lab.

Fortune

Sam Altman's ouster as OpenAI CEO was reportedly a cocktail of deception and toxicity, with Microsoft at the center of it all

An exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal details how Microsoft unveiled OpenAI's unreleased GPT-4 to the world without joint approval from the safety board.

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The 2012 source code for AlexNet, the precursor to modern AI, is now on Github thanks to Google and the Computer History Museum

One of the first modern neural networks makes its way to Github.

PC Gamer

OpenAI’s ex-policy lead accuses the company of ‘rewriting’ its AI safety history in new safety post

A former policy lead at OpenAI is accusing the company of rewriting its history with a new post about the company's approach to safety and alignment.

Fortune

OpenAI co-founder's new AI startup that outsmarts humans in a safe way is heading for a $30 billion-plus valuation

A $30 billion valuation would make Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence one of the most valuable private AI companies.

Fortune

Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI

The comments come amid increased attention on a global AI race between the U.S. and China.

Fortune

Sam Altman says he ‘stalked’ his OpenAI cofounder to convince him to join the company

Altman cornered Ilya Sustkever at a 2014 conference to help him build an artificial general intelligence.

Fortune

Google AI Studio boss says AGI will "look a lot like a product release" after Sam Altman claimed the benchmark would pass with surprisingly little societal impact

Google AI Studio's product manager, Logan Kilpatrick recently indicated that artificial super intelligence (ASI) is achievable without a keen focus on intermediate products or model releases.

Windows Central

OpenAI's legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI 'dictatorship'

A 7-year-old dispute between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and best avoid an artificial intelligence ‘dictatorship’ is now heading to a federal judge as Musk seeks to halt the ChatGPT maker’s ongoing conversion into a for-profit company

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Former OpenAI researcher launches $40M startup to unlock AI’s emotional intelligence

Backed by $40 million from a16z, Alexis Conneau’s new startup Waveforms is taking his work on OpenAI's voice mode to the next level.

Tom’s Hardware

OpenAI execs mused over Cerebras acquisition in 2017 — to mitigate predicted Nvidia supply woes

To reduce reliance on Nvidia, OpenAI considered to take over Cerebras.

Tom’s Hardware

Musk's concerns over Google DeepMind 'AI Dictatorship' revealed in emails from 2016 — communications released during the recent OpenAI court case

Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI has revealed a lot of juicy emails detailing the thoughts of the nonprofit's leadership.

PC Gamer

Open AI co-founder reckons AI training has hit a wall, forcing AI labs to train their models smarter not just bigger

Seems the LLMs have run out of arguments on Reddit to scrape...

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The Conversation

What is AI superintelligence? Could it destroy humanity? And is it really almost here?

In 2014, the British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a book about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) with the ominous title Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. It proved highly influential in promoting the idea that advanced AI systems – “superintelligences” more capable than humans – might one day take over the…

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OpenAI’s reputational double whammy

AGI safety lead Miles Brundage warns of “misalignment between private and societal interests” as former staffer Suchir Balaji adds fuel to copyright suits.

Windows Central

OpenAI gains veteran support from a former Microsoft AI researcher — potentially expediting the ChatGPT maker's trajectory toward Sam Altman's coveted AGI benchmark

Sebastian Bubeck, one of Microsoft's top AI researchers, recently left the company to join OpenAI. He spearheaded operations on small language models like the lightweight Phi AI models.

Windows Central

Nobel Prize winner claims Sam Altman was fired for prioritizing profits over safety as Steam faces the heat for its crude sales strategy

As OpenAI raised $6.6 billion in investment from Microsoft and NVIDIA, an AI artist argued that people are stealing from him by using AI. We also saw a major update to Windows 11 roll out and Microsoft ship the latest version of Office.

The Independent UK

Changing OpenAI's nonprofit structure would raise questions about its future

The artificial intelligence maker OpenAI may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded to $157 billion

The Independent UK

AI is having its Nobel moment. Do scientists need the tech industry to sustain it?

Hours after the artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize in physics, he drove a rented car to Google’s California headquarters to celebrate

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Nobel Prize winner claims former OpenAI Chief Scientist fired Sam Altman because he "is much less concerned with AI safety than profits" — and suggests superintelligence might be on the horizon: "We have maybe 4 years left"' before human extinction

Nobel Prize winner and physicist gives former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever a hat tip for his contributions to developing safe AI and firing Sam Altman for his missteps, including focusing on generating focus and abandoning the firm's founding mission.

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