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Source: The Verge When I saw my colleague Kylie Robison’s story about OpenAI’s new image generator on Tuesday, I thought this week might be fun. Generative AI images raise all kinds of ethical issues, but I find them wildly entertaining, and I spent large chunks of that day watching other Verge staff test ChatGPT in…
Source: The Verge Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella moved quickly to get DeepSeek’s R1 deployed on Azure in January. Nadella appeared to have anticipated the rise of a breakthrough like R1, and now he says a new bar has been set for the company’s own AI work. Speaking at an employee-only town hall last month, Nadella…
Source: Live Mint OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently found himself at the centre of an unexpected social media trend, as users began generating Studio Ghibli-style portraits of him using OpenAI’s latest image creation tool. Embracing the development, Altman updated his profile picture and posted on X, “Changed my pfp but maybe someone will make me…
Source: The Verge OpenAI is pushing back the rollout of ChatGPT’s built-in image generator for free users. In a post on Wednesday, CEO Sam Altman admitted that the image-generation tool is more popular than he expected, adding that “rollout to our free tier is unfortunately going to be delayed for awhile.” GPT-4o comes with improvements…
Source: The Verge OpenAI is integrating Sora’s image generation capabilities directly into ChatGPT starting today — this feature is dubbed “Images in ChatGPT.” While Sora was previously only accessible through a separate website, users can now use it to generate images within ChatGPT itself. Sora was announced as an AI-powered video generator, but this initial…
Source: Live Mint San Francisco-based OpenAI has rolled out significant updates to its Advanced Voice Mode, aiming to make its AI-powered voice assistant more engaging and less intrusive during conversations. The latest enhancements, announced on Monday, address a common issue faced by users—frequent interruptions from the AI when they pause to think or take a…
Source: The Verge In a significant executive shuffle announced Monday, OpenAI is expanding COO Brad Lightcap’s responsibilities while CEO Sam Altman shifts his attention more toward the company’s technical direction. The news was first reported by Bloomberg. Lightcap will now “oversee day-to-day operations,” international expansion, and manage key partnerships with tech giants like Microsoft and…
Source: Live Mint Tencent Holdings Ltd. unveiled an upgraded AI reasoning model, the latest bid by China’s most valuable company to compete for leadership in the country’s crowded artificial intelligence field. The Shenzhen-based company rolled out the latest iteration of Hunyuan T1, which debuted last month in its chatbot app Yuanbao. T1 operates similarly to…
Source: The Verge A privacy complaint has been filed against OpenAI by a Norwegian man who claims that ChatGPT described him as a convicted murderer who killed two of his own children and attempted to kill a third. Arve Hjalmar Holmen says that he wanted to find out what ChatGPT would say about him, but…
Source: The Verge When AI giant OpenAI submitted its “freedom-focused” policy proposal to the White House’s AI Action Plan last Thursday, it gave the Trump administration an industry wishlist: use trade laws to export American AI dominance against the looming threat of China, loosen copyright restrictions for training data (also to fight China), invest untold…
