Jan 27 Watch 5:50 Chinese AI startup DeepSeek shakes up industry and disrupts financial markets By Geoff Bennett, Karina Cuevas A China-based artificial intelligence startup is shaking up the industry. It’s called DeepSeek and its biggest advantage, analysts say, is that it can operate at a lower cost than American AI models like ChatGPT. It's disrupting markets and raising national… Continue watching
Dec 22 OpenAI whistleblower who raised legal concerns about ChatGPT's datasets has died By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26. Continue reading
Jun 10 Apple bringing 'Apple Intelligence' to its popular products By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press Apple jumped into the race to bring generative artificial intelligence to the masses during its World Wide Developers Conference Monday, previewing an onslaught of features designed to soup up the iPhone and other devices. Continue reading
Jun 06 AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text as early as 2026 By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press A new study released Thursday by research group Epoch AI projects that tech companies will exhaust the supply of publicly available training data for AI language models by roughly the turn of the decade -- sometime between 2026 and 2032. Continue reading
May 28 OpenAI establishes safety committee as new artificial intelligence model begins training By Associated Press The committee's first job will be to evaluate and further develop OpenAI’s processes and safeguards, the company will then publicly release the recommendations it's adopting “in a manner that is consistent with safety and security.”… Continue reading
Mar 13 Europe's world-first AI rules get final approval from lawmakers. Here's what happens next By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press Lawmakers in the European Parliament have voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Artificial Intelligence Act, five years after regulations were first proposed. Continue reading
Mar 06 OpenAI says Musk agreed the ChatGPT maker should become a for-profit company By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press OpenAI has attacked a lawsuit from Elon Musk, saying he supported making the ChatGPT maker a for-profit company. Musk has sued, accusing the company of betraying its founding goal to benefit humanity as it pursued profits instead. Continue reading
Jan 30 ChatGPT violated European Union privacy laws, Italy tells chatbot maker OpenAI By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press Italian regulators say they informed OpenAI that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot has violated European Union's stringent data privacy rules. Continue reading
Nov 22 Watch 4:27 Why OpenAI reversed course and brought Sam Altman back as CEO By Geoff Bennett, Kyle Midura Sam Altman is returning as the chief executive of OpenAI. The hot tech startup behind ChatGPT is not only bringing Altman back, it’s also overhauling the board that fired him, ending a dramatic five-day standoff that’s transfixed Silicon Valley and… Continue watching
Nov 20 Microsoft hires Sam Altman, new OpenAI CEO vows to investigate his ouster By Courtney Bonnell, Matt O'Brien, Associated Press The developments come Monday after a weekend of drama and speculation about how the power dynamics would shake out at OpenAI. Continue reading