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OpenAI backtracks OpenAI’s decision to scale back its ambitious corporate reorganization has drawn lots of scrutiny, including what the plan means for artificial intelligence safety, potential profits for investors and an ongoing fight with Elon Musk. What’s emerging is that in some ways, how OpenAI operates isn’t changing much. But there are still plenty of…
“Oh, wow, this is really cool,” Flannery Johnston, 28, said as the chatbot came to life, offering a personalized hello from M3GAN, the diabolical A.I. doll at the center of the movie. Over the next 20 minutes, the chatbot served up about 10 messages. One was a question: “Do you think they’re inventing other dolls…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City, Feb. 26, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Amazon reported better-than-expected results for the first quarter. The stock fell more than 4% in extended trading. Here’s how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: Earnings per share:…
Worldcoin co-founders Sam Altman and Alex Blania. Worldcoin OpenAI CEO Sam Altman‘s eye-scanning venture officially makes its U.S. debut Thursday. Altman co-founded “World” in 2019 — known as Worldcoin until last year — to create a global identity verification system for people, using iris scans and the blockchain to ideally fight against fraud and bots. Here’s…
Thrive Capital has bet big on artificial intelligence, including emerging giants of the field like OpenAI and Databricks. Now the venture capital firm is taking a different approach: creating and buying companies that it believes can benefit from A.I. — including in industries that seem far more humdrum, such as accounting — and holding on…
Omar Marques | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images On Friday, Meta and Booz Allen Hamilton launched “Space Llama.” Llama, Meta’s open-source artificial intelligence model, will help astronauts in low orbit at the International Space Station‘s National Laboratory with research. “We see a future where open source AI models like Llama will play a…
Ziff Davis, the digital publisher behind tech sites like Mashable, PCMag and Lifehacker, sued OpenAI on Thursday, joining a wave of media companies accusing the artificial intelligence giant of stealing its content. Ziff Davis is one of the largest publishers in the United States, with more than 45 sites globally that together attract an average…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on during an event at the startup campus Station F, on the sidelines of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, in Paris on Feb. 11, 2025. Aurelien Morissard | AFP | Getty Images Before entering into talks to acquire artificial intelligence code-writing startup Windsurf, OpenAI looked at buying another option: Cursor….
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at a panel discussion at the Technical University in Berlin on Feb. 7, 2025. John Macdougall | Afp | Getty Images OpenAI is in talks to pay about $3 billion to acquire Windsurf, an artificial intelligence tool for coding help, CNBC has confirmed. Windsurf, formerly known as Codeium, competes with…
This week, the actress Brooke Shields posted an image of an action-figure version of herself that came with a needlepoint kit and a pet terrier. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, imagined her own figurine accompanied by a gavel and a Bible. These hyper-realistic dolls are nowhere to be found in toy stores, at…