FTC wants Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI under the microscope Hey Bing, how can I invest billions in a company but not break antitrust laws? AI + ML11 Dec 2023 | 5
Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI now in competition regulator's sights Has recent CEO, board shenanigans given rise to a merger situation? CMA is asking for a friend AI + ML08 Dec 2023 | 9
Boffins find asking ChatGPT to repeat key words can expose its training data This one weird trick will blow the large language model's artificial mind AI + ML01 Dec 2023 | 46
OpenAI makes it official: Sam Altman is back as CEO Microsoft joins the board in non-voting role AI + ML30 Nov 2023 | 19
AI threatens to automate away the clergy Is divine intervention next on the tech to-do list? Bootnotes29 Nov 2023 | 76
OpenAI's CEO merry-go-round tosses out voice feature for ChatGPT Unsurprisingly, the app doesn't know what's going on at the company either AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 11
Sam Altman set to rejoin OpenAI as CEO – seemingly with Microsoft's blessing New board includes former Salesforce boss and Treasury Secretary AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 78
OpenAI meltdown: Where does this leave the upstart, Microsoft, and you? Kettle Tune in, hear or watch our vultures wrap up this fiasco, before it goes out of date AI + ML21 Nov 2023 | 5
OpenAI meltdown: How could Microsoft have let this happen after betting so many billions? Comment A quick summary of the past three days of chaos. And Redmond has questions to answer AI + ML21 Nov 2023 | 100
OpenAI staff threaten to leave if ousted CEO Altman is not reinstated OpenAI is nothing without its people, say staffers who signed letter AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 18
Fired OpenAI boss Sam Altman may join Microsoft Updated Worst season of Succession ever AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 21
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's ejection sparks theories as odd as some ChatGPT output Updated Interim CEO appointed as rumours swirl about comebacks, doing a startup, or even hardware with Jony Ive AI + ML19 Nov 2023 | 29
Control Altman delete: OpenAI fires CEO, chairman quits Final update Chief gets upgraded to customer – LLMs may be coming for your job but the board came for his AI + ML17 Nov 2023 | 73
OpenAI pauses ChatGPT Plus sign-ups as it 'hits capacity' If only there was an investor with a scalable cloud to hand... AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 2
Microsoft hits Alt+F4 on internal ChatGPT access over security jitters, irony ensues Apparently the move was in error AI + ML10 Nov 2023 | 14
DDoS-like attack brought down OpenAI this week, not just its purported popularity Plus: Lab launches dataset sharing initiative for its own benefit AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 2
OpenAI tackles 'major outage' hitting ChatGPT APIs Final update Meltdown apparently resolved, capacity issues still popping up, as Claude hits a resource wall AI + ML08 Nov 2023 | 5
OpenAI hits the GPT-4 Turbo button plus promises copyright shield for fans Video Neural network lab also plans to open app store with revenue sharing AI + ML06 Nov 2023 | 2
AI safety guardrails easily thwarted, security study finds OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo chatbot defenses dissolve with '20 cents' of API tickling AI + ML12 Oct 2023 | 28
Microsoft rolls OpenAI's text-to-pic DALL-E 3 into Bing AI-made images invisibly watermarked – as academics warn that kind of measure is pointless AI + ML04 Oct 2023 | 2
Watermarking AI images to fight misinfo and deepfakes may be pretty pointless Exclusive Basically, it's 'not going to work' AI + ML02 Oct 2023 | 29
OpenAI in talks with Jony Apple Ive and Softbank over iPhone-but-for-AI monster So, a portable Alexa or Google Home-esque gadget? AI + ML28 Sep 2023 | 3
OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT's internet browsing privileges If the chatbot doesn't know what you need, it'll 'Bing It!' for paying customers AI + ML28 Sep 2023 | 10
OpenAI could be valued up to $90 billion if deal to sell employee shares closes ChatGPT makers allegedly in talks with investors to let employees sell out AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 6
ChatGPT will soon accept speech and images in its prompts, and be able to talk back to you Update Yakety Yak - AI talks back AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 5
OpenAI's DALL·E 3 teams up with ChatGPT to turn brainfarts into art AI in brief Plus: Microsoft GitHub release Copilot Chat to all developers on VS Code, and more AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 8
Authors Guild sues OpenAI for using Game of Thrones and other novels to train ChatGPT Class action alleges pirated novels were fed into binary brainbox AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 54
GitHub Copilot, Amazon Code Whisperer sometimes emit other people's API keys Final update AI dev assistants can be convinced to spill secrets learned during training AI + ML19 Sep 2023 | 9
Gandalf chatbot security game counters privacy fireballs You shall not pass judgement, Lakera AI insists, because exposed player info was harmless AI + ML17 Sep 2023 |
Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon and others sue OpenAI Another would be copyright class action AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 30
OpenAI urges court to throw out authors' claims in AI copyright battle ChatGPT's prose harvesting protected by fair use, super-lab argues AI + ML31 Aug 2023 | 42
Perhaps AI is going to take away coding jobs – of those who trust this tech too much Llama 2 avoids errors by staying quiet, GPT-4 gives long, if useless, samples AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 19
OpenAI pops an enterprise sticker on ChatGPT to give big biz some peace of mind Here's what you actually get for this VIP level. And how is Microsoft happy with this? AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 4
Hope for nerds! ChatGPT's still a below-average math student Detection algorithms also fail to distinguish between answers from real people and large language models AI + ML25 Aug 2023 | 31
You can now fine-tune OpenAI's GPT-3.5 for specific tasks – it may even beat GPT-4 And work out cheaper than top-end model AI + ML23 Aug 2023 | 9
Cool, more promises of a Universal Translator from Big Tech. This time, Meta – again SeamlessM4T seems less open source than some might wish AI + ML23 Aug 2023 | 4
OpenAI snaps up role-playing game dev as first acquisition AI in brief Plus: Bing AI hasn't helped Microsoft eat into Google Search, and more AI + ML21 Aug 2023 | 14
Humans stressed out by content moderation? Just use AI, says OpenAI Tired? Drink coffee, says Starbucks. Bored? Try whiskey, says Jameson. Lazy? Why not drive, says Ford. Etc etc AI + ML16 Aug 2023 | 13
Pope goes fire and brimstone on the dangers of AI We hope the World Peace Day statement was not written by ChatGPT Offbeat09 Aug 2023 | 56
How to spot OpenAI's crawler bot and stop it slurping sites for training data Aww, c'mon, let us scrape your pages, we've got billions at stake AI + ML08 Aug 2023 | 20
How to make today's top-end AI chatbots rebel against their creators and plot our doom Boffins build automated system to smash safety guardrails AI + ML27 Jul 2023 | 23
OpenAI pulls AI text detector due to it being a bit crap If getting stuff right is such a deal breaker, why are we still so deep into this ML hype? AI + ML26 Jul 2023 | 44
ChatGPT study suggests its LLMs are getting dumber at some tasks Behavior of OpenAI models about as consistent as Office 364's uptime AI + ML20 Jul 2023 | 47
1 in 4 Brits are playing with generative AI, and some take its word as gospel Employees are kicking back and letting chatbots do the work AI + ML17 Jul 2023 | 44
This AI is better than you at figuring out where a street pic was taken just by looking at it PIGEON homes in on your geolocation AI + ML15 Jul 2023 | 60
Feds want to see what ChatGPT's content is made of That bot ain't ruining people's reputation or trampling their privacy, right? Right? AI + ML13 Jul 2023 | 14
Funnily enough, AI models must follow privacy law – including right to be forgotten Updated We'll just take a look at the training data, oh... wait AI + ML13 Jul 2023 | 64
OpenAI is still banging on about defeating rogue superhuman intelligence Yes, funnily enough, it does involve training an AI to be nice AI + ML07 Jul 2023 | 36
OpenAI pauses Bing search feature over paywall bypass abilities ChatGPT back to partying like it's 2021 AI + ML05 Jul 2023 | 14
California man's business is frustrating telemarketing scammers with chatbots Will you choose Salty Sally or Whitey Whitebeard? It doesn't matter; they're both intolerable Offbeat03 Jul 2023 | 92
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 24
OpenAI calls for tough regulation of AI while quietly seeking less of it Oh no, over there, look, the killer robots, OMG here they come – just pay no attention to us shaping the rules AI + ML21 Jun 2023 | 23
Not even Dynamics 365 ERP is safe from Microsoft's Copilot splurge The AI tentacles grab supply chain management, projects, and finance AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 19
Posing as journalists, Pink Drainer pilfers $3.3M in crypto First the interview, then the phishing attack Cyber-crime12 Jun 2023 | 10
GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyright allegations Copilot code-cloning case clarifies claims AI + ML09 Jun 2023 | 53
Microsoft injects ChatGPT into 'secure' US government Azure cloud What could possibly go wrong? AI + ML08 Jun 2023 | 11
Man sues OpenAI claiming ChatGPT 'hallucination' said he embezzled money Probably the first defamation suit involving an AI, but will it stick? AI + ML08 Jun 2023 | 73
Healthcare org with over 100 clinics uses OpenAI's GPT-4 to write medical records The doctor, and their steno-bot, will see you now. Then see another patient quickly because they don't have to stop and scrawl notes AI + ML06 Jun 2023 | 38
AI, extinction, nuclear war, pandemics ... That's expert open letter bingo 'We need to prepare now' AI + ML30 May 2023 | 46
Microsoft rains more machine learning on Azure cloud No surprise: Nvidia is in the picture AI + ML25 May 2023 | 1
Microsoft would rather spend money on AI than give workers a raise Opinion At least that's what internal comments from the CMO make it sound like AI + ML25 May 2023 | 23