Sources: OpenAI is finalizing a $40B round led by SoftBank, receiving $10B initially and another $30B by 2025's end if it restructures into a for-profit company
A stipulation of the funding round, led by SoftBank, adds pressure to OpenAI's efforts to convert to a for-profit company
OpenAI's board unanimously rejects the $97.4B bid by Elon Musk and a consortium of investors, calling it “Mr. Musk's latest attempt to disrupt his competition”
Bret Taylor, the chairman of OpenAI's board, said the artificial intelligence company was “not for sale.”
Elon Musk files for an injunction to halt OpenAI's for-profit transition, alleging that OpenAI is discouraging investors from backing rivals like xAI, and more
Attorneys for tech billionaire Elon Musk have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders …
Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law …
Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here's what to know.
Google Research details VLOGGER, an AI model that can generate lifelike videos of people speaking, gesturing, and moving, from a single photo and an audio clip
TikTok's US popularity is not just a national security issue but also highlights the failure of the US tech industry to come up with an equally addictive app
Beijing won't say yes to a TikTok divestment. Washington should admit it's as much about a lack of tech innovation as it is about national security.
The US House Energy and Commerce Committee advances a bill that would force ByteDance to divest TikTok, after TikTok's campaign reportedly enraged legislators
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Some news creators and journalists, who moved from X to Threads, criticize Meta for planning to stop recommending political content on Instagram and Threads
Some news creators and journalists, who moved to Threads from X, criticize Meta after it announced it would stop recommending political content on Threads
The platform announced it won't recommend “social commentary” or political news. — Meta announced on Friday it would stop proactively …
Sources: Google plans to use Gemini across nearly its entire line of products and in Pixie, an upcoming AI assistant that will be exclusive to its Pixel devices
Source: OpenAI's board had agreed to resign and let Sam Altman and Greg Brockman return, but has since waffled; Altman would want significant governance changes
The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to CEO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
Apple plans to adopt the GSM's RCS messaging standard by releasing a software update “later next year”, bringing iMessage-style features to cross-platform texts
In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard.
Sources: the UK is using OpenAI tech to develop Gov.uk Chat, an AI chatbot to help people pay taxes and access pensions, marking the UK's biggest use of AI yet
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