Sam Altman reportedly courted Pang for months. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Ruoming Pang, a prominent A.I. researcher recruited by Meta last year with a pay package reportedly worth more…
Read more Ruoming Pang, Meta’s $200M Superintelligence Hire, Jumps to OpenAI After Just 7 MonthsThe proliferation of AI data centers plugging into the national electrical grid has helped increase consumer electricity prices, driving up the average national electricity price by more than…
Read more The White House wants AI companies to cover rate hikes. Most have already said they would. | TechCrunchTech giants’ efforts to ramp up AI adoption in India may be about to hit a turning point, as companies end free promotions with hopes to convert the…
Read more India’s AI boom pushes firms to trade near-term revenue for users | TechCrunchOpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn’t worried about AI’s increasingly glaring resource consumption, and argued humans require a lot too. In an on-stage interview at the India AI Impact…
Read more Sam Altman gets defensive about AI’s massive electricity usage: ‘It takes a lot of energy to train a human’ | FortuneWith OpenAI on the verge of finalizing a new $100 billion round, and Anthropic just closing its own monster $30 billion raise, one thing is clear: The concept…
Read more With AI, investor loyalty is (almost) dead: At least a dozen OpenAI VCs now also back Anthropic | TechCrunchSam Altman challenged critics of A.I.’s water and electricity consumption. Photo by John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images Sam Altman is pushing back on mounting criticism over the environmental…
Read more Sam Altman Defends A.I. Energy Use With Human Comparison, Sparking DebateAt last week’s India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, industry leaders convened to discuss the future of artificial intelligence and how best to squeeze it into parts…
Read more Sam Altman: Know What Else Used a Lot of Energy? Human CivilizationOpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI’s environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express. For one thing, Altman — who…
Read more Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunchAn 18-year-old who allegedly killed eight people in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, reportedly used OpenAI’s ChatGPT in ways that alarmed the company’s staff. Jesse Van…
Read more OpenAI debated calling police about suspected Canadian shooter’s chats | TechCrunchShare Some PayPal users have started to receive email from the company confirming a data breach that exposed personal information to a threat actor who gained access to…
Read more PayPal confirms data breach, OpenAI considered alerting police about shooter – Tech DigestBOSTON — Artificial intelligence is being used for everything from guiding self-powered cars and developing life-saving medicines to powering online search engines that help you find a plumber…
Read more State to use AI to improve governmentMove over, PayPal mafia: There’s a new tech mafia in Silicon Valley. As the startup behind ChatGPT, OpenAI is arguably the biggest AI player in town. The company is reportedly now in talks to finalize a $100…
Read more The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni | TechCrunchIn the last year, AI agents have become all the rage. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic all launched public-facing agents designed to take on multi-step tasks handed to them…
Read more New Research Shows AI Agents Are Running Wild Online, With Few Guardrails in PlacePhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Meta’s hard and early pivot into artificial intelligence hasn’t exactly gone as planned, with tens of billions of investment dollars sunk into middling…
Read more Big AI Isn’t Waiting for the BacklashAs India pitches itself as a global hub for applied artificial intelligence, OpenAI has partnered with Pine Labs to integrate AI-driven reasoning into the fintech firm’s payments stack,…
Read more OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership | TechCrunchHumain CEO Tareq Amin’s $3 billion investment in xAI positions Saudi Arabia at the center of a rapidly shifting global A.I. power structure. Photo by Amal Alhasan/Getty Images…
Read more Humain CEO Tareq Amin Injects $3B Into Elon Musk’s xAI to Power Saudi A.I. AmbitionsOpenAI has hired Instagram’s vice president of global partnerships, Charles Porch, to serve as the AI company’s first-ever vice president of global creative partnerships. The newly created position…
Read more Exclusive: OpenAI Has Poached Instagram’s Celebrity WhispererA federal district court in Northern California ruled in favor of Cameo, a platform that allows users to get personalized video messages from celebrities, and ordered OpenAI to…
Read more U.S. court bars OpenAI from using ‘Cameo’ | TechCrunchIndia has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, making the country one of OpenAI’s largest markets globally, CEO Sam Altman said ahead of a government-hosted AI summit. On…
Read more India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, Sam Altman says | TechCrunchA.I. pioneer Fei-Fei Li is lending her support to Simile’s effort to simulate human behavior at scale. John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images Every three months, public companies brace…
Read more Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy Back a New A.I. Use Case: Simulating Human Behavior