OpenAI chief Sam Altman is close to raising $100 million for his eyeball-scanning Worldcoin crypto project, report says

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Sam Altman is set to raise $100 million for his crypto project Worldcoin, according to the Financial Times.

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Microsoft bets that a fusion power plant from Helion Energy will be operating this decade

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Polaris is a prototype fusion reactor from Helion Energy. The startup announced a deal with Microsoft to provide the tech giant with electricity produced from fusion.

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ChatGPT cost a bomb to make with OpenAI's losses growing to $540 million last year, report says

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes his startup could be "the most capital-intensive" in Silicon Valley history.

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Tech CEOs threaten to end remote work, infuriating workers hit by mass layoffs and dwindling perks

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Tech firms that once championed remote work now seem to be less enthusiastic about it.

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Tim Cook says AI is 'huge,' but flags the need to be 'deliberate and thoughtful' on how Apple deploys it

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AI is "huge," but it needs to be carefully deployed, Apple's CEO Tim Cook said during the company's second-quarter earnings call Thursday.

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Inside OpenAI's Sam Altman's fixation on death and the apocalypse

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When asked about employees' concerns over AI risk, Sam Altman told Insider, "We debate our approach frequently and carefully."

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Ex-OpenAI researcher says there's a 50% chance AI development could end in 'doom'

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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.

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Microsoft's chief scientific officer says there's no need for a pause on AI — despite what Elon Musk says

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Microsoft exec Eric Horvitz (left) told Fortune it's "reasonable" for people to be concerned about the development of AI, but said we need to "jump in, as opposed to pause," like Elon Musk and some others have called for.

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10 Things in Tech: Amazon Slack, industry extinction, and top EVs

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OpenAI now lets you disable your ChatGPT history so your conversations aren't used to train AI models — here's how to do it

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ChatGPT now lets users disable their chat history, so their conversations won't be used to help train OpenAI's models.

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