If you’re burnt out over generative AI hype, you’re not alone.
Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he’s putting together a group of investors to try and buy TikTok on Thursday. The company maintains it’s not for sale, but the app is in jeopardy after the House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would force its parent company ByteDance to sell the platform or…
Silicon Valley’s richest nerds seem dead certain that AI will make our world a better place. Not everyone is so convinced, however. At SXSW this week, a sizzle reel that featured conference panelists talking effusively about the new technology was roundly booed by disgusted audience members.
Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard whose employees famously started publicly shit-talking as soon as he was out the door, is reportedly looking for a new company to rule. Word on the street is that the company is TikTok.
Elon Musk said his startup xAI will open-source Grok later this week, revealing the inner workings of the chatbot to anyone who wants to dissect the AI or build a competing product. The announcement — which came just before 3 am Monday morning in Texas, where Musk makes his home — is short on details, but it’s…
OpenAI’s founders published a scathing response to Elon Musk’s lawsuit Tuesday night, claiming that Musk made a power grab to achieve “absolute control” of the A
Elon Musk has never shied away from critiquing OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT that he cofounded back in 2015. He doesn’t like the fact that the company decided it wants to make money after it was founded as a nonprofit. Now, Musk is doing something about it: He’s asking a court to force OpenAI to carry out its…
Journalist Kara Swisher’s long-anticipated memoir Burn Book hit the shelves today. Apparently, a long list of other writers have also been hard at work writing about her experience as well. On the day after her book launch, Amazon is flooded with AI-generated Swisher biographies, complete with cover art from beyond…
The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for copyright infringement and claims that the influential tech startup used its journalistic material to train its chatbot, ChatGPT, without paying the proper licensing fees.