As OpenAI prepares to open up ad sales to more marketers next month, it is trying to address what some advertisers say was lacking in the initial ad sales offering. Among other things, the ChatGPT creator is planning to streamline the process of ad buying, either in partnerships with ad tech firms or with its own ad management system. So far, advertisers that bought the first ad campaigns on ChatGPT... Read more ›
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The sleepy Friday between Christmas and New Year’s turned out to be not so sleepy after all. President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief with the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon asking to delay the effective date of a law banning TikTok. The law will ban TikTok on Jan. 19—one day before Trump takes office—unless it can find a buyer that satisfies U.S. national security concerns about the app.Trump’s brief wasn’t... Read more ›
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Lawyers for president-elect Donald Trump told the Supreme Court Friday that Trump opposes banning TikTok in the U.S. “at this juncture” and would like to “resolve the issues at hand” once he takes office. The brief by Trump’s lawyers was one of several filed Friday about the law, which bans the ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s lawsuit to stop OpenAI from moving to a fully for-profit structure has gained another supporter. Encode, a youth organization that advocates for issues related to artificial intelligence, submitted an amicus curiae brief on Friday, effectively arguing that OpenAI and its technologies ... Read more ›
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Do Kwon, 33, the co-founder of Terraform Labs, will be extradited to the U.S. for prosecution rather than his home country South Korea, according to the government of Montenegro. Kwon faces criminal charges of fraud over the 2022 collapse of TerraUSD and Luna cryptocurrencies and is wanted by ... Read more ›
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One of Neal Stephenson’s favorite texting buddies is Seamus Blackley, a creator of the Xbox when he was at Microsoft and a former agent at Creative Artists Agency. Their friendship extends back years, and they often trade notes and thoughts on whatever technology has come to fascinate them. A while ago, they got to talking about radiation and nuclear power, and they settled on a challenge: They’d each build a... Read more ›
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Bench, a Vancouver, Canada-based bookkeeping startup that had raised more than $100 million from well-known venture capital firms, has cut off its service to customers, effectively immediately, according to a message posted to its website and an e-mail sent to customers. The company also laid ... Read more ›
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OpenAI on Friday revealed more details about its plan to get its for-profit arm out from under its nonprofit’s control, changes which The Information first reported on in June. In a blog post, the ChatGPT maker said it planned to convert its existing for-profit entity into a public benefit ... Read more ›
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To train artificial intelligence–powered robots to pick a book off a shelf a decade ago, researchers had to direct the robots to perform the task roughly 500 times before the robots learned to imitate the motion, recalls Brad Porter, founder and CEO of Collaborative Robotics, which is developing robots to work in hospitals and warehouses. These days the robots can successfully grab a book after only 20 trials—which is “much... Read more ›
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has agreed to create a joint venture with South Korean retailer E-Mart. The new South Korean e-commerce joint venture could be valued at about $4 billion, Bloomberg reported. The companies plan to launch the joint venture next year, according to a ... Read more ›
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A lot of eyes were on Netflix on Christmas Day—not just to see whether the Kansas City Chiefs could clinch their home-field advantage in the playoffs by beating the Pittsburgh Steelers (they did), or if Beyoncé could put on a Super Bowl–worthy halftime show during a regular-season game in Houston (she did). Those eyes were also scrutinizing the event to see whether Netflix could successfully stream NFL games a month... Read more ›
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Netflix said its exclusive live streams of two Christmas Day NFL games on Wednesday drew more than 24 million viewers, on average—a high point in live sports streaming but typical for what NFL games attract on broadcast TV. In total, Netflix said its two NFL telecasts reached nearly 65 million ... Read more ›
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Leaders of Microsoft and OpenAI have talked a lot publicly about artificial general intelligence, a term that has been defined as when artificial intelligence can surpass human performance in a variety of tasks. But behind the scenes, the companies last year agreed that AGI would be achieved ... Read more ›
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To sell more artificial intelligence, Microsoft has bundled its Copilot AI assistant—which is similar to ChatGPT—with its Office 365 productivity apps in Australia and Southeast Asia for individual customers. It’s also charging them a higher subscription for the new bundle, prompting at least ... Read more ›
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Dealmakers, it’s been a history-making year. OpenAI raised $6.6 billion, the largest venture capital fundraise in history—only to have Databricks beat that record with its $10 billion haul in December. Then there were the acqui-hires, topped by Google paying $2.7 billion for the talent and technology behind Character AI.But the year wasn’t just up and to the right. Several well-known startups shut down, including fintech Synapse, which filed for bankruptcy... Read more ›
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Finally, a verifiable, numbers-based description of artificial general intelligence has arrived!Whether AGI has or hasn’t been “achieved” by AI developers has been a hotly debated topic due to its fuzzy and subjective definition. OpenAI has publicly described AGI as automated systems that outperform people at “most economically valuable work,” but nobody can agree on what that means.Now we have clarity, thanks to this story Amir and I published this morning.... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to convert the artificial intelligence developer, which is governed by a nonprofit, into a for-profit corporation. His biggest hurdle is Microsoft, which has outsize influence on the process after having committed more than $13 billion to OpenAI. The companies have been negotiating potential changes in OpenAI’s structure since around October. Those talks have focused on four areas: Microsoft’s equity stake in the for-profit entity; whether... Read more ›
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As the Teamsters union ramps up an organizing push aimed at Amazon, the owners of the thousands of independent companies that deliver orders for the e-commerce titan are growing increasingly jittery about their future. In a private chat group for owners of those businesses—subcontractors whom Amazon says are the legal employers of the hundreds of thousands of drivers that wear Amazon uniforms and drive Amazon vans—the mood is dark. Some... Read more ›
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Taiwan’s antitrust regulator on Tuesday said it would block Uber’s proposed $950 million acquisition of Foodpanda’s food delivery service on the island. The regulator, the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission, said the bid for the Taiwanese business of Foodpanda, which is owned by Germany’s Delivery ... Read more ›
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Christmas Eve is usually the last day of a frantic holiday sprint for staff at e-commerce and logistics companies, after which they can expect to kick back and enjoy a comparatively calm couple of months. Not this year. Virtually any business that moves its products across borders has to be on guard as world leaders jockey to position themselves ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration and a likely escalation in the... Read more ›
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Founders Fund is in talks with investors to raise around $3 billion for a new growth-stage-focused fund, according to a person with knowledge of the fundraising efforts. The fundraising efforts, expected to culminate early next year, come after the Peter Thiel-led firm cut the size of its eighth ... Read more ›
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