OpenAI reportedly in talks with Helion Energy to ‘buy vast quantities’ of fusion power The Seattle-area fusion company Helion Energy is talking with OpenAI about a deal in which the AI company “would buy… Read More
OpenAI’s Sam Altman appears at Microsoft Build amid dustup over voice technologies OpenAI CEO Sam Altman played the role of closing act for the opening keynote at Microsoft’s Build developer conference in… Read More
OpenAI reinstates Sam Altman to its board, and adds former Gates Foundation CEO OpenAI announced Friday that it is bringing CEO Sam Altman back to the board of directors following his dramatic ouster… Read More
Copilot Pro vs. ChatGPT Plus: Microsoft’s new paid service offers alternative to OpenAI subscription Microsoft’s new $20/month AI chatbot subscription, Copilot Pro, promises to give individual users priority access to the latest AI models,… Read More
NYT v. GPT: Microsoft finds itself on the other side of an industry-defining copyright dispute “Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?” Bill Gates wrote those words in a landmark open letter in… Read More
Sam Altman’s venture fund invests $3M in startup using humans and AI to keep people on task Shelpful, a Portland, Ore.-based startup that combines artificial intelligence and human empathy to help people stay on task and get… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: What’s next for Microsoft and OpenAI; Amazon car sales; disappearing unicorns This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we assess the outcome of the drama at OpenAI, considering what the removal and… Read More
Sam Altman’s return to OpenAI is ‘a first essential step’ to stability, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says OpenAI’s announcement last night that Sam Altman will return as CEO, under a newly formulated board, brings an apparent end… Read More
Satya Nadella: Microsoft will never again get blindsided by OpenAI board if Sam Altman returns The OpenAI saga appears to be in a holding pattern, at least for the moment, as hundreds of employees threaten… Read More
Microsoft emerges victorious from OpenAI meltdown with Sam Altman leading its new AI research team Microsoft turned one of the most bizarre weekends in modern tech history into one of the most consequential for itself… Read More
Podcast Sam Altman’s ouster puts a new twist into OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was as bullish as ever about artificial intelligence and the ChatGPT maker’s latest advances when he… Read More
Sam Altman leaving OpenAI after board says he was ‘not consistently candid in his communications’ Updated at 4:21 p.m. with news of Greg Brockman’s resignation. Sam Altman, one of the most influential leaders in the… Read More
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on possibility of ChatGPT device: ‘We’d like to figure out something amazing’ Reporting from San Francisco: OpenAI rolled out voice interaction as a premium feature for its ChatGPT mobile apps in September,… Read More
OpenAI ‘GPTs’ will let users create customized, personal versions of its AI chatbot Reporting from San Francisco: OpenAI is introducing a way for individual ChatGPT users to create customized versions of its popular… Read More
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman leaves Expedia Group board ‘to focus on his other business interests’ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped down from the Expedia Group board effective June 1, after helping the company get a… Read More
As storm clouds clear for travel, Expedia Group looks to become a bigger tech provider to industry OpenAI CEO Sam Altman opened Barry Diller’s eyes to the potential of artificial intelligence by asking ChatGPT to dish on… Read More
Microsoft builds OpenAI’s ‘dream system,’ an Azure supercomputer that ranks among top 5 in the world Microsoft says it has created one of the world’s top supercomputers for the exclusive use of OpenAI, the San Francisco-based… Read More
Sam Altman joins Expedia Group board, bringing expertise from OpenAI and Y Combinator Sam Altman, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor who leads the OpenAI artificial intelligence company, is joining the Expedia Group… Read More
Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI, vows to build AI tech platform of ‘unprecedented scale’ Microsoft will invest $1 billion in OpenAI and work with the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence powerhouse to create a computational… Read More
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman leads $30M investment in social petition site Change.org, joined by Bill Gates LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is leading a $30 million investment round in the social petition site Change.org, and he is… Read More
