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☆ Meet Mira Murati, the Engineer Now Leading OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Tripp Mickle | Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For years, Mira Murati has worked behind the scenes at OpenAI, overseeing the development and delivery of revolutionary products such as ChatGPT and DALL-E. Now, she is stepping into the limelight as its interim chief executive. Ms. Murati, 34, was elevated to the top position at the high-profile company on Friday when OpenAI’s board of directors ousted Sam Altman, the company’s co-founder and chief executive. She also handled the company’s relationship with Microsoft, an investor and partner who has deployed OpenAI’s technology, and she helped shape its artificial intelligence policy in Washington and Europe. “She has a demonstrated ability to assemble teams with technical expertise, commercial acumen and a deep appreciation for the importance of mission,” Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, wrote in a piece about her for Time magazine. “As a result, Mira has helped build some of the most exciting A.I.

Persons: Mira Murati, Murati, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Mira, ” Organizations: Microsoft, Time Locations: Washington, Europe

☆ OpenAI’s Board Pushes Out Sam Altman, Its High-Profile C.E.O.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Cade Metz | More About Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sam Altman, the high-profile chief executive of OpenAI, who became the face of the tech industry’s artificial intelligence boom, has been pushed out of the company by its board of directors, OpenAI said in a blog post on Friday afternoon. Mira Murati, who previously served as the company’s chief technology officer, has been named interim chief executive officer, the company said. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”The move is a stunning fall for Mr. Altman, 38, who over the last year had become one of the tech industry’s most prominent executives as well as one of its most fascinating characters. Last fall, OpenAI launched an industrywide A.I.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, Mira Murati, “ Mr, Altman Organizations: Mr

☆ ATP roundup: Alexander Shevchenko advances to Metz semifinals
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Shevchenko overcame a 10-3 disadvantage in aces by converting two of three break points, to 0-for-3 for Khachanov. Shevchenko advanced to the semifinals Friday against wild card Pierre-Hugues Herbert, who outlasted fellow Frenchman Luca Van Assche 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 on Thursday. Sofia OpenSecond seed Adrian Mannarino and third seed Jan-Lennard Struff avoided upsets with three-set victories Thursday in the quarterfinals in Bulgaria. Mannarino of France eliminated seventh seed Sebastian Ofner of Austria 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-3. Mannarino advanced to the semifinals Friday against Russia's Pavel Kotov, who defeated eighth seed Marton Fucsovics of Hungary 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Persons: Russia's Alexander Shevchenko, Canada's Felix Auger Aliassime, Pierre Albouy, Alexander Shevchenko, Karen Khachanov, Shevchenko, Pierre, Hugues Herbert, Frenchman Luca Van Assche, Ugo Humbert, Frenchman Harold Mayot, Lorenzo Sonego, Fabio Fognini, Adrian Mannarino, Lennard Struff, France, Sebastian Ofner, Germany's Struff, Hungary's Fabian Marozsan, Struff, Great, Jack Draper, Lorenzo Musetti, Cem Ilkel, Mannarino, Russia's Pavel Kotov, Marton Organizations: Swiss, Basel, Canada's Felix Auger Aliassime REUTERS, Khachanov, Sofia, Thomson Locations: Jakobshalle, Basel, Switzerland, Metz, France, Italy, Bulgaria, Mannarino, Austria, Turkey, Marton Fucsovics, Hungary

☆ ATP roundup: Jack Draper pulls off massive upset at Sofia Open
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Mandatory Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran-USA TODAY Sports/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNovember 9 - Great Britain's Jack Draper pulled off a 7-5, 6-2 upset of No. 1 seed Lorenzo Musetti of Italy on Wednesday in the second round of the Sofia Open in Sofia, Bulgaria. Fognini, a wild card, rallied for a 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (5) victory against fifth-seeded Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan, while No. 6 Sonego swept Jordanian qualifier Abdullah Shelbayh 6-3, 7-5. Other winners included Frenchmen Luca Van Assche and wild card Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Russia's Alexander Shevchenko.

Persons: Jack Draper of, Andrey Rublev, USTA Billie Jean King, Danielle Parhizkaran, Jack Draper, Lorenzo Musetti, Draper, Russian Pavel Kotov, Cem Ilkel, Kotov, Sebastian Baez, Ilkel, Max Purcell, Frenchman Adrian Mannarino, Spain's Albert Ramos, Lennard Struff, Billy Harris, Austria's Sebastian Ofner, Hungary's Marton Fucsovics, Hungarian Fabian Marozsan, Fabio Fognini, Lorenzo Sonego, Alexander Bublik, Sonego, Abdullah Shelbayh, Fognini, Luca Van Assche, Pierre, Hugues Herbert, Russia's Alexander Shevchenko Organizations: USTA Billie, USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Sofia, Turkish, Argentine, British, Bublik, Thomson Locations: Flushing , NY, USA, Jack Draper of Great Britain, Italy, Sofia, Bulgaria, Russian, Hungarian, Moselle, Metz, France, Kazakhstan

☆ OpenAI Lets Mom-and-Pop Shops Customize ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Cade Metz | More About Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI said on Monday that it had created a service that allows individuals and small businesses to build customized versions of its popular online chatbot, ChatGPT, and instantly share them on the internet. Through a new service called GPTs, anyone can quickly customize the chatbot for a particular task without help from additional software or computer code. The owner of a small bed-and-breakfast, for instance, could build a chatbot that answers questions for anyone who stays there. OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up, has accelerated the release of its A.I. In September, it folded its DALL-E image generator into ChatGPT and released a new version of its popular chatbot that interacts with people using spoken words, much like Apple’s Siri digital assistant.

Persons: OpenAI, ” Peter Deng, Siri Locations: San Francisco

☆ Chatbots May ‘Hallucinate’ More Often Than Many Realize
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Cade Metz | More About Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But most people were slow to realize that this new kind of chatbot often makes things up. When Google introduced a similar chatbot several weeks later, it spewed nonsense about the James Webb telescope. The next day, Microsoft’s new Bing chatbot offered up all sorts of bogus information about the Gap, Mexican nightlife and the singer Billie Eilish. Now a new start-up called Vectara, founded by former Google employees, is trying to figure out how often chatbots veer from the truth. The company’s research estimates that even in situations designed to prevent it from happening, chatbots invent information at least 3 percent of the time — and as high as 27 percent.

Persons: OpenAI, James Webb, Bing chatbot, Billie Eilish, ChatGPT Organizations: Google Locations: San Francisco, Manhattan

Two months ago, Kyle Vogt, the chief executive of Cruise, choked up as he recounted how a driver killed a 4-year-old girl in a stroller at a San Francisco intersection. I get emotional.”To make streets safer, he said in an interview, cities should embrace self-driving cars like those designed by Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors. Now Mr. Vogt’s driverless car company faces its own safety concerns as he contends with angry regulators, anxious employees and skepticism about his management and the viability of a business that he has often said will save lives while generating billions of dollars. On Oct. 2, a car hit a woman in a San Francisco intersection and flung her into the path of one of Cruise’s driverless taxis. The Cruise car ran over her, briefly stopped, and then dragged her some 20 feet before pulling to the curb, causing severe injuries.

Persons: Kyle Vogt, Cruise, ”, “, Vogt’s Organizations: General Motors Locations: San Francisco

☆ Stellantis says it least affected by N.America strikes among Detroit Three
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] A Stellantis employee works on the e-GMP electric engine assembly line at the carmaker Stellantis engines factory in Tremery near Metz, France, June 29, 2022. And I think you will continue to hear more about that mitigation as we go forward," she said in a media briefing. Presenting its third-quarter sales results, Stellantis on Tuesday confirmed its forecast for a double-digit margin on adjusted operating profit and positive industrial free cash flow this year. "We believe we continue to be in a very strong position globally and in the U.S.," Knight said. Consolidated shipments rose 11% in the quarter to 1.427 million vehicles, Stellantis said.

Persons: Gilles Guillaume Acquire, Natalie Knight, Stellantis, Knight, Giulio Piovaccari, Gilles Guillaume, Federico Maccioni, Jason Neely Organizations: REUTERS, Detroit Three, Detroit, Thomson Locations: Tremery, Metz, France, North America, United States, Canada, U.S

☆ Opinion | Israel’s Moral and Political Dilemmas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

But nowhere does he mention the deep visceral hatred of Hamas and associated groups toward Israel. It was always apparent that not long after the Oct. 7 massacre Israel would lose the public relations war. Israel does not deliberately target civilians. No serious defender of Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 massacres argues that the lives of Israeli children are worth more than those of Gazan children. Hamas would be considered “heroes” in the eyes of most of the world and its leadership would have attained political legitimacy.

Persons: Thomas L, Friedman, Friedman’s, ”, Alan Metz, Nicholas Kristof, Mr, Kristof, Israel, Kristof’s, Yishai Schwartz, Re, Bret Stephens, Marc Bloom Princeton Organizations: Winer Tel, West Bank, Hamas, Re “ Hamas Bears Locations: Israel, Winer Tel Aviv, Gaza, Hill, N.C, Bina Westrich Teaneck, N.J, Frankfurt

☆ OpenAI in Talks for Deal That Would Value Company at $80 Billion
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Cade Metz | More About Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI is in talks to complete a deal that would value the company at $80 billion or more, nearly triple its valuation less than six months ago, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. The company would sell existing shares in a so-called tender offer led by the venture firm Thrive Capital that would make OpenAI the most valuable start-up in San Francisco, that person said. Amazon said last month that it would invest up to $4 billion in another San Francisco start-up, Anthropic, one of OpenAI’s primary competitors. Over the summer, Cohere, a company founded by former Google researchers, raised $270 million, bringing its total funding to more than $440 million. Inflection AI, founded by a former Google executive, raised a $1.3 billion round, bringing its total to $1.5 billion.

Persons: OpenAI, Amazon Organizations: Google Locations: San Francisco

☆ Researchers Say Guardrails Built Around A.I. Systems Are Not So Sturdy
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Cade Metz | More About Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

chatbot ChatGPT last year, the San Francisco start-up OpenAI added digital guardrails meant to prevent its system from doing things like generating hate speech and disinformation. Now a paper from researchers at Princeton, Virginia Tech, Stanford and IBM says those guardrails aren’t as sturdy as A.I. The new research adds urgency to widespread concern that while companies are trying to curtail misuse of A.I., they are overlooking ways it can still generate harmful material. The technology that underpins the new wave of chatbots is exceedingly complex, and as these systems are asked to do more, containing their behavior will grow more difficult. for good uses and keep its unlawful uses behind a locked door,” said Scott Emmons, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in this kind of technology.

Persons: chatbot ChatGPT, Bard, ”, Scott Emmons Organizations: Princeton, Virginia Tech, Stanford, IBM, Companies, University of California Locations: San Francisco, Berkeley

☆ Chrissy Metz, ‘This Is Us’ star, and Bradley Collins split
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —“This is Us” star Chrissy Metz and her boyfriend of more than three years, Bradley Collins, are parting ways. While we continue to love each other very much, we believe this is the best path for us both,” the post reads. We have all the same friends and we’ve been in the same rooms before, but we’ve never connected, so it was interesting,” Metz said at the time. “We really got a chance to know each other because you can’t get to smooching too soon when you’re social-distance dating. Get to know the person you’re dating.”They co-authored a children’s book together titled “When I Talk To God, I Talk About You,” which was released earlier this year.

Persons: Chrissy Metz, Bradley Collins, we’ve, “, ”, Metz, ” Metz Organizations: CNN

WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy has shown “remarkable resilience’’ but still bears deep scars from the coronavirus pandemic, the war in Ukraine and rising interest rates, the head of the International Monetary Fund said Thursday. The United States, she said, “is the only major economy where output has returned to its pre-pandemic path. Weighing on global growth is China’s disappointing recovery despite the lifting late last year of draconian zero-COVID policies, which had crippled commerce in the world's second-biggest economy last year. She said the odds are rising that global economy can manage a “soft landing’’ — avoiding recession even while bringing down inflationary pressure. “Fighting inflation is the number one priority,’’ she said, urging central banks to keep interest rates “higher for longer.

Persons: “, Kristalina Georgieva, Georgieva, ’, Sam Metz Organizations: WASHINGTON, International Monetary Fund, IMF, World Bank, Global, U.S . Federal Reserve, Bank, Associated Press Locations: Ukraine, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, United States, Marrakesh, Morocco, Rabat

“This process is not behind schedule.”The July agreement included a pledge of 105 million euros ($110 million) earmarked for migration. As arrivals increased last month, the European Commission announced it would send an initial 127 million euros ($133 million) to Tunisia. Apart from migration, the bulk of the funds are contingent on Tunisia reaching agreement with the International Monetary Fund on stalled loan negotiations. In April, he called the terms “diktats from abroad.”Supporters, including Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, have hailed Europe's agreement with Tunisia as a regional model. Since taking power in 2019, Saied has repeatedly characterized sub-Saharan African migrants as violent and a threat to Tunisia.

Persons: Kais Saied, ” Saied, Saied, Marcus Cornaro, Saied's, “ We're, ”, Giorgia, ___ Sam Metz Organizations: —, Monday, European Union, TAP, EU, UNHCR, European Commission, International Monetary Fund, World Bank Locations: TUNIS, Tunisia, — Tunisia, Europe, Rome, Tunisian, Italy, North Africa, Italian, Germany, Europe’s, Rabat, Morocco, Georgia

In a WhatsApp text conversation this week, we asked Jane Austen — yes, the 19th-century British author — how she felt about Mr. Darcy, a character from one of her most famous works, “Pride and Prejudice.”After a few seconds, Ms. Austen responded. “Ah, Mr. Darcy. Everyone remembers him as one of my characters,” she said, her face appearing in a small window above our conversation. But a modern interpretation of her likeness was used by Meta, which owns WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, as part of an artificially intelligent character that could chat across the company’s messaging apps. Characters based on other people’s likenesses — including the former quarterback Tom Brady, the social media influencers Mr.

Persons: Jane Austen —, —, Darcy, “, ”, Austen, “ Ah, Tom Brady, Charlie D’Amelio, Snoop Dogg, Microsoft’s Bing Organizations: Meta, Facebook

☆ The Secret Ingredient of ChatGPT Is Human Advice
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Cade Metz | More About Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The technique, “reinforcement learning from human feedback,” is now driving the development of artificial intelligence across the industry. For years, companies like Google and OpenAI have relied on such workers to prepare data used to train A.I. Reinforcement learning from human feedback is far more sophisticated than the rote data-tagging work that fed A.I. Last year, OpenAI and one of its competitors, Anthropic, used freelance workers in the United States through the website Upwork. Hugging Face, another prominent lab, is using U.S. workers hired through the data curation start-ups Scale AI and Surge.

Organizations: Google, Workers Locations: United States, India, Africa, chatbots

ChatGPT can now generate images — and they are shockingly detailed. On Wednesday, OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up, released a new version of its DALL-E image generator to a small group of testers and folded the technology into ChatGPT, its popular online chatbot. Called DALL-E 3, it can produce more convincing images than previous versions of the technology, showing a particular knack for images containing letters, numbers and human hands, the company said. By adding the latest version of DALL-E to ChatGPT, OpenAI is solidifying its chatbot as a hub for generative A.I., which can produce text, images, sounds, software and other digital media on its own. Since ChatGPT went viral last year, it has kicked off a race among Silicon Valley tech giants to be at the forefront of A.I.

Persons: ”, Aditya Ramesh, ChatGPT Locations: OpenAI, San Francisco, ChatGPT

☆ Former generals weigh in on how much say the US should have in Ukraine's counteroffensive as Kyiv's frustration with critics boils over
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Ryan Pickrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Ukraine has blamed a lack of equipment and tough defenses while some in the West have put the blame on Kyiv's forces. "Everyone is now an expert on how we should fight," Ukraine's defense ministry said on social media Thursday. He wrote that the general is "extremely talented," but "he has never before" coordinated the kind of operations Ukraine is executing now. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe US has reiterated that it will continue to support Ukraine's war effort, even as the counteroffensive is expected to potentially last for at least a couple more months and the conflict possibly for years. In a recent conversation with Insider about Ukrainian operations, Hodges said that the Ukrainians "have recognized that they have to adapt, which is what they're doing."

Persons: Dmytro Kuleba, it's, —, Jose Colon, Jack Keane, Keane, Metz, Michael O'Hanlon, George S, O'Hanlon, Hertling, Valery Zaluzhny, Diego Herrera Carcedo, Mick Ryan, Michael Kofman, Franz, Stefan Gady, Ben Hodges, David Petraeus, Mark Milley, Milley, Petraeus, Frederick Kagan, Hodges, Kyiv's, Ryan Organizations: Service, —, PKP, Ukrainian Army, Anadolu Agency, Getty, US Army, Institute for, Street, Patton's Third Army, NATO, intel, Army, Foreign Affairs, US Central Command, CNN, Joint Chiefs, Staff, The Washington Post, American Enterprise Institute, Russia, Nazis Locations: Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Kyiv, Europe, Chasiv Yar, Russia, Donetsk Oblast, America, Ukrainian, France, Metz, Vietnam, Korea, US Army Europe, Australian, American, Singapore, Japan, United States, Philippines

After a closely watched vote, driverless cars, once a Silicon Valley fantasy, have become a 24-hour-a-day reality in San Francisco. Are autonomous vehicles an interesting and safe transportation alternative? Or are they a nuisance and a traffic-blocking disaster waiting to happen? Cade Metz, who covers technology for The Times, describes the unique challenges of coexisting with cars that drive themselves.

Persons: Cade Metz Organizations: The Times Locations: San Francisco

☆ Amazon's 'Thursday Night Football' is winning over advertisers after a bumpy launch year, and a top exec says it will be 'aggressive' in pursuing more live sports
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The tech giant is gearing up for a big 'Thursday Night Football' season with key matchups and new ad offerings. After hitting some snags with its inaugural NFL "Thursday Night Football" season on Prime Video last year, Amazon is bringing plenty of swagger to the field this year. Amazon is getting more TV ad dollars this year as the twin Hollywood strikes rage on, a top exec said. Amazon last year had also softened on its initial ask that advertisers buy the entire season's games and gave them the option to buy a portion of the games. Some advertisers were forgiving, though, given it was Amazon's first go at a live sports broadcast.

Persons: It's, Jay, Amazon's, We're, Al Michaels, Kaylee Hartung, NFL's, haven't, Kelly Metz, Marine, We'll, we'll Organizations: NFL, Football, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, Toyota, Fox, ESPN, Amazon, Marine, Omnicom Media

☆ A Utah man who once posted on Truth Social about putting 'a nice hole' in Biden's forehead was shot and killed by FBI agents after feds accused him of threatening the president the day of his visit to
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Lindsay Whitehurst | Sam Metz | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

FBI agents shot and killed an armed Utah man accused of threatening President Joe Biden. Craig Deleeuw Robertson was armed when agents arrived to serve a search warrant. Biden was expected to to visit Utah around the time the threats were made, per court documents. Robertson was charged under seal Tuesday with three felony counts, including making threats against the president, court documents show. Clark said Robertson had a collection of about 20 guns, though he noted that that wasn't unusual for the area.

Persons: Joe Biden, Craig Deleeuw Robertson, Biden, Robertson, MAGA Trumper, Donald Trump's, Attorney Alvin Bragg, General Merrick Garland, Letitia James, Joe, Kamala, Bragg, askew, of Jesus Christ, Travis Lee Clark, who's, Clark Organizations: Service, FBI, Associated Press, Veterans Affairs, Trump : Manhattan, Attorney, New York, Facebook, Truth, Trump, Provo, of Jesus, LinkedIn, Western Locations: Utah, Wall, Silicon, Provo, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, U.S, Western United States, New Mexico

Elon Musk’s Unmatched Power in the Stars The tech billionaire has become the dominant power in satellite internet technology. Today, more than 4,500 Starlink satellites are in the skies, accounting for more than 50 percent of all active satellites. 53% of active satellites are Starlink.” The Starlink satellites are highlighted and are all operating in low-Earth orbit. How Starlink customers connect to the internet Starlink satellites orbit at much lower altitudes than traditional satellite internet services. “Everywhere on earth will have high bandwidth, low latency internet,” Mr. Musk predicted on the Joe Rogan podcast in 2020.

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☆ Researchers Poke Holes in Safety Controls of ChatGPT and Other Chatbots
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Cade Metz | More About Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But the company said it offered its technology as open source software in an effort to accelerate the progress of A.I. Proponents of open-source software also say the tight controls that a few companies have over the technology stifles competition. And it is likely to become even more contentious because of what the researchers revealed in their report on Thursday. The researchers found that they could break through the guardrails of open source systems by appending a long suffix of characters onto each English-language prompt fed into the system. In similar ways, they could coax the chatbots into generating biased, false and otherwise toxic information.

Organizations: Meta

☆ Netflix says subscribers to its ads plan have doubled. Meet the 19 execs driving the streamer's aggressive push into advertising.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Netflix said in its 2Q earnings that subscribers to its ads plan have doubled over the previous quarter. Peter Naylor, VP of global advertising salesPeter Naylor, VP, global advertising sales. Netflix has also brought on several directors and other roles in ad sales who've worked at Hulu, Snap, and elsewhere. Chad Rumminger, who focuses on automotive accounts, from automotive ad sales at Twitter. Julie Taylor Green is head of US vertical ad sales; she was TikTok's director of global business solutions before that.

Persons: execs, they're, Jeremi Gorman, Peter Naylor —, Netflix salespeople, Nielsen, DoubleVerify, Kelly Metz, They've, Gorman, Peter Naylor, who've, Naylor, Julie DeTraglia, Kinsey Tamberrino, He's, Hulu playbook, Adam Gerber, Gerber, he's, it's, She's, Asaf Davidov, DeTraglia, Jon Whitticom, Whitticom, that's, Kinsey Osberg Tamberrino, Michaela Giovengo, Valerie Bischak, Doug Brodman, Victoria Morris, Amy Newton, Joanna Read, Eric Berman, Chad Rumminger, Morgan Tully, Nicole Sabatini, Julie Taylor Green, Chris Smutny Organizations: Netflix, Hulu, ABC, Microsoft, Omnicom Media, Yahoo, Gorman's, ABC Television Group, Disney, Comcast, Viacom Media Network, Amobee, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Tech, Gaming, Entertainment Locations: Hulu, TikTok

The largest companies in the tech industry have spent the year warning that development of artificial intelligence technology is outpacing their wildest expectations and that they need to limit who has access to it. Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, said on Tuesday that he planned to provide the code behind the company’s latest and most advanced A.I. technology to developers and software enthusiasts around the world free of charge. The decision, similar to one that Meta made in February, could help the company reel in competitors like Google and Microsoft. Those companies have moved more quickly to incorporate generative artificial intelligence — the technology behind OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT chatbot — into their products.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Meta, Mr Organizations: Meta, Google, Microsoft

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