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☆ The DOJ wants Google to sell its Chrome browser. Here are the winners and losers if that happens.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Hugh Langley | Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The Justice Department on Wednesday asked the judge in its antitrust case against Google to force the company to sell its Chrome browser. "Advertisers would find competitors for their business, rather than needing to pay a dominant search engine." When you open Chrome and type something into the search bar at the top, these words are automatically transformed into a Google Search. And when there's an option for users, Google pays partners billions of dollars to set its search engine as the default. For instance, if most people click on the third result, Google's Search engine will likely adjust and rank that result higher in the future.

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☆ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was paid $76,001 last year
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Its CEO, however, was paid a relatively modest five figures at OpenAI in 2023, filings show. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was paid $76,001 in compensation in 2023 to lead what's now one of the most valuable startups in the world, the company's tax filings for the year showed. During a hearing before a senate judiciary subcommittee in May 2023, Altman said he gets "paid enough for health insurance" and that he receives no equity in OpenAI. Bloomberg estimated in March 2024 that the CEO is worth at least $2 billion, not including any stake he may have in OpenAI. Altman denied during an all-hands meeting with employees that there were plans for him to receive a "giant euqity stake," CNBC reported.

Persons: Sam Altman, what's, Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Chris Clark, Sutskever, Clark, OpenAI Organizations: Microsoft, Census Bureau, Social Security Administration, Bloomberg, CNBC Locations: OpenAI, San Francisco County

☆ Matthew McConaughey got so tired of playing the 'romcom dude' that he moved to Texas and rejected a $14.5 million role
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Erin Liam | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The "Interstellar" actor rejected a $14.5 million role to star in an action comedy. In Wednesday's episode of "Good Trouble" with Nick Kyrgios, McConaughey, 55, said that saying "no" is more important than saying "yes." That was my lane, and I liked that lane, that lane paid well, and it was working," he said. The offer was originally at $8 million, but McConaughey rejected it. Warren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has been quoted as saying, "The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything."

Persons: Matthew McConaughey didn't, Matthew McConaughey, Nick Kyrgios, McConaughey, Joe, who's, Paul Reiser, Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, Sam Altman Organizations: Dallas Buyers, Business, Berkshire, Stanford University, OpenAI's, Business Insider Locations: romcoms, Texas, California, Hollywood

☆ AI systems could 'turn against humans': Tech pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns of artificial intelligence risks
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Lucy Handley | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Professor Yoshua Bengio, at the One Young World Summit in Montreal, Canada, on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024Famed computer scientist Yoshua Bengio — an artificial intelligence pioneer — has warned of the nascent technology's potential negative effects on society and called for more research to mitigate its risks. Machines could soon have most of the cognitive abilities of humans, he said — artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a type of AI technology that aims to equal or better human intellect. Yoshua Bengio Head of the Montreal Institute for Learning AlgorithmsSuch outcomes are possible within decades, he said. There are arguments to suggest that the way AI machines are currently being trained "would lead to systems that turn against humans," Bengio said. Yoshua Bengio Head of the Montreal Institute for Learning AlgorithmsCompanies developing AI must also be liable for their actions, according to the computer scientist.

Persons: Yoshua Bengio, —, Bengio, CNBC's Tania Bryer, That's, we're, OpenAIhas, It’s, Yoshua, — that's, OpenAI Organizations: Young, Summit, University of Montreal, Montreal Institute, Machines, Intelligence, CNBC, Learning Locations: Montreal, Canada, AGI, U.S, Rwanda, Swiss

☆ Exclusive: Prompt Security raises $18 million to help companies better secure generative AI tools like ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Leena Rao | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Founded in 2023, Prompt Security helps businesses close security gaps associated with AI usage. Later, he focused on building security software at Checkpoint and Orka Security. His latest venture, Prompt Security, is helping companies manage the cybersecurity risks associated with generative AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Gemini. Related VideoAlmost 30% of companies deploying AI had an AI security breach in 2023, according to a Gartner survey. Golan explains that as employees use generative AI tools like chatbots, new threats emerge with data, intellectual property, and more.

Persons: Itamar Golan, Golan Organizations: Security, Israel Defense Forces, Orka, Business, Jump Capital, Hetz Ventures, Ridge Ventures, Gartner, Fortune, The New York Times, Palo Alto Networks Locations: cybersecurity

☆ Business spending on AI surged 500% this year to $13.8 billion, says Menlo Ventures
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Business spending on generative AI surged 500% this year, from $2.3 billion in 2023 to $13.8 billion, according to data released by Menlo Ventures on Wednesday. The report also found that OpenAI ceded market share in enterprise AI, declining from 50% to 34%. Anthropic doubled its market share from 12% to 24%. Although OpenAI and Anthropic dominated companies' AI model use, he said, people are "juggling models" and that habit is "not a well-understood piece of data." Meta 's market share stayed at 16% and Cohere's share remained at 3%.

Persons: Anthropic, OpenAI, Tim Tully, Claude, Tully, that's, Mistral's, Google's, Anthropic's Claude, —, chatbots Organizations: Menlo Ventures, Menlo, CNBC, Google, Microsoft Locations: Anthropic

AdvertisementElevenLabs is raising new funding, boosting its valuation to over $3 billion, according to multiple sources. The startup is aiming to raise $200 million in the round, according to one source. Details of the latest funding round are not yet finalized, and the figures involved are subject to change. The company has been increasing its targeted round size and valuation during the process of raising funding, according to these sources. Funding for voice technology companies has picked up even as some of the shine comes off the digital intelligence category as a whole.

Persons: ElevenLabs, Andreessen Horowitz, Piotr Dąbkowski, Mati Staniszewski's, Kleiner Perkins, ElevenLab's Organizations: Ventures, Iconiq Locations: ElevenLabs, OpenAI

☆ OpenAI head of product shares 5 tips for using ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementOpenAI Head of Product Nick Turley said users should experiment with ChatGPT's voice mode. Turley offered chatbot users tips on how to upload documents or make their own GPTs. Many people use ChatGPT to create recipes or write work emails, but OpenAI's Head of Product Nick Turley has some handy tips users might want to try. ChatGPT's voice feature comes in nine human-like voices developed with professional voice actors, which can be changed in the website's settings, according to the company. "It is a completely different way of using ChatGPT," Turley said.

Persons: Nick Turley, Turley, OpenAI, It's, they've, ChatGPT, you've Organizations: Twitter, Pixar, Enterprise

☆ Microsoft Copilot's underperformance is the latest red flag for investments in AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The big storyA Copilot conundrumMicrosoft; Chelsea Jia Feng/BIMicrosoft's challenges with its flagship AI product could be another red flag for an industry with high hopes for the tech. Earlier this year, analysts at Barclays highlighted an under-the-radar risk to AI bets: the depreciation costs related to AI chips . A potential Trump trade plan beneficiary: US semiconductor jobs. If Trump's proposed trade plan is enacted, the American semiconductor industry could see hiring growth. Walmart might be just fine under Trump's proposed trade plan.

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☆ Former Google X employees come out of stealth with TwinMind, an AI app that hears and remembers everything about you
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementTwinMind, founded by former Google X employees, builds an AI assistant to better understand you. A startup formed from a handful of former Googlers — specifically Google X, the skunkworks lab that explores sci-fi moonshot ideas — is coming out of stealth. Related storiesWolverine originsAt Google X, George was the first machine learning scientist on Wolverine, a hearing wearable project first reported on by Business Insider in 2021. AdvertisementWhen ChatGPT launched in late 2022, George was working at JPMorgan with TwinMind cofounder and CTO Sunny Tang, a Google X alum. AdvertisementHe said they figured it out and claims the TwinMind app can run for 12 hours in the background non-stop before running out the battery.

Persons: —, Jarvis, Marvel's Tony Stark, it's, Daniel George, Dan Roth, Rocketship, Anand Rajaraman, Michael Liou, galore, George, you've, TwinMind, ChatGPT, Sunny Tang, Siri, they're Organizations: Google, Oracle, Business, JPMorgan, Android Locations: Robinhood

☆ Google Gemini gets Marc Benioff's stamp of approval
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

His latest fascination is Google's Gemini Live, an AI voice assistant. Marc Benioff gave Google's AI voice assistant, Gemini Live, his stamp of approval. "Just downloaded Gemini Live, and I'm absolutely blown away," he wrote in an X post on Sunday. Google released a smartphone app for Gemini Live on Apple's App Store on Thursday, just a few months after the virtual assistant was made free for users. We already have that live," Benioff said.

Persons: Marc Benioff, Benioff, Sundar Pichai, Copilot, Insider's Ashley Stewart, OpenAI's ChatGPT, ChatGPT's, Axios, Jensen Huang, David Sacks Organizations: Gemini, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Apple Intelligence, Business, BI, Pacific, Nvidia Locations: Francisco

☆ OpenAI ranks fourth among top tech vendors that IT leaders plan to spend the most with, survey finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-17 | by ( Helen Li | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

AdvertisementOpenAI ranks fourth among vendors that IT leaders plan to spend the most with, per a Flexera survey. The report surveyed 800 IT leaders on their priorities for the coming year. OpenAI ranks fourth among top vendors that IT leaders are currently or planning to spend the most with next year, according to a newly released industry report. Flexera, a software asset management company, released its 2025 IT Priorities Report based on a survey of 800 IT leaders from the US, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia. This was the first year that OpenAI debuted on the survey list as an option.

Persons: OpenAI Organizations: Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, Oracle, Khosla Ventures, Tiger, Nvidia Locations: United Kingdom, Germany, Australia

☆ Meet the OpenAI mafia: These 23 former employees left the AI juggernaut and founded startups that have collectively raised billions
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-16 | by ( Samantha Stokes | Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, and Sam McCandlish, cofounders of AnthropicAnthropic's Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, and Daniela Amodei. Since then, the company has received billions in funding from both Google and Amazon in what some have termed an "AI arms race." CEO Dario Amodei, a former Google Brain researcher with a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience, has been writing about the cataclysmic potential of AI since 2016. Constitutional AI is partly the brainchild of two other OpenAI alums and Anthropic cofounders, Tom Brown and Jared Kaplan. Both Kaplan and Brown have worked on Anthropic's efforts to "red team" the company's flagship language model, Claude, probing for misuse possibilities.

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☆ Activist ValueAct is poised to trim fat and help boost profits at Meta Platforms. Here’s how
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-16 | by ( Kenneth Squire | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Now, ValueAct has engaged another titan of the market, Meta Platforms, announcing an approximately $1 billion dollar position in the company. With the stock price up about 56% in 2024, ValueAct still sees significant untapped value in Meta. ValueAct has shown at Microsoft and Salesforce that it is very good in helping companies trim fat and build muscle. The AI spending, while concerning to some in the market, can be the muscle that strengthens Meta's core FoA business. It should more than justify Meta's AI spend.

Persons: ValueAct, Mason Morfit, Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's GPT, Meta, Martha Stewart Living, Ken Squire Organizations: Reality Labs, Facebook, Microsoft, Meta, RL, Spotify, OpenAI, Adobe, New York Times, Expedia, Century Fox, KKR, 13D Locations: Salesforce

☆ Read the casual emails between Elon Musk and Sam Altman that kicked off OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-16 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementElon Musk amended his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, adding Microsoft as a defendant. Musk included emails between himself and Altman from 2015 in which they discussed starting OpenAI. Elon Musk unveiled several emails between himself and fellow billionaire Sam Altman this week as evidence in the Tesla CEO's lawsuit against Altman and OpenAI, shining a light on the casual beginnings of the now-$157 billion company. Musk helped found OpenAI in 2015 but has frequently criticized the company and its leaders in the years since. The SpaceX CEO left the AI startup in 2018.

Persons: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Musk, Altman, OpenAI, Sam Musk, Bill Gates, Pierre Omidyar, Dustin Moskovitz, we'd, Peter Thiel, I've, Semafor Organizations: OpenAI, Microsoft, Business, SpaceX, Google, YC, Manhattan Project

☆ Elon Musk says OpenAI's compensation is 'lavish.' Here's how much employees get paid.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-15 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk is doubling down on his lawsuit against OpenAI, and he's taking issue with what they pay employees. AdvertisementSo just how much does OpenAI pay its employees? Since it's a private company, OpenAI isn't required to report compensation data in the way public companies must. Levels.fyi, which tracks compensation data at tech firms and startups, says total yearly compensation at OpenAI ranges from $144,275 for a technical writer to $1,338,750 for a software engineer. OpenAI's median yearly total compensation is $534,197, according to data reported on the tracker.

Persons: Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, OpenAI, Musk, Sam Altman, Roger Lee, Hoffman, Greg Brockman Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, Elon, San Francisco Bay Area, Bloomberg Locations: OpenAI, Levels.fyi, San Francisco Bay

☆ Musk Adds Microsoft to OpenAI Lawsuit, Accusing Them of an AI Monopoly
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-15 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk has added Microsoft as a defendant to an amended lawsuit against OpenAI. The suit, which also adds Reid Hoffman as defendant, accuses Microsoft and OpenAI of forming a monopoly. AdvertisementThe suit describes Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI as a "de facto merger" and said, "Microsoft is now OpenAI, and OpenAI, Microsoft." The amended lawsuit is the latest escalation between longtime rivals Musk and Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI. Microsoft, OpenAI, and Hoffman didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

Persons: Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, OpenAI, —, Shivon Zilis, Zilis, Musk, Mustafa Suleyman, Sam Altman, cofounders Altman, Greg Brockman, SoftBank, Navneet Govil, Govil, BI's Hasan Chowdhury, Hoffman didn't, Hoffman Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, Service, Bloomberg, New York Times, OpenAI's San, Financial Times, Business Locations: Neuralink, Northern California, OpenAI's, OpenAI's San Francisco

☆ Eric Schmidt says there's 'no evidence' AI scaling laws are stopping — but they will eventually
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-15 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says there's "no evidence" of an AI slowdown. AdvertisementEric Schmidt says there's "no evidence" artificial intelligence scaling laws are stopping as some in Silicon Valley worry about an AI slowdown. He said there will be "two or three more turns of the crank of these large models" over the next five years, referring to improvements in large language models. Related Video Why "deployment of AI is top of mind for everybody," according to IBM's Jonathan Adashek"There's no evidence that the scaling laws, as they're called, have begun to stop. AI scaling laws are the theoretical rules that broadly state models will continue to improve with more training data and greater computing power.

Persons: Eric Schmidt, Schmidt, LLMs, —, IBM's Jonathan Adashek, we're, OpenAI's, OpenAI, Claude, Gary Marcus, Sam Altman, Anthropic Organizations: Google, Service, Bloomberg, New York University, OpenAI, Business Locations: Silicon

☆ Disney is avoiding more political dust-ups, but Netflix is bringing the fight to the media giant when it comes to live sports
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-15 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. In today's big story, Disney reported strong earnings and has a bright outlook on the future, but it doesn't want to discuss politics . The big storyLet's not talk politicsBob Iger, CEO of Disney Charley Gallay/Getty ImagesWhen it comes to Donald Trump, Disney is taking a page from its famous mascot and being as quiet as a mouse. But the king of streaming — Netflix — seems unstoppable , and it's threatening a space that Disney's ESPN previously had a stronghold: live sports.

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☆ From hours to seconds: A short demo on parallel computing shows why Nvidia is the world's most valuable company
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-15 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Increased availability of advanced chips has made parallel computing more accessible. By and large, they were nerding out on the possibilities of parallel computing. That speed comes from the parallel computing that the GPU enables. AdvertisementThe concept has been around since the 1980s, but until relatively recently, the capability to actually perform parallel computing was hard to access. This immense volume of computations is what has driven so much demand for Nvidia GPUs.

Persons: —, Rick Ratzel, Pydata, Ratzel Organizations: Service, Nvidia, Python Locations: Manhattan

☆ It's 'liquidity, stupid': VCs say tech investing is tough amid IPO lull and 'nuts' AI hype
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-14 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Edith Yeung, general partner at Race Capital, and Larry Aschebrook, founder and managing partner of G Squared, speak during a CNBC-moderated panel at Web Summit 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal. LISBON, Portugal — It's a tough time for the venture capital industry right now as a dearth of blockbuster initial public offerings and M&A activity has sucked liquidity from the market, while buzzy artificial intelligence startups dominate attention. And in the VC world, it's really all about liquidity stupid," Edith Yeung, general partner at Race Capital, an early-stage VC firm based in Silicon Valley, said in a CNBC-moderated panel earlier this week. When a VC makes an equity investment and the value of their stake increases, it's only a gain on paper. Yeung said the lack of IPOs over the last couple of years had created a "really tough" environment for venture capital.

Persons: Edith Yeung, Larry Aschebrook, G, Portugal —, Groq —, Yeung, there's, Big Techs Organizations: Race Capital, CNBC, Summit, Microsoft Locations: Lisbon, Portugal, LISBON, U.S, Silicon Valley

☆ Chinese AI startup takes aim at OpenAI's Sora with image-to-video tool launch
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-14 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The tool can create videos from text or image prompts. BEIJING — Beijing-based Shengshu Technology on Wednesday said that its artificial intelligence-powered text-to-video tool Vidu will now be able to generate videos by combining multiple images. While OpenAI — the maker of ChatGPT — in February revealed that its AI model Sora could generate one-minute videos from text, it has yet to release that publicly. Other platforms claim they can turn text or images into videos using AI, but the quality of output varies. Vidu launched in April and its ability to turn two profile photos into lifelike videos of people hugging went viral on TikTok.

Persons: OpenAI, —, Shengshu, Bao, Vidu Organizations: Technology, CNBC Locations: BEIJING — Beijing

☆ Tech giants are investing in 'sovereign AI' to help Europe cut its dependence on the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-14 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Sovereign AI is "more driven by the industry naming it that, than it is from the policymakers' side," Gow said. On Wednesday, Denmark laid out a landmark white paper outlining how companies can use AI in compliance with the incoming EU AI Act — the world's first major AI law. How regulation fueled a mindset shiftThat's not to say regulations haven't proven an important factor in getting tech giants to think more about building localized AI infrastructure within Europe. The concept of AI sovereignty is also getting buy-in from local European tech firms. Orange hasn't yet selected a partner for these sovereign AI model ambitions.

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☆ Instead of job killings, there's a strange AI hiring boom happening, according to Marc Andreessen
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-14 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Instead of killing jobs, generative AI is fueling a surprising job boom, according to the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. OpenAI and Google are struggling to significantly improve their next AI models, multiple media reports said this week. That's what makes these AI models smart, and without that, OpenAI and others are hitting a worrying wall. They're a function of the training data," Andreessen said. "And a big part of the AI hiring boom is actually hiring the experts to actually craft the answers to be able to train the AI."

Persons: Marc Andreessen, Horowitz, Andreessen, OpenAI, Ben Horowitz, Andreessen's Organizations: Google, AIs, Business, Andreessen Locations: chimed

☆ OpenAI to present plans for U.S. AI strategy and an alliance to compete with China
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-13 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In this photo illustration, the OpenAI logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen with a photo of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. In the document, OpenAI outlines a rosy future for AI, calling it "as foundational a technology as electricity, and promising similarly distributed access and benefits." Now that Donald Trump is President-elect, OpenAI has made clear its plans to work with the new administration on AI policy, and the company's Wednesday presentation outlines its plans. OpenAI's presentation outlines AI economic zones co-created by state and federal governments "to give states incentives to speed up permitting and approvals for AI infrastructure." The blueprints say, "The government can encourage private investors to fund high-cost energy infrastructure projects by committing to purchase energy and other means that lessen credit risk."

Persons: Sam Altman, Donald Trump, OpenAI, Trump, Biden's Organizations: CNBC, Washington , D.C, Defense Locations: Washington ,, American

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