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☆ He tried to oust OpenAI’s CEO. Now, he’s starting a ‘safe’ rival
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —The OpenAI co-founder who left the high-flying artificial intelligence startup last month has announced his next venture: a company dedicated to building safe, powerful artificial intelligence that could become a rival to his old employer. Ilya Sutskever announced plans for the new company, aptly named Safe Superintelligence Inc., in a post on X Wednesday. Sutskever then worked on Google’s AI research team, before helping to found what would become the maker of ChatGPT. It’s also not clear exactly what the new company thinks of as “safety” in the context of highly powerful artificial intelligence technology. “By safe, we mean safe like nuclear safety as opposed to safe as in ‘trust and safety,’” Sutskever told Bloomberg in an interview published Tuesday.

Persons: Ilya Sutskever, Sutskever, Geoffrey Hinton, Sam Altman, Altman, Kara Swisher, ”, It’s, ” Sutskever, OpenAI, Jan Leike, Daniel Levy, Daniel Gross Organizations: New, New York CNN, Superintelligence Inc, SSI, Google, CNN, Bloomberg, Apple Locations: New York, OpenAI, “, Palo Alto , California, Tel Aviv, Israel

☆ This new technology for nuclear power could help fuel the AI revolution
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Scientists have long considered nuclear energy one of the cleanest and most reliable forms of energy production. Tech companies at the forefront of the AI revolution are also turning to nuclear energy to power their vast AI data centers. A new fuel cycle for nuclear powerTransmutex's technology destroys nuclear waste and produces new nuclear fuel. AdvertisementNuclear physicists say the company's technology avoids one of the biggest concerns with nuclear energy: that the same fuel used to power nuclear plants can also be used to manufacture atomic weapons. Oklo, a startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is betting on generating nuclear power through small nuclear reactors.

Persons: —, Jennifer Granholm, Franklin Servan, Schreiber, Transmutex, Cameron Porter, Andrei Afanasev, George, Afanasev, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, nicolas lieber, photographie Servan Organizations: Service, Business, US, . Tech, Steel, George Washington University's Institute for Nuclear Studies, Department of Energy, Energy Locations: Swiss, Switzerland, United States, Saudi Arabia, Transmutex, Georgia

☆ The man who dared to revolt against Sam Altman at OpenAI just started a research lab promoting 'safe superintelligence'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewOpenAI cofounder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever announced his new venture on Wednesday — a research lab committed to developing "safe superintelligence." "I am starting a new company," Sutskever said of his new project, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) in an X post. I am starting a new company: https://t.co/BG3K3SI3A1 — Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) June 19, 2024According to SSI's website, the lab has "one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence." AdvertisementRepresentatives for Safe Superintelligence and OpenAI didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours. Following Altman's return, Sutskever appeared to have been shut out of OpenAI, BI reported in December, citing people familiar with the situation.

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☆ OpenAI Co-Founder, Who Helped Oust Sam Altman, Starts His Own Company
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist who in November joined other board members to force out Sam Altman, the company’s high-profile chief executive, has helped found a new artificial intelligence company. The new start-up is called Safe Superintelligence. It aims to produce superintelligence — a machine that is more intelligent than humans — in a safe way, according to the company spokeswoman Lulu Cheng Meservey. Dr. Sutskever, who has said he regretted moving against Mr. Altman, declined to comment. She said that as it builds safe superintelligence, the company will not release other products.

Persons: Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman, Lulu Cheng Meservey, Sutskever, Altman, Meservey Organizations: Mr, Bloomberg Locations: OpenAI

Ilya Sutskever, Russian Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, speaks at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, June 5, 2023. OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, who left the artificial intelligence startup last month, introduced his new AI company, which he's calling Safe Superintelligence, or SSI. "I am starting a new company," Sutskever wrote on X on Wednesday. Altman and Sutskever, along with other directors, clashed over the guardrails OpenAI had put in place in the pursuit of advanced AI. "I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions," Sutskever wrote in a post on X on Nov. 20.

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☆ What’s next for the stock market? Here’s one thing you could do if shares start sinking
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The market has been on a tear in 2024, driven higher by robust corporate earnings and the artificial intelligence boom. Traders expect the Fed to begin easing rates in September at the earliest, according to the CME FedWatch Tool. If inflation is cooling down but the Fed is still expected to keep its key lending rate higher for longer, what does that mean for the stock market? The data will tell us that, but I think the big takeaway for us is [inflation] going in the right direction. Do you expect some of the cash that’s on the sidelines to enter the stock market?

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☆ Jared Kushner's post-White House deal-making included badly timed bet on Amazon aggregator
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +16 min

Kushner started Affinity in 2021, shortly after leaving his advisory role in the White House alongside his wife, Ivanka Trump. Neumann, who was ultimately ousted from WeWork by top SoftBank execs, introduced Kushner to Unybrands early the following year. Affinity's investment in Unybrands, which hasn't previously been reported, was one of the private equity firm's earliest deals. Following a continued slide, the company laid off roughly 10% of its staff in November 2022, according to people familiar with the matter. The House Oversight Committee launched an investigation into the investment in 2022, looking into whether Kushner's financial interests influenced Trump's foreign policy.

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☆ The complicated partnership between Apple and OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Nearly an hour later, the iPhone maker announced a much-rumored partnership with OpenAI to bring its ChatGPT technology to devices later this year. “I think Apple will take a pragmatic approach to the OpenAI partnership,” Wood said. Apple said it will not share any personal user information with OpenAI, so inquiries made through ChatGPT won’t be linked to an Apple user’s account. So it came as no surprise when some industry watchers, including Elon Musk, were quick to react to Apple’s partnership with OpenAI. “When users do query ChatGPT, Apple will track the prompts and gather metrics to improve its own models,” he said.

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☆ Did Apple just outthink everyone in AI? A chat with tech analyst Ben Thompson
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

When I try to get my head around big, complicated tech questions, I often rely on Ben Thompson, the influential tech analyst who writes the Stratechery newsletter. And that Apple gets the upside of AI without incurring many of the costs and risks other tech players are taking on. AdvertisementPeter Kafka: You seemed pretty enthusiastic about Apple's AI efforts before they announced them on Monday. One is some massive AI breakthrough, such that the phone becomes the commodity, as opposed to Apple making the AI the commodity. Peter Kafka: You've been speculating about whether Apple is paying OpenAI, or OpenAI is paying Apple.

Persons: —, Ben Thompson, Peter Kafka, They're, Tim Cook, Justin Sullivan, Who's, They've, Apple, You've, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Thompson, Mark Gurman Organizations: Service, Apple, Business, Washington Post, Bloomberg, OpenAI Locations: ChatGPT.com

☆ Elon Musk sure seems to be following Donald Trump's playbook
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Aditi Bharade | Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewElon Musk seems to be taking a page out of Donald Trump's playbook. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Musk admitted in his March interview with Don Lemon that he takes a "small amount" of ketamine every other week. Representatives for Musk didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

Persons: —, Elon, Donald Trump's playbook, Trump, Musk, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, they've, Zuck, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, There's, Don Lemon, Lemon, Musk didn't Organizations: Service, White, Business, Tesla, SpaceX, Wall Street, Trump, Reuters, Republican, OpenAI, Microsoft, Representatives Locations: San Francisco

☆ OpenAI adds former NSA chief to its board
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI on Thursday announced its newest board member: Paul M. Nakasone, a retired U.S. Army general and former director of the National Security Agency. Nakasone was the longest-serving leader of the U.S. Cyber Command and chief of the Central Security Service. The company said Sarah Friar, previously CEO of Nextdoor and finance chief at Square, is joining as chief financial officer. OpenAI also hired Kevin Weil, an ex-president at Planet Labs, as its new chief product officer. Weil was previously a senior vice president at Twitter and a vice president at Facebook and Instagram.

Persons: Paul Nakasone, OpenAI, Paul M, Nakasone, OpenAI's, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, Bret Taylor, Sam Altman, Sue Desmond, Hellmann, Melinda Gates, Nicole Seligman, Fidji Simo, Siri, Sarah Friar, Friar, Kevin Weil, Weil Organizations: National Security Agency, Intelligence, Capitol, U.S . Army, U.S . Cyber Command, Central Security Service, Security, Sony, Monday, Apple, Planet Labs, Twitter, Facebook Locations: Washington, U.S

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Apple shares pop, Musk drops OpenAI lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Abid Ali | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Musk drops OpenAI suit Elon Musk dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, which alleged breach of contract and fiduciary duty. Apple pops Apple 's shares rose to a record high a day after it announced its push into artificial intelligence. Get the CNBC Daily Open report in your inbox every morning and keep up to date with the markets wherever you are. For more, CNBC's Jeff Cox explains there could be a huge impact from the consumer price index and the Fed meeting.

Persons: Paul Jacobson, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Siri, OpenAI, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, David Malpass, Dennis Lockhart, Jeff Cox, — CNBC's Lim Hui Jie, Lisa Kailai Han, Alex Harring, Spencer Kimball, Hayden Field, Samantha Subin, Ashley Capoot, Michael Wayland Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, CNBC, General Motors, GM, OpenAI, Microsoft, Apple, Apple Intelligence, Federal Reserve, Brent, Bank, Biden, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Atlanta Fed Locations: New York City, U.S, San Francisco

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Fed watch, Apple pops
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Abid Ali | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Siri will get an upgrade with Apple Intelligence and the company will partner with OpenAI, giving users access to ChatGPT. The company's shares rose 1.3% after the automaker announced plans to buy back $6 billion of stock. While many analysts expect Apple's new AI offering to push consumers to buy new iPhones, not all analysts are convinced.

Persons: Siri, OpenAI, Morgan Stanley, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Paul Jacobson Organizations: CNBC, Nasdaq, Nvidia, Apple, Dow Jones, Treasury, OPEC, Apple Intelligence, OpenAI, GM, Motors Locations: San Francisco

☆ Apple will let users opt out of ChatGPT integration. It's a 'brilliant' move to calm mounting AI privacy concerns, analyst says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

At the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, the company introduced Apple Intelligence, an in-house suite of AI services coming to devices this fall. Starting later this year, Apple users will have free access to OpenAI's ChatGPT model without having to create an account. Advertisement"I think it's brilliant," said Maribel Lopez, an AI analyst and founder of research and strategy consulting firm Lopez Research. AdvertisementThe opt-out ability on Apple devices offers customers a modicum of control amid the coming freight train of AI, Lopez added. Meanwhile, much of the marketing for Apple Intelligence already appears to be focused on safety and privacy protection, with advertisements boasting a "brand-new standard for privacy in AI."

Persons: —, OpenAI, Siri, Apple, Maribel Lopez, Lopez, Sam Altman doesn't Organizations: Service, Worldwide, Apple Intelligence, OpenAI, Business, Apple, Lopez Research, New York Times

☆ Elon Musk dropped his Open AI lawsuit, but he isn't done with Sam Altman and the AI race yet
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewElon Musk might have withdrawn his lawsuit against OpenAI and its cofounders on Tuesday, but he certainly isn't giving up on winning the AI race just yet. Musk cofounded OpenAI with its current CEO, Sam Altman, but left its board in 2018. Shortly after the announcement, Musk threatened to prohibit Apple devices at his companies. "If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies," Musk wrote in an X post. Related storiesRepresentatives for Musk and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: —, Elon, OpenAI, Musk, Sam Altman, Altman, David Hoffman, BI's Grace Kay, Tesla, it's Organizations: Service, OpenAI, Microsoft, Business, Apple, Musk, BI, University of Pennsylvania, Tesla Locations: Altman's court

☆ Samsung unveils plan to speed up delivery of AI chips
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Samsung expects global chip industry revenue to grow to $778 billion by 2028, boosted by AI chips, Choi said. Samsung is one of the few companies that sells memory chips, offers foundry services and designs chips under the same roof. GAA is seen as important to keep making more powerful chips for AI as chips become finer to the point of pushing the boundaries of physics. Although competitors such as global foundry No 1 TSMC are also working on chips using GAA, Samsung started applying GAA earlier, and said it plans to mass produce its second-generation 3-nanometer chips using GAA in the second half of this year. Samsung also announced its latest 2-nanometer chipmaking process for high-performance computing chips, which places power rails on the backside of the wafer to improve power delivery.

Persons: “, ”, Siyoung Choi, Choi, Marco Chisari, Sam Altman’s, Altman Organizations: San Jose Reuters, Samsung Electronics, Samsung, Foundry Sales, chipmaker, Reuters, South Locations: Seoul, San Jose, San Jose , California

☆ How to Save Tech Industry: Fire Managers, Put Tech People in Charge
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Ed Zitron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

This disastrous mindset has hollowed out Silicon Valley's ability to innovate and caused regular people to grow increasingly frustrated with everyday tech. The large platforms have generally ignored this feedback for one big reason: The tech industry has been taken over by career managers. Now Google Search is more profitable and worse, elevating spammy content and outright scams, a problem exacerbated by artificial intelligence. AdvertisementBut today's tech products feel built to sell a dream of the future rather than solve a customer's existing pains. As long as the tech industry is controlled by people who don't build things, it will continue to build products that help raise growth metrics rather than help consumers with tangible problems.

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☆ Apple wants to put a friendlier spin on artificial intelligence, but many users could miss out
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at all the takeaways from Apple's big event , including its friendlier spin on artificial intelligence . Related VideoBut first, it's not AI; it's Apple Intelligence. Apple Intelligence — it's AI, just not that AI — is the company's first big swing in the space. Data is the name of the game when it comes to AI, and Apple's iPhones are full of it. However, the Apple Intelligence news and partnership with OpenAI is what really set the billionaire off.

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☆ Elon Musk threatens to ban iPhones at his companies if Apple integrates ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Hanna Ziady | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

London CNN —Elon Musk is not happy about a new partnership between Apple and ChatGPT creator OpenAI. “Apple has no clue what’s actually going on once they hand your data over to OpenAI,” Musk said in a separate post. OpenAI’s technology will support some of these new tools — for example, allowing users to direct questions to ChatGPT via their Apple devices. Greg Brockman, OpenAI president, said late Monday that ChatGPT would be integrated into Apple’s operating systems for iPhones, iPads and Mac computers. So Musk’s employees may have limited options if he wants to ban rival AI — or even OpenAI — from his companies.

Persons: London CNN — Elon Musk, OpenAI, ” Musk, Apple, Musk’s, Siri, Greg Brockman, We’re, Will, Sam Altman, ”, Catherine Flick, ” OpenAI, ” Matt Britzman, Hargreaves Lansdown Organizations: London CNN, Apple, SpaceX, Bluetooth, ” CNN, OpenAI, Developers, Apple Intelligence, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Windows, Staffordshire University Locations: OpenAI, ”, England

☆ Sam Altman may have just scored a major coup
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewForget Tim Cook: OpenAI and Sam Altman might be the biggest winners after Monday's announcements at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. While Apple announced Apple Intelligence, its in-house artificial-intelligence tool, it also said that Apple users will soon be able to use ChatGPT in Siri through an integration it created with OpenAI. The feature is part of Apple's iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and Sequoia, its computer operating system. Apple's iOS is installed on about 2.2 billion devices, Wedbush Securities estimated in a note on Monday. OpenAI said in a statement that "the ChatGPT integration, powered by GPT-4o, will come to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS later this year.

Persons: —, Tim Cook, OpenAI, Sam Altman, ChatGPT, it's, Craig Federighi, Apple's, Siri, Altman, Google's, Kelsey Peterson, Cook, haven't, macOS, Apple Organizations: Service, Apple's Worldwide, Apple, Apple Intelligence, Business, OpenAI, Wedbush Securities, Washington Post, Google, Safari Locations: Siri, Sequoia, WWDC

☆ AI is getting very popular among students and teachers, very quickly
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Khan recently told CNBC that its AI tool will expand from 65,000 students to one million students next year. It also recently announced that Microsoft is paying so that AI can be offered to teachers across the U.S. free of charge. In fact, teachers were the only demographic polled where year-over-year favorability declined, though a majority (59%) still have a positive view of AI chatbots. Minority groups are adopting AI for education at higher rates, including the teachers and parents who are using AI to help children. Black and Hispanic K-12 students and undergraduates were more likely to use AI for school.

Persons: Hyoung Chang, ChatGPT, Ethan Mollick, Sal Khan, Khan, CNBC's, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, zeroed, Mollick, It's, Nadia, Alan Turing's Organizations: Getty, Microsoft, Apple, Impact Research, Walton Family Foundation, Learning, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Khan Academy, CNBC, Teachers Locations: Denver, Newark , New, U.S

☆ OpenAI's Apple deal might actually be good for Microsoft too
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI's partnership with Apple is now official after Monday's WWDC keynote. The lucrative deal cements OpenAI's place at the center of the AI revolution. The deal could also be good news for Microsoft, OpenAI's biggest backer. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementWhen reports first emerged that OpenAI had secured a partnership with Apple, it was rumored to have raised the eyebrows of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

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☆ Let's be real, Apple couldn't hype its ChatGPT collab — that would mean conceding it's lost the AI race
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewTech watchers expecting a sweeping partnership announcement between Apple and OpenAI were probably disappointed on Monday. The Cupertino-based giant unveiled its generative AI strategy, "Apple Intelligence," during its keynote presentation at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference. very happy to be partnering with apple to integrate chatgpt into their devices later this year! AdvertisementAside from poaching talent and working with external partners like OpenAI, Apple has also worked with TSMC to make AI chips for its data centers. Making chips would go a long way toward securing Apple's AI supremacy since, unlike most companies, it would not have to rely completely on chip giant Nvidia.

Persons: —, Mark Gurman, OpenAI, Apple, Craig Federighi, Federighi, Sam Altman didn't, Altman, — Sam Altman, Siri, John Giannandrea, TSMC, Gene Munster, Apple didn't Organizations: Service, Apple, Apple Intelligence, Business, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Financial Times, BI Locations: Cupertino

☆ Elon Musk drops lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and two of its cofounders this week. The Tesla CEO sued the AI startup in March, alleging the company had abandoned its nonprofit mission. Musk cofounded OpenAI along with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman in 2015. AdvertisementElon Musk dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI and two of its cofounders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, on Tuesday, CNBC reported. Musk sued the hotshot startup and two of its co-founders in March, accusing Altman and Brockman of betraying OpenAI's initial mission to benefit humanity.

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☆ OpenAI ex-employees worry about company's control over their millions of dollars in shares
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

However, current and former OpenAI employees have been increasingly concerned about access to liquidity, according to interviews and documents shared internally. "We're incredibly sorry that we're only changing this language now," an OpenAI spokesperson told CNBC after the company changed course. In at least two tender offers, the sales limit for former employees was $2 million, compared to $10 million for current employees. In addition to current and former employees, OpenAI has a third tier for share sales that consists of ex-employees who now work at competitors. OpenAI said it's never canceled a current or former employee's vested equity or required a repurchase at $0.

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