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☆ Sam Altman's time as the golden child of tech might be coming to an end
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewAI's golden boy, Sam Altman, may be starting to lose his luster. The company has also been dealing with comments from former executives that its commitment to AI safety leaves much to be desired. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. ScaJo scandalThe criticism around AI safety is the latest blow for Altman, who is fighting battles on multiple fronts.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Gretchen Krueger, Jan Leike, Ilya Sutskever, Altman, Stuart Russell, Russell, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Morigi, OpenAI Organizations: Service, Business, Wednesday, UC Berkeley, Microsoft Locations: OpenAI, Russian

☆ After a year of plateauing, OpenAI's ChatGPT website is on track to see more than 2 billion visits this month
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Visit to the chatbot's website peaked in May of 2023 and had stagnated since then. A year later, the website is on track to far surpass that, averaging about 77 million daily visits so far this month. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAfter a year of stagnation, OpenAI's ChatGPT is on track to set a new record for web traffic this month. In the first three weeks of May, the website for OpenAI's popular chatbot averaged about 77 million daily visits and is on track to surpass 2.3 billion total visits for the month, according to data from web analytics company Similarweb.

Persons: ChatGPT, —, Scarlett Johansson Organizations: Service, Business

☆ Apple needs its big AI moment
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

That's made Apple's lack of a big generative AI announcement so far particularly noticeable. However, one big sign an announcement may be coming at WWDC was the unveiling of its M4 chip, which Apple described as an "outrageously powerful chip for AI." The CEO spoke of "big opportunities across our products" for generative AI and promised that Apple is "well positioned" to take on the space. "We think investors will take any generative AI announcement positively," Morningstar tech analyst William Kerwin said. We'd expect any new-gen AI announcement to see strong adoption when released."

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☆ Signal CEO: OpenAI's ScarJo stunt is some 'edge lord' nonsense
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) 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. Signal's CEO has weighed in on the OpenAI-Scarlett Johansson controversy, accusing the buzzy AI company of having a "dorm room" culture. OpenAI unveiled the "Sky" artificial intelligence voice option last week alongside an announcement about the company's new GPT-4o large language model. On Monday, Johansson released a statement alleging that Altman had previously approached her about voicing Sky, which she declined. AdvertisementThe company has paused using the Sky voice in its products, OpenAI said.

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☆ Welcome to anti-office Fridays and quiet vacationing
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at the push for WFH Fridays and how that plays into the "quiet vacationing" phenomenon . The big storyAnti-office FridaysHector Roquet Rivero/Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BIWith all due respect to summer Fridays, we've found a year-round replacement: WFH Fridays. But WFH Fridays' staying power remains to be seen. Which brings us back to WFH Fridays. The end result could be employers saying abuse of WFH Fridays means they need you back in the office… for good.

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☆ Despite recent apologies and reassurances, documents leaked to Vox show OpenAI pressured departing employees over equity
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Sarah Gray | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A Vox story on Saturday said the company could take back vested equity if departing employees did not sign a non-disparagement agreement. "For a company to threaten to claw back already-vested equity is egregious and unusual," California employment law attorney Chambord Benton-Hayes told Vox. AdvertisementOn Saturday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X, "Vested equity is vested equity, full stop." We have not and never will take away vested equity, even when people didn't sign the departure documents. Not signing "could impact your equity," OpenAI told one of them, per Vox.

Persons: —, Chambord Benton, Hayes, Vox, Sam Altman, Altman, Kelsey Piper's, OpenAI execs, Jason Kwon, Kwon, OpenAI, i've, Scarlett Johansson Organizations: Service, Equity, Business, Vox Locations: California, Vox

☆ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella explains how he views his partnership — and competition — with OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke to Stratechery about its $13 billion partnership with OpenAI. "There's going to be competition," he told the tech and media newsletter. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella believes both forces are at play in its more than $13 billion partnership with OpenAI. "Long-term stability comes from both sides winning on a continuous basis and that's how at least I approach it," Nadella told the media and tech newsletter Stratechery.

Persons: Satya Nadella, Mustafa Suleyman, —, Nadella Organizations: OpenAI, Microsoft, Service, Business

☆ OpenAI's defense: We're not liars; we're just incompetent. Yikes!
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Earlier this week, the consensus around OpenAI was that the company was a lying, rapacious soul stealer. A company that wanted to use Scarlett Johansson to promote its product — and when she declined, went ahead and did it anyway, using a fake Scarlett Johansson. Here's the problem: The second version of reality is the one OpenAI itself is pushing. And OpenAI is a relatively young company, with a particularly chaotic history, which includes a foundational fight with Elon Musk and last year's well-publicized Thanksgiving coup-that-wasn't. Now they're telling us they can't handle the most basic stuff, like telling the left hand what the right hand is doing.

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☆ Amazon’s new cloud boss inherits a business under pressure to keep pace in AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

"It's very early days in generative AI," said Jassy, who succeeded Jeff Bezos as CEO in 2021. Davidson, told CNBC that Amazon was "caught flat-footed" by the generative AI boom. During a Q&A session on Wednesday, Jassy was asked twice about the status of Amazon's generative AI efforts. He said the company is "seeing a lot of momentum" in generative AI within AWS to where it's now a multibillion-dollar business based on annualized revenue. Amazon has previously said it intends to use generative AI to make Alexa more conversational.

Persons: Noah Berger, Andy Jassy, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Adam Selipsky, Jassy, Jeff Bezos, Matt Garman, Gil Luria, Davidson, Luria, Bezos, Selipsky, Casey McGee, McGee, Anthropic, Dario Amodei, OpenAI, it's, Garman, Amazon, wasn't, Dilip Kumar, Kumar, Swami Sivasubramanian, Jamie Meyers, Meyers, Matt, Jordan Novet, Kate Rooney Organizations: Web Services, Getty, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, D.A, CNBC, Amazon Web, Alexa, AWS, Nvidia, ChatGPT, Accenture, Toyota, Nasdaq, Investments Locations: Las Vegas, Vegas, Bezos, Anthropic

☆ OpenAI is really, really trying to show it didn't copy Scarlett Johansson's voice
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI's "Sky" voice was not created to sound like Scarlett Johansson, The Washington Post reported. The agent for the actor who voiced "Sky" told the outlet Johansson was never mentioned by OpenAI. Johansson said the bot's voice was "eerily similar" to her own, despite declining to be involved. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementChatGPT's "Sky" voice was never explicitly intended to sound like Scarlett Johansson, according to documents that OpenAI shared with The Washington Post.

Persons: Scarlett Johansson, Johansson, OpenAI, — Organizations: Washington Post, Service, The Washington Post, OpenAI, Business

☆ Microsoft is planning AI computing resources for a LinkedIn 'Copilot,' internal document shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewMicrosoft is planning AI computing resources for a LinkedIn Copilot, according to an internal document. The planning document, viewed by Business Insider, lists "LinkedIn" among existing Copilots like GitHub, Security, and Azure. It's unclear what the reference to LinkedIn Copilot specifically means. However, the AI computing resources planned for LinkedIn Copilot in the document suggest bigger plans than the existing AI tools, a person familiar with the planning said. There has so far been no mention of a LinkedIn Copilot.

Persons: —, Elon Musk Organizations: Service, Business, Microsoft, LinkedIn Copilot, LinkedIn, Elon, Meta

☆ Nvidia shows no signs of AI slowdown after over 400% increase in data center business
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California, US, on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Nvidia's most important clients for its graphics processing units are the big cloud providers — Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud. For example, CoreWeave, a GPU cloud, is currently quoting $4.25 per hour to rent an Nvidia H100. Huang said Meta has declared its intention to spend billions on 350,000 Nvidia chips, even though the company isn't a cloud provider. Meta's cluster of servers is an example of "essential infrastructure for AI production," Huang said, or, "what we refer to as AI factories."

Persons: Jensen Huang, There's, Nvidia's, Colette Kress, Kress, Huang, Meta, Blackwell, Elon Musk's xAI Organizations: Nvidia Corp, Nvidia, Technology Conference, Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, NVIDIA, Facebook, Meta, Tesla Locations: San Jose , California

☆ Meta is considering new paid deals with media publishers for AI training data
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Meta may need such access to make its generative AI tools, like Meta AI, more effective for users and more competitive in the increasingly crowded market of generative AI search tools and chatbots, the people said. User posts and comments on Facebook or Instagram are not necessarily the type of high-quality training data that generative AI chatbots and search tools need to generate quality outputs. Previously, Zuckerberg said he did not expect the generative AI boom. The US Copyright Office is considering new rules to cover generative AI. Major rival tech companies now fiercely competing in generative AI have already entered into deals with news publishers and media outlets for more access to content to be used as model training data.

Persons: Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Dotdash Meredith, Axel Springer, OpenAI, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Meta, Facebook, Business, News, Google, US, News Corp, Financial, Associated Press, BI, Politico, Microsoft, The New York Times, Times Locations: Europe, khays@businessinsider.com

☆ News Corp. and OpenAI strike 'multi-year global partnership' deal to use journalistic content to improve ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

on Wednesday announced a "multi-year global partnership" that will allow OpenAI to access current and archived articles from News Corp.'s outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Barron's, The New York Post and more. As part of the deal, OpenAI will be able to display content from News Corp.-owned outlets within its ChatGPT chatbot, in response to user questions. The news follows Reddit's announcement on Thursday that it will partner with OpenAI, allowing the ChatGPT maker to train its AI models on Reddit content. As part of that deal, OpenAI will gain access to Reddit's Data application programming interface, or API, "which provides real-time, structured, and unique content from Reddit," according to a release. Google announced a similar partnership with Reddit in February, allowing the company to train its AI models, such as Gemini, on Reddit content via access to the platform's API.

Persons: Sam Altman, Robert Thomson, OpenAI, Reddit, Mira Murati, Murati Organizations: Economic, News Corp, Wednesday, Street, The New York Post, News, Google, Reddit Locations: Davos, Switzerland, OpenAI, The, OpenAI's

☆ Embattled AI firm Appen loses more executives, months after Alphabet cut ties
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Appen, the embattled artificial intelligence firm that once helped train AI models for tech giants including Microsoft , Nvidia and Google , has lost its executives in charge of revenue and marketing. The departures follow Alphabet 's announcement in January that it was cutting all contractual ties with Appen, which once helped train Google's chatbot and other AI products. Two weeks after that decision, Appen CEO Armughan Ahmad left after just 12 months on the job. After a "strategic review process," Alphabet notified Appen in January of the termination, which went into effect March 19, according to a filing from Appen. Companies are spending far more on processors from Nvidia and less on external AI training from companies like Appen.

Persons: Andrew Ettinger, Alicia Hale, Ryan Kolln, Google's, Armughan Ahmad, Appen's, Kolln, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Appen didn't Organizations: Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, CNBC, Apple, Amazon, Appen, Australian Securities Exchange Locations: Australian

☆ Scarlett Johansson says she declined Sam Altman's offer to voice ChatGPT. Now she's lawyered up after an 'eerily similar' voice was released.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"We believe that AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity's distinctive voice — Sky's voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson but belongs to a different professional actress using her own natural speaking voice," the blog post said. AdvertisementIn a statement provided to BI, Altman said the Sky voice is not Johansson and was not intended to be similar to hers. "We cast the voice actor behind Sky's voice before any outreach to Ms. Johansson. Out of respect for Ms. Johansson, we have paused using Sky's voice in our products," Altman said. "We are sorry to Ms. Johansson that we didn't communicate better."

Persons: —, Scarlett Johansson, OpenAI, Sam Altman's, Johansson, Altman, Sky's, Katie Notopoulos, Sam Altman Organizations: Service, Business, BI

☆ Elon Musk waded in on Scarlett Johansson's dispute with OpenAI, and couldn't resist throwing shade at his tech rival
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Tom Carter | ) 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 has waded into the dispute between Sam Altman and Scarlett Johansson. Musk has also started his own AI company, xAI, and launched a ChatGPT rival called Grok. AdvertisementSam Altman played into the speculation by posting the word "Her" on X, but OpenAI executives denied the likeness was intentional. However, on Monday, the company abruptly announced that "Sky," the voice used in the GPT-4o demo, would be temporarily removed.

Persons: —, Elon, Sam Altman, Scarlett Johansson, Musk, Johansson's, OpenAI, Sam Altman's, Altman, Scarlett Johansson's, chatbot, Johansson, Jan Leike Organizations: Service, Business, BI

☆ OpenAI cofounder says artificial general intelligence is coming fast — and needs some 'reasonable limits'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThe age of AGI is coming and could be just a few years away, according to OpenAI cofounder John Schulman. Speaking on a podcast with Dwarkesh Patel, Schulman predicted that artificial general intelligence could be achieved in "two or three years." A spokesperson for OpenAI told The Information that the remaining staffers were now part of its core research team. Schulman's comments come amid protest movements calling for a pause on training AI models. Groups such as Pause AI fear that if firms like OpenAI create superintelligent AI models, they could pose existential risks to humanity.

Persons: —, John Schulman, Dwarkesh Patel, Schulman, AGI, Elon Musk, OpenAI, Kayla Wood, Jan Leike, Ilya Sutskever Organizations: Service, Business, Tech, Washington Post

☆ Sundar Pichai says OpenAI might have breached YouTube's terms and conditions to train its text-to-video model Sora
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewOpenAI might've breached YouTube's terms and conditions to train its text-to-video model Sora, says Google CEO Sundar Pichai. "So you felt like they had broken your terms and conditions, or potentially, or if they had, that wouldn't have been appropriate?" Sundar Pichai says he believes OpenAI's Sora breached YouTube's terms and conditions and he is sympathetic to creators whose content is being used to train AI models pic.twitter.com/mF1D6XjYf8 — Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) May 20, 2024Earlier in the interview, Pichai revealed that YouTube was still "following up and trying to understand" how OpenAI had trained Sora. "We have terms and conditions, and we would expect people to abide by those terms and conditions when you build a product, so that's how I felt about it." AdvertisementJohansson said in a statement that she had turned down OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's offer to voice its latest GPT-4o model.

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☆ Nvidia is talk of the town at AI events leading into this week’s earnings
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"We're still really early in the AI build," Niles told CNBC's "Money Matters" on Monday. "If you look at today for the AI build out, who's really driving that?" Lam Yik Fei | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPrior to the recent AI boom, Nvidia was known as the primary maker of chips used for 3D gaming. That's not to say that Nvidia is at risk of losing a ton of the AI chip business to rivals. Piper Sandler analysts expect it to keep at least 75% of the AI accelerator market, even as companies like Google build their own custom chips.

Persons: Jensen Huang, Josh Edelson, Sundar Pichai, that's, Dan Niles, Niles, We're, CNBC's, Bernstein, Mark Zuckerberg, Huang, Lam, Fei, That's, Piper Sandler, Harsh Kumar, Blackwell, Hopper, Morgan Stanley, Joseph Moore Organizations: Nvidia, Intelligence, SAP Center, Afp, Getty, Google, Blackwell, Microsoft, Meta, Niles Investment Management, Cisco, Apple, Nvidia Corp, Bloomberg Locations: San Jose , California, Redmond , Washington, Taipei, Taiwan

☆ Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Microsoft is partnering with tutoring organization Khan Academy to provide a generative AI assistant to all teachers in the U.S. for free. Khanmigo for Teachers, which helps teachers prepare lessons for class, is free to all educators in the U.S. as of Tuesday, with the financial support of Microsoft. Microsoft and Khan Academy are also planning to provide more AI-powered math tutoring to students through a new open-source small language model from Microsoft's Phi-3 AI technology. The relationship between the tech giant and education nonprofit will also feed back into Microsoft's Copilot AI, with more Khan Academy content added, and Khan content brought into Microsoft Teams for Education, an existing free communication app for students and teachers. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently recommended Khan's new book on AI in education.

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☆ Former Google employee says company's AI work is driven by 'a stone cold panic that they are getting left behind'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewGoogle might be one of the biggest players in the AI space, but an employee says the tech giant's work in the field has been motivated by "stone cold panic." But Google, Jenson said, wasn't the only tech giant guilty of making this mistake. AdvertisementJenson's scathing assessment comes as tech giants like Google and Apple have been struggling to play catch-up with AI upstarts like OpenAI. AdvertisementWhen Google unveiled its new AI model Gemini 1.5 on February 15, OpenAI dropped its text-to-video model Sora just a few hours later. Last week, OpenAI debuted its new flagship AI model, GPT-4o, a day before Google announced various updates for their models.

Persons: —, Scott Jenson, Jenson, Tony Stark, who'd, Apple didn't, Siri, OpenAI, Sam Altman Organizations: Service, Google, Business, LinkedIn, Stanford, Android, Facebook, Apple, BI, New York Times, OpenAI, iOS, Bloomberg Locations: Siri, Cupertino

☆ Tangling with Scarlett Johansson is a move OpenAI may come to regret
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI removed a ChatGPT voice that sounded like Scarlett Johansson after she lawyered up. AdvertisementOpenAI made an enemy of Scarlett Johansson when it launched a ChatGPT voice that sounds a lot like her. The superstar could be a foe that Sam Altman's AI company regrets tangling with. The company had asked her to collaborate on a voice product, she said — but she turned it down. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: OpenAI, Scarlett Johansson, Johansson, —, Sam Altman's Organizations: Disney, Service, Business

☆ Sam Altman's self-own with ScarJo reveals a troubling question about OpenAI: What's with these clowns?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewOpenAI's fight with Scarlett Johansson isn't just a PR disaster (and a big one at that). Most of all, it shows there's just really, really bad judgment going on at the highest levels of Sam Altman's company. But everyone immediately noticed that the "Sky" voice that ended up on ChatGPT reminded them of ScarJo. And then Sam Altman, in one of the greatest self-own moves of the generative AI era, tweeted out "her" during the product demo last week. The OpenAI team used a Scarlett Johansson sound-alike voice — also completely avoidable.

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☆ OpenAI's Scarlett Johansson saga reveals an 'ask forgiveness, not permission' problem
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewOpenAI's biggest critics have long held the view that Sam Altman's success has been built on an "ask forgiveness, not permission" strategy that could come back to haunt him. The ChatGPT maker has been embroiled in fresh controversy since Monday after Scarlett Johansson lashed out at the company over a new voice feature for its chatbot. her — Sam Altman (@sama) May 13, 2024OpenAI has responded to the criticism by pulling the Sky voice entirely. AdvertisementThough Johansson and Pichai have not filed lawsuits against OpenAI, the "ask forgiveness, not permission" strategy that critics accuse the company of has already landed it in legal hot water. Creators who suspect their work has been used to train OpenAI without their permission will probably wonder why they weren't offered an agreement in the first place.

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