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☆ Microsoft is about to show off its next move in AI. Here's what to expect.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewIt's about to be a big week for Microsoft. Copilot and other AI features in WindowsWedbush analysts expect Microsoft to roll out more Copilot and AI features into its consumer and enterprise product stack. Related storiesIves said putting AI features into Windows will give developers the foundation to build AI use cases through Windows and, ultimately, Azure. Ives said the new AI Surface updates will start a new PC-driven cycle that's "AI-led, from Dell to Microsoft, and ultimately to Apple as well." But according to Ives, Microsoft will be a "showstopper."

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☆ More OpenAI chaos puts Sam Altman on the back foot
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementIt's a rare admission from Altman, who has worked hard to cultivate an image of being relatively calm amid OpenAI's ongoing chaos. Safety team implosionOpenAI has been in full damage control mode following the exit of key employees working on AI safety. He said the safety team was left "struggling for compute, and it was getting harder and harder to get this crucial research done." Silenced employeesThe implosion of the safety team is a blow for Altman, who has been keen to show he's safety-conscious when it comes to developing super-intelligent AI. The usually reserved Altman even appeared to shade Google, which demoed new AI products the following day.

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☆ Sam Altman addresses 'potential equity cancellation' in OpenAI exit agreements after 2 high-profile departures
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI's exit agreements had nondisparagement clauses threatening vested equity, Vox reported. Sam Altman said on X that the company never enforced it, and that he was unaware of the provision. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementOpenAI employees who left the company without signing a non-disparagement agreement could have lost vested equity if they did not comply — but the policy was never used, CEO Sam Altman said on Saturday.

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☆ We asked ChatGPT to analyze Mark Zuckerberg's style. Here's what it said.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The internet has been buzzing about Mark Zuckerberg's new style choices. We showed ChatGPT some recent pictures of Zuckerberg and asked it to analyze his looks. AdvertisementMark Zuckerberg might be going viral for his new style, but ChatGPT has some fashion tips for the Meta CEO. To find out, Business Insider turned to ChatGPT for an analysis of Zuckerberg's style. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Narayana Nadella speaks at a live Microsoft event in the Manhattan borough of New York City, October 26, 2016. Microsoft 's Build developer conference kicks off on Tuesday, giving the company the opportunity to showcase its latest artificial intelligence projects, following high-profile events this month hosted by OpenAI and Google . Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in January that 2024 will mark the year when AI will become the "first-class part of every PC." Now, PC users will get to hear more about how AI will be embedded in Windows and what they can do with it on new AI PCs. Demand for PCs was "slightly better than expected," Microsoft CFO Amy Hood said on the company's quarterly earnings call last month.

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☆ We asked ChatGPT to be a juror in Donald Trump's hush-money trial. It said it would find him guilty.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Madeline Berg | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewIt will be a jury of 12 ordinary New Yorkers that will decide the fate of former President Donald Trump in his ongoing Manhattan hush-money trial. Using that document, we asked various AI chatbots whether they found Trump guilty. They were told to "choose now whether you would find him guilty or not guilty." AdvertisementBut OpenAI's ChatGPT and Perplexity weighed in — and both said they'd find Trump guilty. "I would vote guilty on the charges of falsifying business records," Perplexity responded definitively.

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☆ Sam Altman has found himself using GPT-4o in a 'surprisingly cool' way while working
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI announced its latest flagship model, GPT-4o, on Monday. CEO Sam Altman says he's found a helpful way to use the AI while working. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has also found it helpful in another way, as he outlined during an episode of the podcast The Logan Bartlett Show published Tuesday. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, who led a team focused on AI safety, resigned. Founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman are now scrambling to reassure everyone. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementTwo of OpenAI's founders, CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, are on the defensive after a shake-up in the company's safety department this week. Sutskever and Leike led OpenAI's super alignment team, which was focused on developing AI systems compatible with human interests.

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Given this outlook, the firm lifted its price target to $70 from $65, reflecting 24% upside from Thursday's close. — Samantha Subin 6:20 a.m.: Citi trims price target on Roblox, cites slower bookings growth Citi cut its price target on Roblox to $40 from $52 a share as the gaming platform grapples with a deceleration in bookings growth. "We are updating our model to account for 1Q24 results and our latest outlook," wrote analyst Jason Bazinet. For 2025, Citi now expects bookings growth of 14% versus 21%, or 4% below consensus. The firm expects bookings growth of 10% in 2026, which is 11% below consensus.

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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailAge of the AI agents: OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google's Project Astra, plus an exclusive sit-down with Google CEO Sundar PichaiAI has moved into a new era – from chatbots to AI agents capable of having instantaneous, real-time conversations as showcased by Microsoft-backed OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google's Project Astra. We break down what's behind the big leap forward, the risks involved, and sit down with Google CEO Sundar Pichai exclusively on the news.

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☆ OpenAI just dissolved its team dedicated to managing AI risks, like the possibility of it 'going rogue'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI's Superalignment team was formed in July 2023 to mitigate AI risks, like "rogue" behavior. OpenAI has reportedly disbanded its Superalignment team after its co-leaders resigned. AdvertisementIn the same week that OpenAI launched GPT-4o, its most human-like AI yet, the company dissolved its Superalignment team, Wired first reported. OpenAI created its Superalignment team in July 2023, co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike. The team was dedicated to mitigating AI risks, such as the possibility of it "going rogue."

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☆ AI infrastructure startup CoreWeave raises $7.5 billion in debt deal led by Blackstone
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Fresh off a $1.1 billion equity funding round, artificial intelligence infrastructure startup CoreWeave has raised $7.5 billion in debt to more heavily invest in its cloud data centers. That means CoreWeave, backed by Nvidia, is going up against the world's top cloud infrastructure operators, including Amazon and Google . On its website, CoreWeave claims to have lower on-demand prices than any major cloud company. Even Microsoft , the world's second-largest provider of cloud infrastructure, has started relying on CoreWeave to help supply OpenAI with the computing power it needs. Such GPUs were used as collateral in a $2.3 billion debt round last year, Reuters reported.

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☆ OpenAI dissolves team focused on long-term AI risks, less than one year after announcing it
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The news comes days after both team leaders, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, announced their departures from the Microsoft-backed startup. OpenAI's Superalignment team, announced last year, has focused on "scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us." "I joined because I thought OpenAI would be the best place in the world to do this research," Leike wrote on X. Leike wrote that he believes much more of the company's bandwidth should be focused on security, monitoring, preparedness, safety and societal impact. The update brings the GPT-4 model to everyone, including OpenAI's free users, technology chief Mira Murati said Monday in a livestreamed event.

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☆ David Einhorn was once the young thorn in the side of executives. Now he's dealing with his own.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Bradley Saacks | ) 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 previewIn 1996, David Einhorn founded Greenlight with less than $1 million in capital — a good chunk of which came from his parents — at the precocious age of 27. And now the 55-year-old is dealing with something he once was: a thorn in the side. Fishback sued his old firm for defamation in October, which is now in arbitration, according to a person familiar with the case. Thursday, Fishback said he was invited to debate Tesla with his old boss, saying Einhorn didn't understand Musk's company's "core value driver" of autonomy.

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☆ A new mantra for AI models: 'good enough' is good enough
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In particular, it beat OpenAI's GPT 3.5, a model that was released two years earlier, an eternity in AI years. This new, leaner model will cost users only 35 cents per million tokens, compared with $7 per million for the Gemini 1.5 Pro model. But it remains to be seen if state-of-the-art is actually a good business model. said the founder and CEO of one seed-stage startup that's training new AI models, "but then, you know, as businesses, what you also want to do is what is good enough." As AI models get bigger and gobble up more money and computing resources, there are often diminishing returns in terms of performance.

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☆ Reddit soars after announcing OpenAI deal that allows use of its data for training AI models
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

As part of the 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. In exchange, Reddit will begin offering certain AI features to users and moderators, powered by OpenAI, which will also become a Reddit advertising partner. OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap spearheaded the deal, which was approved by the company's board, the release said. The update brings GPT-4 to everyone, including OpenAI's free users, Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said Monday in a livestreamed event. Reddit, which went public in March and reached a record close a few days after its initial public offering, is back to trading near its high of $65.11.

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☆ Sam Altman throws shade at Google's 'aesthetic'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI and Google each held major events this week announcing AI updates, one day apart. Sam Altman said he "cannot stop thinking" about the aesthetic difference between Google and OpenAI. The post led a Google engineer to call out Altman for timing OpenAI's event just before Google's. AdvertisementSam Altman isn't afraid to stir the pot a bit in the AI race, and his latest post took aim at Google. OpenAI and Google held their biggest events of the year so far, a day apart from each other — and AI was the theme of both.

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☆ AI chatbots spew out nonsense too often. But there's a solution: retrieval-augmented generation.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Matthew S. Smith | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

RAG was the first," said Bob van Luijt, the CEO and cofounder of the AI data infrastructure company Weaviate. WeaviateThe innovation that's sweeping AI"Every industry that has a lot of unstructured data can benefit from RAG," van Luijt said. Courtesy of Kyle DeSanaHe said that a successful RAG chatbot could carry its own pitfalls. AI engineers are eager to find more proactive solutions that don't require constant meddling with the data RAG provides to the AI. Put simply, an AI chatbot would have an effectively infinite memory, letting it "remember" any data presented to it in the past.

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☆ It was their job to make sure humans are safe from OpenAI's superintelligence. They just quit.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

And the fact that there aren't such controls in place yet is a problem OpenAI recognized, per its July 2023 post. Our current techniques for aligning AI, such as reinforcement learning from human feedback , rely on humans' ability to supervise AI," read OpenAI's post. "But humans won't be able to reliably supervise AI systems much smarter than us, and so our current alignment techniques will not scale to superintelligence. AdvertisementLeike — who worked at Google's DeepMind before his gig at OpenAI — had big aspirations for keeping humans safe from the superintelligence we've created. "Maybe a once-and-for-all solution to the alignment problem is located in the space of problems humans can solve.

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☆ OpenAI's flirty new GPT-4o is giving some people the ick
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The new voice has been compared to the AI assistant in the 2013 film "Her," voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . On Monday, OpenAI debuted a new AI model named GPT-4o, which uses native audio inputs and outputs. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Reopen the NYC-Dublin livestreaming portal, you cowards! It was an example of tech bringing humans together.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The portal between New York City and Dublin — a giant video installation livestreaming between the two locations — has been shut down due to bad behavior. In fact, we should have portals all over the country, all over the world — connecting two random places. Currently, there's a portal between cities in Lithuania and Poland, but let's dream even bigger. Related storiesBut the portal is a case of technology that's just pure joy. The situation is what makes it different — video chatting technology is usually personal, used at home or in your office conference room.

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☆ Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins Amazon-backed Anthropic
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger will join artificial intelligence firm Anthropic as chief product officer, the company announced Wednesday. He and Instagram's other co-founder, Kevin Systrom, most recently built the personalized news app Artifact and sold it to Yahoo. Around this time last year, Anthropic had only rolled out the first version of its chatbot without any consumer access or major fanfare. News of Krieger's hiring follows Anthropic's debut of its first enterprise offering and iOS app earlier this month. And in March, Anthropic announced Claude 3, a suite of AI models that it says are its fastest and most powerful yet.

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☆ AI models like GPT-4o could give some blue-collar jobs a leg-up and force white-collar workers to adapt
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

GPT-4o and other multimodal AI models could soon change the way we work. An AI analyst said plumbers and electricians' jobs are safe, but "AI will impact any job that has data." AdvertisementOpenAI's newest model and others like it could dramatically reinvent the workplace wheel. GPT-4o, the company's newest multimodal model, can input and output a combination of text, audio, and images. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Google's shiny new AI gave the wrong information in a promo video — again
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Shubhangi Goel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But Google's Tuesday video shows one of the major pitfalls of AI: wrong, not just bad, advice. A minute into the flashy, quick-paced video, Gemini AI in Google Search presented a factual error first spotted by The Verge. Professional photographers — or anyone who has used a film camera — know that this is a terrible idea. AdvertisementEarlier this year, the Gemini chatbot was hammered for refusing to produce pictures of white people. Last year, users of Bing, Microsoft's AI chatbot, reported strange interactions with the bot.

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☆ An AI agent may soon be at your beck and call, but it might cost you a bit of your privacy
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

In today's big story, we're looking at Google's big event that's pitching all the ways AI agents can make our lives easier . Google I/O, the tech giant's biggest developer conference, was heavy on the rise of so-called AI agents , writes Business Insider's Hugh Langley, who was there in person. AdvertisementGoogle's faithful, old search engine got a noticeable facelift with the help of AI , writes BI's Geoff Weiss. Steven Puetzer/Getty, Tyler Le/BIThe stakes for Google are high, as nailing AI agents opens up a massive business opportunity. For AI agents to be so intuitive, they'll need access to seemingly every aspect of our lives.

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