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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., displays the new Blackwell GPU chip during the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference on March 18, 2024. Nvidia shares popped more than 11% Wednesday after remarks from top customer Microsoft and rival chipmaker AMD signaled there wouldn't be a slowdown in the multibillion-dollar buildout of AI servers based around GPUs. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and finance chief Amy Hood said Tuesday the company plans to spend even more on Nvidia-based infrastructure next year. Microsoft spent $19 billion on capital expenditures during the fiscal fourth quarter, with about 60% on hardware. Nvidia has been the primary beneficiary of the AI boom.

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☆ 4 ways OpenAI's newest AI model GPT-4o can make you more productive at work
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

OpenAI has led the AI race with ChatGPT, which attracted one million users shortly after it became available in November 2022. AdvertisementBut OpenAI's new flagship AI model, GPT-4o, which was announced during OpenAI's Spring Update, has improved capabilities in these areas and "can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time." Here are some of the GPT-4o features that can help make your workday more productive. AdvertisementTo create a GPT, you can go to this site and select "Create a GPT." OpenAI's GPT Builder can create personalized GPTs to fit users' specific needs.

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☆ Biggest risks of using gen AI like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Apple Intelligence in your private life
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Cheryl Winokur Munk | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Many consumers are enamored with generative AI, using new tools for all sorts of personal or business matters. From OpenAI's ChatGPT to Google's Gemini to Microsoft Copilot software and the new Apple Intelligence, AI tools for consumers are easily accessible and proliferating. How is your information used and how might it be used? If you're entering a confidential document, the AI model now has access to it, which could raise all sorts of concerns. Set a short retention period for generative AI for searchConsumers might not think much before they seek out information using AI, using it like they would a search engine to generate information and ideas.

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☆ Biden digs his heels in while Trump secures another win
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at President Joe Biden showing no signs of giving up his reelection campaign while former President Donald Trump secured a win from the Supreme Court . AdvertisementBiden's campaign has been in full-blown crisis mode after the president's disastrous debate against former President Donald Trump last week. AdvertisementMeanwhile, Trump secured a big win in his immunity case . The Supreme Court ruled that former presidents don't get absolute immunity from criminal charges related to actions under the scope of the presidency, but they do get some. 3 things in techStefani Reynolds/BloombergBig Tech gets a big win from the Supreme Court.

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☆ Meet CriticGPT, OpenAI's new fix for ChatGPT's biggest coding blunders
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Yet it's also given developers reason to be dubious: code produced by ChatGPT is often full of mistakes. 'Fewer hallucinated bugs'To begin, OpenAI is limiting CriticGPT's access to AI trainers. OpenAI has acknowledged that the more advanced its AI models become, the harder it can be for AI trainers "to spot inaccuracies when they do occur." AI models are also still susceptible to hallucinations that can be missed by AI trainers, OpenAI said. CriticGPT clearly has a long way to go, but shows that OpenAI is at least trying to tackle the problem.

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☆ VCs clamor to invest in the red-hot early-stage round for AI safety startup Haize Labs
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Sri Muppidi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewHaize Labs, an AI safety startup, is raising an early-stage round that investors are clamoring to invest in, Business Insider has learned. However, for hot startups, there can be more investor demand than a startup can accommodate, as with Haize Labs' round. One source indicated that Haize Labs received term sheets with valuations ranging from $30 million to over $100 million. Haize Labs is building automated red-teaming and stress-testing algorithms to identify risks in AI models and agents. AI safety has increasingly become a concern, especially as AI usage increases among both consumers and enterprises.

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☆ Gen Zers and millennials are willing to go on summer vacation at all costs. Literally.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at how young people are booking their summer vacations , finances be damned. AdvertisementSurveys from Credit Karma, Bankrate, and Bank of America show Gen Zers and millennials are willing to go on summer vacation at all costs… literally. Almost half of millennials surveyed (47%) were willing to take on debt to fund their travel plans, with Gen Z not far behind (42%). AdvertisementAlmost a quarter of young people surveyed by Credit Karma expected to rack up $2,000 in debt this summer. And about 10% of that group were willing to push it even further, surpassing $4,000 in summer debt.

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☆ Airbnb CEO says AI hasn't really changed our daily lives — but that moment is coming
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said AI hasn't changed most people's lives yet. Despite ChatGPT's 2022 introduction, apps have still remained largely the same, he said. 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 . Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky thinks that will manifest in the next two to three years.

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☆ Apple execs explain why its AI is different from competitors
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Nic Coury | AFP | Getty ImagesApple fully embraced artificial intelligence on Monday, as company executives explained the features and reasoning behind Apple Intelligence, the company's new AI software suite. Much of the AI development that has captured investor and technological interest has focused on building or securing ever-more powerful supercomputers equipped with Nvidia chips to develop even more power-hungry AI models. Apple's AI is mostly on your deviceApple Intelligence unveiled during Apple's WWDC2024 in Cupertino, Calif. on June 10th. Apple executives don't refer to this strategy as using one or multiple models, just "Apple Intelligence." Apple's AI can summarize and rewrite documents, generate small images, and translate conversations in real-time.

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☆ OpenAI hires new CFO and product chief, announces Apple deal to integrate ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI on Monday hired two top executives and announced a partnership with Apple that includes a ChatGPT-Siri integration, the company announced in two blog posts. 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, according to the blog post. Weil's product team will be focused on "applying our research to products and services that benefit consumers, developers, and businesses," the company wrote. "Siri can also tap into ChatGPT's intelligence when helpful," OpenAI wrote.

Persons: OpenAI, Siri, Sarah Friar, Friar, Kevin Weil, Weill Organizations: Apple, Stanford Digital Economy, Planet Labs, Twitter, Facebook, Monday Locations: ChatGPT

☆ I asked the new ChatGPT to find me a job and was surprised by what it came up with
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Armed with a new update, ChatGPT can now act as your free personal recruiter. In an earlier test, ChatGPT sent me one job that I couldn't track down. After some probing, the bot acknowledged that the bot role probably wasn't real. AdvertisementApplyingIt's not news that ChatGPT can help job seekers write a killer cover letter, but the new update allows for some more specific back and forth. Armed with my CV and the job description, I asked ChatGPT to tailor my CV to the role and write a quick cover letter.

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☆ Tim Cook is about to reveal Apple's plan to dominate the internet for another decade
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewWhen Steve Jobs launched the first iPhone in 2007, it was a landmark moment in Apple's history that involved the CEO of another Silicon Valley company: Google. Now, Apple is preparing to unveil its plans to dominate the internet again — with the help of another Silicon Valley company. Apple's plan to dominate the internet, againOn Monday, when CEO Tim Cook kicks off Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), he's expected to reveal a new vision of artificial intelligence by announcing a partnership with OpenAI. Time will tell if the deal is as powerful as Apple's search engine agreement with Google. AdvertisementOne thing is certain: Apple's about to pitch the world on its plans to dominate the internet in the AI age.

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☆ It's all unraveling at OpenAI (again)
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

In a statement to Business Insider, an OpenAI spokesperson reiterated the company's commitment to safety, highlighting an "anonymous integrity hotline" for employees to voice their concerns and the company's safety and security committee. Safety second (or third)A common theme of the complaints is that, at OpenAI, safety isn't first — growth and profits are. (In a responding op-ed, current OpenAI board members Bret Taylor and Larry Summers defended Altman and the company's safety standards.) "I have been disagreeing with OpenAI leadership about the company's core priorities for quite some time, until we finally reached a breaking point." (Altman and OpenAI said he recused himself from these deals.)

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☆ China, Xi Jinping's Plan for AI Will Wreak Havoc on the World Economy
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

According to the CCP's plan, by 2020, China was supposed to have "achieved iconic advances in AI models and methods, core devices, high-end equipment, and foundational software." Censorship requirements may slow China's AI development and limit the commercialization of domestic models, but they will not stop Beijing from benefiting from AI where it sees fit. We're not seeing a huge gap between the models Chinese companies have been able to roll out. The current price war is a race to the bottom, similar to what we've seen in the Chinese technology space before. A race to the bottom may simply beggar China's AI ecosystem.

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☆ Sam Altman is considering turning OpenAI into a regular company: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The 39-year-old Stanford dropout has talked about turning OpenAI into a regular, for-profit company, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing an individual who'd spoken to Altman. Unlike most companies, OpenAI says it is run as a "capped-profit" company, with its for-profit arm governed by a nonprofit. According to Toner, OpenAI's board was kept in the dark about ChatGPT's release in November 2022. Toner, who left the board shortly after Altman was reinstated as CEO, also accused him of lying about his financial interests in OpenAI. "Our focus remains on moving forward and pursuing OpenAI's mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity."

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☆ OpenAI board members brush off warning from ex-directors and defend Sam Altman as 'highly forthcoming'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThis has been the week of dueling op-eds from former and current OpenAI board members. Current OpenAI board members Bret Taylor and Larry Summers issued a response to AI safety concerns on Thursday, stating that "the board is taking commensurate steps to ensure safety and security." In the last six months, the two current board members said they had found Altman "highly forthcoming on all relevant issues and consistently collegial with his management team." She also said that the old OpenAI board found out about ChatGPT's release on Twitter. OpenAI dissolved the superalignment safety team before later announcing the formation of a new safety committee.

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☆ OpenAI's board learned about ChatGPT's release on Twitter, ex-board member says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Sarah Jackson | Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI's board was as surprised as the public was by ChatGPT's 2022 release, a former member says. Helen Toner said the board "was not informed in advance" and actually learned about it on Twitter. AdvertisementThe release of ChatGPT took the world by surprise in 2022 — and a former OpenAI board member says that was the case for the company's board of directors, too. On November 30, 2022, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted a link to the chatbot, writing: "today we launched ChatGPT. But Helen Toner said the board wasn't given a heads-up about the release and learned about it from Twitter, now X.

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☆ Nvidia stock keeps hitting records. Can investors with little to no shares still buy?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

While known for sizeable pullbacks in the past, the upward trajectory of Nvidia's stock last year and this year cannot be denied. We've been in Nvidia stock since 2019, years before the AI revolution was sparked by ChatGPT's viral moment shortly after its late 2022 launch. Through its Nvidia AI Enterprise service, Nvidia is in the process of building out a potentially massive software business. With that, let's think about Nvidia stock from the perspective of a long-term investor— and that's the key consideration, the investment horizon. At the beginning of the year, Nvidia stock traded at $481 per share on a $20.80 forward earnings estimate or a forward P/E multiple of 23 times.

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☆ 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.

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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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☆ 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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☆ Microsoft announces new PCs with AI chips from Qualcomm
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Copilot+ PCs with AMD and Intel chips will follow, Microsoft said during a press keynote address on its campus in Redmond, Washington. AI models will be able to generate images based on written descriptions as well as drawings. Microsoft is banking on Qualcomm's energy-efficient Arm -based chips that can handle AI models to defend its Windows franchise. The new PCs can run some AI models locally without an internet connection. Microsoft has had little success in getting people to adopt Arm-based Windows computers, which haven't always performed as well as PCs running Intel or AMD chips.

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☆ OpenAI pulls ChatGPT's 'Sky' voice after users compared it with Scarlett Johansson
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI plans to pause ChatGPT's "Sky" voice after it was compared with Scarlett Johansson. The company said the voice was not an imitation of Johansson and belongs to a different actor. Many have compared to the chatbot's voice to Johansson's character in Spike Jonze's "Her." AdvertisementOpenAI said it would "pause" ChatGPT's "Sky" voice after it sparked comparisons with Scarlett Johansson. Many social-media users linked the latest update to Jonze's prophetic film, comparing the voice with Johansson's character in Spike Jonze's 2013 film "Her."

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☆ OpenAI pulls ChatGPT AI voice over its resemblance to Scarlett Johansson in the movie 'Her'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI announced it would pull one of the ChatGPT voices named "Sky" after it created controversy for its resemblance to the voice of actress Scarlett Johansson in "Her," a movie about artificial intelligence. "We've heard questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT, especially Sky," the Microsoft -backed company posted on X. The news comes one week after OpenAI debuted a range of audio voices for ChatGPT, its viral chatbot, a new AI model called GPT-4o, and a desktop version of ChatGPT. Users watching the live demonstration of ChatGPT's audio capabilities immediately began to post on social media that the "Sky" voice sounded like Johansson in the movie. "Sky's voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson but belongs to a different professional actress using her own natural speaking voice," the company wrote.

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☆ I tested all available versions of ChatGPT to see which model writes the best work emails
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Interview requestsChatGPT's newest model gave the shortest answer for this prompt. Business InsiderThis is one of the most common emails I send at my job, so I was an expert on how they should be structured. I've tried having GPT write these emails, but it never works out — the emails ChatGPT constructs are always extremely long and ridiculously official-sounding. The older models provided lengthier answers. For example, the older GPT-4 model said the faux interview would "focus on the key milestones and future implications of generative AI technology."

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