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OpenAI's $6.6 billion investor funding could be setting up the ChatGPT maker for failure unless a critical threshold gets a stamp of approval
By Kevin Okemwa published
TROUBLE BREWING? OpenAI needs to become a for-profit entity within two years or return the money raised by investors to keep its business afloat.

Sam Altman admits ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode tricked him into thinking AI was a real person: "I kind of still say 'please' to ChatGPT, but in Voice Mode, I couldn't use the normal niceties. I was so convinced, like, Argh, it might be a real person"
By Kevin Okemwa published
REAL AI? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that ChatGPT's Voice Mode was the first time he was tricked into thinking AI was a real person.

OpenAI's $3.7 billion in revenue won't save the ChatGPT maker from an imminent $5 billion loss in 2024 — Microsoft and NVIDIA's anticipated round funding might (UPDATED)
By Kevin Okemwa last updated
MORE MONEY, MORE PROBLEMS OpenAI expects approximately $5 billion in losses on $3.7 billion in revenue this year.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman branded "podcasting bro" for his reportedly absurd plan to "take $7 trillion and many years to build 36 semiconductor plants and additional data centers" to fulfill his ambitious AI vision
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI VISION BRO Lack of sufficient computing power and AI chips limits AI advances, but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly has an "audacious plan" to bypass these issues.

Sam Altman claims superintelligence might only be "a few thousand days" away from OpenAI's doorstep, but there are a lot of details to figure out
By Kevin Okemwa published
INTELLIGENCE AGE OpenAI CEO says superintelligent AI might be "a few thousand days" from the AI firm's grasp.

OpenAI's proposed logo refresh sparks controversy among staffers, calling it "devoid of creativity" — despite ChatGPT and DALL-E 3's touted "insanely powerful" logo creation capabilities
By Kevin Okemwa published
O OR ZERO? OpenAI reportedly shared a new logo design at a recent company-wide meeting that sparked a cocktail of emotions among its employees, who blatantly referred to it as "uninspiring and ominous."

Apple's former Chief Designer confirms mobile project with OpenAI — leveraging the ChatGPT maker's AI smarts to "create a computing experience that is less socially disruptive than the iPhone"
By Kevin Okemwa published
iPhone of intelligence Jony Ive admits he's working closely with OpenAI to develop a new device to compete with Apple and Samsung in the mobile landscape.

Investors claim OpenAI is 'uniquely' positioned to become the world's dominant AI company worth trillions of dollars ahead of Microsoft and Apple: "There has never been a company that has both a dominant enterprise and consumer position early on"
By Kevin Okemwa published
TRILLION-DOLLAR OPENAI A-list Investors are betting on OpenAI to become the world's dominant AI company worth trillions of dollars ahead of Microsoft, Apple, and NVIDIA.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted GPT-4 "kind of sucks," and now we learn the AI model consumes up to 3 water bottles to generate a mere 100 words
By Kevin Okemwa published
COOLING WATER According to new research by the University of California, OpenAI's GPT-4 AI model consumes up to 3 water bottles to generate 100 words.

Microsoft and affiliates (not OpenAI) are secretly using your LinkedIn data to train AI models — Here's how to opt out of the experience
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI IMPROVEMENT LinkedIn subtly rolled out a new feature (Data for Generative AI improvement), allowing Microsoft and affiliates' AI models to access your data for training without consent.
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