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AI's next feat will be its descent from the cloud

Google owner Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta Platforms, which owns Instagram and Facebook, are forecast to spend a combined $160 billion in capital expenditures next year,
2 October 2024

OpenAI now has more than 1 million paid business users

OpenAI now has more than 1 million paying users across its business products, ChatGPT Enterprise, Team and Edu, according to an announcement made by the company on Thursday.
8 September 2024

ChatGPT hits 200 million weekly users

The popular AI chatbot ChatGPT has hit over 200 million weekly users, as per a recent announcement by OpenAI. This number is reported to be double what it was last year around the same time.
1 September 2024

OpenAI blocks Iranian accounts for deceptive US election content

OpenAI recently announced that it has shut down several Iranian accounts that were using ChatGPT to create deceptive content regarding the US presidential election.
18 August 2024

Blind Japanese gamer tests ChatGPT for AI accessibility

Masahiro Fujimoto, a 26-year-old esports player from Japan, is blind and often reliant on a human companion to assist him around the streets of Tokyo. However, he has recently put ChatGPT-4o to the test, in the hopes of the AI tool helping him walk to his destination without any external assistance.
15 July 2024

OpenAI was hacked last year

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Sora, was hacked last year, compromising access to the company's internal messaging systems, as per a recent report by The New York Times. The attack also stole details about the design of the company's AI technologies, states the report.
7 July 2024

ChatGPT Mac app now available for everyone

The Mac app for ChatGPT, previously only available for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, has now been made available to everyone. As per OpenAI, the ChatGPT Mac app is specifically designed to work natively on Mac, able to "integrate seamlessly" into any type of work on the OS.
27 June 2024

Apple and Meta might form AI partnership: report

Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms has talked about incorporating its generative AI model into Apple's newly revealed AI system for iPhones, reveals a report from The Wall Street Journal on Sunday. These discussions are reportedly in preliminary stages and could still be abandoned.
24 June 2024

ChatGPT helps 89-year-old Japanese app developer learn programming

89-year-old Japanese Tomoji Suzuki took up coding in his retirement, developing apps specifically for the elderly Japanese population. As per a recent interview with AFP, he has credited ChatGPT as a "great teacher" and "programming mentor" in his coding journey.
12 June 2024

OpenAI begins training new AI model more powerful than GPT-4

OpenAI has recently announced it has begun training its next flagship AI model, which is expected to surpass the capabilities of GPT-4. According to the company, this new model, currently unnamed, is expected to drastically improve various AI-based applications such as chatbots, search engines, and image generators. 
29 May 2024

Scarlett Johansson ‘angered’ after ChatGPT uses voice ‘eerily similar’ to hers

The controversy erupted when Sky debuted last week, and many noted the resemblance to Johansson's tone in the 2013 film “Her”. Johansson voiced Samantha, an AI chat system in the film that forms an intimate relationship with a human, which further fueled the comparisons.
21 May 2024

OpenAI is building a search engine inside ChatGPT

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, a language model, is venturing into the search engine market with plans to expand ChatGPT's capabilities, according to a recent report by Bloomberg. The company aims to equip ChatGPT with a web-crawling feature that can search the internet for answers and provide detailed responses with source citations that mirrors the functionality of Google Search.
9 May 2024

OpenAI opens its first Asia office in Tokyo

OpenAI, the company behind the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, has recently announced the opening of its first Asia office in Tokyo, Japan. The move is being seen as the AI company's ongoing effort to grow revenue sources globally.
15 April 2024

You can now use ChatGPT without signing up

Users can now access the free version of ChatGPT without requiring to sign up via a Google, Microsoft, or Apple account. Instead, the popular AI chatbot can be directly accessed from OpenAI's official website without needing to log in.
2 April 2024

xAI’s Grok chatbot is now available as open-source on Github

Grok, the AI chatbot made by Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, has been released on Github as an open-source project. The open release is now accessible on GitHub, allowing researchers and developers to freely enhance the Grok model.
19 March 2024

OpenAI to name new board members in March: Report

OpenAI, the company behind making ChatGPT, is planning to appoint several new board members in March according to a recent report by the Washington Post.
2 March 2024

Dhaka 2084: Interview of a Time Traveller

The sudden appearance — and the equally sudden disappearance — of a middle-aged woman named Eli Kaizer, who claimed to be a time traveller, has caught the attention of not only our city, but the entire world.
26 February 2024

Sam Altman seeks to raise billions for network of AI chip factories

Intel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Samsung Electronics  are potential partners for OpenAI
20 January 2024

AI buzzes Davos, but CEOs wrestle with how to make it pay

With AI making the headline everywhere, CEO's are struggling to make AI demos into revenue earning products
18 January 2024

OpenAI to launch anti-disinformation tools for 2024 elections

The explosive success of text generator ChatGPT spurred a global artificial intelligence revolution but also triggered warnings that such tools could flood the internet with disinformation and sway voters.
16 January 2024