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  • Nvidia becomes world’s first $5tn company amid stock market and AI boom

    Silicon Valley chipmaker hits $5tn valuation just three months after it was first to break through the $4tn barrier Nvidia has become the world’s first $5tn company as the artificial intelligence industry and wider US stock market boom. Just three months ago, the Silicon Valley chipmaker was the first to break through the barrier of…

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  • More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates

    Finding is one of most direct statements from the tech company on how AI can exacerbate mental health issues More than a million ChatGPT users each week send messages that include “explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent”, according to a blogpost published by OpenAI on Monday. The finding, part of an update on…

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  • ‘Sycophantic’ AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, study shows

    Scientists warn of ‘insidious risks’ of increasingly popular technology that affirms even harmful behaviour Turning to AI chatbots for personal advice poses “insidious risks”, according to a study showing the technology consistently affirms a user’s actions and opinions even when harmful. Scientists said the findings raised urgent concerns over the power of chatbots to distort…

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  • OpenAI relaxed ChatGPT guardrails just before teen killed himself, family alleges

    Adam Raine’s suicide at 16 years old was ‘predictable result of deliberate design choices’ by OpenAI, his family says The family of a teenager who took his own life after months of conversations with ChatGPT now says OpenAI weakened safety guidelines in the months before his death. In July 2022, OpenAI’s guidelines on how ChatGPT…

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  • ChatGPT Atlas: OpenAI launches web browser centered around its chatbot

    Company’s AI-powered browser built around marquee bot is designed to provide more personalized web experience OpenAI on Tuesday launched an AI-powered web browser built around its marquee chatbot. “Meet our new browser—ChatGPT Atlas,” a tweet from the company read. Continue reading…

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  • Bryan Cranston thanks OpenAI for cracking down on Sora 2 deepfakes

    Users of generative AI video app were able to recreate the Breaking Bad actor’s likeness without his consent, which OpenAI called ‘unintentional’ Bryan Cranston has said he is “grateful” to OpenAI for cracking down on deepfakes of himself on the company’s generative AI video platform Sora 2, after users were able to generate his voice…

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  • The platform exposing exactly how much copyrighted art is used by AI tools

    From 007 to Elsa, Vermillio claims it can trace percentage of AI-generated image drawn from pre-existing material Ask Google’s AI video tool to create a film of a time-travelling doctor who flies around in a blue British phone booth and the result, unsurprisingly, resembles Doctor Who. And if you ask OpenAI’s technology to do the…

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  • ‘Legacies condensed to AI slop’: OpenAI Sora videos of the dead raise alarm with legal experts

    The video app can produce realistic deepfakes of Marx shopping and MLK Jr trolling. Some say using ‘historical figures’ is the company’s way of testing the legal waters Last night I was flicking through a dating app. One guy stood out: “Henry VIII, 34, King of England, nonmonogamy”. Next thing I know, I am at…

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  • OpenAI will allow verified adults to use ChatGPT to generate erotic content

    New version will allow users to customize AI assistant’s personality in what firm calls ‘treat adults users like adults’ policy OpenAI announced plans on Tuesday to relax restrictions on its ChatGPT chatbot, including allowing erotic content for verified adult users as part of what the company calls a “treat adult users like adults” principle. OpenAI’s…

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  • OpenAI signs multibillion-dollar chip deal with AMD

    The deal offers the ChatGPT maker an opportunity to buy a 10% stake in chipmaker AMD OpenAI and the chipmaker AMD announced on Monday that they had signed a multibillion-dollar chip deal that would also give the ChatGPT creator the option to buy a large stake in the chipmaker. The deal offers OpenAI an opportunity…

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