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Sam Altman, OpenAI’s boss, has already warned investors to expect years of heavy losses.

A smackdown for the ages at the Oscars after-party, and AI was the spark

A successful playwright chose the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party to accuse OpenAI chief Sam Altman of wilfully allowing his technology to be an agent in global violences.

  • Maureen Dowd

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AI is great, except when it gets everything wrong all the time

The head of Open AI said he wants AI to be a “utility”, like electricity or water. With a meter.

  • Sean Kelly
Google’s rise in AI is rocking its rivals.

It’s a Code Red moment for the dominant AI players

Google’s latest chatbot and AI chip are a threat to Nvidia and OpenAI’s dominance.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Andrew Tulloch has left the AI start-up he co-founded to join Meta.
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An offer he couldn’t refuse: The young Aussie who couldn’t say no to Zuckerberg

Australians are plentiful in Silicon Valley, building the future of artificial intelligence. And they’re earning pay packets that defy belief.

  • David Swan
OpenAI’s Sam Altman has spent the best part of 18 months working on a restructuring that would help pave the way for the company to achieve its lofty ambitions.

A $760 billion monster has just been unleashed

The maker of ChatGPT has an insatiable appetite, and need, for cash. A major move, long in the making, has just opened up its options.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
OpenAI is taking on Google with its Atlas browser.
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This ChatGPT browser is genuinely impressive. Will anyone actually use it?

OpenAI’s AI-powered browser can book holidays and build shopping lists while you browse. But it’s competing against the most stubborn force in tech: user habits.

  • David Swan
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ChatGPT is  about to start allow users to generate porn on its AI engine.

ChatGPT to allow users to generate AI porn in race with Musk’s ‘Spicy Mode’

ChatGPT plans to start allowing erotica for adult users as it seeks to compete with a more explicit chatbot built by Elon Musk

  • Pui-Guan Man
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman.

The AI bubble just got a little bigger and no one knows when it will burst

ChatGPT maker OpenAI’s boss Sam Altman is weaving a delicate but powerful web of AI developers and chipmakers that’s worth trillions.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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What to stream this week: Steve Carell’s tech bro satire and five more to add to your list

When four tech titans, led by Steve Carell’s Randall, go on a boys’ weekend it’s all fun and games until the world starts falling to bits.

  • Craig Mathieson
The OpenAI deal thrusts Ive at the vanguard of AI — a technology driving the biggest industry shift since the iPhone’s arrival.

The man who designed the iPhone sells his secretive company to ChatGPT maker in $10b deal

OpenAI has recruited Jony Ive, the legendary designer behind Apple’s iPhone, to lead a new project for the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT.

  • Mark Gurman and Shirin Ghaffary