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OpenAI in Crisis: Insiders Reveal Alarming Safety Oversights and Internal Turmoil

OpenAI, a frontrunner in developing human-level AI, is facing increasing scrutiny over safety concerns, as highlighted by employees in various media outlets. The latest instance, reported by The Washington Post, features an anonymous employee alleging that OpenAI rushed safety tests and celebrated their product prematurely. “They planned the launch after-party before ensuring the product’s safety,” the employee revealed. “We essentially failed in our process.”Safety issues persist at OpenAI, with current and former employees recently signing an open letter demanding better

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Elon Musk does not owe ex-Twitter staffers $500 million in severance, court rules

Elon Musk faces several lawsuits following his 2022 takeover of Twitter, during which he fired over 6,000 employees, including then-CEO Parag Agrawal. Recently, Musk won one such lawsuit, with a federal judge ruling that X Corp. doesn't owe additional severance to the former employees. The lawsuit, initiated by Twitter’s former head of people experience and another ex-manager, claimed X Corp. paid less severance than promised. The complaint highlighted that the 6,000 fired employees received, at most, three months of severance pay, as Musk confirmed in a tweet at the tim

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ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all

OpenAI's popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT, is now available for all macOS users, as the company announced on Tuesday. Initially revealed ahead of Apple’s WWDC 2024 in June, the app highlights integrations between ChatGPT and Apple’s operating systems for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. On macOS, users can quickly access ChatGPT using the keyboard shortcut Option + Space, after installing the new app. This makes the chatbot easily accessible in a way familiar to macOS users who use Command + Space to activate Spotlight Search. Instead of traditional search, users gain access to a vast kno

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Apple’s A1: We’ve seen some of this before

Apple is poised to bring artificial intelligence into the mainstream, though some of its new features resemble those already offered by competitors. Following Tuesday’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple previewed several AI-powered tools coming to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac this fall under the banner of “Apple Intelligence.” While some innovations mark a new era for Apple, others show the company catching up with industry trends.For many users, this will be their first experience with generative AI—technology that delivers comprehensive responses to queries—integ

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Elon Musk claims Optimus robots could make Tesla a $25 trillion company — more than half the value of the S&P 500 today

The S&P 500's total value currently stands at $45.5 trillion, according to FactSet. On Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed that his company’s Optimus humanoid robots could eventually push Tesla's worth to more than half of that amount.At the 2024 annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas, Musk described himself as “pathologically optimistic” and said Tesla is not only beginning a “new chapter” but is about to write an entirely “new book.” The Optimus robots appear to be central to this vision.Tesla first announced its humanoid robot plans in 2021 during an AI Day ev

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