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Monday, Aug 19

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OpenAI kills Iranian accounts using ChatGPT to write US election disinfo

www.theregister.com

12 on X and one on Instagram caught in the crackdown

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You wanted to try OpenAI's SearchGPT? It's time to look for AI alternatives

www.zdnet.com

The company has closed the waitlist on its AI search engine prototype. Here's why that may not be such bad news.

ChatGPT accounts suspected of being Iranian influence operation shut down by OpenAI

www.techradar.com

Iranian cyber-campaign accounts looking to spread chaos via ChatGPT disabled by OpenAI.

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Wyoming mayoral candidate promises to let OpenAI bot govern capital city, faces backlash from tech giant

www.foxbusiness.com

Cheyenne, Wyoming, mayoral candidate Victor Miller has vowed to allow a bot he created with ChatGPT and named VIC govern and make executive decisions.

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Former Google boss bets on NVIDIA in the AI race: "When Microsoft did the OpenAI deal, it was the stupidest idea I’d ever heard"

www.windowscentral.com

While companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google have enjoyed relative success in the category, former Google boss Eric Schmidt recently indicated that NVIDIA might be the biggest winner in the AI race because of the high demand for GPUs.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Worldcoin Attracts Global Backlash Over Iris-Scanning, Project Defends Itself As 'Privacy-Enhancing'

www.benzinga.com

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, is facing a global backlash over his Worldcoin initiative, which aims to scan the irises of every person on the planet and compensate them with a unique cryptocurrency. The project has been met with…

Sunday, Aug 18

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An 'Iranian Influence Operation' allegedly used ChatGPT. OpenAI caught them.

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An 'Iranian Influence Operation' allegedly used ChatGPT. OpenAI caught them.

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This Startup, Focused on AI Search, Now Has to Stare Down Google and OpenAI

www.cnet.com

Perplexity offers a comparable experience to AI Overviews and SearchGPT.

Saturday, Aug 17

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OpenAI Says It Caught a ChatGPT-Powered ‘Iranian Influence Operation’

gizmodo.com

An attempt to influence the U.S. presidential election harnessed ChatGPT to generate stories and social media comments, per OpenAI.

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Google takes on OpenAI with Gemini Live

techcrunch.com

Made by Google was this week, featuring a full range of reveals from Google’s biggest hardware event. Google unveiled its new lineup of Pixel 9 phones, including the $1,799 Pixel 9 Fold Pro; advanced AI-powered photo-editing tools; and the…

OpenAI’s new voice mode let me talk with my phone, not to it

techcrunch.com

I’ve been playing around with OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode for the last week, and it’s the most convincing taste I’ve had of an AI-powered future yet. This week, my phone laughed at jokes, made them back to me, asked me how my day was, and…

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OpenAI's ChatGPT starts speaking Welsh after glitch

www.walesonline.co.uk

OpenAI's ChatGPT users have reported a bug where the AI turns English-language queries into Welsh

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ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech news stories from Google's Pixel 9 reveals to OpenAI's GPT 4-o concerns

www.techradar.com

ICYMI here are the biggest tech news stories from Google, Meta, Pico, OpenAI and more for August 18, 2024.

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OpenAI blocks Iranian group's ChatGPT accounts for targeting US election

www.thehindu.com

Investigation by the Microsoft-backed AI company showed that ChatGPT was used for generating long-form articles and shorter social media comments

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OpenAI Blocks Iranian Group's ChatGPT Accounts For Targeting US Election, Says Covert Operation Did Not Achieve 'Meaningful Audience Engagement'

www.benzinga.com

OpenAI has uncovered and dismantled a covert Iranian influence operation leveraging ChatGPT, marking the second such instance of disclosing the adversarial use of its AI models since May.

A YouTuber files a proposed class action against Nvidia, accusing it of scraping his content without consent to train AI models, weeks after also suing OpenAI (Justin Bachman/Legal Dive)

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A YouTuber files a proposed class action against Nvidia, accusing it of scraping his content without consent to train AI models, weeks after also suing OpenAI — A video creator alleges that the companies scraped his videos, and millions of…

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OpenAI shuts down Iranian influence operation targeting U.S. election

triblive.com

NEW YORK — OpenAI removed a network of Iranian accounts that used its ChatGPT chatbot to try to wage a foreign influence campaign targeting the U.S. presidential election by generating longform articles and social media comments, the…

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Iranian group used ChatGPT to try to influence US election, OpenAI says

www.theguardian.com

AI company bans accounts and says operation did not appear to have meaningful audience engagement

Friday, Aug 16

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OpenAI says it disrupted Iranian influence operation using ChatGPT

thehill.com

OpenAI said Friday it disrupted an Iranian influence operation that was using ChatGPT to generate content related to the U.S. presidential election and other topics. The network known as Storm-2035 used the company’s chatbot, powered by…