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OpenAI is finally letting employees donate their equity to charity

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Current and former OpenAI employees have grown increasingly frustrated by the fact that the company hasn't allowed them to donate their equity to charity in years. But OpenAI has finally seemed to bow to pressure, sending out an email from…

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OpenAI Blocks Toymaker After Its AI Teddy Bear Is Caught Telling Children Terrible Things

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"I can confirm we've suspended this developer for violating our policies."

Fidji Simo says OpenAI can't afford not to strike massive compute deals: 'What's much riskier would be to not lean into compute'

OpenAI's CEO of Applications Fidji Simo said the startup still has a scarcity of compute for all the projects it would like to do.

OpenAI wants ChatGPT to contribute to your group chats - and I can't decide if that's exciting or creepy

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OpenAI is trialling new group chat functions with ChatGPT for some users - but do we really want this?

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Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says he is "nervous about the size of these investments in these data centers"; he owns stakes in OpenAI, Perplexity, and xAI (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)

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Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says he is “nervous about the size of these investments in these data centers”; he owns stakes in OpenAI, Perplexity, and xAI — OpenAI backer Sebastian Siemiatkowski says tech industry is committing too…

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In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI Conference attendees asking which $1B+ valuation startup to short, most voted Perplexity, followed by OpenAI (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

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In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI Conference attendees asking which $1B+ valuation startup to short, most voted Perplexity, followed by OpenAI — - An audience at a top AI conference in San Francisco was asked what startup…

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Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining OpenAI, ChatGPT users' mental health, profitability, data center deals, her chronic illness, and more (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)

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Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining OpenAI, ChatGPT users' mental health, profitability, data center deals, her chronic illness, and more — As OpenAI expands in every direction, the new CEO of Applications is on a…

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OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It

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As OpenAI expands in every direction, the new CEO of Applications is on a mission to make ChatGPT indispensable and lucrative.

Sunday, Nov 16

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman joins Giving Pledge, focusing his money on tech that ‘helps’

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Altman says he wants to focus his philanthropic giving on ‘technology that helps create abundance for people’

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OpenAI urged to pull video generating tool

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The tech industry is moving fast and breaking things again -- and this time it is humanity's shared reality and control of our likeness before and after death -- thanks to artificial intelligence image-generation platforms like OpenAI's…

Saturday, Nov 15

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OpenAI, Microsoft Partner With U.S. State Authorities on AI Safety Initiative

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Growing concerns over the safety of Artificial Intelligence, especially for children, have prompted two state attorneys general in the United states to collaborate with major tech companies to establish a task force to develop protective…

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Judge Allows Elon Musk's xAI to Proceed with Lawsuit Against Apple and OpenAI

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A federal judge has ruled that Elon Musk's X Corp. and xAI can move forward with their lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI over anticompetitive practices in the AI industry.

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OpenAI says ChatGPT will listen if you tell it not to use em dashes

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You may now have to scrutinize what you read on the internet (and event on print) more closely to determine if it’s the product of AI. Sam Altman has revealed on X that if you tell ChatGPT not to use em dashes in your custom instructions,…

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OpenAI GPT-5.1 Now Available for Perplexity Pro and Max Subscribers, Kimi K2 Coming Soon

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OpenAI has released GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking models. Perplexity confirmed the GPT-5.1 update is now available for all Pro and Max subscribers. CEO Aravind Srinivas further noted that Kimi K2 will arrive soon. Check for further…

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You Can Use OpenAI's Sora 2 On Your iPhone Right Now - Here's How

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Thanks to the removal of the invite-only system, Sora 2 video generation from OpenAI is now available to a whole new swath of users. Here's how to get started.

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Finally, OpenAI Says ChatGPT Will Listen When People Tell It to Avoid the Long Dash

Sam Altman says ChatGPT finally listens when people tell it to drop the long dash (yeh this beast —) that has followed the chatbot everywhere. Users treated that punctuation as a flashing sign that a machine wrote their text. Some called…