Enough talk: ChatGPT users fell for the first time in June
The genie is out When OpenAI launched ChatGPT at the end of November last year, the tech world and the Extremely Online community went into something of a meltdown, racing to try the chatbot and samp...
Duolingo: The language-learning app is pushing the boundaries of AI
Influencer app Time magazine has released its latest list of 100 Most Influential Companies . Many of the usual suspects appear in the rankings — Apple, Chipotle, Disney — but one company in particu...
GPT upgrade: OpenAI's latest model is a big step up
The world of artificial intelligence just got a lot more exciting, or scary, depending on your perspective, as the tech firm behind the wildly-popular and surprisingly-addictive ChatGPT unleashed its ...
Social search: Gen Z have unique search habits
Socially searching A lot has been made in the tech world about the advancements in generative AI, and how advanced bots like ChatGPT might change the internet search landscape forever. But we may not...
Microsoft vs. Google: Bing's resurgence has Google worried, but will it last?
Microsoft vs. Google Microsoft announcing the integration of ChatGPT into its search engine Bing , closely followed by Google unveiling its underwhelming AI chatbot Bard, has heralded a new era of c...
Still searching: Bing’s still big in the game
ChatBingo In one of our last newsletters of 2022, we charted the remarkable rise of ChatGPT , a chatbot from OpenAI that hit 1 million users in just 5 days. Now, per a report from The Information , M...
ChatGPT: The AI bot taking the tech world by storm
ChartGPT On Wednesday the Chartr office party was in full swing, but instead of heading for drinks — as originally planned — we found ourselves still in the office, writing increasingly funny prompts...
Just four companies are hoarding tens of billions of dollars worth of Nvidia GPU chips
Meta just announced the release of Llama 3.1, the latest iteration of their open source large language model. The long-awaited, jumbo-sized model has high scores on the same benchmarks that everyone e...
Bad AI bot Grok is not good
Turns out xAI’s “anti-woke,” “politically incorrect,” “ rebellious ” AI bot is not very good. After the Trump assassination attempt, Grok, which is supposed to write headlines and summaries based on p...
More proof that AI companies are training their models on YouTube
An investigation by Proof News found that major tech companies, including Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce have been using subtitles from YouTube videos to train their AI models. The training ...
Who is winning the generative AI war? Consultants
Welcome to Weird Money, a column written by me, Jack Raines , where I discuss the most interesting and, more importantly, weirdest stories I've seen in business and markets. Consultants love generativ...
Tech companies are changing their terms of service to include AI training
Tech companies including Google, Meta, and X have been quietly (and sometimes with as little as eight words) changing the terms of service you never read to say they train their AI models on your publ...
No one is paying anyone in the OpenAI and Apple deal
It looks like the long-awaited partnership between OpenAI and Apple that was announced at the latter’s developer conference last week isn’t expected to generate revenue for either company in the near-...
Elon Musk says he may “ban” Apple devices at his companies after OpenAI announcement
Elon Musk criticized Apple, saying the iPhone maker’s newly announced deal with OpenAI could represent a privacy and security threat to his six companies. “If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, ...
Key takeaways from Apple's WWDC: AI to Siri
If you missed Apple's annual developer conference, rest easy knowing that you didn't miss much. To illustrate this point: one of the most surprising things Apple announced was that it's finally bringi...
The most interesting things people have said OpenAI’s Sam Altman
Bloomberg’s Ellen Huet has written a great profile of Sam Altman, the controversial CEO fronting OpenAI and leading the AI industry. You should definitely read the whole thing , but we’ve pulled out s...
Why did Apple have to partner with OpenAI?
Apple has made a deal with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT with its iPhone and hopefully catch up to its tech peers in the AI race, Bloomberg reports. But why does Apple, which has gobs of cash and a year...
Digging into OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's conflicting business interests
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is taking a page out of Elon Musk’s playbook and finding himself on both sides of deals, according to a Wall Street Journal report , as a number of his more than 400 investments ...
Google stops showing as many AI responses after backlash
Google confirmed it’s showing fewer AI generated answers to user questions — a feature it rolled out broadly earlier this month and is already walking back after blowback from its wild results . In a ...
A running list of all the news organizations partnering with or suing OpenAI
OpenAI recently welcomed Future — which includes Tom’s Guide, TechRadar, Marie Claire, and PC Gamer — into the fold, making them the latest news organizations to license their journalism to train the ...