Anyone who has ever tried photojournalism knows how great it feels — and how difficult it can be — to take a good picture when covering a live news event.… Read More
The Seattle-area fusion company Helion Energy is talking with OpenAI about a deal in which the AI company “would buy vast quantities of electricity to provide power for data centers,”… Read More
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman played the role of closing act for the opening keynote at Microsoft’s Build developer conference in Seattle on Tuesday morning, in an appearance that was perhaps… Read More
OpenAI announced Friday that it is bringing CEO Sam Altman back to the board of directors following his dramatic ouster in November. OpenAI, makers of ChatGPT, conducted an independent review… Read More
Microsoft’s new $20/month AI chatbot subscription, Copilot Pro, promises to give individual users priority access to the latest AI models, starting with OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo, along with AI integrations in… Read More
“Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?” Bill Gates wrote those words in a landmark open letter in February 1976, calling on personal computer hobbyists to stop stealing… Read More
Shelpful, a Portland, Ore.-based startup that combines artificial intelligence and human empathy to help people stay on task and get stuff done, has checked a major item off its to-do… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we assess the outcome of the drama at OpenAI, considering what the removal and ultimate return of its CEO Sam Altman, and everything that… Read More
OpenAI’s announcement last night that Sam Altman will return as CEO, under a newly formulated board, brings an apparent end to a wild ride that spotlighted OpenAI’s unusual corporate structure,… Read More
The OpenAI saga appears to be in a holding pattern, at least for the moment, as hundreds of employees threaten to leave en masse if the board doesn’t resign and… Read More
Microsoft turned one of the most bizarre weekends in modern tech history into one of the most consequential for itself and perhaps the rest of the industry. With Satya Nadella’s… Read More
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was as bullish as ever about artificial intelligence and the ChatGPT maker’s latest advances when he spoke Thursday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in… Read More
Updated at 4:21 p.m. with news of Greg Brockman’s resignation. Sam Altman, one of the most influential leaders in the burgeoning AI industry, is leaving OpenAI, the company he helped… Read More
Reporting from San Francisco: OpenAI rolled out voice interaction as a premium feature for its ChatGPT mobile apps in September, making it possible for users to speak with the AI… Read More
Reporting from San Francisco: OpenAI is introducing a way for individual ChatGPT users to create customized versions of its popular AI chatbot, personalized for their own use and for sharing… Read More
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped down from the Expedia Group board effective June 1, after helping the company get a jump on the new era of generative AI toward the… Read More
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman opened Barry Diller’s eyes to the potential of artificial intelligence by asking ChatGPT to dish on the media mogul’s personal life. Diller, the Expedia Group and… Read More
Microsoft says it has created one of the world’s top supercomputers for the exclusive use of OpenAI, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company pursuing breakthroughs in artificial general intelligence, or… Read More
Sam Altman, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor who leads the OpenAI artificial intelligence company, is joining the Expedia Group board. Expedia Group is expanding the board to 12 members… Read More
Microsoft will invest $1 billion in OpenAI and work with the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence powerhouse to create a computational platform of “unprecedented scale” to accelerate the development of advanced… Read More
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is leading a $30 million investment round in the social petition site Change.org, and he is joined by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Sam Altman, president… Read More
