OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has expressed deep unease about the capabilities of GPT-5, the company’s upcoming AI model expected to launch in August 2025. In a candid podcast appearance, Altman admitted that testing the new model left him feeling “useless” and likened its development to the Manhattan Project, the World War II-era program that produced […]
Meta tried to buy OpenAI’s former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Mira Murati startup, Thinking Machines Lab. But as she declined to sell her company despite a $1 billion offer, CEO Mark Zuckerberg “responded by launching a full-scale raid,” reports the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Zuckerberg, the report says, approached more than a dozen of Thinking […]
As artificial intelligence continues to advance at an astonishing pace, even the leaders at its forefront are beginning to voice concern. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has openly admitted feeling “scared” about the upcoming release of GPT-5, the newest and most powerful version of ChatGPT. Scheduled to launch in August 2025, GPT-5 is expected to significantly […]
A 60-year-old man was hospitalized for three weeks after replacing table salt with sodium bromide following advice from the AI chatbot ChatGPT.The case was detailed in a report published this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine by three physicians from the University of Washington. According to the report, the man had no prior psychiatric […]
Mira Murati, the Albanian-American tech visionary behind some of the most significant breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, is once again in the spotlight—this time for turning down an eye-watering $1 billion offer from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. As the former CTO of OpenAI and now the founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, Murati has […]
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI is eliminating the job title “researcher” and exclusively use “engineer” for all technical staff, following a public correction of an employee’s hiring post on X.The move came after xAI employee Aditya Gupta posted a job listing seeking “researchers and engineers for scaling up our RL environments with user feedback and […]
Uday Ruddarraju, head of infrastructure engineering at Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has resigned from his position. Ruddarraju, who was with the company for just over a year, played a key role in building Colossus — a large-scale supercomputer with over 200,000 GPUs — and in training Grok 3, one of xAI’s latest AI models. […]
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has dramatically reversed his position on AI hardware requirements, now claiming that “current computers were designed for a world without AI” and suggesting users will need new devices as artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent. This marks a significant shift from his previous stance that the AI revolution wouldn’t require new hardware.Speaking […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has shared a post on X (previously known as Twitter), suggesting a shift in his stance toward artificial intelligence. Admitting he had been “living in denial” about the technology for too long, Elon Musk wrote in the post: “I resisted AI for too long. Living in denial. Now it is game […]
Varun Mohan, a rising star in Silicon Valley and co-founder of AI startup Windsurf, is under fire after abruptly quitting to join Google’s DeepMind, effectively tanking a $3 billion acquisition deal with OpenAI. The move triggered widespread criticism from investors, industry peers, and the public, with some branding Mohan a “generational villain” for leaving his […]
