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I hate shopping. ChatGPT is already helping me in ways Google never did

ChatGPT can act as a personal stylist and shopping assistant, something far beyond what a Google search offers.

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Ex-OpenAI employees sign open letter to California AG: For-profit pivot poses ‘palpable threat’ to nonprofit mission

In a new letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general, former OpenAI insiders and AI luminaries warn the company’s restructuring...

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Exclusive: This Sequoia-backed AI startup can run thousands of voice interviews at once—and it’s raised $27M to disrupt market research

AI that interviews your customers, builds your PowerPoint, and tells you what to do next — that’s the $27M bet Sequoia is making on Listen Labs.

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A customer support AI went rogue—and it’s a warning for every company considering replacing workers with automation 

A hallucinating customer support bot—and a viral backlash—shows how fast things can go wrong in the age of AI automation.

19.04.2025 10

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OpenAI taps high-profile advisors for its nonprofit—right when it needs shore up support for its plan to remove that nonprofit’s control of its business

With scrutiny mounting and a $40 billion funding round on the line, OpenAI’s new nonprofit commission may be less about charity—and more about optics.

17.04.2025 9

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OpenAI updated its safety framework—but no longer sees mass manipulation and disinformation as a critical risk

OpenAI’s updated AI safety framework drops key pre-release testing requirements—including for persuasive or manipulative capabilities—sparking...

16.04.2025 4

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Trump’s Nvidia deal lays bare the contradictions in America’s AI policy

The Trump administration is talking tough on China—but Nvidia’s recent H20 chip deal reveals the contradictions at the heart of U.S. AI policy.

15.04.2025 4

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12 former OpenAI employees asked to be heard in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the company; one calls Sam Altman a ‘person of low integrity’

In a friend of the court filing by Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, a dozen former employees accuse OpenAI of abandoning its nonprofit roots and...

12.04.2025 10

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How Trump’s tariffs could fuel China’s AI push and become a soft-power nightmare for American tech

Trump’s tariffs could backfire—handing China a golden opportunity to dominate global AI and woo U.S. allies.

11.04.2025 10

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Shopify is saying the quiet part out loud: AI will replace new hiring—other CEOs just won’t admit it

It is time for CEOs to level with their employees and for society to get ready for a world with fewer jobs.

10.04.2025 4

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Here’s why tariff shock could hit AI’s data center boom

The data centers critical to generative AI services like ChatGPT are made of more than just chips. And that's just one of the tariffs risks facing AI.

07.04.2025 3

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Tariffs are tanking tech stocks, so why is Microsoft escaping the worst of the bloodbath?

While most of the 'Magnificent 7' Big Tech stocks post double-digit percentage declines, Microsoft's enterprise-heavy, AI-driven business is faring...

04.04.2025 10

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Why OpenAI caved to open source on the same day as its $300 billion flex (hint: it’s not just about DeepSeek)

The ChatGPT maker is trying to balance closed models and open source efforts, with plans for its first open model since 2019, in a strategic pivot as...

01.04.2025 6

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Exclusive: Instacart bought his self-checkout startup for $350M. Now he’s teaming with a Google DeepMind alum to build low-cost robots

Startup founder has a new startup building low-cost robots to do the chores, from folding laundry to cleaning toilets.

25.03.2025 9

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Nvidia: AI will need more computing power, not less

Also: Putin agrees to partial ceasefire, powerful legal team to go after Boeing.

19.03.2025 10

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Trump’s budget cuts threaten AI research, top scientists warn

Academic research into AI is at risk from President Trump's cost-cutting, critics say.

04.03.2025 3

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Elon Musk and DOGE ‘weaponized’ the U.S. Digital Service and betrayed its mission, insiders say

Firings and "betrayal": Inside the onetime White House tech office that became Elon Musk's DOGE.

01.03.2025 7

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AI security risks are in the spotlight—but hackers say models are still alarmingly easy to attack

One of the biggest AI vibe shifts of 2025 so far is the sudden, massive pivot from AI “safety” to AI “security.” 

27.02.2025 10

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Amazon’s new AI-powered Alexa is finally here—for $20 a month

Ten years after Amazon debuted its virtual assistant, Alexa is finally being upgraded for the generative-AI age. Meet Alexa .

27.02.2025 4

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Entergy’s stock is surging after a $10 billion Meta deal — the CEO says mega AI data centers are changing the utility business

As AI fuels a boom in mega data centers, Entergy is cashing in—securing Meta and AWS as customers, building billions in new power plants, and...

21.02.2025 7

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Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati finally unveils her Thinking Machines Lab startup — and a leadership team stacked with former OpenAI colleagues

Former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, who departed the company in September 2024, has formally announced her new AI startup, Thinking...

18.02.2025 10

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Why OpenAI’s battle to dominate tech may hinge on better product design 

OpenAI’s is rushing to make its products more intuitive and useful as it tries to fend off Google, Meta, and DeepSeek.

13.02.2025 10

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Exclusive: Legal AI startup Harvey lands fresh $300 million in Sequoia-led round as CEO says on target for $100 million annual recurring revenue

The three-year-old San Francisco AI startup fetched a $3 billion valuation — double the amount investors valued it at in July.

12.02.2025 30

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Elon Musk’s OpenAI bid creates a legal maze and investor uncertainty—which is probably just what he wants

Elon Musk’s $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit assets has ignited a legal and financial showdown.

12.02.2025 20

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OpenAI cofounder John Schulman is joining Mira Murati’s startup after brief stint at Anthropic

It remains unclear why Schulman chose to leave Anthropic so soon after joining, as well as what his role will be at Murati's company.

07.02.2025 3

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Reid Hoffman’s new book touts humanity’s ‘superagency’ over AI—but he says DeepSeek proves why the U.S. must stay ahead

In an interview with Fortune, Hoffman discussed the thorny societal questions surrounding AI, as well as his own experiences as a founder, and funder,...

01.02.2025 20

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IBM’s CEO touted DeepSeek AI as a validation of his strategy in a post-earnings victory lap as shares surge 12%

IBM’s strong Q4 earnings, driven by AI momentum, set off a 12% stock surge as CEO Arvind Krishna highlighted DeepSeek’s success as validation of...

30.01.2025 8

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OpenAI ex-board member Helen Toner says revoking ban on Nvidia AI chip exports would be a ‘huge victory’ for China

Scrapping export restrictions on top-of-the-line GPU chips because of DeepSeek's s AI success would hand China a major win, says Toner.

29.01.2025 4

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DeepSeek just flipped the AI script in favor of open-source—and the irony for OpenAI and Anthropic is brutal 

DeepSeek’s R1 model has rattled the industry and slashed Nvidia’s stock. But for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, there is an ironic twist.

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OpenAI’s Stargate may be tech’s biggest gamble ever, but here’s what’s really at stake

Stargate isn’t just a massive AI investment—it’s a high-stakes bet on technology, power, and future global dominance.

23.01.2025 5

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‘A sense of panic’: Immigrant AI talent worry Trump could make an already broken visa system worse  

As the U.S. pushes for AI dominance, top immigrant talent struggles with a broken visa system—and looming Trump uncertainty

21.01.2025 8

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U.K. regulator says Google has ‘strategic market status’ and launches probe into search dominance

The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority will probe whether "Google is using its position to prevent innovation by others".

14.01.2025 6

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Fearing a visa crackdown by Trump, immigrant tech workers cancel overseas vacations and skip family visits

Companies urge immigrant workers traveling overseas to return to U.S. before January 20 amid fears of Trump blocking their return.

14.01.2025 6

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Nvidia lashes out at Biden’s last-minute export controls on AI chips and rushes to praise Trump

Once reticent to get involved in policy debates, Nvidia issued a sharply-worded blog post criticizing Biden's sweeping new export restrictions on AI...

13.01.2025 10

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang debuts new AI platform to dominate the ‘ChatGPT moment’ in robotics

Nvidia extends its big bet on providing the 'picks and shovels' for a coming robotics boom.

07.01.2025 5

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Sam Altman says OpenAI’s new o3 ‘reasoning’ models begin the ‘next phase’ of AI. Is this AGI?

The new o3 models did so well on a prominent benchmark that some immediately questioned whether OpenAI, had, in fact, achieved AGI.

21.12.2024 4

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Michael Dell says adoption of AI PCs is ‘definitely delayed,’ but it’s coming: ‘I’ve seen this movie a couple times before’

Executives on Dell’s earnings call last month said that the company’s anticipated customer refresh to new AI-enabled PCs is going slower than...

18.12.2024 4

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Hundreds of OpenAI’s current and ex-employees are about to get a huge payday by cashing out up to $10 million each in a private stock sale

A group of current and former OpenAI employees are eligible to cash out up to $10 million worth of shares as part of the company’s $1.6 billion...

18.12.2024 6

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Execs must use AI and understand it — but don’t become ‘too enamored’ by the technology, warn business leaders

Business leaders from Salesforce, Edward Jones, Insight, and Accenture shared their views on the best way to become an AI "expert" at Fortune's...

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Big Tech wants AI data centers now. The reality: Clean energy infrastructure can take a half-decade or more to build

Big Tech’s race to power AI data centers has hit a bottleneck: Clean energy infrastructure moves at a snail’s pace compared to tech’s lightning...

13.12.2024 5

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Fortune Brainstorm AI showed cautious optimism, but companies are growing skeptical about hyped-up promises

Companies using AI are moving beyond FOMO to ROI—and other lessons from Fortune Brainstorm AI.

10.12.2024 10

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Microsoft’s biz dev boss on the big bets that could define the future of AI

Microsoft’s Christopher Young shares how AI is taking shape in areas like embodied tech, sustainable data centers, and venture bets on...

10.12.2024 5

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Ilya Sutskever hired him to create ChatGPT’s voice at OpenAI. Now, his startup aims to unlock AI’s emotional intelligence

Backed by $40 million from a16z, Alexis Conneau’s new startup Waveforms is taking his work on OpenAI's voice mode to the next level.

09.12.2024 4

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OpenAI’s nightmare: What David Sacks as AI Czar (and Elon Musk as wingman) could mean for Sam Altman’s $157 billion startup

With David Sacks as AI Czar and Elon Musk in Trump’s inner circle, OpenAI may face challenges from two of its biggest critics.

07.12.2024 7

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Salesforce’s ‘hard pivot’ to AI agents pays off with an 11% stock surge. But now the company must hustle to actually sell the product

Salesforce’s big bet on Agentforce has investors buzzing, but the clock is ticking on the company growing its revenue from AI products.

05.12.2024 5

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Amazon’s new Nova models are part of its master plan to shine bright in AI

Amazon is betting that offering AI models of similar capability to others but at a lower price will be the key to winning marketshare

05.12.2024 5

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Elon Musk’s budget-cutter-in-chief role for Trump is a ‘dangerous combination’ that risks creating conflicts of interest with his AI empire

Elon Musk's future role advising President Trump on budget cuts through the new DOGE agency is raising alarm bells.

03.12.2024 4

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A group of artists just leaked access to OpenAI’s hotly anticipated Sora video tool to protest ‘corporate AI overloads’

A group of artists, volunteering as beta testers for OpenAI's Sora video AI model, shared the API to access the model on Hugging Face in protest,...

27.11.2024 10

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How Mark Zuckerberg went all-in to make Meta a major AI player and threaten OpenAI’s dominance

The open-source models that Zuckerberg helped Llama catch up with ChatGPT; Meta stock, meanwhile, has reached all-time records.

19.11.2024 5

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Elon Musk’s xAI safety whisperer just became an advisor to Scale AI

Dan Hendrycks, AI safety advisor to Elon Musk's xAI, recently posted on his LinkedIn profile that he has taken on a similar role at Scale AI.

14.11.2024 4

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