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Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, arrives for a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum for all U.S. senators hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 13, 2023. REUTERS/Craig Hudson/File Photo
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman saga demonstrates that tech geniuses make bad governance decisions
Gus Carlson
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OpenAI drama this week proved one thing: Investors can’t ignore Microsoft
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Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 13, 2023.
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OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say
FILE PHOTO: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 16, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo/File Photo
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Market movers: Stocks that saw action on Wednesday - and why
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Sam Altman’s return to OpenAI: tracking the Silicon Valley upheaval
FILE - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman participates in a discussion during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit, Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. Altman, the ousted leader of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, is returning to the company that fired him late last week, the latest in a saga that has shocked the artificial intelligence industry. San Francisco-based OpenAI said in a statement late Tuesday, Nov. 21: “We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo.” (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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OpenAI brings back Sam Altman as CEO just days after his firing unleashed chaos
FILE PHOTO: Sam Altman attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 16, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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OpenAI’s unusual non-profit structure led to dramatic ouster of sought-after CEO
FILE PHOTO: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 16, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
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OpenAI investors considering suing the board after Sam Altman's firing
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Who is Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI board member who led the ouster of Sam Altman – then regretted it?
Ilya Sutskever, Russian Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI, speaks at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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Microsoft hires leading executives from OpenAI
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OpenAI’s board approached Anthropic CEO about top job, potentially merging startups: sources
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration taken, February 3, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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The conflict at the heart of OpenAI
Jordan Jacobs
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Company that created ChatGPT is thrown into turmoil after Microsoft hires its ousted CEO
File - Sam Altman participates in a discussion during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. Microsoft has announced that it's hired Sam Altman and another architect of ChatGPT maker OpenAI after they unexpectedly departed the company days earlier in a corporate shakeup that shocked the artificial intelligence world. Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella also tweeted Monday, Nov. 20, 2023 that the major investor in the chatbot that kicked off the generative AI craze is committed to its partnership with OpenAI. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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AI chatbots fall short in dozens of languages. A non-profit project aims to fix that
Olanrewaju Samuel poses for a photograph, outside of his workspace at the University of Toronto, Thursday Nov. 16, 2023. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
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Ousted OpenAI CEO Altman discusses possible return, mulls new AI venture
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 16, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
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ChatGPT-maker Open AI pushes out co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, says he wasn’t ‘consistently candid’
Open AI CEO Sam Altman participates in a discussion entitled 'Charting the Path Forward: The Future of Artificial Intelligence" during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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OpenAI seeks partnerships to generate AI training data
FILE PHOTO: OpenAI and ChatGPT logos are seen in this illustration taken, February 3, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman raises concerns about AI’s effect on future elections
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at Yerba Buena Theater in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jessica Christian,San Francisco Chronicle via AP
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Elon Musk’s xAI set to launch first AI model to a select group
FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo
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Microsoft extends cloud lead over Alphabet with focus on OpenAI, big clients
FILE PHOTO: A view shows a Microsoft logo at Microsoft offices in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris, France, January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo
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ChatGPT owner OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips, sources say
FILE PHOTO: A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed OpenAI logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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Meta used public Facebook, Instagram posts to train new AI virtual assistant
Meta AI logo is seen in this illustration taken September 28, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
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ChatGPT users can now browse internet, OpenAI says
FILE PHOTO: ChatGPT logo is seen in this illustration taken, February 3, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT will ‘see, hear and speak’ in major update
FILE PHOTO: ChatGPT logo is seen in this illustration taken, February 3, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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OpenAI CEO says it’s possible to get regulation wrong, but should not fear it
Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, arrives for a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum for all U.S. senators hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 13, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis
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Tech companies try to take AI image generators mainstream with better protections against misuse
This AI-generated image provided by Adobe shows a hummingbird. Artificial intelligence tools that can conjure whimsical artwork or realistic-looking images from written commands started wowing the public in 2022. But most people don't actually use them at work or home. That could change as leading tech companies are competing to mainstream the use of text-to-image generators for a variety of tasks, integrating them into familiar tools such as Microsoft Paint, Adobe Photoshop, YouTube and ChatGPT. (Adobe via AP)
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John Grisham, other top U.S. authors sue OpenAI over copyrights
FILE PHOTO: OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration taken March 31, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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Google brings AI chatbot Bard into its inner circle, opening door to Gmail, Maps and YouTube
This photograph taken in Toulouse, southwestern France, on July 18, 2023 shows screens displaying the logos of Bard AI, a conversational artificial intelligence software application developed by Google. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP) (Photo by LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images)
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How good are you at spotting fakes? Take The Globe’s AI vs. human quiz to find out
Combination image of one made using Midjourney (left) and one from Getty to illustrate the challenge of spotting faked photos compared to real ones.
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Facebook-parent Meta is reportedly developing a new, more powerful AI system
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Meta Platforms' business group is seen in Brussels, Belgium December 6, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo