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Meta says it’s winning the talent war with OpenAI
During a company-wide all-hands meeting on Thursday, some of Meta’s top executives were asked about the “$100 million signing bonuses” that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed they had been offering to poach his employees. “Sam is just being dishonest here,” Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s CTO, said at the meeting when asked about Altman’s remarks. “He’s suggesting that we’re doing this for…
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OpenAI productivity suite could change the way users create documents – Computerworld
Users will go “over the top,” asking Microsoft’s Copilot to create PowerPoint presentations, specifying the documents such as meeting notes or oral instructions that it should use to create the deck. “I predict that, by 2029, Microsoft PowerPoint will hide or remove 80% of the elements on the Ribbon, the set of navigation controllers. Why? Because you won’t need them…
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OpenAI and Jony Ive’s ‘IO’ brand has vanished, but their AI hardware deal remains
OpenAI has scrubbed mentions of io, the hardware startup co-founded by famous Apple designer Jony Ive, from its website and social media channels. The sudden change closely follows their recent announcement of OpenAI’s nearly $6.5 billion acquisition and plans to create dedicated AI hardware. OpenAI tells The Verge the deal is still happening, but it scrubbed mentions due to a…
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Inside Microsoft’s complicated relationship with OpenAI
Beyond the selfies between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and the friendly conversations between the pair on stage, all is not well with Microsoft’s $13 billion AI investment. Over the past year, multiple reports have painted a picture of a Microsoft and OpenAI relationship that is straining under pressure. As OpenAI battles for access to more…
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OpenAI walks away from Scale AI — triggering industry-wide rethink of data partnerships – Computerworld
Yet Scale’s value remains in its elite trainer network (historians, scientists, PhDs) handling specialized tasks costing reportedly “tens to hundreds of dollars” per unit. While Meta’s non-voting stake avoided automatic antitrust review, regulators may still investigate the blurred line between influence and control. For now, the full implications will take months to unfold, as regulatory reviews, vendor transitions, and internal…
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Meta tried to lure OpenAI employees with billion-dollar salaries – Computerworld
After reports suggested Meta has tried to poach employees from OpenAI and Google Deepmind by offering huge compensation packages, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman weighed in, saying those reports are true. He confirmed them during a podcast with his brother Jack Altman. “There have been huge offers to a lot of our team,” said Sam Altman, “like $100 million in sign-on…
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Report: OpenAI considered accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior
The relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI could be set to get nasty, with the latter reportedly considering accusing its investor and partner of anti-competitive behavior. Microsoft was an early – and generous – backer of OpenAI, with an initial investment of $1 billion in 2019 since expanding to $13 billion in total, while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered to hire…
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OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a search boost — and it’s coming for Google
OpenAI just rolled out a major upgrade to ChatGPT Search, and it’s a bold step closer toward dethroning traditional search engines. Now available, the new version of ChatGPT Search can interpret more complex questions, run multiple search queries at once and even handle visual inputs like screenshots. Combined with better memory and voice tools in GPT-4o, it’s starting to look…
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ChatGPT Search gets an upgrade as OpenAI takes aim at Google
On June 13, OpenAI began rolling out a new ChatGPT Search update to improve quality as the AI startup challenges Google’s dominance. ChatGPT Search has been around for about a year and allows users to search the web more effectively than Google. It tries to summarize content from websites to provide quick answers and includes links to sources so you…
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What Microsoft hopes to get from its breakup with OpenAI – Computerworld
As to what OpenAI wants from any agreement, that’s a little less clear, in part because it claims to be pursuing two seemingly contradictory goals: Making sure AI is developed ethically, while making as much profit as possible. It’s also possible that its reorganization for an IPO might not pass muster with regulators. So, it’s in the company’s interest to…
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