OpenAI reportedly plans to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that won’t be controlled by its nonprofit board. Under this plan, the OpenAI nonprofit will own a minority stake in the for-profit company, Reuters reported Wednesday (Sept. 25), citing unnamed sources. The...
OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said Wednesday (Sept. 25) that she is leaving the company after 6½ years. “I’m stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration,” Murati said in a Wednesday post on X. “For...
Meta’s latest AI upgrades, unveiled at its annual Connect conference, could change online shopping through voice-activated assistants and image-recognition technology on social media platforms. The tech giant reported that over 400 million people use Meta AI monthly, with 185 million engaging weekly across its products....
Microsoft has ignited a potential new energy market by signing a 20-year agreement to reactivate the dormant Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. The move marks the first time a major tech company has directly invested in nuclear power generation to fuel its artificial...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced five law enforcement actions that it said are part of a crackdown on deceptive artificial intelligence (AI) claims and schemes. The law enforcement sweep, dubbed “Operation AI Comply,” targets companies that use “AI hype” or sell AI technology that...
Intuit will introduce agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in December and continue rolling them out throughout 2025. The company will add these capabilities across its platforms and products, including Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp, Intuit said in a Wednesday (Sept. 25) press release....
Google reportedly paid $2.7 billion to rehire ex-employee/AI guru Noam Shazeer. According to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Shazeer, who co-authored research that helped popularize artificial intelligence (AI), left Google in frustration after the company refused to release a chatbot he had developed. He started his own company, Character.AI, which...
OpenAI is rolling out its Advanced Voice to all Plus and Team users in the ChatGPT app this week. “While you’ve been patiently waiting, we’ve added Custom Instructions, Memory, five new voices, and improved accents,” the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 24) post on...
Companies’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the things prosecutors will look at when assessing their compliance programs during investigations of criminal offenses like bribery or fraud. Nicole Argentieri, principal deputy assistant attorney general for the criminal division of the Department of Justice...
