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Oct 02 from http://gizmodo.com/

OpenAI Is Now Worth More on Paper Than SpaceX, Catches Up to Elon Musk Himself

OpenAI just surpassed SpaceX to become the world’s most valuable private company, and now it’s worth about as much as its mortal enemy and the richest man in the world, Elon Musk. Bloomberg reports that OpenAI finalized a deal involving the company’s current and former employees selling about $6.6 billion of stock to several investors, including Thrive Capital, SoftBank, and T. Rowe...

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Oct 02 from https://fortune.com/section/tech/

OpenAI valuation reaches $500 billion, topping Musk’s SpaceX

OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation, propelling the ChatGPT owner past Elon Musk’s SpaceX to become the world’s largest startup. Current and former OpenAI employees sold about $6.6 billion of stock to investors including Thrive Capital, SoftBank Group Corp., Dragoneer Investment Group, Abu Dhabi’s MGX and T. Rowe Price, a person...

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Oct 02 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/

ChatGPT’s new parental controls failed my test in minutes

Under pressure for allegedly fueling teen suicide, ChatGPT unveiled parental controls this week. I’m the dad of a tech-savvy kid, and it took me about five minutes to circumvent them. All I had to do was log out and create a new account on the same computer. (Smart kids already know this.) Then I found more problems: ChatGPT’s default teen-account privacy settings don’t shield young people...

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Oct 01 from https://www.theverge.com/

OpenAI made a TikTok for deepfakes, and it’s getting hard to tell what’s real

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. On Monday, I watched OpenAI CEO Sam Altman drink from a gigantic mango-flavored juice box and remark aloud about how the box was half his size. The catch: It wasn’t really Altman. The juice box wasn’t real. He wasn’t really...

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Sep 29 from https://www.wired.com/

OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos

OpenAI is preparing to launch a stand-alone app for its video generation AI model Sora 2, WIRED has learned. The app, which features a vertical video feed with swipe-to-scroll navigation, appears to closely resemble TikTok—except all of the content is AI-generated. There’s a For You–style page powered by a recommendation algorithm. On the right side of the feed, a menu bar gives users the...

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