OpenAI and Jony Ive’s AI super-gadget
OpenAI and Jony Ive's AI super-gadget OpenAI and Jony Ive’s AI super-gadget Here’s what we know: it’s probably not smart glasses. Beyond that, we don’t know much about what Jony Ive and OpenAI are building through their newly combined company io, except that it’s some kind of AI super-gadget. But after a couple of years […]
What in the world are Jony Ive and Sam Altman building?
What in the world are Jony Ive and Sam Altman building? The mystery is the point, but it’s also indicative of where AI hardware is. The last 48 hours have been a wild rollercoaster ride for AI hardware. On Tuesday, Google ended its I/O keynote – a roughly two-hour event with copious references to AI […]
Details leak about Jony Ive’s new ‘screen-free’ OpenAI device
Details leak about Jony Ive's new 'screen-free' OpenAI device Details leak about Jony Ive’s new ‘screen-free’ OpenAI device We still don’t know for sure what Ive and Altman are building together, but it isn’t glasses or a phone. The mysterious device that OpenAI is cooking up with former Apple designer Jony Ive will be pocket-size, […]
Jony Ive says Rabbit and Humane made bad products
Jony Ive says Rabbit and Humane made bad products While announcing a reportedly $6.5 billion team-up on AI hardware between his startup, io, and OpenAI, Jony Ive spoke to Bloomberg and commented on last year’s attempts at making AI hardware happen, the Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin: There have been public failures as well, […]
ChatGPT is getting an AI coding agent
ChatGPT is getting an AI coding agent OpenAI’s next “low-key research preview” has arrived. This time, it’s not ChatGPT, but a coding agent dubbed Codex that is being made available to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team subscribers starting Friday. By drumming up comparisons to how ChatGPT was first described, CEO Sam Altman and other company […]
OpenAI’s flagship GPT-4.1 model is now in ChatGPT
OpenAI's flagship GPT-4.1 model is now in ChatGPT OpenAI’s flagship GPT-4.1 model is now in ChatGPT Chatbot upgrades, hot and fresh. The latest versions of OpenAI’s multimodal GPT AI models are now rolling out to ChatGPT. OpenAI announced on Wednesday that GPT-4.1 will be available across all paid ChatGPT account tiers and can now be […]
OpenAI hires former head of the Facebook app
OpenAI hires former head of the Facebook app OpenAI has hired Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and former Facebook app chief, as the head of the company’s apps business. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says introducing the new role will allow him to “focus on research, compute, and safety.” After […]
OpenAI abandons plan to be controlled by for-profit board
OpenAI abandons plan to be controlled by for-profit board OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. OpenAI has been working for months to no longer be controlled by a nonprofit. It’s now giving up. In a company blog post published on Monday, nonprofit board chairman Bret Taylor said that OpenAI is abandoning its plan to become controlled by […]
OpenAI says its GPT-4o update could be ‘uncomfortable, unsettling, and cause distress’
OpenAI says its GPT-4o update could be 'uncomfortable, unsettling, and cause distress' OpenAI says its GPT-4o update could be ‘uncomfortable, unsettling, and cause distress’ OpenAI rolled back a GPT-4o update for ChatGPT that caused the chatbot’s default personality to be “overly flattering or agreeable – often described as sycophantic” and that “sycophantic interactions can be […]
OpenAI undoes its glaze-heavy ChatGPT update
OpenAI undoes its glaze-heavy ChatGPT update OpenAI is rolling back its latest GPT-4o update after CEO Sam Altman said the company would be making fixes to address the chatbot’s “sycophant-y and annoying” personality introduced with recent updates. The rollback, which started Monday night, is “now 100%” rolled back for free ChatGPT users and will be […]