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The company is describing the event as “a chance to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.”

OpenAI’s ChatGPT announcement: Watch the GPT-4o reveal and demo here

The decision to go monochrome was probably a smart one, considering the candy-colored alternatives that seem to want to dazzle and comfort you.

ChatGPT’s new face is a black hole

OpenAI announced a new flagship generative AI model on Monday that they call GPT-4o — the “o” stands for “omni,” referring to the model’s ability to handle text, speech, and…

OpenAI debuts GPT-4o ‘omni’ model now powering ChatGPT

Unlike ChatGPT, Claude did not become a new App Store hit.

Anthropic’s Claude sees tepid reception on iOS compared with ChatGPT’s debut

Nothing today announced a pair of refreshes to its earbud line. The naming conventions are a touch convoluted here, but the Nothing Ear is an update to the Nothing Ear…

ChatGPT is a squeeze away with Nothing’s upgraded earbuds

OpenAI is expanding to Japan, with the opening of a new Tokyo office and plans for a GPT-4 model optimized specifically for the Japanese language. The move is significant for…

OpenAI opens Tokyo hub, adds GPT-4 model optimized for Japanese

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, just got a big upgrade. OpenAI announced today that premium ChatGPT users — customers paying for ChatGPT Plus, Team or Enterprise — can now leverage…

OpenAI makes ChatGPT ‘more direct, less verbose’

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Humane’s Ai Pin considers life beyond the smartphone

Nothing lasts forever. Nowhere is the truism more apt than in consumer tech. This is a land inhabited by the eternally restless — always on the make for the next big thing. The smartphone has, by all accounts, had a good run. Seventeen years after the iPhone made its public debut, the devices continue to…

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Humane’s Ai Pin considers life beyond the smartphone

OpenAI is making its flagship conversational AI accessible to everyone, even people who haven’t bothered making an account. It won’t be quite the same experience, however — and of course…

ChatGPT no longer requires an account — but there’s a catch

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI’s generative AI models, onstage at the company’s first-ever developer conference in November, he described them as a way…

OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved…

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

Should artists whose work was used to train generative AI like ChatGPT be compensated for their contributions? Peter Deng, VP of consumer product at OpenAI — the maker of ChatGPT…

Should artists be paid for training data? OpenAI VP wouldn’t say

The game shines a light on AI bias and how far ChatGPT has to go when talking to and about different cultures.

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No ‘GPT’ trademark for OpenAI

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has denied OpenAI’s attempt to trademark “GPT,” ruling that the term is “merely descriptive” and therefore unable to be registered. It’s a blow to…

No ‘GPT’ trademark for OpenAI

You’ll soon be able to tell ChatGPT to forget things — or remember specific things in future conversations. Today, as part of a test, OpenAI began rolling out new “memory”…

ChatGPT will now remember — and forget — things you tell it to

OpenAI is pushing adoption of GPTs, third-party apps powered by its AI models, by enabling ChatGPT users to invoke them in any chat. Starting today, paid users of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s…

ChatGPT users can now invoke GPTs directly in chats

OpenAI is always making slight adjustments to its models and pricing, and today is no exception. The company has released a handful of new models and dropped the price of…

OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work

OpenAI has its first higher education customer: Arizona State University (ASU). Today, ASU announced that it’s collaborating with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, to the university’s researchers, staff…

OpenAI signs up its first higher education customer, Arizona State

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A postcard from Las Vegas and CES

This week Devin, Kirsten and I have been running around in Las Vegas for CES to figure out what’s going on in the world of tech.

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A postcard from Las Vegas and CES

It looks like X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has a Verified bot problem. Although X owner Elon Musk suggested that forcing users to pay for verification would help…

It sure looks like X (Twitter) has a Verified bot problem

OpenAI is launching a new subscription plan for ChatGPT, its viral AI-powered chatbot, aimed at smaller, self-service-oriented teams. Aptly called ChatGPT Team, the plan provides a dedicated workspace for teams…

OpenAI debuts ChatGPT subscription aimed at small teams

After telegraphing to devs last week that it would do so, OpenAI has launched a store for GPTs, custom chatbot apps powered by its text- and image-generating AI models (e.g.…

OpenAI launches a store for custom AI-powered chatbots

Volkswagen is getting into the ChatGPT game. The German automaker announced Monday at CES 2024 in Las Vegas plans to add an AI-powered chatbot into all Volkswagen models equipped with…

Volkswagen is bringing ChatGPT into its cars and SUVs

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world…

This week in AI: Microsoft sticks an AI ad on keyboards

Artificial intelligence — or rather, the variety based on large language models we’re currently enthralled with — is already in the autumn of its hype cycle, but unlike crypto, it…

AI isn’t and won’t soon be evil or even smart, but it’s also irreversibly pervasive

Avail is tackling one of the many time-consuming tasks in film and TV development: script coverage. The new ChatGPT-powered summarization tool is designed to summarize scripts and books within minutes,…

Avail rolls out its AI summarization tool to help Hollywood execs keep up with script coverage

OpenAI’s app store for AI, the GPT Store, will not launch this year as previously announced, but rather on an unspecified date in early 2024, the company said. The delay…

OpenAI’s GPT Store delayed to 2024 following leadership chaos

It’s officially been one year since ChatGPT launched, taking the world by storm as the research preview turned into an everyday tool that brought AI chatbot technology to mainstream users.…

On ChatGPT’s first anniversary, its mobile apps have topped 110M installs and nearly $30M in revenue

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s viral AI chatbot, turns one today. A year ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT as a “low-key research preview” — reportedly spurred in part by an intense rivalry with AI…

One year later, ChatGPT is still alive and kicking

Both Apple and Google today announced their best apps and games of the year, with the hiking and biking companion AllTrails winning as Apple’s iPhone App of the Year in…

Apple and Google avoid naming ChatGPT as their ‘app of the year,’ picking AllTrails and Imprint instead