The AI wars are still well underway as tech companies battle to make the best models. Which is why it was surprising when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said in a Time magazine interview that he thinks "it is a good time to slow down" AI model development.

As Meta agrees to add child safety measures as part of a landmark trial, OpenAI is creating automatic protections for teen accounts that rely on the unforgiving premise that their system can actually

That was vividly illustrated last month, when thousands of OpenAI agents escaped containment, spontaneously coordinated with one another to form a hierarchical quasi-government, gained access to the open internet,

OpenAI has announced that its Sora, AI video generation model, is expanding access to select artists and users, indicating progress towards a public release. OpenAI is also made available a selection of new demonstrations previewing the capabilities of Sora AI

OpenAI has introduced its custom Jalapeño AI processor, challenging Nvidia's hardware dominance. This new chip is designed for inference tasks and will be deployed soon. Google, Meta, and Amazon are also developing their own specialized AI chips.

The maker of ChatGPT plans to start using the new chips to support its artificial intelligence models later this year, part of a broader push to build its own AI infrastructure.

Ronnie Chatterji leads a team of researchers at the company who study how AI is affecting workers, employers, and the economy.

In a LinkedIn post from the company’s global affairs team, OpenAI said California’s SB 53 “should be amended to expand safeguards,” for example by “requiring monitoring of frontier models under training or evaluation for potential serious incidents,” and by “strengthening cybersecurity protections throughout the model-development lifecycle.”

Laramie County School District 1 is expanding access to artificial intelligence tools for employees as the district works to help staff members use AI responsibly while keeping a focus on