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  • SAN FRANCISCO, CA – OCTOBER 06: (L-R) Tesla Motors CEO and Product Architect Elon Musk, Y Combinator President Sam Altman and The New York Times Financial Columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin speak onstage during “What Will They Think of Next? Talking About Innovation” at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 6, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)Tech

    OpenAI ‘categorically disagrees’ with Elon Musk’s lawsuit against it, suggests Tesla CEO has ‘regrets’

    By Rachel Metz and Bloomberg
  • Toronto , Canada – 22 June 2022; Eric Schmidt, Founder, Schmidt Futures, on Centre Stage during day two of Collision 2022 at Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada. (Photo By Lukas Schulze/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images)Tech

    Microsoft, ex-Google CEO back startup that aims to make AI systems work as humans intended

    By Rachel Metz and Bloomberg
  • Chatbots will remember personal facts from chatsTech

    ChatGPT is going to start remembering personal details about you now

    By Rachel Metz and Bloomberg
  • SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN – JANUARY 25: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about funding for the I-535 Blatnik Bridge at Earth Rider Brewery on January 25, 2024 in Superior, Wisconsin. Biden touched on his economic agenda and recent federal funding for infrastructure projects. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)Tech

    Biden audio deepfake spurs AI startup ElevenLabs—valued at $1.1 billion—to ban account: ‘We’re going to see a lot more of this’

    By Margi Murphy, Rachel Metz, and others
  • Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, in the Congress Center on day three of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. The annual Davos gathering of political leaders, top executives and celebrities runs from January 15 to 19. Photographer: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is fundraising for a network of AI chips factories because he sees a shortage now and well into the future

    By Edward Ludlow, Dina Bass, and others
  • Sam AltmanTech

    OpenAI accuses New York Times of ‘not telling the full story’ about copyright while admitting ‘rare bug’ spits out exact quotes

    By Rachel Metz and Bloomberg
  • Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. Executives from large multinationals are converging on the sidelines of APEC in San Francisco this week for an audience with the Chinese president and other Asian leaders as long-frosty US-China relations show only tentative signs of warming. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Sam Altman is officially reinstated as OpenAI’s CEO just two weeks after his ouster set off an ‘unprecedented’ firestorm

    By Rachel Metz and Bloomberg
  • Emad Mostaque, founder and chief executive officer of Stability AI Ltd., during the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, June 22, 2023. The summit will focus on the rapidly changing social media landscape, the prospects for a continued regulatory crackdown on tech, and the future of cryptocurrencies. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Fresh off an Intel investment, Stability AI looks for buyers as investors pressure CEO to resign

    By Mark Bergen, Rachel Metz, and others
  • SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 06: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to members of the media during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 06, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Altman delivered the keynote address at the first ever Open AI DevDay conference. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Tech

    Race to reinstate Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO reaches impasse over new role and makeup of the board that ousted him

    By Emily Chang, Edward Ludlow, and others
  • Anguilla beachFinance

    Tiny Caribbean island will rake in as much as $30 million for doing absolutely nothing—all thanks to its buzzy domain name

    By Rachel Metz and Bloomberg
  • Elon Musk, billionaire and chief executive officer of Tesla, at the Viva Tech fair in Paris, France, on Friday, June 16, 2023. Musk predicted his Neuralink Corp. would carry out its first brain implant later this year. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Elon Musk asks why there’s no ‘massive evidence of aliens,’ vows his OpenAI rival xAI will seek to ‘understand the universe’

    By Sarah McBride, Rachel Metz, and others
  • Elon MuskTech

    Elon Musk unveils A.I. startup with execs from DeepMind and Microsoft, with goal to ‘understand the true nature of the universe’

    By Rachel Metz, Sarah McBride, and others
  • circa 1955: Mathematical physicist Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) delivers one of his recorded lectures. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)Tech

    One of the weirdest AI unicorns worth $1 billion is one that lets you talk to Albert Einstein, Elon Musk or Mickey Mouse

    By Rachel Metz and Bloomberg
  • CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar PichaiTech

    ‘We have no secret sauce’: Top Google engineer admits tech giant is falling behind in the A.I. arms race

    By Julia Love, Rachel Metz, and others
  • SYMBOL – 11 February 2023, Baden-Württemberg, Rottweil: The words Welcome to ChatGPT from the US company OpenAI can be seen on a computer screen. Photo: Silas Stein/dpa (Photo by Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images)Tech

    Sidestepping ChatGPT’s guardrails ‘like a video game’ for jailbreak enthusiasts—despite real-world dangers

    By Rachel Metz and Bloomberg