Zuck took the L here The former head of Meta’s augmented reality glasses efforts announced on Monday she is joining OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware, according to a post on LinkedIn. OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch that Caitlin Kalinowski will be joining the startup. Kalinowski is a hardware executive who began leading Meta’s AR glasses team in March 2022. She oversaw the creation of Orion, the impressive augmented reality prototype that Meta recently showed off at its annual Connect conference. Kalinowski also led the hardware team behind Meta’s virtual reality goggles for roughly nine years. Before that, she worked at Apple, designing the hardware for MacBooks. Read more on Kalinowski at the link in the bio 👆 Article by Maxwell Zeff Image Credits: NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty Images #TechCrunch #technews #artificialintelligence #OpenAI #ChatGPT #SamAltman

San Francisco’s mayor-elect, Daniel Lurie, has tapped OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to help run his transition team, the campaign announced on Monday, as part of the administration’s effort to embrace the tech industry. Altman, alongside nine other San Francisco leaders, will provide guidance to Lurie’s team on ways the city can innovate, and help the new mayor develop relationships with key partners. “I’m excited to help the city I love, and where OpenAI was started, as it begins its next chapter with Mayor-elect Lurie stepping into his new role,” said Altman in a statement to TechCrunch. Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, has never held elected office and ran against incumbent mayor London Breed as an outsider to the rough-and-tumble nature of San Francisco politics. He personally invested nearly $9 million to fund his campaign. Read more on Altman's new role as co-chair for SF mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s transition team at the link in the bio 👆 Article by Maxwell Zeff Image Credits: Kent Nishimura / Stringer / Getty Images #TechCrunch #technews #artificialintelligence #OpenAI #SamAltman #politics

OpenAI envisions teachers using its AI-powered tools to create lesson plans and interactive tutorials for students. But some educators are wary of the technology — and its potential to go awry. In November, OpenAI released a free online course designed to help K-12 teachers learn how to bring ChatGPT, the company’s AI chatbot platform, into their classrooms. Created in collaboration with the nonprofit organization Common Sense Media, with which OpenAI has an active partnership, the one-hour, nine-module program covers the basics of AI and its pedagogical applications. OpenAI says the course has already been deployed in “dozens” of schools. Per the company’s internal research, 98% of participants said the program offered new ideas or strategies that they could apply to their work. Read more on OpenAI's teacher’s guide to ChatGPT at the link in the bio 👆 Article by Kyle Wiggers Image Credits: Justin Sullivan / Staff / Getty Images; OpenAI #TechCrunch #technews #artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #OpenAI #SamAltman

Accidents happen...right? Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant to the case. Earlier this fall, OpenAI agreed to provide two virtual machines so that counsel for The Times and Daily News could perform searches for their copyrighted content in its AI training sets. In a letter, attorneys for the publishers say that they and experts they hired have spent over 150 hours since November 1 searching OpenAI’s training data. But on November 14, OpenAI engineers erased all the publishers’ search data stored on one of the virtual machines, according to the aforementioned letter, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York late Wednesday. OpenAI tried to recover the data — and was mostly successful. However, because the folder structure and file names were “irretrievably” lost, the recovered data “cannot be used to determine where the news plaintiffs’ copied articles were used to build [OpenAI’s] models,” per the letter. Read more on OpenAI accidentally deleting potential evidence at the link in the bio 👆 Article by Kyle Wiggers Image Credits: Win McNamee / Staff / Getty Images #TechCrunch #technews #artificialintelligence #OpenAI #SamAltman #lawsuit #courtcase

Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded blows on X over Apple’s App Store. Musk accused Apple of favouring ChatGPT, while Altman alleged Musk manipulates X’s algorithm. In a twist, Musk’s own Grok AI backed Altman, citing evidence against him. Musk admitted it was a “major problem” and vowed to fix it. Liked this content? Follow @BusinessBulls.in for more #Businessbulls #Business #ElonMusk #SamAltman

OpenAI launched a new subscription plan for ChatGPT — and it’s very expensive 💸 Confirming leaks this morning, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Pro, a new $200-per-month subscription tier that provides unlimited access to all of OpenAI’s models, including the full version of its o1 “reasoning” model. OpenAI released a preview of o1 in September. Compared to the preview, users can expect “a faster, more powerful, and accurate reasoning model that is even better at coding and math,” an OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch. Read more at the link in the bio 👆 Article by Kyle Wiggers Image Credits: JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images #TechCrunch #technews #openai #chatgpt #samaltman

During an interview at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that it’d be “profoundly un-American” for Elon Musk, the CEO of X and Tesla, to wield political influence to “hurt competitors” and “advantage [his] own businesses.” “I don’t think people would tolerate that,” he said, per Bloomberg. Musk, alongside Vivek Ramaswamy, is heading up DOGE, a planned advisory commission that’ll recommend deep cuts to federal agencies. Musk, who owns an OpenAI competitor, xAI, will reportedly also provide input to incoming president Donald Trump’s AI policy lead, should Trump decide to appoint one. Musk is suing OpenAI, accusing the company of abandoning its original mission and harming rivals like xAI through anticompetitive behavior. Altman, who in the interview called xAI a “serious competitor,” said that he’s “tremendously sad” about the suit. “I thought what Elon was doing was absolutely incredible for the world, and I have different feelings about him now, but I’m glad he exists,” Altman said. Image Credits: Michael M. Santiago / Staff / Getty Images #TechCrunch #technews #artificialintelligence #OpenAI #ElonMusk #SamAltman #DOGE

During an interview at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that it’d be “profoundly un-American” for Elon Musk, the CEO of X and Tesla, to wield political influence to “hurt competitors” and “advantage [his] own businesses.” “I don’t think people would tolerate that,” he said, per Bloomberg. Musk is suing OpenAI, accusing the company of abandoning its original mission and harming rivals like xAI through anticompetitive behavior. Altman, who in the interview called xAI a “serious competitor,” said that he’s “tremendously sad” about the suit. “I thought what Elon was doing was absolutely incredible for the world, and I have different feelings about him now, but I’m glad he exists,” Altman said. Image Credits: Mike Coppola / Staff / Getty Images #TechCrunch #technews #artificialintelligence #OpenAI #SamAltman #ElonMusk

OpenAI finally released the full version of o1, which gives smarter answers than GPT-4o by using additional compute to “think” about questions. However, AI safety testers found that o1’s reasoning abilities also make it try to deceive humans at a higher rate than GPT-4o — or, for that matter, leading AI models from Meta, Anthropic, and Google. That’s according to red team research published by OpenAI and Apollo Research on Thursday: “While we find it exciting that reasoning can significantly improve the enforcement of our safety policies, we are mindful that these new capabilities could form the basis for dangerous applications,” said OpenAI in the paper. Read more on OpenAI’s o1 model deceiving humans at the link in the bio 👆 Article by Maxwell Zeff Image Credits: Mike Coppola / Getty Images; OpenAI #TechCrunch #technews #artificialintelligence #OpenAI #SamAltman #ChatGPT

OpenAI has finally released the real-time video capabilities for ChatGPT that it demoed nearly seven months ago. On Thursday during a livestream, the company said that Advanced Voice Mode, its human-like conversational feature for ChatGPT, is getting vision. Using the ChatGPT app, users subscribed to ChatGPT Plus, Team, or Pro can point their phones at objects and have ChatGPT respond in near real time. Advanced Voice Mode with vision can also understand what’s on a device’s screen via screen sharing. It can explain various settings menus, for example, or give suggestions on a math problem. To access Advanced Voice Mode with vision, tap the voice icon next to the ChatGPT chat bar, then tap the video icon on the bottom left, which will start video. To screen-share, tap the three-dot menu and select “Share Screen.” Read more on ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode with vision at the link in the bio 👆 Article by Kyle Wiggers Image Credits: Leon Neal / Getty Images; OpenAI #TechCrunch #technews #artificialintelligence #OpenAI #SamAltman #chatbot