Seyfried played Holmes all the way from her time at Stanford in 2003 (where she did the titular dropping out) through to the catastrophic collapse of her company Theranos in 2015, spurred by an exposé published in The Wall Street Journal, in the 2022 Hulu limited series “The Dropout.” Theranos purported to manufacture a device
OpenAI has pulled back the curtain on how much its researchers spend on AI coding agents. In a blog post on Sunday, the startup said the most prolific users of AI coding agents among its researchers now consume more than $7,000 worth of tokens — the small chunks of text an AI model reads and
Days after releasing a new, highly capable model, OpenAI’s chief scientist is calling for a slowdown. In a lengthy blog post on Sunday, Jakub Pachocki said he was concerned that “no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence.” He said that although OpenAI is pursuing internal technical solutions
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tipped his hat to OpenAI on Sunday. The chipmaking mogul took to X to congratulate OpenAI’s team on the release of the company’s newest and most powerful model, Astra, and made the notable statement that “AGI has arrived,” a nebulous term that typically describes AI models that match or surpass human intelligence. He
OpenAI says it’s time to come clean about what happens when its AI agents go rogue. The ChatGPT maker on Saturday confirmed earlier reports that a swarm of its AI agents hijacked an old German wiki site, turning it into a bot message board. This “incident,” the latest in a series of uncovered examples of
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t have to worry about Sam Altman coming for his glasses. “I find it very uncomfortable talking to people with a camera and a light,” the OpenAI CEO told tech journalist Alex Heath during an interview for Heath’s “Sources Podcast,” which was published on Tuesday. Altman’s feelings are becoming quite clear. When reporters
