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Perplexity CEO shares the Elon Musk-inspired mantra that helped him build the $9 billion rival to OpenAI

Perplexity’s CEO, Aravind Srinivas, used the early days of Elon Musk and SpaceX—when the billionaire refused to give up even after rockets would explode—as a source of inspiration for his career.

Fortune

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pulls the plug on ChatGPT-4o's sycophantic update — it was annoyingly "flattering and agreeable"

Following backlash from users over OpenAI's latest ChatGPT update that made the chatbot overly flattering, CEO Sam Altman indicated that the company rolled back the update.

Windows Central

Sam Altman says OpenAI will fix ChatGPT's 'annoying' sycophantic new personality

ChatGPT's new personality is so positive it's verging on sycophantic—and it's putting people off.

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OpenAI says it's fixing the 'annoying' new ChatGPT personality — 5 tips to customize it yourself

ChatGPT’s personality shift has sparked complaints — but for me, a friendly chatbot makes all the difference.

Tom’s Guide

ChatGPT is too 'sycophantic' and will soon have multiple personalities, says OpenAI

While you wait for the bot to get a new personality, you can change its tone to make it less obsequious by using custom instructions

Evening Standard

Google's AI Overview is hallucinating again, this time with hilarious fake idioms

Google's AI Overview made headlines last year for giving incorrect answers to (mostly) legitimate questions. Now, things are going wrong in a new way.

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ChatGPT CEO Gladly Loses 'Tens of Millions' When AI Users Are Polite: Money 'Well Spent'

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to social media to indicate that the money lost by his company when users are polite to ChatGPT is money "well spent".

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Ex-OpenAI employees sign open letter to California AG: For-profit pivot poses ‘palpable threat’ to nonprofit mission

In a new letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general, former OpenAI insiders and AI luminaries warn the company’s restructuring threatens its original mission—and the public’s stake in AGI

Fortune

ChatGPT 'Saved' User's Life After Urging Him to Go the Hospital 'NOW' Upon Hearing His Symptoms: 'I Would've Lost an Organ'

A man credits ChatGPT with saving his life after the AI told him to go to the hospital immediately—advice that may have prevented him from losing an organ.

Latin Times

Saying 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT costs OpenAI millions in energy bills

Common courtesy is quietly adding to OpenAI’s soaring AI bill — and could also prove costly for ChatGPT users

Evening Standard

Sam Altman Reveals Why Saying 'Please' Or 'Thank You' To ChatGPT Costs Millions Of Dollars

The energy costs associated with using polite language in interactions with ChatGPT are substantial, incurring tens of millions of dollars annually.

International Business Times UK

It’s not too late to stop Trump and the tech broligarchy from controlling our lives, but we must act now

In her final piece for the Observer, Carole Cadwalladr reveals what happened when she returned last week to give the opening speech at Ted, where she gave her first – life-changing – talk six years ago

The Guardian - UK

Being nice to ChatGPT might be bad for the environment. Here's why.

Be rude to AI. The planet will thank you.

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I regret jumping on the ChatGPT action figure trend — here's 7 reasons why

While ChatGPT image generation trends may look fun and harmless, they come with serious privacy and legal concerns. What to know.

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OpenAI spends millions to process polite phrases such as "Thank You" and "Please" with ChatGPT

Sam Altman says OpenAI spends tens of millions of dollars on ChatGPT to respond to simple courtesies like "Thank You" and "Please".

Fortune

OpenAI's new nonprofit commission may have a lot more to do with maximizing profits than philanthropy

With scrutiny mounting and a $40 billion funding round on the line, OpenAI’s new nonprofit commission may be less about charity—and more about optics.

Windows Central

OpenAI's largest acquisition could help CEO Sam Altman make coders 10x more productive with "Windsurf" agentic IDE

OpenAI is reportedly in discussions to acquire Windsurf (formerly Codeium) for approximately $3 billion.

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OpenAI could be launching a social media platform to compete with Elon Musk’s X - reports

The platform would be based on ChatGPT’s image-generation feature, which caused a trend in reproducing Studio Ghibli alikes, reports citing company insiders say.

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Is saying "please and thank you" to ChatGPT worth it? — CEO jokes it spends "tens of millions of dollars" on polite prompts

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman jokingly hints that ChatGPT needs "tens of millions of dollars" to process users saying "please and thank you."

Windows Central

Microsoft doesn't want to support ChatGPT training anymore — but OpenAI isn't "compute-constrained," according to Sam Altman

Microsoft is slowing its role in its multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI, and has reportedly pulled out of two big data center deals that would have provided additional support for ChatGPT's training.

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ChatGPT's Sam Altman threatened to "Uno reverse" Facebook over AI app — he might be dead serious

An older tweet from Sam Altman suddenly looks less like a joke and more like OpenAI's next big move.

The Guardian - UK

Seth Rogen attack on Trump edited out of science awards show coverage

Presenting an award at the Breakthrough prize ceremony, the actor and writer allegedly accused the president of destroying American science

Evening Standard

OpenAI is building a social network – reports

The ChatGPT-maker is said to be working on its own X-style social media platform.

The Independent UK

Tech moguls who invested in Greenland mining also gave Trump campaign $243m: report

Troubling links tie tech money to both Greenland and Trump. The tech industry desperately needs the rare earth minerals on the island, while Trump repeatedly threatens to take over the territory

Windows Central

Sam Altman is secretly developing an X-like social media app to rival Elon Musk and Meta: "If Facebook tries to come at us and we just uno reverse them, it would be so funny"

A new report suggests that OpenAI is developing a social media network to help users share better content with a dedicated feed for ChatGPT's image generation.

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