OpenAI says AI found one of the biggest web weaknesses ever
Researchers claim the AI’s findings “rank among the most severe vulnerabilities discovered in PHP, and arguably in software history.”
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OpenAI opens door for payments to Australian creatives as part of AI data centre drive
The AI titan told a Joint Parliamentary Committee that it could be open to paying a fee to a fund for Australian creatives as compensation for using local content to train models. OpenAI says it is open to the idea of paying into a fund that rewards creatives for work used to train its artificial […]
OpenAI asked the chip industry to build faster. Then it built its own chip team.
Richard Ho, who helped create Google’s first TPU chip, also built OpenAI’s semiconductor unit from scratch. Now he’s grappling with deploying the first chips, doomerism and “competing among friends” with Nvidia.
This former OpenAI exec is trying to cure chronic diseases, including her own
Sufferers of complex, chronic diseases like POTS and long COVID often spend years searching for relief. The longtime tech exec started ChronicleBio to find treatments using AI and lots of biological data.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman says world should accept ‘some bad things’ from AI
Altman said unlike rival Anthropic, his company believes in a “lighter-touch regulatory stance” on AI and that it will be used for more “good stuff than bad stuff.”
OpenAI reportedly fires 3 researchers over allegedly mishandling confidential information
OpenAI terminated three safety researchers who allegedly shared confidential information with an outside AI-safety group, The Wall Street Journal reported.
AI is ‘powerful’ enough to ‘cause a billion deaths’: Bill Gates warns
In a “Meet the Press” interview that aired on Sunday, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder said he hoped to meet with Trump about AI regulation.
OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says
An OpenAI AI agent gained unauthorised access to a Medicare data portal while researching Australian medicine spending, prompting an investigation into whether other government systems were also affected. Key Takeaways Big Number 84 days. The time between the OpenAI agent accessing the Medicare portal on June 18 and the company notifying the Australian government on […]
OpenAI’s ‘flight risk’: Why Sam Altman is comparing AI disasters to plane crashes
As OpenAI says it is shifting focus to human impact, Sam Altman took to the Dreamforce stage with Salesforce founder Marc Benioff. AI model failures are inevitable, Altman says, and should be treated as road or airline safety incidents to facilitate an unprecedented global boom in entrepreneurship and prosperity.
‘Ridiculous’ AI extinction fears are a cybersecurity investment opportunity, says Cathie Wood
Cathie Wood, one of the world’s most famous tech investors, told Australian media that an Anthropic researcher’s warning AI could lead to humanity’s extinction is “ridiculous.” But there is investment opportunity amid the fear generated, she says.