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OpenAI’s official foray into health, unveiled in this post on Wednesday, has been a long time coming, as we explained last summer. In short, OpenAI is creating a special section of ChatGPT for customers to ask health-related questions and dump data from their personal health apps and wearable devices to get personalized advice. The features are in a trial phase with a subset of paid users for now...
OpenAI’s efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start.
Challenges with wrangling product data mean in-app checkouts aren’t yet widely available to the millions of shops that OpenAI said in September would soon be coming to ChatGPT. OpenAI and its early partners, Shopify and Stripe, have been working on ways to better standardize and share merchants’ product...
The Chinese government has in recent days told companies to temporarily halt plans to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, throwing up a possible roadblock in Nvidia’s hopes of restarting chip sales to one of its biggest markets, The Information reported on Wednesday. The instruction came roughly a month ...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang must feel like a child whose parents are perpetually at war. Weeks after he glimpsed a chance to resume sales of AI chips to China—thanks to approval from President Donald Trump—China has said, “Not so fast.” As our Hong Kong reporter Qianer Liu scooped today, the Chinese government has asked local tech companies to temporarily halt any plans to buy Nvidia’s H200 chips. ...
OpenAI last fall set aside an employee stock grant pool worth 10% of the company, which was valued in October at $500 billion, according to two people with knowledge of the plans. The $50 billion pool of restricted stock units should last for roughly five years and should rise in value as the company’s private share price continues to increase.
The employee stock grant pool, which hasn’t...
Microsoft executive Jennifer Weitzel, who oversaw the firm’s development of data centers for AI, left the company less than a year after starting her second stint at the company, according to someone with knowledge of the departure and her LinkedIn profile. Weitzel led the engineering, ...
Google’s parent Alphabet on Wednesday passed Apple in market capitalization to become the second most valuable company in the world, worth $3.885 trillion, compared to Apple’s value of $3.846 trillion. Nvidia, worth $4.595 trillion, is far and away the most valuable firm. Google shares have been ...
Several of Elon Musk’s legal claims against OpenAI will go to a jury trial, the judge overseeing the lawsuit said in a federal courtroom in Oakland, Calif. on Wednesday. The trial is scheduled for the spring. Lawyers for OpenAI had asked the court to dismiss the claims on legal grounds, but ...
The chatbot startup Character.AI and Google have reached agreements to settle multiple lawsuits brought by families who alleged that Character’s chatbots contributed to their children killing or harming themselves, according to court papers filed this week. In the highest profile case, Megan ...
The Trump family-founded crypto venture World Liberty Financial has applied to the federal government for a national trust bank charter, the company said in a statement. The easing regulatory landscape for crypto firms ushered in by the second Trump administration has spurred a number of ...