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OpenAI secures Microsoft’s blessing to transition its for-profit arm

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OpenAI announced Thursday it reached a non-binding agreement with Microsoft, its largest investor, on a revised partnership that would allow the startup to convert its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation (PBC). The transition, should it be cleared by state regulators, could allow OpenAI to raise additional capital from investors and, eventually, become a […]

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Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?

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A new research paper from OpenAI asks why large language models like GPT-5 and chatbots like ChatGPT still hallucinate and whether anything can be done to reduce those hallucinations. In a blog post summarizing the paper, OpenAI defines hallucinations as “plausible but false statements generated by language models,” and it acknowledges that despite improvements, hallucinations

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OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT’s personality

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OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team, a small but influential group of researchers that shape how the company’s AI models interact with people, TechCrunch has learned. In an August memo to staff seen by TechCrunch, OpenAI’s Chief Research Officer Mark Chen said the Model Behavior team — which consists of roughly 14 researchers —

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OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental controls

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OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month – part of an ongoing response to recent safety incidents involving ChatGPT failing to detect mental distress. The new guardrails come in the aftermath of the suicide of teenager Adam Raine, who

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Google and Grok are catching up to ChatGPT, says a16z’s latest AI report

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ChatGPT rivals like Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok, and, to a lesser extent, Meta AI, are closing the gap to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot, according to a new report focused on the consumer AI landscape from venture firm Andressen Horowitz. The report, in its fifth iteration, showcases two and a half years of data about

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From streaming to healthcare to AI, Mark Cuban reveals his ‘disruption formula’

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Steve Jobs once said, “Everything’s a remix.” And that’s a philosophy that Mark Cuban has taken to heart, building an entire entrepreneurial and investment career on that simple belief. The real opportunity, Cuban says, lies in spotting patterns others miss and turning them into billion-dollar disruptions. On today’s episode of Equity, Cuban joined TechCrunch’s Rebecca

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Parents sue OpenAI over ChatGPT’s role in son’s suicide

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Before sixteen-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide, he had spent months consulting ChatGPT about his plans to end his life. Now, his parents are filing the first known wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI, the New York Times reports. Many consumer-facing AI chatbots are programmed to activate safety features if a user expresses intent to harm

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