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Building Your AI Engine: How OpenAI Works with Startups

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In the rapidly evolving AI landscape, startups can gain a competitive edge by collaborating closely with model providers. Join Hao Sang from OpenAI’s Startups Team demystifies OpenAI’s resources for startups, from technical guidance to advanced model access, in a discussion from TechCrunch Sessions: AI. Discover how feedback from startups helps shape OpenAI’s roadmap, ensuring that […]

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OpenAI’s marketing head takes leave to undergo breast cancer treatment

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OpenAI’s head of marketing, Kate Rouch, has announced she’s stepping away from her role for three months while she undergoes treatment for invasive breast cancer. In a post on LinkedIn, Rouch says that Gary Briggs, Meta’s former CMO, will serve as interim head of marketing during her leave. “Earlier this year — just weeks into

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ChatGPT introduces meeting recording and connectors for Google Drive, Box, and more

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT is adding new features for business users, including integrations with different cloud services, meeting recording, and MCP connection support for connecting to tools for deep research. As part of the launch, ChatGPT is gaining connectors for Dropbox, Box, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Google Drive. This allows ChatGPT to look for information across users’ own

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Sam Altman biographer Keach Hagey explains why the OpenAI CEO was ‘born for this moment’

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In “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future,” Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey examines our AI-obsessed moment through one of its key figures — Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Hagey begins with Altman’s Midwest childhood, then takes readers through his career at startup Loopt, accelerator Y Combinator,

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Elon dips from DOGE, and Silicon Valley enters the ‘find out’ stage

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Elon Musk has officially announced he’s stepping down as a U.S. special government employee and the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE.  The move follows Musk’s cooling relationship with the Trump administration and slumping Tesla sales tied to his political advocacy. Despite his announced departure, Musk gave a

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Delaware attorney general reportedly hires a bank to evaluate OpenAI’s restructuring plan

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Delaware’s attorney general is hiring an investment bank to advise on OpenAI’s for-profit conversion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The independent evaluation could prolong the transition, or gum up OpenAI’s plans even further. OpenAI’s conversion will help it attract new investment and eventually go public, but first, the startup needs to secure approvals

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Humain planning $10B VC fund to invest in US, European and Asian startups

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Humain, the state-owned AI company from Saudi Arabia, is on track to launch a $10 billion venture fund, Humain Ventures, that will invest in startups in the U.S., Europe and Asia, The Financial Times reported, quoting Tareq Amin, Humain’s CEO. Humain is in talks with U.S. firms like Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI

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OpenAI may soon let you ‘sign in with ChatGPT’ for other apps

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OpenAI is exploring ways for users to sign in to third-party apps using their ChatGPT account, the company noted on a web page published Tuesday. OpenAI is currently gauging interest from developers who might want to integrate this service into their apps. ChatGPT is quickly becoming one of the largest consumer applications in the world,

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