Safety researcher Steven Adler recently announced his departure after 4 years, citing safety concerns. He claimed the AGI race is a huge gamble.

During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the AI developer’s finance chief talked in detail about the company’s restructuring, Elon Musk’s legal actions and IPO best practices.

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As expected, OpenAI has released its first autonomous AI agent, called Operator this week. Operator can act independently from you on your computer using a web browser doing pretty much anything that can be done in a web browser.

French AI startup Mistral, dubbed Europe's OpenAI, plans an IPO, not a sale, as it expands globally with over €1 billion raised since 2023.

DeepSeek-R1, a new reasoning model made by Chinese researchers, completes tasks with a comparable proficiency to OpenAI's o1 at a fraction of the cost.

Barrett Woodside, co-founder of the San Francisco AI hardware company Positron, said he and his colleagues have been abuzz about DeepSeek.

Tuesday saw the World Economic Forum in Davos begin in earnest. Not even a star turn from David Beckham could stop AI dominating conversations.

CFO Sarah Friar is helping the artificial intelligence company line up funding and create new revenue streams. She said the company would likely have to continue to fundraise, but weighed the pros and cons of a public listing.

On Tuesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that AI models may surpass human capabilities "in almost everything" within two to three years, according to a Wall Street Journal interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Elon Musk is clashing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project touted by President Donald Trump, the latest in a feud between the two billionaires that started on OpenAI’s board and is now testing

OpenAI Inc. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar characterized Elon Musk’s legal challenge to stop the ChatGPT maker from becoming a for-profit company as competitive maneuvering.