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Ex-OpenAI president Greg Brockman — who, as far as we’re aware, isn’t currently employed at OpenAI in any capacity — is posting updates about OpenAI products on X, including one…

Greg Brockman is still announcing OpenAI products for some reason

In perhaps the most unexpected tech news of the year, billionaire and AI evangelist Sam Altman has been ejected from his CEO role at OpenAI by the company’s board after…

WTF is going on at OpenAI? We have theories

Sam Altman, the now former CEO of OpenAI, has departed his role and is leaving its board, according to a company post on Friday. But questions about his role at…

Worldcoin token’s value drops nearly 10% after Sam Altman removed as OpenAI CEO

An independent review of popular AI tools has found that many — including Snapchat’s My AI, DALLE, and Stable Diffusion, may not be safe for kids. The new reviews come…

Several popular AI products flagged as unsafe for kids by Common Sense Media

Tamar Huggins created the platform with her 13-year-old daughter, and hopes to target the Black Gen Z community.

Tech Spark AI raises $1.4 million to create ChatGPT alternative

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. If you’ve been following along with this newsletter, you’ll have noticed that I’ve been a…

AI makes you worse at what you’re good at

OpenAI has confirmed that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is behind “periodic outages” affecting ChatGPT and its developer tools. ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, has been experiencing sporadic outages for the…

OpenAI blames DDoS attack for ongoing ChatGPT outage

The day ChatGPT debuted, this transformational technology captured the imaginations of business leaders and changed decision-making forever. Today’s C-suite sees incredible upside opportunities with generative AI. Set to drive a…

How startups can use generative AI from ideation to implementation

OpenAI held its first developer event on Monday and it was action-packed. The company launched improved models to new APIs. Here is a summary of all announcements in case you…

Everything announced at OpenAI’s first developer event

ChatGPT now has 100 million weekly active users, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on Monday at the company’s first developer conference in San Francisco. The service released nearly a year…

OpenAI’s ChatGPT now has 100 million weekly active users

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Startups learn the hard way that relying on OpenAI’s tech can burn them

A recent update to OpenAI’s ChatGPT that allows users to upload PDFs and ask questions about them has sent ripples through the startup ecosystem.

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Startups learn the hard way that relying on OpenAI’s tech can burn them

ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot from OpenAI, far outpaces all other AI chatbot apps on mobile devices in terms of downloads and is a market leader by revenue, as well. However,…

ChatGPT app revenue shows no signs of slowing, but some other AI apps top it

OpenAI has formally launched its internet-browsing feature to ChatGPT, some three weeks after re-introducing the feature in beta after several months in hiatus. ChatGPT, the generative AI chatbot that has…

ChatGPT officially gets web search as DALL-E 3 integration arrives in beta

There’s some good news and bad news for ChatGPT’s mobile efforts. On the positive side, the AI chatbot continues to see the number of app installs and its revenue grow,…

ChatGPT’s mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing

To better understand where startups still stand a chance, and where oligopoly dynamics and first-mover advantages are shaping up, we polled a select group of investors about the future of…

10 investors talk about the future of AI and what lies beyond the ChatGPT hype

We developed an ‘AI as agent’ approach and shipped a new AI capability that exploded to 5% adoption in the first week.

How our new AI feature earned 5% adoption in its first week

Tubi, the Fox-owned free ad-supported TV streaming service, is testing a new mobile feature powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 that will allow users to ask content-related questions and discover new TV…

Tubi to launch content discovery tool powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4

ChatGPT is evolving into much more than a text-based search engine, with OpenAI announcing today that it’s adding new voice and image-based smarts to the mix. The wildly popular generative…

OpenAI gives ChatGPT a voice for verbal conversations

OpenAI is facing another investigation into whether its generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, complies with European Union privacy laws. Last month a complaint was filed against ChatGPT and OpenAI in Poland,…

Poland opens privacy probe of ChatGPT following GDPR complaint

OpenAI today unveiled an upgraded version of its text-to-image tool, DALL-E, that uses ChatGPT — OpenAI’s viral AI chatbot — to take some of the pain out of prompting. Most…

OpenAI unveils DALL-E 3, allows artists to opt out of training

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. It’s able to write essays, code and more given short text prompts, hyper-charging productivity. But it also has a…

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

OpenAI is set to open its first office in the European Union (EU) and make several strategic hires, as the company prepares for regulatory headwinds. The ChatGPT-maker says that it…

OpenAI to open its first EU office as it readies for regulatory hurdles

Character.ai, the AI app maker that lets users design their own AI characters, is catching up to ChatGPT in terms of mobile app usage. According to a recent analysis by…

AI app Character.ai is catching up to ChatGPT in the US

We used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to assemble an AI-driven team: the results obtained were solid, and the evidence was clear.

5 steps for assembling AI-driven business teams

Reliance Industries’ Jio Platforms has partnered with GPU giant Nvidia to work on building a large language model that is trained on India’s diverse languages, the two firms said Friday,…

India’s Reliance partners with Nvidia to build large language model

Powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the AI browser Aria launched on Opera in May to give users an easier way to search on the web, ask questions and write code. Today,…

Gaming browser Opera GX integrates ChatGPT-powered AI feature

Big names like Starbucks and Nike were quick to adopt blockchain tech, but it will still be a while until we see the enterprise space embrace the tech.

Blockchain tech needs a ‘ChatGPT moment’ to scale enterprise adoption

There’s no shortage of chatbot services trying to earn a place in the myriad channels on Discord and Slack. California-based Gleen, founded by Microsoft and LinkedIn veterans, is offering its…

Gleen’s tech-savvy chatbot for Discord and Slack attracts Solana founder in oversubscribed round

Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT all suffer from the same problem: they make stuff up. The mistakes range from strange and innocuous — like claiming that the Golden…

Are AI models doomed to always hallucinate?

OpenAI wants its conversational AI agent ChatGPT everywhere, and that includes classrooms — despite the immense potential for misuse and confusion there. Taking the bull by the horns, the company…

OpenAI angles to put ChatGPT in classrooms with special tutor prompts