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OpenAI has made headlines for plenty of reasons over the past year, but this might top the lot. The company behind ChatGPT has acquired io, the AI device startup co-founded by the legendary designer Jony Ive, for nearly $6.5 billion. That’s a significant sum for a company that’
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OpenAI has announced it will establish its first office in Seoul and has created an entity in South Korea, due to the rising demand for its ChatGPT service. The company says it has the largest number of paying subscribers to its ChatGPT service in South Korea, after the United States.
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Nick Clegg, the former UK deputy prime minister and ex-Meta executive, has argued that requiring tech companies to obtain consent from artists before using their work to train AI models would be unfeasible. The former politician, who recently left his role as a senior executive at Meta, said the demand
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Anthropic’s newly released Claude Opus 4 model is already exhibiting some pretty alarming behaviours, including attempts at blackmailing developers when threatened with being replaced. In a fictional testing scenario, the AI was told it would be replaced and given access to emails where it learned the engineer responsible for
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OpenAI is set to give its AI agent, Operator, a significant upgrade by switching to a new model that has only recently joined the company’s series of “reasoning” models. The company is moving from a custom version based on GPT‑4o to o3, which only emerged earlier this year
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OpenAI and Microsoft ended their exclusivity agreement earlier this year, but they are yet to agree on the length of time Microsoft will have the right to licence OpenAI’s models. The split came amid OpenAI’s frustration with Microsoft’s inability to meet its demand for computational resources. Now,
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ChatGPT is currently testing support for an open-source standard that would enable the AI to tap into third-party data to help complete tasks. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is designed to enable developers to expose that data, enabling AI systems like ChatGPT to make use of it. In practice, that
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A lawyer representing Anthropic has acknowledged the company’s Claude AI chatbot generated a false citation that formed part of testimony in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers. In a court filing in Northern California, the lawyer admitted the citation included “an inaccurate title and inaccurate authors” during the
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U.S. tech giants Nvidia, Cisco, Oracle and OpenAI are backing a new artificial intelligence data centre announced in Abu Dhabi. The “UAE Stargate” project revealed by the U.S. Commerce Department during President Donald Trump’s first state visit of his second term on April 30, 2025, will be
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OpenAI has announced the launch of Codex, its most advanced AI coding agent yet. Codex is now available to subscribers of ChatGPT Pro, Team, and Enterprise, with plans to extend access to ChatGPT Plus and Edu users soon. The new Codex-1 agent is powered by a refined version of the
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OpenAI is in negotiations to acquire Windsurf, an AI coding tool previously known as Codeium, for around $3 billion, according to a new report. The potential acquisition, first reported by Bloomberg and now confirmed by CNBC, would be OpenAI’s largest deal to date. The company has made a number
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OpenAI is advancing its strategy for GPT-5 by positioning it as a foundational model designed to unify its disparate AI tools. Rather than being a radically new system, the aim is to build on what’s already there and make it easier for users to accomplish their goals without having