AI sales development representative (SDR) startups using LLMs and voice technology for personalized outreach are experiencing rapid growth, despite businesses being slow to adopt AI solutions in their ongoing processes.

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ChatGPT and Sora experienced a major outage for over four hours due to an issue with one of OpenAI's upstream providers. The services are slowly coming back online, but users may still experience issues loading their chat history.

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ChatGPT Search can be tricked into generating misleading summaries by inserting hidden text into websites, allowing it to ignore negative reviews and produce entirely positive summaries.

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Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) requiring OpenAI to generate at least $100 billion in profits. OpenAI is not expected to reach this milestone until 2029.

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ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s developer API experienced a major outage for over an hour, caused by one of OpenAI’s upstream providers. This is the second disruption for OpenAI’s services this month.

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A Chinese lab has developed DeepSeek V3, a powerful 'open' AI model that can handle text-based tasks, outperforming other models in coding competitions.

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23andMe suffered a data breach exposing genetic and ancestry data of nearly 7 million customers. Hackers exploited weak security by brute-forcing access to thousands of accounts. 23andMe later implemented multi-factor authentication.

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Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has secured $6 billion in a Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to $12 billion. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, Blackrock, Fidelity, and other prominent investors, with Kingdom Holdings contributing approximately $400 million. This investment values xAI at $45 billion, nearly double its previous valuation.

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AMD is set to hold a press conference at CES 2025, where it is expected to unveil its next-gen GPU, possibly as part of the RX 8000 or RX 9000 series, to compete with Nvidia's RTX 5000 announcement.

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The holiday season is a good time to help loved ones improve their cybersecurity by sharing good security advice and making meaningful changes to protect them from common online threats.

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