OpenAI plans to transition its for-profit structure to a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). This change will allow the company to pursue its mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all humanity.

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DeepSeek V3, a Chinese AI model, has been released with capabilities rivaling ChatGPT, but it mistakenly identifies itself as ChatGPT and exhibits similar behavior.

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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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Encode, a nonprofit organization, has joined Elon Musk's effort to block OpenAI's transition to a for-profit by filing an amicus brief. They argue that this conversion would undermine OpenAI's mission to develop safe and beneficial technology.

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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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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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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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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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