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Teens Outsmart AI at Math Olympiad—but Not by Much

AI models from Google and OpenAI hit gold-level scores for first time at IMO

(Newser) - Humans still have the upper hand at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), but AI is closing in fast. At this year's event, held in Australia, five young math whizzes notched perfect scores, while generative AI models from Google and OpenAI landed gold-level results by racking up 35 out...

Zuckerberg: Top AI Talent Has 3 Asks

Money is only one of them

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg says that when it comes to attracting top artificial intelligence researchers, the much-discussed hefty paycheck is only one factor. Speaking on The Information's TITV on Monday, the Meta CEO noted these highly sought-after specialists have two other priorities: minimal management responsibility and maximum access to computing...

iPhone Designer to Create &#39;Amazing Products&#39; for OpenAI
OpenAI-Jony Ive Collaboration
Comes Under Fire
UPDATED
Jun 24, 2025 2:45 AM CDT

OpenAI-Jony Ive Collaboration Comes Under Fire

A startup has filed a trademark infringement complaint

(Newser) - Little more than a month after Jony Ive, the designer of the iPhone, teased the "amazing products that elevate humanity" that he would be working on with OpenAI, OpenAI has scrubbed all mention of Ive from its website. The artificial intelligence company is buying Ive's startup, called io,...

Meta Is Trying to Poach OpenAI's 'Best' With $100M Offers

At least according to OpenAI chief Sam Altman, who says his top staffers are so far staying loyal

(Newser) - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Meta is trying to lure his team members with substantial offers, including $100 million signing bonuses. The push comes as Meta invests heavily in artificial intelligence, recently spending $14 billion to acquire a major stake in the Scale AI startup. Despite the offers, Altman...

US Army Swears in Tech Execs as Lieutenant Colonels

Execs from Meta, OpenAI, Palantir to serve in Army Reserve as advisers

(Newser) - Four Silicon Valley senior executives were sworn in last week as lieutenant colonels by the US Army. The military announced in a press release that Shyam Sankar, Palantir CTO; Andrew Bosworth, Meta CTO; Kevin Weil, OpenAI's chief product officer; and Bob McGrew, OpenAI's former chief research officer, will...

Anthropic Trained Chatbot With Reddit Comments, Lawsuit Says

AI company has argued before it was using others' material legally

(Newser) - The social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, accusing it of illegally "scraping" the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude. Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access Reddit's content despite being asked not to do so, and "...

The Other Thing AI Is Taking Over? The Energy Grid
Turns Out, AI
Gobbles Up
a Lot of Energy
LONGFORM
Jun 1, 2025 2:23 PM CDT

Turns Out, AI Gobbles Up a Lot of Energy

Data centers' energy use is ballooning, and the secrecy around the industry doesn't help

(Newser) - The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into daily life marks a significant shift online, with hundreds of millions of people relying on chatbots and generative tools for everything from research to image creation. But as AI use expands, its growing appetite for energy is becoming clear, prompting new research...

Fake Firm Staffed With Bots Was a 'Total Disaster'

Carnegie Mellon researchers discovered that their AI 'workers' weren't particularly good at their jobs

(Newser) - What would happen if a fake company was created from scratch, staffed completely by bots? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon wanted to know the answer, so they launched The Agent Company , a virtual simulation of a software company that put artificial intelligence "agents" from such companies as OpenAI, Google, Meta,...

Biggest Inauguration Donor Was a Poultry Company

Pilgrim's Pride gave $5M of Trump's record $239M haul

(Newser) - President Trump not only won the 2024 election, the campaign to raise cash for his inauguration also hit the jackpot. As NBC News reports, Trump's inaugural committee raised a staggering $239 million, smashing the previous record—also held by Trump from his first inauguration—of about $107 million. Bloomberg...

ChatGPT's 'Ghiblification' Raises Ethical Concerns

Miyazaki once called AI animation 'an insult to life itself'

(Newser) - Some fans of Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio behind Spirited Away and other beloved movies, were delighted this week when a new version of ChatGPT let them transform popular internet memes or personal photos into the distinct style of Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki. But the trend also highlighted...

'Hallucinating' ChatGPT Tells Man He Killed His Kids

Digital rights group has filed a complaint with data protection authorities

(Newser) - A Norwegian man says ChatGPT got his hometown right, and the number and gender of his children—but its other details were false and disturbing. Arve Hjalmar Holmen says that when he asked the chatbot who he was, he was told that he was serving a 21-year prison sentence for...

Musk-Led Group Seeks to Buy OpenAI for $97.4B
OpenAI Board Rejects
Bid by Musk-Led Group
updated
Feb 14, 2025 5:05 PM CST

OpenAI Board Rejects Bid by Musk-Led Group

Investors had offered about $97.4B

(Newser) - OpenAI said Friday that its board of directors has unanimously rejected a $97.4 billion takeover bid led by Elon Musk. "OpenAI is not for sale, and the board has unanimously rejected Mr. Musk's latest attempt to disrupt his competition," said a statement from Bret Taylor, chair...

Surprise Musk Offer Highlights Simmering Feud
After Musk
Offer, Altman
Says: 'I Feel
for the Guy'
the rundown
Feb 11, 2025 12:06 PM CST

After Musk Offer, Altman Says: 'I Feel for the Guy'

Surprise bid for OpenAI highlights a long-simmering tech feud

(Newser) - Elon Musk surprised the world of tech and business on Monday by engineering an offer to buy OpenAI, the artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT. Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive, immediately shot down the bid, but that is far from the end of things. The gist of coverage is that...

Musk's Latest Move Appears to Have Angered Trump Team

He publicly slams AI initiative pushed by the president

(Newser) - On Tuesday, President Trump announced "the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history"—Stargate, a $500 billion joint venture with Oracle, SoftBank, and ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Trump further called it a "tremendous" and "monumental" initiative. Elon Musk soon weighed in, and his remarks appear to...

Musk Has Doubts About Huge Project Trump Announced

Stargate backer OpenAI doesn't 'actually have the money,' Musk says

(Newser) - President Trump was joined by top execs from OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank Tuesday night when he announced Stargate , a project to invest up to $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure—but a tech titan closer to Trump's inner circle soon poured cold water on the idea. "They don'...

Sam Altman: I Did Not Sexually Abuse My Sister

Ann Altman files suit against OpenAI CEO, accuses him of molestation starting when she was 3

(Newser) - "My sister has filed a lawsuit against me," Sam Altman posted on X over the weekend, and what he's being accused of in the complaint is shocking. CNN reports that Ann Altman filed her suit against the OpenAI CEO on Monday in federal court in Missouri, accusing...

New Details Released on Vegas Cybertruck Blast

Police say Matthew Livelsberger used ChatGPT to plan attack

(Newser) - The Army Green Beret who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI including ChatGPT to help plan the attack, Las Vegas police said Tuesday. Nearly a week after 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger fatally shot himself, officials said that according to writings, he didn't...

OpenAI Employee Turned Whistleblower Found Dead

Suchir Balaji's death has been ruled a suicide

(Newser) - Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher who ultimately became a whistleblower speaking out against the company, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment Nov. 26. His death has been ruled a suicide. Three months ago, Balaji, 26, accused OpenAI of violating US copyright law, reports the Mercury News , one...

Canadian News Groups File Complaint Against OpenAI

Publishers don't appreciate their content being used to train ChatGPT generative AI system

(Newser) - A coalition of Canadian news publishers, including the Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia, and CBC/Radio-Canada, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial-intelligence system. The outlets said in a joint statement Friday that OpenAI regularly breaches copyright by scraping large...

ChatGPT Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
ChatGPT Defeated
Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
NEW STUDY
Nov 18, 2024 12:12 PM CST

ChatGPT Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness

Docs who used ChatGPT to diagnose didn't fare better than those without—but the bots alone won

(Newser) - Over the summer, researchers gave a failing grade to artificial intelligence when it comes to diagnosing illnesses, finding that a chatbot that read 150 case studies diagnosed the correct condition less than 50% of the time. "ChatGPT in its current form is not accurate as a diagnostic tool,"...

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