OpenAI

Take comfort in your shared misery because ChatGPT has been up and down since about 3AM ET, according to our own testing and OpenAI’s dashboard. A fix has been implemented as of 7:19AM ET and marked resolved shortly thereafter.

The 39-year-old has no stake in OpenAI and earns a yearly salary of $65,000. But Altman was already rich as a result of his early investments in startups, and now he’s super rich after backing more companies that do business with the ChatGPT maker.

His holdings are now worth at least $2.8 billion.

OpenAI says that training of its latest frontier model “has recently begun” — something that’s been rumored for a while — on the path to developing artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Altman and Co have also formed a new Safety and Security Committee to help guide critical decisions for OpenAI projects. This follows the resignation of a key OpenAI researcher over concerns that safety had taken ‘a backseat to shiny products.’

Following an outage that started early Thursday, Microsoft reported “mitigation efforts” successfully brought some Copilot services back online (along with those of third parties like DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s internet search feature) as of noon that day.

As for the rest, its 365 Status account on X now reports that “all Copilot features are functioning as expected.”

Bloomberg reports Meta and Google met with major Hollywood studios to license content for their AI video generation platforms. These meetings come after OpenAI reportedly spoke to several Hollywood studios about using its AI video generation model, Sora.

Meta has been working on its AI video generation model Emu since last year. Meanwhile, Google unveiled Veo during Google I/O this month.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Sam Altman will appear onstage at Build soon to “talk about what’s next” with Microsoft CTO and EVP of AI Kevin Scott. Will we hear about OpenAI’s search engine, powered partly by Bing? GPT-5? Vague promises of the AI future? Stay tuned.

Like many other assistants and AI devices plugged into OpenAI’s latest LLM, Microsoft just announced at today’s Surface event that Copilot will soon be plugged into GPT-4o (and powered by new Surface Plus PCs). They demonstrated the integration by showing Copilot guide a player through Minecraft, using GPT-4o to see and react to what was happening onscreen.

Vox reported yesterday, following two high-profile departures, that OpenAI’s exit terms include revoking employees’ vested equity in the company if they ever disparage it or acknowledge the terms exist. OpenAI told the outlet it hadn’t revoked equity before, and wouldn’t in the future.

Those terms were real and “should never have been,” Altman posted today, adding that he’s “genuinely embarrassed” by them.

Based on so many reviews (including ours), Humane’s AI Pin did not live up to the AI gadget hype at launch. Now, the company says things are getting better with the addition of OpenAI’s just-launched GPT-4o AI model, with product design lead George Kedenburg claiming it’s faster now, with better answers.

If you have one, let us know how things are going.