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Directions also include system instructions to act like "you have a vivid inner life."

AI-generated video has gone from novelty to creative tool almost overnight, and Runway has a front row seat to the shift. The New York-based company has raised close to $860 million at a $5.3 billion valuation, and its models are going toe-to-toe with the most well-funded labs in the world, including Google and OpenAI. The technology goes way beyond […]

The Musk v. Altman trial is underway, and that means exhibits, or the evidence to be presented in court, are being revealed piece by piece. So far, email exchanges, photos, and corporate documents are circulating from the earliest days of OpenAI - and from before the AI lab even had a name. Some high-level takeaways: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gave OpenAI an in-demand supercomputer, Musk largely drafted OpenAI's mission and heavily influenced its early structure, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared to want to lean heavily on Y Combinator for early support for OpenAI, OpenAI president Greg Brockman an...

OpenAI scales Stargate compute infrastructure to expand data center capacity for large-scale AI training and deployment.

Seven families of victims injured or killed in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company and its leadership of negligence after they failed to alert police to the suspected shooter's ChatGPT activity. The families allege OpenAI stayed silent after its systems flagged activity by shooting suspect Jesse Van Rootselaar in order to protect the company's reputation and upcoming initial public offering (IPO). The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI "considered" flagging the 18-year-old's activity to police, which repo...

ChatGPT is struggling to keep up its once-explosive growth as users uninstall the app or opt for rival chatbots instead. According to data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, ChatGPT experienced a 132 percent increase in uninstalls year over year in April. Its uninstall rate was even higher last month, up 413 percent year-over-year, following OpenAI's deal with the Pentagon in February. While ChatGPT is still growing its user base, Sensor Tower says that growth is slowing down - ChatGPT increased its monthly active users by 168 percent in January, but only 78 percent in April. ChatGPT...

Oracular spectacular? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge If you want to know whether the AI bubble is bursting, there's only one publicly traded company that will tell you: Oracle. That's right, the database company. Oracle has burned its boats and pivoted to AI, but not in any kind of usual way. It is not a foundation model builder like OpenAI or Anthropic, obviously. It's not quite a neocloud, though it has entered the same bare-metal business as CoreWeave. It is a software-as-a-service company that has made an audacious bet on a very specific future version of AI as Oracle's traditional bu...

Lawsuits: OpenAI didn't report ChatGPT user to cops to protect Altman, IPO.

Reddit speculation that OpenAI's "escape velocity" language is euphemism for recursive self-improvement capabilities.

Sebastien Bubeck discusses LLM capability in mathematical reasoning and autonomous research in OpenAI podcast episode.

OpenAI proposes five-part plan to democratize AI-powered cybersecurity defenses and protect critical infrastructure.

It's a story Musk has told before -- in interviews and to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk -- but Tuesday was the first time he said it under oath.

Reddit discussion about OpenAI Codex's tendency to generate goblin-related code comments; appears to be humor/anecdote rather than substantive technical analysis.

Reddit discussion about OpenAI pretraining updates; lacks specifics and appears to be unverified community speculation.

Today the first witness was sworn in in Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk. I was surprised by how flat he seemed. This is not the first time I've seen Musk in court. During his defamation suit, he turned on the charm and the jury responded by finding him not guilty. Today he looked adrift and unprepared. The only times he showed real animation were when he was bragging about how much he'd done for OpenAI. The direct examination is a way of telling a story through questions; it's important to make the narrative clear. For a suit that accuses Sam Altman of straying from OpenAI's mission, Musk spent a w...

Simon Willison shares a leaked OpenAI Codex system prompt instruction restricting discussion of certain animals.

On the stand, Elon Musk is positioning himself as a savior. In the high-profile trial between him and his fellow OpenAI co-founder, now CEO, Sam Altman, Musk opened by going through his background. He went as far back as being raised in South Africa and arriving in Canada for college with "2,500 in Canadian travelers' checks and a bag of clothes and books," then spent an unusually long time talking about his past, from Zip2 to PayPal to the current, more familiar slate of companies he now runs. Why is Musk giving the jury so much of his origin story? Though he may be, depending on the day, th...

A day after OpenAI got Microsoft to agree to end exclusive rights, AWS announced a slate of OpenAI model offerings, including a new agent service.

Elon Musk officially began his testimony in the trial he has brought against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and company president Greg Brockman. The three were on the initial founding team of OpenAI, with Musk investing up to $38 million early on before the co-founders' relationship soured over disagreements over company structure and mission, including whether or not OpenAI should be folded into Musk-owned Tesla. Musk walked away and, years later, founded xAI - his own direct competitor to OpenAI, which is now owned by Musk's SpaceX. In recent years, Musk has filed no less than four different lawsuit...

Sam Altman and Matt Garman discuss OpenAI-AWS partnership on Bedrock Managed Agents; Stratechery covers OpenAI-Microsoft deal implications.

Lemonade OmniRouter unifies local AI inference across text, image, audio, and vision modalities via single OpenAI-compatible endpoint using llama.cpp, sd.cpp, and Whisper.

Elon Musk sues Sam Altman and OpenAI for $130B over alleged breach of charitable mission and for-profit restructuring.

Reddit user expresses satisfaction with OpenAI feature; no technical details or substantive content provided.

The trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI is officially upon us. And it is going to be a mess. As the two sides fight over the early days of AI, who deserves credit and cash for what, and more, we're likely to spend the next few weeks hearing a lot of important people's secrets made extremely public. Which may be exactly what Musk is going for. Verge subscribers, don't forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Vergecast wherever you get your podcasts. Head here. Not a subscriber? You can sign up here. On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge's Liz Lopatto joins the show to explain the origin...

OpenAI terminates exclusive partnership with Microsoft, reshaping enterprise AI licensing and competitive dynamics in foundation model distribution.

Google has signed a classified deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for "any lawful government purpose," The Information reports. The agreement was reported less than a day after Google employees demanded CEO Sundar Pichai block the Pentagon from using its AI amid concerns that it would be used in "inhumane or extremely harmful ways." If the agreement is confirmed, it would place Google alongside OpenAI and xAI, which have also made classified AI deals with the US government. Anthropic was also among that list until it was blacklisted by the Pentagon for refusing...

Menlo Ventures' enterprise survey put Anthropic at 40% of LLM spend, OpenAI at 27%. The takes I've seen are mostly about the leaderboard. The thing nobody's saying out loud: the standard agent-reliability advice ("don't depend on one provider, add a fallback") got harder to actually execute, not easier. When the split was closer to 50/30, both providers were realistic peers. You could run prod on one and have the other warm. Now most of us are running primarily on Claude — Sonnet for tool calls, Opus for harder stuff — and the "fallback" is a model we haven't tested against our actual prompt...

On Monday, the courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over alleged broken promises at OpenAI started, as usual, with jury selection. The only tricky part? A lot of the prospective jurors already have an opinion about Elon Musk, and it's not a good one. The Verge reporter Elizabeth Lopatto, who was there at the courthouse, quoted statements from some of the juror questionnaires: "Elon Musk is a greedy, racist, homophobic piece of garbage." "Elon Musk is a world-class jerk." "I very much dislike Tesla. As a woman of color, I am very aware of the damaging statements and actions Elon M...

OpenAI GPT models, Codex, and Managed Agents now available on AWS for enterprise deployment.

OpenAI outlines ChatGPT safety measures: model safeguards, misuse detection, policy enforcement, expert collaboration.