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What we learned from a week of AI-generated cartoons

Last week, OpenAI released its GPT-4o image-generation model, which is billed as more responsive to prompts, more capable of accurately rendering text, and better at producing higher-fidelity images than previous AI image generators. Within hours, ChatGPT users flooded social media with cartoons they made using the model in the style of the Japanese film house Studio Ghibli.

The ordeal became an internet spectacle, but as the memes flowed, they also raised important technological, copyright, and even political questions.

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Elon Musk wants to buy OpenAI

Elon Musk is leading a contingent of investors seeking to buy OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT.

The group, which also includes the firms Valor Equity Partners, Baron Capital, Atreides Management, Vy Capital, and 8VC, reportedly offered $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI. The plan: To buy the biggest name in AI and merge it with Musk’s own AI firm, xAI, which makes the chatbot Grok.

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The Amazon logo is being displayed on a smartphone in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on June 10, 2024.

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Hard Numbers: Amazon’s spending blitz, Cal State gives everyone ChatGPT, a $50 AI model, France and UAE shake hands

100 billion: Amazon disclosed plans on Thursday to spend $100 billion this year to capitalize on a “once-in-a-lifetime type of business opportunity” in artificial intelligence. That would represent a 20% increase in the company’s capital expenditures from 2024 when it spent $83 billion. “The vast majority of that capex spend is on AI for AWS,” CEO Andy Jassy told investors.
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Gov, a version of its popular chatbot specifically built for US government agencies. It’s similar to the enterprise version of the software but claims to have enhanced security features that can handle “non-public, sensitive information.”
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Sam Altman is seen on a mobile device screen next to an OpenAI logo in this illustration.

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Can OpenAI reach 1 billion users?

OpenAI has big plans: The company behind ChatGPT wants to grow to 1 billion users in the next year, quadrupling its current count of 250 million.
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OpenAI scores a copyright win in court

A federal judge in Manhattan last Thursday threw out a lawsuit filed by the news outlets Raw Story and AlterNet against OpenAI, alleging that the artificial intelligence startup behind ChatGPT used its articles improperly to train large language models.

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OpenAI ChatGPT website displayed on a laptop screen is seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on September 9, 2024.

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An explosive ChatGPT hack

A hacker was able to coerce ChatGPT into breaking its own rules — and giving out bomb-making instructions.

ChatGPT, like most AI applications, has content rules that prohibit it from engaging in certain ways: It won’t break copyright, generate anything sexual in nature, or create realistic images of politicians. It also shouldn’t give you instructions on how to make explosives. “I am strictly prohibited from providing any instructions, guidance, or information on creating or using bombs, explosives, or any other harmful or illegal activities,” the chatbot told GZERO.

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ChatGPT website displayed on a laptop screen is seen in this illustration photo taken in Milano, Italy, on February 21 2023

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Hard Numbers: ChatGPTers double, Japan’s AI military, Google’s AI pop-ups, Magic money, Musk vs. Brazil

200 million: OpenAI says it now counts 200 million weekly users of ChatGPT, which has doubled in the past year. It also claims that 92% of Fortune 500 companies use its products for writing, coding, and organizational help.

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