In a series of posts on X on Thursday, Paul Graham, the co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator, brushed off claims that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was pressured […]
Former OpenAI exec that quit for ‘safety concerns’ joins rival company
Former OpenAI exec Jan Leike joins Anthropic, citing safety concerns. His departure follows other key resignations.
OpenAI’s new safety committee is made up of all insiders
In light of criticism over its approach to AI safety, OpenAI has formed a new committee to oversee “critical” safety and security decisions related to the company’s projects […]
OpenAI announces new internal safety and security team
OpenAI announces a new Safety and Security Committee following flurry of concerning comments from former employees.
OpenAI says it’s training a successor to GPT-4
OpenAI is training a new prime AI model to succeed its current GPT-4, which fuels its well-known chatbot, ChatGPT.
Parloa, a conversational AI platform for customer service, raises $66M
Conversational AI platform Parloa has nabbed $66 million in a Series B round of funding, a year after the German startup raised $21 million from a swathe of […]
Zendesk adds flexible AI agent capabilities with Ultimate acquisition
Zendesk has been trying to transform customer service since it launched in 2007, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the company sees the industry being altered […]
OpenAI announces new board members, reinstates CEO Sam Altman
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has a seat at the table — or board, rather — once again. OpenAI today announced that Altman will be rejoining the […]
How Sierra is rethinking customer experience in the age of AI
We’ve been hearing about the notion of customer experience forever, the idea that we could improve customer interactions with brands digitally. So far, the results have been mixed […]
OpenAI releases Sora, a credit score–based dating app launches and an anti-Tesla ad comes under fire
Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, OpenAI stunned the blogosphere with the release of Sora, […]