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OpenAI abruptly fired and rehired its CEO Sam Altman, capping five days of chaos within the company. On Friday, the OpenAI board of directors — whose membership since has changed — ousted CEO and co-founder Sam Altman from his leadership position and his seat on the board.

ChatGPT suffered a cyberattack apparently tied to the Kremlin. A ChatGPT outage on November 8 most likely was caused by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, OpenAI revealed.

OpenAI added new features designed to help developers build applications using its generative models. OpenAI introduced a plethora of capabilities at its first developer conference in San Francisco.

Microsoft is looking to control the expense of its reliance on OpenAI’s models. Microsoft seeks to build leaner language models that perform nearly as well as ChatGPT but cost less to run.

Few people have had a chance to try out OpenAI’s GPT-4 with Vision (GPT-4V), but many of those who have played with it expressed excitement. 

A new version of ChatGPT upgrades the service for corporate customers. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Enterprise, which combines enhanced data-privacy features with a more capable language model. The price is negotiable on a case-by-case basis.

The New York Times launched a multi-pronged attack on the use of its work in training datasets. The company updated its terms of service to forbid use of its web content and other data for training AI systems.

Amid the hype that surrounds large language models, a crucial caveat has receded into the background: The current cost of serving them at scale. As chatbots go mainstream, providers must contend with the expense of serving sharply rising numbers of users.

It wasn’t your imagination: OpenAI’s large language models have changed. Researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley found that the performance of GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 has drifted in recent months. In a limited selection of tasks, some prompts yielded better results than before, some worse.

Apple insiders spoke anonymously about the company’s effort to exploit the current craze for chatbots. Apple built a framework for large language models and used it to develop a chatbot dubbed Apple GPT — for internal use only.

In the absence of nationwide laws that regulate AI, major U.S. tech companies pledged to abide by voluntary guidelines — most of which they may already be following.

A new online tool ranks chatbots by pitting them against each other in head-to-head competitions. Chatbot Arena allows users to prompt two large language models simultaneously and identify the one that delivers the best responses.

AI models that generate text, images, and other types of media are increasingly under attack by owners of copyrights to material included in their training data. Writers and artists filed a new spate of lawsuits alleging that AI companies violated their copyrights...

Amid growing worries about AI’s power, tech leaders and politicians alike are arguing for regulating the technology. Leaders of OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google spoke publicly in favor of regulation. Meanwhile, national governments proposed new guardrails for generative AI.

Reporters offered a behind-the-scenes look at OpenAI’s year-long effort to capitalize on its long-awaited GPT-4. The company built a sales team and courted corporate partners in advance of launching its latest large language model, The Information reported.