By the end of last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was asking people to “please chill” on making images with his company’s updated AI image generator. “Our team needs sleep,”… Read More
You might not remember seeing Matt McIlwain or S. “Soma” Somasegar in “Spirited Away,” but the managing directors of Seattle VC firm Madrona are among the latest “characters” to get the… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we delve into the Stargate Project announcement by OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank, in conjunction with President Trump, and assess the implications for OpenAI’s relationship… Read More
Microsoft will no longer be the exclusive provider of new cloud computing capacity to OpenAI — a new twist in their relationship that clears the way for OpenAI to work… Read More
Microsoft is adding a new wrinkle to Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI service for businesses, with a free chat experience that includes the ability to create and use AI agents… Read More
Microsoft disclosed the size of its OpenAI investment for the first time, acknowledging in its quarterly regulatory filing Wednesday afternoon that it has made “total funding commitments of $13 billion”… Read More
Just as the PC and cloud defined much of Microsoft’s first 50 years, and just as its struggles in mobile set the company back in the smartphone era, its success or failure in AI promises to determine its fate for decades to come. … Read More
OpenAI has opened an office in Bellevue, Wash., as the ChatGPT-maker establishes a physical presence near its close partner Microsoft and looks to tap into the robust engineering talent pool… Read More
The news about OpenAI’s $6.6 billion fundraising round was hot off the digital presses Wednesday morning when Brad Gerstner of Altimeter Capital took the stage at Madrona’s IA Summit in… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we catch up on the latest twist in the New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft over the alleged use of its reporting… Read More
Microsoft will no longer serve as an observer on the OpenAI board, despite a multi-billion dollar investment that gives the Redmond company a major financial stake in the for-profit entity… Read More
The New York Times Co. is asking a federal judge to deny OpenAI’s request to turn over reporters’ notes, interview memos, and other materials used by journalists to produce stories… Read More
Amazon is developing its own consumer-focused AI chatbot that would compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and could be revealed later this year, according to a report from Business Insider. The chatbot… Read More
As the creator and host of the “Startup Project” podcast, tech senior product manager Nataraj Sindam talks with a wide range of investors and entrepreneurs, contributing to his broad perspective… Read More
Anyone who has ever tried photojournalism knows how great it feels — and how difficult it can be — to take a good picture when covering a live news event.… Read More
The Seattle-area fusion company Helion Energy is talking with OpenAI about a deal in which the AI company “would buy vast quantities of electricity to provide power for data centers,”… Read More
OpenAI announced Friday that it is bringing CEO Sam Altman back to the board of directors following his dramatic ouster in November. OpenAI, makers of ChatGPT, conducted an independent review… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, stick around to the end for a late-breaking addition to the show — a bonus segment about OpenAI’s new text-to-video technology Sora. Joining us… Read More
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in separate decisions issued in early February, denied OpenAI’s applications to trademark “ChatGPT” and “GPT.” OpenAI has the option to appeal the decisions to… Read More
State-affiliated online attackers are finding ChatGPT and other AI tools useful for improving their productivity, and streamlining and accelerating their work, but they have yet to unleash the technology’s full… Read More
This post has been updated with Microsoft and OpenAI comments, and additional context from Microsoft engineer Shane Jones in response to their statements. A Microsoft AI engineering leader says he… Read More
Some of the downsides of artificial intelligence have come into clearer focus for Microsoft recently, including high-profile AI deepfakes, an FTC probe, a New York Times lawsuit, and a brief… Read More
Over the holidays, my daughter and I experimented with creating custom nametag stickers for the family members we were traveling with using a cheap portable black-and-white thermal printer and Microsoft’s… Read More
“Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?” Bill Gates wrote those words in a landmark open letter in February 1976, calling on personal computer hobbyists to stop stealing… Read More
The New York Times filed a lawsuit Wednesday against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of copyright infringement for training artificial intelligence models on millions of articles published by the… Read More
Just a few months after it looked like Seattle was being left out of the national conversation about artificial intelligence and the new tech economy, CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim… Read More
Microsoft is getting a voice on the revamped OpenAI board as a non-voting observer, according to a memo sent to OpenAI employees on Wednesday. The change may help prevent Microsoft, a… Read More
If you’re asked to imagine a person from North America or a woman from Venezuela, what do they look like? If you give an AI-powered imaging program the same prompts,… Read More
Reporting from Las Vegas … Brilliant marketing move or big waste of money? That’s the debate after Google Cloud bought advertising space on the Las Vegas Sphere to send a… Read More
Will artificial intelligence serve humanity — or will it spawn a new species of conscious digital beings with their own agenda? It’s a question that has sparked scores of science-fiction… Read More
