OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI’s environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express. First, Altman — who was in India for a major AI summit — said concerns about AI’s use of water were “totally bogus,” though he acknowledged that it was a real problem when … Read more
If you work in tech, Wired’s new cover story won’t exactly destroy your worldview, but it’s still a really great read. Reporter Zoë Bernard spent months interviewing 51 people (31 of them gay) to map a subculture that’s been an open secret in Silicon Valley for years: gay people at the highest levels of technology … Read more
India has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, making the country one of the largest OpenAI markets in the world, CEO Sam Altman said ahead of a government-sponsored AI summit. On Sunday, Altman outlined the growing adoption of ChatGPT in India in an article published in India’s English-language newspaper Times of India, as OpenAI prepares … Read more
On Monday, OpenAI launched Codex, an agent-based coding tool offered to software developers. OpenAI also released a new Codex supercharger model today: the GPT-5.3 Codex. The company says this model transforms Codex from an agent that can only “write and review code” to one that can do “nearly everything that developers and computing professionals do, … Read more
Anthropic’s Super Bowl ad, one of four commercials the AI lab launched Wednesday, begins with the word “BETRAYAL” boldly splashed across the screen. The camera pans to a man earnestly asking a chatbot (apparently meant to display ChatGPT) for advice on how to talk to his mother. The bot, played by a blonde, offers some … Read more