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OpenAI, parent firm of ChatGPT, raises $122bn in new funding amid AI boom

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Company said it achieved valuation of $852bn, mentioning in a blog post it generates $2bn a month in revenueOpenAI announced on Tuesday it had closed a fundraising round of $122bn.The company behind ChatGPT said it had achieved a valuation of $852bn, cementing its status among the most highly valued privately held companies in the world. […]

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Teenager died after asking ChatGPT for ‘most successful’ way to take his life, inquest told

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Luca Cella Walker asked chatbot for best way for someone to kill themself on railway line before his deathA 16-year-old boy killed himself after asking ChatGPT for the “most successful” way to take your own life, an inquest has been told.Luca Cella Walker, a private school pupil from Yateley, Hampshire, died on 4 May last

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Penguin to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT version of German children’s book

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Publisher’s lawsuit alleges AI research company’s chatbot violated its copyright over Coconut the Little Dragon seriesPublishing company Penguin Random House has filed a lawsuit against AI research company OpenAI, alleging its chatbot ChatGPT violated copyright by mimicking and reproducing the content of a popular series of German children’s books.The lawsuit, which was filed on Friday

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If OpenAI is to float on the stock market this year, it needs to start turning a profit

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The poster child of the AI boom, valued at $850bn, needs to show strategic discipline after ‘casting its net too wide’ If OpenAI is going to float this year, it has to get serious about its business model. The wow factor around the US company – the poster child of an AI industry boom that

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With new plugins feature, OpenAI officially takes Codex beyond coding

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OpenAI has added plugin support to its agentic coding app Codex in an apparent attempt to match similar features offered by competitors Anthropic (in Claude Code) and Google (in Gemini’s command line interface). What OpenAI calls “plugins” are actually bundles that may include skills (“prompts that describe workflows to Codex”—a standard feature in tools like

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With new plugins feature, OpenAI officially takes Codex beyond coding

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OpenAI has added plugin support to its agentic coding app Codex in an apparent attempt to match similar features offered by competitors Anthropic (in Claude Code) and Google (in Gemini’s command line interface). What OpenAI calls “plugins” are actually bundles that may include skills (“prompts that describe workflows to Codex”—a standard feature in tools like

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Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

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Exclusive: Research finds sharp rise in models evading safeguards and destroying emails without permissionAI models that lie and cheat appear to be growing in number with reports of deceptive scheming surging in the last six months, a study into the technology has found.AI chatbots and agents disregarded direct instructions, evaded safeguards and deceived humans and

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OpenAI “indefinitely” shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT

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Following backlash, OpenAI won’t be rolling out an erotic version of ChatGPT any time soon. According to the Financial Times, the controversial plan has been shelved “indefinitely” as OpenAI “refocuses” its attention on “core products.” Insiders told FT that OpenAI mulled scrapping the “adult mode” plan entirely, as even its own advisors warned that ChatGPT

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Disney cancels $1 billion OpenAI partnership amid Sora shutdown plans

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OpenAI’s recently announced plans to shutter its Sora video-generating app have also scuttled the company’s planned $1 billion licensing partnership with Disney, according to multiple press reports. “As the nascent AI field advances rapidly, we respect OpenAI’s decision to exit the video generation business and to shift its priorities elsewhere,” Disney said in a statement

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OpenAI shutters AI video generator Sora after just six months

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App that allowed people to make and share AI videos was popular but received criticism for racist and violent contentIn an abrupt announcement on Tuesday, OpenAI said it was “saying goodbye” to its AI video generator Sora. The move comes just six months after the company’s splashy launch of a stand-alone app where people could

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