Parmy Olson

BLOOMBERG

This December, ChatGPT will be imbued with more personality and the ability to engage in “erotica” with verified adult users.

OpenAI’s pivot to porn is problematic – but lucrative

For all its promise to transform industries and uplift civilisation, the easiest way to commercialise artificial intelligence is still through the basest...

Nvidia is now the world’s biggest company at a market valuation of US$4.5 trillion, while OpenAI is the world’s largest private tech firm.
THE BROAD VIEW

The US$100 billion Nvidia-OpenAI virtuous circle has an ugly side

The eye-popping partnership shows that AI’s real risk isn’t just a bursting bubble but industry consolidation that shuts out competitors

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman (pictured) is among the Silicon Valley CEOs joining US President Donald Trump on his UK trip.
THE BOTTOM LINE

Take Sam Altman’s royal UK visit with a pinch of salt

OpenAI and Nvidia’s data-centre investments distract from how Britain and other non-US nations should forge their own paths in the AI race

In less than three years, OpenAI's ChatGPT has amassed more than 700 million weekly users, 99% of whom are individual consumers using free and paid versions of the program.

AI’s path to profits is being driven by consumers

A surprisingly robust market is growing out of people finding virtual friends and playing games

While the new ChatGPT seems colder, it is still failing to recommend users speak to a human.

ChatGPT-5 hasn’t fully fixed its most concerning problem

The new version isn’t as cold and professional as you might think. It’s still possible to get attached.

Meta Platforms bought a 49% stake in Scale AI for US$14.3 billion and hired its chief executive officer, Alexandr Wang (above), to head Mark Zuckerberg’s new Superintelligence Labs division.

Big Tech ‘acquihiring’ is an ugly but useful trend

Meta and Google’s AI talent grab may lead to more sustainable tech companies

FILE PHOTO: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a speech, as the letters AI for artificial intelligence appear on screen, at the Meta Connect event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., September 27, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

WhatsApp’s ‘no ads’ promise meets Meta’s reality

After a decade, Mark Zuckerberg gets a new revenue stream while a founding pledge of the chat app crumbles

 Artificial intelligence (AI) builders are already exploring ways to plug more ads into their products, and while that’s good for their bottom lines, it also means we’re about to see a new chapter in the attention economy that fuelled the Internet.

Ads ruined social media; now they’re coming to AI

Chatbots are pivoting to the ad model and optimising for eyeballs, just like social media did. Remember how that turned out?

Apple says it is actively looking at revamping the Safari Web browser on iPhones and other devices so that instead of offering Google by default, they’ll potentially show other AI tools.

Apple’s wandering eye is good for everyone but Google

A stunning admission that search could be replaced by AI on iPhones shows the shift to chatbots is real

No single person should lead a platform for billions of users for more than a decade, never mind more than 20 years, as Zuckerberg has done.

Tech billionaires mired in their reality-distortion fields

An explosive new memoir reveals how Meta’s leadership became trapped in mind-bending power bubbles