Parmy Olson

OpenAI says ChatGPT Health is more secure and “not intended for diagnosis,” but many people already use it to determine ailments.

ChatGPT’s AI healthcare push has a fatal flaw

Major European firms have urged European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to "stop the clock" on the AI Act over rules they call "unclear, overlapping and increasingly complex".

Europe’s AI law needs a smart pause, not a full stop

In the short term, businesses can outsource entry-level work to AI and cut costs; but that means missing out on capturing AI-native talent, says the writer.
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College grads are lab rats in the Great AI Experiment

Even before the last two years of AI hype that fuelled bubbly tech valuations, Silicon Valley had a zombie unicorn problem: Many startups that attained unicorn status by getting a valuation of US$1 billion or more had dwindling prospects and little hope of justifying their status.
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Tech’s ‘zombie unicorns’ reach the end of the road

Two years after capturing the public’s imagination, it seems that ChatGPT’s main legacy has been in padding the finances of tech’s biggest players.

ChatGPT’s US$8t birthday gift to Big Tech

The "unicorn" label on tech investments has spun out of control, with startups sometimes resorting to desperate measures to achieve the status as quickly as possible.

Unicorns ruled for a decade, but tech needs a new beast now

If OpenAI is trying to build a more accurate and reliable AI model in the new ChatGPT-4o, they still have a ways to go.
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Making ChatGPT ‘sexy’ might not end well for humans

Grocery-delivery service Instacart has deleted the bizarre image of “cheddar and cream cheese sauce for mac and cheese” and other recipes that don’t (or probably shouldn’t) exist.
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Don’t believe what you see in the age of AI ads

The Apple case and the new law spotlight an increasingly popular regulatory philosophy in Europe around fairness.

Apple’s 1.8 billion euro fine heralds a new antitrust dawn

Musk is suing OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman (above) for allegedly breaking their founding agreement.

Elon Musk is right about OpenAI’s hypocrisy