Former OpenAI research leader Steven Adler published a new independent study that claims that, in certain scenarios, his former employer's AI models will go to great lengths to try to avoid being shut down.

In a statement, OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap explained that the court order came in a lawsuit with The New York Times and other news organizations, which alleged that deleted chats may contain evidence of users prompting ChatGPT to generate copyrighted news articles.

OpenAI's ChatGPT, Sora image generator, and other tools were down Tuesday as the company suffered an outage. Reports of outages spiked early this morning, according to website status tracker Downdetector. By around 8:00 a.m., it had received more than 1,300 reports of outages from users who were unable to access OpenAI's generative AI tools.

ChatGPT's natural-sounding voice mode just got a big update, including more natural-sounding synthetic voice options.

OpenAI claims that o3-pro exhibited significantly improved performance over o3 in evaluations regarding science, education, programming, business, and writing. While the model is crushing benchmarks, there are still some things o3-pro can’t do, such as generating images.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently shared insights about ChatGPT, the trajectory to AGI (artificial general intelligence), job security in the AI era, and more.

OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Add to that list: the Atari 2600. The OG video game console, which was first released in 1977, was used in an engineer's experiment to see how it would fare playing chess against the AI chatbot.

As millions rely on ChatGPT for personal and emotional support, a legal battle with The New York Times threatens to erase current privacy protections. The demand to permanently store user chats has sparked backlash from CEO Sam Altman,