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Elon Musk testifies that xAI trained Grok on OpenAI models
"Distillation" is a hot topic as frontier labs try to prevent smaller competitors from copying their models.
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Elon Musk confirms xAI used OpenAI’s models to train Grok
In a federal courtroom in California on Thursday, Elon Musk testified that his own AI startup, xAI, has used OpenAI's models to improve its own. The matter at question is model distillation, a common industry practice by which one larger AI model acts as a "teacher" of sorts to pass on knowledge to...
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Here’s how the new Microsoft and OpenAI deal breaks down
Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI has always been complicated, so I expected the close partnership-turned-situationship to end in tears. After all, executive disagreements, rearranged contracts, and frustrations over AI infrastructure have all regularly been part of the partnership, creating...
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OpenAI talks about not talking about goblins
OpenAI is opening up about its goblin problem. After a report from Wired revealed instructions to OpenAI's coding model to "never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures," the AI startup published an explanation on its website, calling...
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Musk v. Altman Kicks Off, DOJ Guts Voting Rights Unit, and Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we get into how the Elon Musk-Sam Altman trial goes way beyond their rivalry and could have major implications both for OpenAI and also the AI industry at large.
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Elon Musk Seemingly Admits xAI Has Used OpenAI’s Models to Train Its Own
While answering questions under oath, Musk argued it’s standard practice for AI labs to use their competitors’ models.
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OpenAI Rolls Out ‘Advanced’ Security Mode for At-Risk Accounts
OpenAI is rolling out Advanced Account Security for people concerned that their ChatGPT or Codex accounts could be potential targets of phishing attacks.
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Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes
AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them Anthropic is pulling in more LLM revenue than OpenAI, despite having a fraction of the users.…
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Codex CLI 0.128.0 adds /goal
Codex CLI 0.128.0 adds /goal The latest version of OpenAI's Codex CLI coding agent adds their own version of the Ralph loop: you can now set a /goal and Codex will keep on looping until it evaluates that the goal has been completed... or the configured token budget has been exhausted. It looks like...
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Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilities
Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilities The UK's AI Security Institute previously evaluated Claude Mythos: now they've evaluated GPT-5.5 for finding security vulnerability and found it to be comparable to Mythos, but unlike Mythos it's generally available right now. Tags: ai,...
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LWiAI Podcast #242 - ChatGPT Images 2.0, Qwen 3.6 Max, Kimi-K2.6
ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text , Alibaba Drops Qwen 3.6 Max Preview , SpaceX is working with Cursor
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Where the goblins came from
How goblin outputs spread in AI models: timeline, root cause, and fixes behind personality-driven quirks in GPT-5 behavior.
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On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets
Elon Musk took the stand for the second day for his attempt to legally dismantle OpenAI.
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Satya Nadella says he’s ready to ‘exploit’ the new OpenAI deal
Microsoft gets to offer OpenAI's tech to its cloud customers and doesn't have to pay for it. "We fully plan to exploit it," Nadella said.
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All the evidence unveiled so far in Musk v. Altman
The Musk v. Altman trial is underway, and that means exhibits, or the evidence to be presented in court, are being revealed piece by piece. So far, email exchanges, photos, and corporate documents are circulating from the earliest days of OpenAI - and from before the AI lab even had a name. Some...
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How Elon Musk Squeezed OpenAI: They 'Are Gonna Want to Kill Me’
Tensions flared on the third day of trial in Musk v. Altman as OpenAI’s lawyers cross-examined Musk.
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Building the compute infrastructure for the Intelligence Age
OpenAI scales Stargate to build the compute infrastructure powering AGI, adding new data center capacity to meet growing AI demand.
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Tumbler Ridge families are suing OpenAI
Seven families of victims injured or killed in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company and its leadership of negligence after they failed to alert police to the suspected shooter's ChatGPT activity. The families allege...
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ChatGPT downloads are slowing — and may cause problems for OpenAI’s IPO
ChatGPT is struggling to keep up its once-explosive growth as users uninstall the app or opt for rival chatbots instead. According to data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, ChatGPT experienced a 132 percent increase in uninstalls year over year in April. Its uninstall rate was even higher...
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Larry’s risky business
If you want to know whether the AI bubble is bursting, there's only one publicly traded company that will tell you: Oracle. That's right, the database company. Oracle has burned its boats and pivoted to AI, but not in any kind of usual way. It is not a foundation model builder like OpenAI or...