Primary healthcare systems across parts of Africa are under growing strain, caught between rising demand, chronic staff shortages, and shrinking international aid budgets. In that context, AI is being tested in healthcare less as a breakthrough technology and more as a way to keep basic services running. According to reporting by Reuters, the Gates Foundation…
OpenAI announced it has acquired a tiny startup called Torch for an undisclosed sum. An unnamed source told The Information that OpenAI paid $100 million worth of equity for the startup. Torch’s four-person team is joining OpenAI, both companies said. Torch was working on an app that combined all of a person’s medical information for…
OpenAI is kicking off the new year with yet another acqui-hire. The AI giant is acquiring the team behind Convogo, a business software platform that helps executive coaches, consultants, talent leaders, and HR teams automate and improve leadership assessments and feedback reporting. An OpenAI spokesperson said the company is not acquiring Convogo’s IP or technology,…
ChatGPT users can now tweak the chatbot’s warmth, enthusiasm, and emoji use, according to a social media post from OpenAI. These options (as well as similar adjustments to ChatGPT’s use of headers and lists) now appear in the Personalization menu and can be set to More, Less, or Default. They allow users to further customize…
Thrive Holdings’ push to modernise accounting and IT services is entering a new stage, as OpenAI prepares to take an ownership stake in the company and place its own specialists inside Thrive’s businesses. In doing so, OpenAI is testing an AI-driven model that pairs capital, sector expertise, and embedded technical teams. Thrive started its holding…
In August, parents Matthew and Maria Raine sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, over their 16-year-old son Adam’s suicide, accusing the company of wrongful death. On Tuesday, OpenAI responded to the lawsuit with a filing of its own, arguing that it shouldn’t be held responsible for the teenager’s death. OpenAI claims that over roughly…
Telegram’s Cocoon AI network is getting ready for prime time with a massive deployment of graphics processing units courtesy of one of the Ton blockchain ecosystem’s leading investors, AlphaTON Capital. AlphaTON is working with SingularityNET, CUDO Compute and Vertical Data to deploy a huge fleet of high-performance GPUs on the network, housed in a sustainably-powered…
OpenAI is on a spending spree to secure its AI compute supply chain, signing a new deal with AWS as part of its multi-cloud strategy. The company recently ended its exclusive cloud-computing partnership with Microsoft. It has since allocated a reported $250 billion back to Microsoft, $300 billion to Oracle, and now, $38 billion to…
OpenAI is putting more safety controls directly into the hands of AI developers with a new research preview of “safeguard” models. The new ‘gpt-oss-safeguard’ family of open-weight models is aimed squarely at customising content classification. The new offering will include two models, gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and a smaller gpt-oss-safeguard-20b. Both are fine-tuned versions of the existing gpt-oss…
OpenAI has completed a major reorganisation and, in the same breath, signed a new definitive partnership agreement with Microsoft. Starting with OpenAI’s reorganisation, the aim is to solidify the nonprofit’s control over the for-profit business and establish the newly named OpenAI Foundation as a global philanthropic powerhouse, holding equity in the commercial arm valued at…
