OpenAI weighs funding round at $1.2tn valuation
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Exclusive - OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack
By Raphael Satter and Deepa Seetharaman WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May,
Insiders are claiming that OpenAI may soon receive a funding round valuing it at $1.2 trillion, according to the Financial Times. The intriguingly timed round could give OpenAI a higher valuation than its rival Anthropic once again, though it could also come around the same time as Anthropic’s IPO.
The leading AI lab endorses a bipartisan proposal that would require top AI companies to work with independent safety assessors. Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI is supporting a bipartisan House proposal that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure their models are safe.
The ChatGPT maker’s latest purchase isn’t about chatbots. It's about what’s already in your pocket.
The tour coincides with a report released by OpenAI on Sept. 16 estimating that 24.7 million people worldwide use ChatGPT to check possible scams on an average day. Online scams have been on the rise this decade, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, targeting people over 60 in particular.
The company is endorsing three bills to standardize biological data and defend against threats amplified by advanced artificial intelligence.
Meanwhile, some AI startup executives, like Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez, are portraying the calls as a covert masking of an anti-competitive scheme in which the top “market-dominant” AI labs get “to define the rules and safety standards” of AI.
Top AI leaders have been speaking at a conference, their first public comments since the AI slowdown debate launched this week. Some, like Nvidia's boss, argue the industry doesn't need "new laws".
Sarah Friar said that AI is reducing OpenAI's staffing needs for repetitive work and cut credit-check costs from $200 each to about 17 cents.
Top OpenAI executive endorses plan that would require AI companies to submit their technology to third-party reviews to assess their safety.
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Anthropic will open its Singapore office in October, chasing OpenAI for Southeast Asia’s AI market
According to Anthropic data, Singapore was ranked second out of 121 countries in Claude usage, behind Australia.