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OpenAI kicked off the AI boom with ChatGPT in 2022. It plans to make some kind of mystery gadget with famed Apple designer Jony Ive.It is also working on … a web browser?Yes: Sam Altman and company are working on a web browser — something most of you don’t spend much time thinking about, even though you use it all the time. Like when you’re reading this article.OpenAI’s interest in a browser is something of an open secret in tech. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that the company plans to release its browser “in the coming weeks.”But why would OpenAI…
Calvin French-Owen worked at OpenAI for about a year, but says he only received about 10 emails during his time at the ChatGPT maker.French-Owen joined OpenAI in May 2024 and left in June, per his LinkedIn. The MIT graduate wrote about his experience working at OpenAI in a blog post published on Tuesday.”I wanted to share my reflections because there’s a lot of smoke and noise around what OpenAI is doing, but not a lot of first-hand accounts of what the culture of working there actually feels like,” he wrote.French-Owen said in his post that OpenAI didn’t rely on email…
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Former U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark won’t be allowed back at Oakmont Country Club until he pays to fix the locker he damaged and gets counseling for his anger.Golf Digest obtained a letter that club president John Lynch sent to Oakmont members this week about the incident during last month’s U.S. Open, when Clark smashed up his locker out of frustration. Media were not allowed in the locker room, but a photo was leaked and went viral.“Following multiple discussions with the USGA and the OCC Board, a decision has been made that Mr. Clark will no…
By Bhawika ChhabraNEW DELHI (Reuters) -At the crack of dawn, Ramu Gupta slings a blue bag onto his shoulder and heads to the Yamuna River in the Indian capital in search of his fortune.The 67-year-old is one of hundreds of gotakhors, or divers, who go to the river to hunt for coins, trinkets, discarded bottles and shards of metal and wood that can be sold in Delhi’s booming scrap market.“I earn approximately 5,000 Indian rupees ($58) in a month from this,” said Gupta, who spends his days working as a toilet cleaner near the shack where he lives. He saves…
Elon Musk’s xAI says it is willing to pay out six-figure salaries to software engineers who can help the AI startup to develop its AI “companions.” The listing, titled “Fullstack Engineer – Waifus,” was posted on xAI’s career portal on Tuesday, just a day after the company released two AI “companions” on its Grok platform. The term “waifu” refers to female anime characters that fans may view as a romantic partner or wife.The tongue-in-cheek job title may have been a reference to one of the “companions.” That’s “Ani,” a Japanese anime girl wearing a black corset dress and lace choker.The…
GENEVA (AP) — Soccer had a fierce reckoning with heat at the recently concluded FIFA Club World Cup in the United States — a sweltering preview of what players and fans may face when the U.S. co-hosts the World Cup with Mexico and Canada next summer.With temperatures rising worldwide, scientists warn that staging the World Cup and other soccer tournaments in the Northern Hemisphere summer is getting increasingly dangerous for both players and spectators. Some suggest that FIFA may have to consider adjusting the soccer calendar to reduce the risk of heat-related illnesses.“The deeper we go in the decade, the…
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Nilma Teles de Freitas, an 80-year-old retired teacher in Brazil who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease more than a decade ago, says she used to fall over all the time.That changed after she began attending a capoeira class in downtown Rio de Janeiro especially designed for people with the neurodegenerative illness.Capoeira is a movement practice that originated within the large enslaved communities in Brazil, where nearly 5 million kidnapped Africans disembarked during the transatlantic slave trade that started in the 16th century.It is considered both a martial art and a dance, combining ritual, exercise, spirituality…
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont this week signed legislation requiring the state to keep fluoride at existing levels. But Florida and Utah have banned adding fluoride to drinking water, and other states may follow, as the decades-old practice of adding it to public drinking is facing renewed attacks, including from the federal government.Arkansas state Sen. Bryan King, a cattle and poultry farmer in Fayetteville, told CBS News he has “concerns” about adding fluoride to water.Since 2011, when the state mandated most public drinking water to include fluoride, King has thrown his anti-fluoride voice behind a handful of bills seeking to repeal…
ATLANTA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber was nervous.He had played in Game 7 of the World Series, homered for the United States in the World Baseball Classic.But he had never walked up to the plate in an All-Star Game swing-off.No one had.“That’s kind of like the baseball version of a shootout,” he said after homering on all three of his swings, going down to his left knee on the final one, to overcome a two-homer deficit. That held up when Jonathan Aranda fell short on the American League’s final three swings, giving the National League a 4-3 swing-off win after a…
Elon Musk is a man who named a government agency after a memecoin, designed a robotaxi test network in the shape of a phallus, and once went to court for tweeting weed jokes in relation to Tesla stock. So it’s not surprising that his company xAI’s first AI companions on the Grok app are a lustful anime girl and a homicidal panda. You can see why I had no choice but to ask my boss to buy me a $30 “Super Grok” subscription so that I could spend my Tuesday afternoon talking to these characters. It’s curious timing for xAI…