Google was ordered by European Union regulators on Thursday to lift restrictions that limit how rival A.I. companies can reach users of Android smartphones, a sign of increased government scrutiny of the booming business of artificial intelligence. The decision is a response to fears that Google will leverage the enormous user base of Android, which…
Anthropic and the Trump administration reached a deal on Friday to bring one of the company’s most powerful artificial intelligence models back online, after days of tense negotiations. In a letter sent to Anthropic, the Commerce Department gave the San Francisco company permission to restore some clients’ access to its Mythos 5 model, which the…
OpenAI is leaning toward holding off its initial public offering until next year, three people involved in the company’s deliberations said, a turnabout that punctuates the uncertain future for fast-rising artificial intelligence giants. The maker of ChatGPT hired bankers and lawyers with an eye toward a public offering as soon as the third or fourth…
At an internal OpenAI policy meeting last month, employees pressed executives on donations that one of the company’s founders had made to Leading the Future, a super PAC that favors lighter regulation of artificial intelligence and has become a powerful force in the midterm elections. Top policy executives tried to distance OpenAI from the activities…
A coalition of states has opened a wide-ranging investigation into the artificial intelligence start-up OpenAI, the company said Saturday, adding to a growing backlash over A.I. State attorneys general subpoenaed OpenAI on Friday asking for internal documents on its practices, including its handling of user data, safety of minors and advertising activities, according to the…
Wall Street celebrated the arrival of the largest initial public offering in its history with SpaceX on Friday. But after SpaceX’s first day of trading ends, a pair of start-ups in San Francisco will be watching the share price of Elon Musk’s rocket company closely. OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the leaders in artificial intelligence,…
The nastiest relationship in big-money politics is between two super PACs with the same goal: promoting artificial intelligence. One group is refusing to work with the other, even if they both nominally support the same candidate in some races. Its allies have even pressured members of Congress to distance themselves from the other one. And…
After Microsoft invested $10 billion in OpenAI in early 2023, Elon Musk said in a social media post that OpenAI was “effectively controlled” by the tech giant. Shivon Zilis, a confidante of Mr. Musk who had spent years working for his companies and had approved the Microsoft deal as a member of OpenAI’s board of…
In the summer of 2017, OpenAI built an artificial intelligence system that could play a popular video game called Defense of the Ancients, known as Dota. Inside a stadium in Seattle with more than 20,000 spectators, this A.I. system won an international Dota tournament, beating many of the world’s best players. When OpenAI’s president, Greg…
President Trump, who promoted a hands-off approach to artificial intelligence and gave Silicon Valley free rein to roll out the technology, is considering the introduction of government oversight over new A.I. models, according to U.S. officials and people briefed on the deliberations. The administration is discussing an executive order to create an A.I. working group…
