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An Ex-researcher Alleges That OpenAI Places Profit Above AI Safety

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Remember Skynet, the artificial intelligence antagonist from The Terminator that tries to wipe out humanity? What was once an outlandish sci-fi concept is looking increasingly probable as AI systems become more advanced and powerful. Why would I say that? Well, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has expressed his will to potentially develop […]

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How One Developer Accidentally Stopped the World’s Most Dangerous Hack

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In 2021, the vulnerability in the Java logging library Apache Log4j 2 called “Log4Shell” was touted as the most critical vulnerability of the last decade. It made developers all around the world work on millions of apps to fix that critical vulnerability with a non-vulnerable version. Imagine there’s a vulnerability of that scale, but it’s 1000x that

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Google’s Gemini Is Already Giving Tough Competition To OpenAI’s ChatGPT

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Whenever there’s a discussion of AI, OpenAI and its products, ChatGPT, and DALL·E 3 — take all the limelight. Occasionally, Sam Altman would post randomly to pique curiosity among technologists and hobbyists around the world. Occasionally, GPT-5, the successor of GPT-4 that powers the latest ChatGPT, trends. Even Apple has been in the news lately

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OpenAI Halts ChatGPT Plus Subscriptions Amid Surging Demand (For Now)

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In a recent and unexpected move, OpenAI has put a temporary halt on all new registrations for its ChatGPT Plus service. This decision underscores the growing demand for advanced AI tools and the challenges of scaling such services. For those not already subscribed to ChatGPT Plus, the door to the premium features of OpenAI’s cutting-edge

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