…Welcome to WIRED's Uncanny Valley. I'm Zoë Schiffer, WIRED's director of business and industry. Brian Barrett: I'm Brian Barrett, executive editor. Zoë Schiffer: This week on the show…
The message—which OpenAI’s lawyers made public on Sunday, and which Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers subsequently refused to let the jury hear about—underscores what may be Musk’s larger goal…
…At the time, Musk was still a board member of OpenAI. Musk sent an email to a Tesla vice president in June 2017 about hiring an early OpenAI researcher, Andrej Karpathy. “Just…
…But throughout OpenAI’s history, the nonprofit structure was apparently seen as a roadblock to building OpenAI into a massive business. In December 2016, Musk wrote an email to OpenAI’s cofounders…
Musk’s core claim in this lawsuit is that Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman effectively stole a nonprofit, using the $38 million Musk invested to create a private company worth more…
But Microsoft executives had reservations about sending additional funding to OpenAI as far back as 2018 when it was just a small nonprofit research lab, according to emails between more than a…
A longtime employee of Musk and the mother to four of his children, Zilis joined OpenAI as an adviser in 2016. She later served as a director of its nonprofit board from…
…Neither Marlinspike nor Meta provided WIRED with additional comment ahead of publication. Mallory Knodel, a cryptography researcher at New York University, says it would be “great for people using chatbots that use…
…It is unclear why OpenAI felt compelled to spell this out for Codex—or indeed why its models might want to discuss goblins or pigeons in the first place. The company did…
…Crucially, when a user turns on Advanced Account Security, they can no longer seek help from OpenAI's support team for account recovery, because support no longer has access or control over…
