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OpenAI will allow verified adults to use ChatGPT to generate erotic content
The company launched a dedicated ChatGPT experience for under-18 users in September. The company launched a dedicated ChatGPT experience for under-18 users in September. New version will allow users to customize AI assistant's personality in what firm calls'treat adults users like adults' policy OpenAI announced plans on Tuesday to relax restrictions on its ChatGPT chatbot, including allowing erotic content for verified adult users as part of what the company calls a "treat adult users like adults" principle. OpenAI's plan includes the release of an updated version of ChatGPT that will allow users to customize their AI assistant's personality, including options for more human-like responses, heavy emoji use, or friend-like behavior. The most significant change will come in December, when OpenAI plans to roll out more comprehensive age-gating that would permit erotic content for adults who have verified their ages.
Japan's top bank CEOs push for AI, soothing worry over human work
Japan's top bank CEOs push for AI, soothing worry over human work Japan's top financial leaders are working to ease fears that AI will cost jobs, emphasizing its role in boosting efficiency and transforming work. The heads of Japan's biggest financial firms are going out of their way to assuage worries that artificial intelligence will take away jobs. I don't think humans will lose their value. Humans have ability for dialogue, empathy, creativity and ethics," Mizuho Chief Executive Officer Masahiro Kihara said on Thursday at an event hosted by the Nikkei. People might say, 'what about my job if we use more AI?' I think they can aim for more value-added work."
Agentic generative AI for media content discovery at the national football league
Wang, Henry, Salekin, Md Sirajus, Lee, Jake, Claytor, Ross, Zhang, Shinan, Chi, Michael
Generative AI has unlocked new possibilities in content discovery and management. Through collaboration with the National Football League (NFL), we demonstrate how a generative-AI based workflow allows media researchers and analysts to query relevant historical plays using natural language, rather than using traditional filter and click-based interfaces. The agentic workflow takes a user query in natural language as an input, dissects the query into different elements, and then translates these elements into the underlying database query language. The accuracy and latency of retrieval are further improved through carefully designed semantic caching. The solution performs with over 95-percent accuracy and reduces the average time of finding relevant videos from 10 minutes to 30 seconds, significantly increasing the NFL's operational efficiency and allowing users to focus more on producing creative content and engaging storylines.
Extracting the Structure of Press Releases for Predicting Earnings Announcement Returns
Wu, Yuntao, Akin, Ege Mert, Martineau, Charles, Grégoire, Vincent, Veneris, Andreas
We examine how textual features in earnings press releases predict stock returns on earnings announcement days. Using over 138,000 press releases from 2005 to 2023, we compare traditional bag-of-words and BERT-based embeddings. We find that press release content (soft information) is as informative as earnings surprise (hard information), with FinBERT yielding the highest predictive power. Combining models enhances explanatory strength and interpretability of the content of press releases. Stock prices fully reflect the content of press releases at market open. If press releases are leaked, it offers predictive advantage. Topic analysis reveals self-serving bias in managerial narratives. Our framework supports real-time return prediction through the integration of online learning, provides interpretability and reveals the nuanced role of language in price formation.
OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System
At OpenAI's Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window--a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform. On Monday, OpenAI unveiled a new way to embed third-party apps directly into ChatGPT. At the company's annual developer conference in San Francisco, CEO Sam Altman said the move would "enable a new generation of apps that are adaptive, interactive, and personalized, that you can chat with." Starting today, some developers will be able to use a preview version of a new Apps software development kit (SDK) to build apps within ChatGPT using open standards. The ability to distribute these apps is currently limited to a handful of big partners.
OpenAI's Blockbuster AMD Deal Is a Bet on Near-Limitless Demand for AI
OpenAI's Blockbuster AMD Deal Is a Bet on Near-Limitless Demand for AI OpenAI's latest move in the race to build massive data centers in the US shows it believes demand for AI will keep surging--even as skeptics warn of a bubble. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, and Michael Intrator, CEO of CoreWeave, arrive to testify during the Senate on Thursday, May 8, 2025.Photograph: Tom Williams; Getty Images Save this storyOpenAI announced on Monday that it will acquire several data centers' worth of chips from AMD in a blockbuster deal that could also give OpenAI the option to acquire a roughly 10 percent stake in the chipmaker. It's another bold bet from OpenAI that demand for generative artificial intelligence will continue rising--bubble be damned. "Excited to partner with AMD to use their chips to serve our users!" OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X, adding that the company will also ramp up its investments in Nvidia chips. He added: "The world needs much more compute " OpenAI said in a blog post this morning that it would commit to purchasing 6 gigawatts' worth of AMD chips over the next several years.
Warning! Meta will start snooping on your AI chats in its apps in December
When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Meta will start snooping on your AI chats in its apps in December WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram are affected. The policy rolls out starting December 16th, though the EU and UK are exempt for now. In the near future, according to a recent news release, Meta wants to systematically save and analyze its users' conversations with the company's own AI chatbot on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook. The initiative will begin starting December 16th, 2025, initially outside the EU and UK where stricter data protection laws will force a later introduction.
OpenAI signs multibillion-dollar chip deal with AMD
OpenAI and the chipmaker AMD announced on Monday that they had signed a multibillion-dollar chip deal that would also give the ChatGPT creator the option to buy a large stake in the chipmaker. The deal offers OpenAI an opportunity to buy 10% in AMD and marks a major vote of confidence in the company's AI chips and software. Shares of AMD surged more than 30% and added about $80bn to its market capitalization after the announcement. "We view this deal as certainly transformative, not just for AMD, but for the dynamics of the industry," said Forrest Norrod, AMD's executive vice-president. The latest deal, among a string of investment commitments, is a testament to OpenAI and the broader AI industry's voracious appetite for computing power as companies race toward developing AI technology that meets or exceeds human intelligence.
OpenAI signs multibillion dollar chip deal with AMD
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks in Washington in July. OpenAI signed a multiyear partnership Monday with chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices as the ChatGPT-maker continues an investment spree to secure massive amounts of computing power for rolling out generative artificial intelligence. The companies announced the plan to develop AI data centers that the chipmaker said would bring in tens of billions of dollars in new revenue over the next five years. AMD's share price surged 35% when markets opened on news of the agreement that would see the company deliver six gigawatts worth of chips to the ChatGPT-maker. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.
Xbox Game Pass price increase angers players
Fans have reacted angrily after Microsoft announced price increases to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service. The company announced that the most popular tier of its Netflix-style video games system - available to PC and Xbox players - would rise by more than 50% from £14.99 to £22.99 per month. Reacting on social media, loads of fans said they had cancelled their Game Pass subscriptions, with some reporting the service's cancellation page had crashed due to demand. BBC Newsbeat has asked Microsoft if the outage was linked to a surge in visits. In a blog post detailing the changes to Game Pass, Microsoft said it would offer three tiers - Essential (£10 per month), Premium (£14.99) and Ultimate (£22.99).