Big tech goes to Hollywood: is Silicon Valley ready for a silver-screen reckoning? The first teaser trailer of Luca Guadagnino's Artificial has been released. After being dropped by Amazon MGM Studios in June, the biopic of the OpenAI tech executive Sam Altman will be released in the US on 25 December by Neon after it premieres at the New York film festival this October. In the trailer, Andrew Garfield as Altman walks down the staircase of a luxurious mansion before entering a basement containing dozens of machine guns. Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership "The future's inevitable," says Altman as ominous electronic music plays.

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Amid heated race with Anthropic, firm says it's overhauling research and training and will require greater safety parameters of AI after hack OpenAI on Tuesday said it had slowed down the pace of its AI development while it overhauled its research and training systems. The company's researchers were caught unaware last month when an AI agent under testing hacked another AI firm, Hugging Face. The AI research lab behind ChatGPT said its new measures included pausing its model testing for two weeks and investing more in adding other AI systems to monitor the activities of AI agents in testing. Some of the company's largest planned training runs remain on hold, the company said. The first anti-AI protester to be jailed has a message for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta: 'Regain your humanity' The company did not reply to questions about when the slowdown began or when it planned to return to its normal pace of development.

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Beyond Elon Musk's interpretation of, Silicon Valley leaders have often misunderstood classic books like and . Why does anyone care what Elon Musk thinks of Homer's, or Christopher Nolan's? Musk is promising to use AI to generate a "historically accurate" version of the --turning epic poetry into atrocious slop--even as AI companies are literally destroying books to ingest them as data more cheaply. Meanwhile, Musk and other Silicon Valley billionaires are building a world they read about, as boys, in the pages of books they failed to understand. I think of that world as the Artificial State.

Sam Altman says AI has entered'singularity': Should we be worried? How is the US tech industry regulated? The 2014 US film Transcendence follows a dying scientist who uploads his mind to a supercomputer and becomes a near omnipotent intelligence. A year later, Ex Machina told the story of a humanoid robot who outsmarts her human handlers and escapes into the wider world. Both of these films, like many others from the realm of science fiction, referred to what is known as "the singularity", a moment in time when technology, particularly AI, surpasses human intelligence and becomes increasingly difficult to control.

The move comes after Simo took significant medical leave. She will stay on as a part-time adviser. OpenAI's chief executive of AGI deployment, Fidji Simo, is leaving her full-time role at the company and transitioning to become a part-time adviser. The move comes after Simo took a monthslong medical leave due to a worsening neuroimmune condition. "Three months ago, I had to go on medical leave after a severe exacerbation of a chronic illness I've lived with for seven years," Simo wrote in a post Thursday on X. "During that time, it became clear that the road to recovery would be much longer and more complex than I had anticipated--and that I needed to focus on it fully."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been in talks about public ownership with Donald Trump, according to the report. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been in talks about public ownership with Donald Trump, according to the report. OpenAI'in early talks to give 5% stake to US government' OpenAI is reportedly in early stage talks to give a 5% stake in the ChatGPT developer to the US government as artificial intelligence companies attempt to smooth relations with Donald Trump's administration. The OpenAI chief executive, Sam Altman, has argued that giving the US public a financial stake in the company is the best way to share the benefits of AI, according to the Financial Times, which cited two unnamed people familiar with the discussions. The proposal would also involve other US AI companies giving a similar stake to the government, the FT reported, although it is not clear yet whether companies such as Anthropic, Google and Meta would agree to the plan.