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Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT

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OpenAI’s ethics chief has reportedly left the company.

Chloé Bakalar departed OpenAI last month, less than a year after joining OpenAI as its head of ethics, according to a report from the Financial Times. A source tells the outlet that there currently isn’t a replacement for Bakalar, who previously served as the chief ethicist at Meta for over three years.

Today’s Vergecast: Lessons from the very first chatbot.

Before Alexa and Siri, there was ELIZA. The first chatbot ever was the creation of a man named Joseph Weizenbaum, who built the bot almost as a magic trick — and then couldn’t believe how many people fell for it. David Berry and Mark Marino, two members of a team dedicated to restoring and understanding ELIZA, explain how Weizenbaum created the virtual conversant, why he came to regret it, and what ELIZA can teach us about life in the AI age.

ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users

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Linux has a native ChatGPT desktop app now.

OpenAI announced that the new app is available in preview on Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora, and includes ChatGPT along with Work and Codex.

New surveillance tech links your phone to your license plate

Phone and Bluetooth signals could turn roadside cameras into far richer tracking tools.

Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users

But will Gemini’s surge survive slowing model releases?

OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux

OpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.

Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last

The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.

Daybreak models are now available on AWS

Earlier this year, OpenAI frontier models and Codex became generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to bring advanced AI into production. Today, we’re sharing the next step in our work with AWS: making Daybreak capabilities available through Amazon Bedrock.

OpenAI loses another top executive, as Brad Lightcap leaves 'to start something new'

Brad Lightcap leaves OpenAI amid IPO plans, joining other executive departures; hints at new AI-related ventures in his farewell message.

Claude's watermarking poses the question: Are you willing to proudly own that you write with AI?

The rise of AI watermarking makes me wonder: aside from students and creative writers, how much do people care if their AI use is outed?