… Zoë Schiffer: WIRED's director of business and industry, who oversees coverage of business and Silicon Valley. Maxwell Zeff: a senior writer at WIRED covering the business of artificial intelligence. …
… Weil was previously an early executive leading product at Instagram. “Today is my last day at OpenAI, as OpenAI for Science is being decentralized into other research teams,” Weil said in a social media post on Friday, shortly after WIRED reported his departure. “It’s been a mind-expanding two year… …
… ChatGPT solves that: figuring out what to buy.” Condé Nast, the parent company of WIRED, has a business deal with OpenAI for website links to appear in the chatbot. …
… When WIRED reached out to OpenAI for comment, the company claimed this removal was an error and added a similar sentence back, in a different paragraph. This section now says that OpenAI uses some information to run ads outside its platform. …
… Musk also reposted Farrow’s story on Monday from his account. “Calling him “Scam” Altman is accurate,” he wrote on X, referring to a line in the article about his nickname for the leader of OpenAI. “This is very much worth reading.” X and OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment … …
… It’s just the tip of a financial trail that appears to lead to OpenAI. …
… OpenAI and xAI did not immediately respond to WIRED’s request for comment. OpenAI has been trying to prevent its competitors from distilling its AI models, in particular, the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek. …
… The spokesperson says that the incident in no way affects OpenAI user data, however. Anthropic did not immediately respond to WIRED’s request for comment. …
… After a report from Wired revealed instructions to OpenAI’s coding model to “never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures,” the AI startup published an explanation on its website, calling references to the creatures a “strange habit” its models… …
… OpenAI and Anthropic have recognized how large the business around these tools could be and are investing in them heavily. …
