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OpenAI’s First Influencer Brand Trip Didn’t Go As Well As It Hoped

OpenAI’s first influencer brand trip has drawn some heavy criticism after the company hosted creators at Wildflower Farms, a luxury resort in the Hudson Valley in New York. The event was called “Summer Club.” The two-day gathering included private cabins, farm-to-table meals, beekeeping, painting workshops, and sessions on how to use OpenAI products, including ChatGPT Work.

The backlash was about the difference between the fancy venue and the ongoing public debate about AI. People are saying that OpenAI used a nice lifestyle scene to market AI, all this at a time when the technology’s environmental costs, energy use, water use, and effects on work are pretty visible to everyone. Some also called the trip greenwashing and said the presentation felt out of touch, as reported by TechCrunch.

On the other hand, OpenAI said the event was education-focused and tied to the launch of ChatGPT Work. The company said creators help...

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BLUE launches AI-powered video infrastructure platform, targets 10x revenue growth by FY30

BLUE (KGraph AI Solutions) has launched an AI-native enterprise video infrastructure platform built on what it describes as the world’s first semantic video codec, and said it is targeting 10x revenue growth by FY30. The platform is designed to help organisations managing large-scale CCTV deployments reduce infrastructure costs while

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UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack

Database backups likely stolen, potentially exposing donor, supporter, and service user details Beacon CRM has confirmed it was hit by a cyberattack that exposed data belonging to a growing list of UK charities. The company, which markets its software to charities and has more than 1,500 customers, said its

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Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year

Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have eked out a little more life for instruments aboard the veteran Voyager 2 probe thanks to a power-saving effort called the "Big Bang." The procedure involved switching

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Cloud startup Volta claims $10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn

Anthropic said to be the client wanting to secure rent-a-GPU company's compute resources An AI cloud startup with backing from Nvidia and Michael Dell plans to open AI factories in Norway and elsewhere, targeting multiple gigawatts of capacity by 2030. Volta describes itself as a vertically integrated AI

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BLUE launches AI-powered video infrastructure platform, targets 10x revenue growth by FY30

UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack

Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year

Cloud startup Volta claims $10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn