A newly revealed book excerpt just exposed what really triggered OpenAI's chaotic board coup against Sam Altman back in 2023. Beyond board alarm over Altman secretly owning the OpenAI Startup Fund, Ilya Sutskever and Mira Murati reportedly collected Slack receipts showing he bypassed safety reviews for GPT-4 Turbo. The mutiny backfired, but it permanently fractured AI's most powerful team.
OpenAI just dropped a majorly improved GPT-4 Turbo model in its API and began rolling it out to ChatGPT. GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is now generally available, finally letting developers use JSON mode and function calling directly on visual inputs. Why it matters: Multimodal workflows can now return reliable, structured data straight from images.
The US Army Research Laboratory is testing OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo and Vision models to assist with operational planning inside military video games. While GPT-4 outperformed older AI models in formulating attack and defense strategies, researchers found it also caused significantly more casualties to achieve mission objectives. Why it matters: as militaries accelerate AI adoption, models that prioritize ruthless efficiency highlight mounting ethical and safety risks.
Researchers just found statistical evidence suggesting GPT-4 gets lazier when it thinks it's December. Running identical code completion prompts with system dates set to May versus December showed significantly shorter outputs in December (mean length 4086 vs 4298, p < 2.28e-07). It turns out frontier LLMs might have literally learned human holiday procrastination.
OpenAI just restored ChatGPT and its developer APIs after a major outage knocked services offline for over 90 minutes. The crash hit its 100 million weekly users with capacity errors following DevDay launch hype. Sam Altman warned that surging demand means short-term instability will likely stick around.
OpenAI just unveiled GPT-4 Turbo at DevDay, boosting context length to 128K tokens while slashing input prices by 3x and output by 2x. It also launched the Assistants API with built-in retrieval and code execution, effectively handling the messy state management developers previously had to build from scratch.
