NEW: OpenAI is previewing early results from a text-to-speech model that can mimic a specific human voice.

I tried it: it's incredibly, scarily good.

The company was planning a broader pilot, but decided against it due to safety concerns. More here:

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Talked to Tony Wang and others in the AI industry this week about what we can learn from the Inflection AI situation

Plus: what the vibe was like at NVIDIA's GTC conference, including my scooplet that Gavin Newsom attended and met w/ Jensen Huang.

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Wow! Our investigation on Generative AI Bias won a sigmaawards! Kudos to our dream team Dina Bass Chloe Whiteaker and Jillian Ward. It's an honor for this article to be recognized among the other winning pieces, each an incredible piece of data journalism.
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Scoop: OpenAI has been meeting with Hollywood studios, talent agencies and filmmakers to get them thinking about ways to use its video generator.

A handful of filmmakers are already testing it out.

W/Thomas Buckley and Shirin Ghaffary

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Microsoft is hiring Google DeepMind Co-Founder Mustafa Suleyman to oversee its consumer AI products. I talked to Satya Nadella and Suleyman about his new role bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

fascinating story by Saritha Rai that you should definitely read: Nvidia is backing a little-known startup called Yotta as it makes the biggest bet yet on the potential of AI in India bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg Technology

Recruiters are eager to rank resumes with AI.

Bloomberg found OpenAI's GPT systematically produces biases based on names alone. Leon Yin has more trib.al/7MvuYlF

NEW with Leon Yin Leonardo: Ever since the advent of ChatGPT in late 2022, there’s been so much excitement for generative AI across industries. We wanted to ask—is there a risk of racial bias in generative AI being used for hiring and recruitment?

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New: Employers and HR vendors are using AI chatbots to interview and screen job applicants. We found that OpenAI's GPT discriminates against names based on race and gender when ranking resumes. W/ Davey Alba and Leonardo gift link:
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My newsletter has a new look, featuring the glitched out version of yours truly.

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🚨Exclusive!🚨Shirin Ghaffary and I got OpenAI's Sora team to generate some videos from our prompts, including a parrot flying through the jungle and eating fruit with monkeys — a clip that shows off the project's strengths and weaknesses. gift link:
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NEW:

For Businessweek, I profiled OpenAI's quiet dealmaker, COO @BradLightcap. The 33-year-old is leading critical negotiations with major media pubs, and a whole lot more as OpenAI is expanding its business model.

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NEW: OpenAI is in talks with CNN, Fox, and Time to license their content, according to sources familiar.

Among the 'dozens' of outlets it's talking to, as we first reported last week.

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NEW: Apple’s iPhone and Watch product design chief is heading to Jony Ive’s LoveFrom to run hardware engineering for new AI devices company with OpenAI’s Sam Altman. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW w/ Shirin Ghaffary: Google's Gemini video went viral yesterday, with people calling it 'mindblowing' and 'unreal.' Sundar promoted it hard on X.

But the tech doesn't work quite as well as people assume—and Googlers are calling that out internally bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Sam Altman’s firing lifted the lid on the ideological and financial battle that gripped OpenAI.

A week after Altman's return, Max Chafkin, Rachel Metz and Alex Webb unravel what happened and what it means for the future of AI trib.al/X7RFXuu

“It was the start of a five-day crisis that some people at Microsoft began calling the Turkey-Shoot Clusterfuck.” newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

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Stability AI Has Explored Sale as Investor Urges CEO to Resign
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Inside the “coups” - some details on how it all went down, including the “cream-colored couch” and the board member who peaced out ON A PLANE.

With Rachel Metz & Shirin Ghaffary

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