Semiconductor maker AMD will supply its chips to ChatGPT maker OpenAI as part of an agreement to team up on building artificial intelligence infrastructure, the companies said Monday. According to a joint statement announcing the deal, AMD will provide OpenAI with the latest version of its high performance graphics chips expected to debut next year. It calls for supplying 6 gigawatts of computing power for OpenAI&rsquo;s &ldquo;next generation&rdquo; AI infrastructure, with the first gigawatt coming online in the second half of 2026. AMD also issued OpenAI with a warrant allowing the AI company to buy up to 160 million shares of AMD&rsquo;s common stock, which amounts to about 10% of company. The warrant will vest based on two milestones tied to the amount of computing power deployed. &ldquo;This partnership is a major step in building the compute capacity needed to realize AI&rsquo;s full potential,&rdquo; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, said in a news release. &ldquo;AMD&rsquo;s leadership in high-performance chips will enable us to accelerate progress and bring the benefits of advanced AI to everyone faster.&rdquo; The agreement is a boost for Santa Clara, Calif.-based AMD, which has been left behind by rival Nvidia. The AI boom has fuelled demand for Nvidia&#39;s graphics processing chips, sending its shares soaring and making it the world&#39;s most valuable company.

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AMD will supply high-performance chips to OpenAI under a new partnership to build next-generation AI infrastructure, providing 6 gigawatts of computing power by 2026. OpenAI also received rights to purchase up to 10% of AMD shares.

OpenAI and chipmaker AMD sign supply partnership for AI infrastructure

<span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TOKYO: US technology company Nvidia and Fujitsu, a Japanese telecommunications and computer maker, agreed Friday to work together on artificial intelligence to deliver smart robots and a variety of other innovations using Nvidia&#39;s computer chips. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&ldquo;The AI industrial revolution has already begun. Building the infrastructure to power it is essential in Japan and around the world,&rdquo; Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said, hugging his Fujitsu counterpart Takahito Tokita on stage. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&ldquo;Japan can lead the world in AI and robotics,&rdquo; Huang told reporters at a Tokyo hotel. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The companies will work together on building what they called &ldquo;an AI infrastructure,&rdquo; or the system on which the various futuristic AI uses will be based, including health care, manufacturing, the environment, next-generation computing and customer services. The hope is to establish AI infrastructure for Japan by 2030. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It initially will be tailored for the Japanese market, leveraging Fujitsu&rsquo;s decades-long experience here, but may later expand globally, and will utilize Nvidia&rsquo;s GPUs, or graphics processing units, which are essential for AI, according to both sides. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The two executives did not outline specific projects or give a monetary figure for planned investments. But exploring a collaboration in AI for robots with Yaskawa Electric Corp., a Japanese machinery and robot maker, was noted as a possible example. AI will be constantly evolving and learning, they said.<span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fujitsu and Nvidia have been working together on AI, speeding up manufacturing with digital twins and robotics to tackle aging Japan&rsquo;s labor shortages. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tokita said the companies were taking a &ldquo;humancentric&rdquo; approach aimed at keeping Japan competitive. <span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&ldquo;Through our collaboration with Nvidia, we aim to create new, unprecedented technologies and contribute to solving even more serious social issues,&rdquo; said Tokita.

Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang, left, and Fujitsu Chief Executive Takahito Tokita shake hands during an announcement in Tokyo Friday

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US technology company Nvidia and Fujitsu, a Japanese telecommunications and computer maker, agreed Friday to work together on artificial intelligence to deliver smart robots and a variety of other innovations using Nvidia's computer chips.

Nvidia and Fujitsu agree to work together on AI robots

SAN FRANCISCO: OpenAI on Tuesday released Sora 2, its most advanced video generation model yet, alongside a TikTok-style social app that allows users to insert themselves into AI-created scenes through a feature called &quot;cameos.&quot; The company behind ChatGPT described the release as a major leap forward in artificial intelligence&#39;s ability to create realistic video. The system can now generate synchronized dialogue, sound effects, and physically accurate motion, according to the company. &quot;Sora 2 can do things that are exceptionally difficult &mdash; and in some cases outright impossible &mdash; for earlier video generation models,&quot; OpenAI said, pointing to examples like capturing Olympic gymnastics routines or basketball moves. Latest salvo&nbsp;Unlike earlier systems that would &quot;morph objects and deform reality&quot; to fulfill text prompts, Sora 2 better follows real-world physics, the company said. Sora 2 replaces last year&#39;s Sora and represents the latest salvo in the AI arms race that began with ChatGPT&#39;s launch in 2022. In video generation, OpenAI faces stiff competition from Google, Runway AI, and Midjourney, all of which offer apps that can produce short clips in seconds &mdash; tools that are either celebrated or feared as potential replacements for human-created content. Perhaps more surprising than Sora 2 itself is the standalone social app, Sora. &lsquo;Remarkable fidelity&rsquo;&nbsp;The platform will allow users to appear in AI-generated videos with what OpenAI calls &quot;remarkable fidelity&quot; of both appearance and voice. &quot;We think a social app built around this &#39;cameos&#39; feature is the best way to experience the magic of Sora 2,&quot; the company said. The app is currently available by invitation only in the United States and Canada. The Sora 2 video generator will initially be free, with &quot;generous limits,&quot; although usage will be constrained by the limited computing power required for video generation. On the app, users can share their creations in a feed similar to TikTok or Instagram Reels. &lsquo;Vibes&rsquo;Meta, which owns Instagram, added its own AI video feed, called &quot;Vibes,&quot; to its Meta AI app last week, encouraging users to experiment with image generation. The rapid release of increasingly powerful AI tools comes amid growing concerns about the proliferation of AI-generated content and the environmental toll of the massive computing power required to create it. OpenAI also acknowledged the ongoing debate about social media&#39;s impact on mental health &mdash; including worries about &quot;doomscrolling, addiction, and isolation&quot; &mdash; and said it is implementing safeguards like user wellbeing checks and content controls.

OpenAI launched Sora 2, an advanced video generator with realistic motion, sound, and dialogue, alongside a TikTok-style app allowing user cameos. The release highlights AI competition and addresses content, mental health, and environmental concerns.

OpenAI launches Sora 2 with TikTok-style app

SAN FRANCISCO: OpenAI said Monday it&#39;s adding parental controls to ChatGPT that are designed to provide teen users of the popular platform with a safer and more &ldquo;age-appropriate&rdquo; experience. The company is taking action after AI chatbot safety for young users has hit the headlines. The technology&#39;s dangers have been recently highlighted by a number of cases in which teenagers took their lives after interacting with ChatGPT. In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission has even opened an inquiry into several tech companies about the potential harms to children and teenagers who use their AI chatbots as companions. In a blog post posted Monday, OpenAI outlined the new controls for parents. Here is a breakdown: Getting started The parental controls will be available to all users, but both parents and teens will need their own accounts to take advantage of them. To get started, a parent or guardian needs to send an email or text message to invite a teen to connect their accounts. Or a teenager can send an invite to a parent. Users can send a request by going into the settings menu and then to the &quot;Parental controls&quot; section. Teens can unlink their accounts at any time, but parents will be notified if they do. Automatic safeguards Once the accounts are linked, the teen account will get some built-in protections, OpenAI said. Teen accounts will &ldquo;automatically get additional content protections, including reduced graphic content, viral challenges, sexual, romantic or violent role-play, and extreme beauty ideals, to help keep their experience age-appropriate,&rdquo; the company said. Parents can choose to turn these filters off, but teen users don&#39;t have the option. OpenAI warns that such guardrails are &ldquo;not foolproof and can be bypassed if someone is intentionally trying to get around them.&rdquo; It advised parents to talk with their children about &ldquo;healthy AI use.&rdquo; Adjusting settings Parents are getting a control panel where they can adjust a range of settings as well as switch off the restrictions on sensitive content mentioned above. For example, does your teen stay up way past bedtime to use ChatGPT? Parents can set a quiet time when the chatbot can&#39;t be used. Other settings include turning off the AI&#39;s memory so conversations can&#39;t be saved and won&#39;t be used in future responses; turning off the ability to generate or edit images; turning off voice mode; and opting out of having chats used to train ChatGPT&#39;s AI models. Get notified OpenAI is also being more proactive when it comes to letting parents know that their child might be in distress. It&#39;s setting up a new notification system to inform them when something might be &ldquo;seriously wrong&rdquo; and a teen user might be thinking about harming themselves. A small team of specialists will review the situation and, in the rare case that there are &ldquo;signs of acute distress,&rdquo; they&#39;ll notify parents by email, text message and push alert on their phone &mdash; unless the parent has opted out. OpenAI said it will protect the teen&#39;s privacy by only sharing the information needed for parents or emergency responders to provide help. &ldquo;No system is perfect, and we know we might sometimes raise an alarm when there isn&rsquo;t real danger, but we think it&rsquo;s better to act and alert a parent so they can step in than to stay silent,&rdquo; the company said.

OpenAI is introducing parental controls for ChatGPT to help parents monitor teen use, restrict harmful content, set time limits, and receive alerts if teens show signs of distress, aiming to improve user safety.

OpenAI adds parental controls to ChatGPT for teen safety

ABILENE: The afternoon sun was so hot that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman traded his usual crewneck sweater for a T-shirt on the last legs of a Tuesday visit to the massive Stargate artificial intelligence data center complex that will power the future of ChatGPT. OpenAI announced Tuesday that its flagship AI data center in Texas will be joined by five others around the US as the ChatGPT maker aims to make good on the $500 billion infrastructure investment promoted by President Donald Trump earlier this year.<div class="fr-embed"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 100%; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><iframe id="twitter-widget-1" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true" title="X Post" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-1&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1970601342680084483&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fmain.d1wrm1qseko1cp.amplifyapp.com%2Farticles%2Fnew%2F&sessionId=ef235de2b6ecd5e0e1ae8a1a8b8dfb4570691669&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px; height: 713px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;" data-tweet-id="1970601342680084483"></iframe></div></div>Stargate, a joint venture between OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank, said it is building two more data center complexes in Texas, one in New Mexico, one in Ohio and another in a Midwest location it has not yet disclosed. Biggest of them all But it is the project in Abilene, Texas, that promised to be the biggest of them all, transforming what the city&#39;s mayor called an old railroad town. Oracle executives who visited the eight-building complex said it is already on track to be the world&rsquo;s largest AI supercluster once fully built, a reference to its network of hundreds of thousands of AI chips that will be running in its massive, H-shaped buildings. Altman said, &ldquo;When you hit that button on ChatGPT, you really don&rsquo;t &mdash; I don&rsquo;t, at least&rdquo; &mdash; think about what happens inside the data halls used to build and operate the chatbot. He and Oracle&#39;s new co-CEO Clay Magouyrk also sought to emphasize the steps they&#39;ve taken to reduce the energy-hungry complex&#39;s environmental effects on a drought-prone region of West Texas, where temperatures hit 97 degrees Fahrenheit (36 degrees Celsius) on Tuesday. &#39;Burning gas&#39; &ldquo;We&rsquo;re burning gas to run this data center,&rdquo; said Altman, but added that &ldquo;in the long trajectory of Stargate&rdquo; the hope is to rely on many other power sources. The complex will require about 900 megawatts of electricity to power the eight buildings and their hundreds of thousands of specialized AI chips. One of the buildings is already operating, and a second that Altman and Magouyrk visited Tuesday is nearly complete. Each server rack in those buildings holds 72 of Nvidia&rsquo;s GB200 chips, which are specially designed for the most intensive AI workloads.&nbsp; Each building is expected to have about 60,000 of them. Over 6,000 workers More than 6,000 workers now commute to the massive construction project each day, in what Mayor Weldon Hurt described as a significant boost to the local economy.&nbsp; The campus and nearby expansion will provide nearly 1,700 jobs onsite when fully operational, Oracle said, with &ldquo;thousands more indirect jobs&rdquo; predicted to be created. One million gallons of water from the city&#39;s municipal water systems provides an &ldquo;initial fill&rdquo; for a closed-loop system that cools the data center&#39;s computers and keeps the water from evaporating. After that initial fill, Oracle expects each of the eight buildings to need another 12,000 gallons per year, which it describes as a &ldquo;remarkably low figure for a facility of this scale.&rdquo; Most of the power comes from the local grid, sourced from a mix of natural gas with the sprawling wind and solar farms that dot the windy and sunny region. Health impactsRen said that &ldquo;even with emission-reduction measures, the health impacts of essentially turning the data center site into a power plant deserve further study for nearby communities.&rdquo; Arlene Mendler, a Stargate neighbor, said she wished she had more say in the project that eliminated a vast tract of mesquite shrubland, home to coyotes and roadrunners. &ldquo;It has completely changed the way we were living,&rdquo; said Mendler, who lives across the street. &ldquo;We moved up here 33 years ago for the peace, quiet, tranquility. After we got home from work, we could ride horses down the road. It was that type of a place.&rdquo; Now, she doesn&#39;t know what to do about the constant cacophony of construction sounds or the bright lights that have altered her nighttime views. The project was essentially a done deal once she found out about it. &ldquo;They took 1,200 acres and just scraped it to bare dirt,&rdquo; said her husband, Fred Mendler. The first time most residents heard of Stargate &mdash; at least by that name &mdash; was when Trump announced the project shortly after returning to the White House in January. Originally planned as a facility to mine cryptocurrency, developers had pivoted and expanded their designs to tailor the project to the AI boom sparked by ChatGPT. The partnership said at that time it was investing $100 billion &mdash; and eventually up to $500 billion &mdash; to build large-scale data centers and the energy generation needed to further AI development. More recently, OpenAI signed a deal to buy $300 billion of computing capacity from Oracle. It&#39;s a huge bet for the San Francisco-based AI startup, which was founded as a nonprofit. OpenAI and Oracle invited media and politicians, including US Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, to tour the site for the first time Tuesday. &#39;Ground zero for AI&#39;Cruz called Texas &ldquo;ground zero for AI&rdquo; because if &ldquo;you&rsquo;re building a data center, what do you want? No. 1, you want abundant, low-cost energy.&rdquo; Of the other five Stargate data center projects announced Tuesday, Oracle is working with OpenAI to build one just northeast of Abilene, in Shackelford County, Texas, and another in New Mexico&#39;s Do&ntilde;a Ana County. It also said it is working to build one in the Midwest. Softbank said it has broken ground on two more in Lordstown, Ohio, and in Milam County, Texas. The projects offer OpenAI a way to break out from its longtime partnership with Microsoft, which until recently was the startup&#39;s exclusive computing partner. Altman told The Associated Press his company has been &ldquo;severely limited for the value we can offer to people.&rdquo; &ldquo;ChatGPT is slow. It&rsquo;s not as smart as we&rsquo;d like to be. Many users can&rsquo;t use it as much as they would like,&quot; Altman said. &quot;We have many other ideas and products we want to build.&rdquo;&nbsp;

OpenAI unveiled its massive Stargate AI data center in Texas, partnered with Oracle and Softbank, and plans five more across the US The $500 billion project aims to power ChatGPT’s future while addressing environmental and local concerns.

OpenAI unveils massive Stargate AI data center in Texas 

NEW YORK: Chipmaker&nbsp;<a href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/openai-and-nvidia-announce-strategic-partnership-to-deploy-10gw-of-nvidia-systems" style="color: rgb(0, 115, 230);">Nvidia</a>&nbsp;will invest $100 billion in OpenAI as part of a partnership announced Monday that will add at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia AI data centers to ramp up the computing power for the owner of the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. Per the letter of intent signed by the companies, the first gigawatt of Nvidia systems will be deployed in the second half of 2026. Nvidia and OpenAI said they would be finalizing the details of the arrangement in the coming weeks. <div class="fr-embed"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 100%; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><iframe id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" title="X Post" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1970160403029033286&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fmain.d1wrm1qseko1cp.amplifyapp.com%2Flogin%2F&sessionId=b23bf05197d79a6bca5195207989a0c0a10965b4&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px; height: 650px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;"></iframe></div></div>&ldquo;This partnership complements the deep work OpenAI and Nvidia are already doing with a broad network of collaborators, including Microsoft, Oracle, SoftBank and Stargate partners, focused on building the world&rsquo;s most advanced AI infrastructure,&rdquo; the companies said in a release. Those companies pledged to invest at least $100 billion in building data centers for OpenAI in January. $100B equity stake&nbsp;The Nvidia-OpenAI partnership also comes about 10 days after OpenAI said it had reached a new tentative agreement that will give Microsoft a $100 billion equity stake in its for-profit corporation. OpenAI is technically controlled by its nonprofit. Speaking on CNBC, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the new data centers that Nvidia will build are in addition to the previously announced projects. &ldquo;Building this infrastructure is critical to everything we want to do,&rdquo; Altman said. &ldquo;Without doing this, we cannot deliver the services people want. We can&rsquo;t keep making better models.&rdquo; He said both Nvidia and Microsoft are &ldquo;passive investors,&rdquo; and OpenAI&#39;s nonprofit and board controls the company. Lawsuit&nbsp;OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit in 2015, and its nonprofit board has continued to control the for-profit subsidiary that now develops and sells its AI products. OpenAI&rsquo;s corporate structure and nonprofit mission are the subject of a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk, who helped found the nonprofit research lab and provided initial funding. Musk&rsquo;s suit seeks to stop OpenAI from taking control of the company away from its nonprofit and alleges it has betrayed its promise to develop AI for the benefit of humanity. Earlier this month, the attorneys general of California and Delaware warned OpenAI that they have &ldquo;serious concerns&rdquo; about the safety of ChatGPT, especially for children and teens. &nbsp;&#39;Deeply troubling&#39;The two state officials, who have unique powers to regulate nonprofits such as OpenAI, noted &ldquo;deeply troubling reports of dangerous interactions between&rdquo; chatbots and their users, including the suicide of one young Californian after he had prolonged interactions with an OpenAI chatbot. The parents of the 16-year-old California boy, who died in April, sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, last month. OpenAI says it has 700 million weekly active users. Also, just last week, Nvidia announced that it was investing $5 billion in fellow chipmaker Intel, which has struggled to keep up with the frenzied demand for artificial intelligence.

Nvidia will invest $100 billion in OpenAI to expand its AI computing infrastructure, including at least 10 gigawatts of data centers, starting in 2026. This partnership, alongside investments from Microsoft and others, aims to enhance ChatGPT’s capabilities.

Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI 

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ISLAMABAD: The University of Oxford has become the first institution in the United Kingdom to provide its students and staff access to ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT built for universities that includes enterprise-level security and controls.&nbsp;&nbsp;In a press release, the university said the decision was made after a successful year-long trial period. The initiative is part of a five-year partnership between Oxford and OpenAI.&nbsp;&ldquo;This university-wide rollout follows a successful year-long pilot involving around 750 academics, research staff, postgraduate research students and professional services staff in a wide range of roles across the University and Colleges,&rdquo; the university said.&nbsp;Professor Anne Trefethen, the University of Oxford&rsquo;s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Digital, called the move &ldquo;an exciting step in our ongoing process of digital transformation.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;There is huge potential for us to harness this to accelerate high-impact, curiosity-led research and innovation, and to facilitate breakthroughs that could address major global challenges,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;He added that the tool would be accessible to all students, supporting personalised learning and encouraging exploration and creativity in academic work.&nbsp;Jayna Devani, OpenAI&rsquo;s international education lead, praised Oxford&#39;s initiative as &quot;setting a new standard&quot; for AI integration in higher education.&nbsp;&ldquo;By making ChatGPT Edu available to everyone, Oxford is equipping all its students, academics, and staff with the AI skills, tools, and training they need to truly benefit from this transformative technology and succeed in the AI era,&rdquo; she said.&nbsp;The rollout will be accompanied by comprehensive training on using ChatGPT Edu and other generative AI tools, with a focus on ethical use, critical thinking, and responsible application.

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The initiative is part of a five-year partnership between Oxford and OpenAI and follows a year-long trial involving students and staff.

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