The service was down for several users across the globe in the early hours of the day Pacific time. Many users have posted about the issue on X and Threads. ChatGPT has more than 100 million weekly users, according to OpenAI. On its service status site, OpenAI had flagged this...

Over the weekend, a redditor going by the name of SentuBill posted a peculiar screenshot that appeared to show OpenAI's ChatGPT reaching out proactively, instead of responding to a prompt. "How was your first week at high school?" the chatbot asked in the screenshot, seemingly unprompted. "Did you settle in...

I've tested the coding capabilities of many generative AI tools for ZDNET -- and this time, it's Perplexity's turn. Perplexity feels like a cross between a search engine and an AI chatbot. When I asked Perplexity how it differs from other generative AI tools, the chatbot said it uses real-time information access, indexing the web daily. Users can narrow searches by asking Perplexity to focus on sources or platforms.

AI enthusiasts took to social media platforms to report an outage with the AI chatbot, but the issue was resolved within hours. Generative AI technology leader OpenAI on Tuesday had to respond quickly to fix an issue affecting ChatGPT that made the AI chatbot unavailable for some users, who widely shared reports of their lack of access to the platform on social media.

Feature Imagine a brand new and nearly completely untested technology, capable of crashing at any moment under the slightest provocation without explanation – or even the ability to diagnose the problem. No self-respecting IT department would have anything to do with it, keeping it isolated from any core systems.

An underappreciated fact about large language models (LLMs) is that they produce “live” answers to prompts. You prompt them and they start talking in response, and they talk until they’re done. The result is like asking a person a question and getting a monologue back in which they improv their answer sentence by sentence.

OpenAI has released a new AI technology called the Swarm Framework. This open-source project marks a new milestone in the ongoing AI gold rush. The …

OpenAI is attempting to level up developers and enable them to use AI to solve issues in their communities and drive economic growth. OpenAI Academy is a new program that will provide technical guidance and support from OpenAI experts, distribute $1 million in API credits (with more potentially being added later), hold contests and incubator programs in partnership with investors, and build a global network of developers to collaborate, share knowledge, and drive innovation together.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been diligently working on a rapidly growing repository at Composio. We soon realized that tasks such as updating ReadMes, fixing docstrings, and making minor bug fixes—though repetitive and mundane—were consuming much of our bandwidth. So, I thought, why not build an...

Remark: Image can only be used together with the text and should not be downloaded and used independently. Good morning. OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022 and, in doing so, propelled generative AI to the forefront of our current technological era. The firm’s leadership culture, though, hasn’t evolved as quickly as its tech stack—and executive turnover is high. That includes chief technology officer Mira Murati, who announced her resignation on Wednesday. Last year, when CEO Sam Altman was ousted in a boardroom coup that wound up lasting five days, Murati served as interim CEO. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s research chief Bob McGrew and Barret Zoph, a research vice president, are also departing the company. OpenAI, with roots as a nonprofit research institute that also sells commercial products, proclaims its goal is “building safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence for the benefit of humanity.” As ChatGPT skyrocketed in popularity, Microsoft has invested about $13 billion in the startup. But key executives are making their departures at a time when OpenAI’s board is considering converting into a for-profit corporation accountable to shareholders, Fortune reported. The company is reportedly working on a $6.5 billion funding round at a valuation of $150 billion. One executive staying on is Sarah Friar, the CFO who joined OpenAI in June. Friar was previously CEO of Nextdoor, a hyperlocal social networking service for neighborhoods. She served as CFO of Square and oversaw its IPO. Friar has also worked at Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and Salesforce. AI and community connections In addition to leading finance, Friar seeks to keep human connection, similar to what she facilitated at Nextdoor, at the forefront of OpenAI. She is part of an ongoing dialogue on technology, governance, and democracy as co-chair of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab’s Advisory Group. The lab announced on Tuesday the debut of The Digitalist Papers, a collection of essays exploring AI and digital technologies’ impact on U.S. society and democracy. Friar said in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday that she co-authored an essay with Laura Bisesto, her chief of staff at OpenAI, and the former global head of policy and privacy at Nextdoor. “The Potential for AI to Restore Local Community Connectedness, the Bedrock of a Healthy Democracy,” is an essay that focuses on digital connections among neighbors to strengthen community fabric. “While we view AI as having a major impact on our digital lives, the way digital impinges on real life may mean that AI is actually the biggest single influencer of our real-life experience, in particular, how community connectedness is established and nurtured,” the essay states. In 2020, Nextdoor explored counteracting trends that were driving down neighborly connections, according to the essay. The company conducted a global scientific study with academic leaders. The research found that knowing as few as six neighbors, and neighborly acts of kindness, reduces the likelihood of feeling lonely and is linked to lower depression and social anxiety.  Friar argues that AI-enabled platforms can support the creation and sustenance of meaningful, place-based interactions and networks of support, which is the next leap forward in community building.  Regarding generative AI, some examples offered are fine-tuning models to uphold unique local speech patterns, and also using it to support constructive conversations by suggesting ways to rephrase potentially offensive comments with more prosocial revisions. Friar states in the essay: “Let’s ensure that AI serves as a cornerstone for a vibrant, inclusive, and resilient democracy.” You can read the complete essay here. One thing is for sure, the impact of AI on the economy, workplace, and communities is still in the early innings. Have a good weekend. Sheryl Estradasheryl.estrada@fortune.com The following sections of CFO Daily were curated by Greg McKenna.