Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, publicly shared a letter from the U.S. Senate regarding concerns over the large donations made by OpenAI and other tech companies during the Trump election period. The letter was revealed late at night, sparking widespread discussion. It mentions that since Trump's election, large tech companies like OpenAI have donated millions to his inauguration fund, raising concerns in the Senate. They believe that such large donations may be an attempt to influence the upcoming election.

Mira Murati is a prominent figure in the field of artificial intelligence, and her latest startup project has attracted significant attention from the industry. Recently, it was reported that Jonathan Lachman, the former head of special projects at OpenAI, has joined the AI research lab newly founded by Murati. This decision marks the highest-profile recruitment since Murati left OpenAI last September and represents an important step forward in the lab's personnel composition.

According to foreign media reports, Samsung Electronics is in discussions with OpenAI for an "open partnership", aiming to integrate OpenAI's advanced technologies into its television product line to enhance its competitive edge in the global TV market. It is reported that Samsung plans to incorporate several core technologies from OpenAI, including GPT text generation, DALL·E image generation, Whisper speech recognition, and the O1 inference model. These technologies will provide users with innovative features such as personalized content recommendations, conversational assistants, and real-time translation. For example, users can engage while watching programs.

According to recent news, Samsung Electronics is collaborating with AI pioneer OpenAI to develop a new 'AI Television.' This move signifies Samsung's efforts to solidify its industry-leading position in the increasingly competitive television market. In the face of strong competition from low-cost Chinese television brands, Samsung aims to leverage OpenAI's advanced artificial intelligence technology to enhance the innovation and intelligence of its products. Currently, Samsung and OpenAI have collaborated on multiple projects, particularly in television.

OpenAI is taking action in the field of local news. Recently, the media organization Axios announced a three-year partnership with OpenAI. Under this agreement, OpenAI will fund Axios's expansion of local news newsletters in four new cities, including Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Kansas City, Missouri; Boulder, Colorado; and Huntsville, Alabama. Notably, this collaboration marks the first time OpenAI has directly funded news initiatives in partnership with them.

In terms of artificial intelligence (AI) regulation, the UK government has expressed a desire to take an independent stance and plans to adopt different approaches from its main Western counterparts, such as the EU and the US. UK AI and Digital Government Minister Feryal Clark emphasized in an interview with CNBC that the UK must 'do its own thing' to ensure necessary regulations are in place early on regarding the safety of AI models. Image source note: The image was generated by AI and provided by the image service provider Midjourney.

Recently, OpenAI released a document titled 'Economic Blueprint,' aimed at discussing policies with the U.S. government and its allies to solidify America's technological leadership in the field of artificial intelligence. The blueprint mentions that the U.S. must attract billions of dollars in funding to secure chips, data, energy, and talent in order to win the AI competition. Chris Lehane, Vice President of Global Affairs at OpenAI, stated in the preface that while some countries are taking steps towards AI and its economic potential,

OpenAI recently announced the launch of its robot project to further explore the development of robotics technology. On January 11, Caitlin Kalinowski, the director of OpenAI's hardware department, revealed on social media that OpenAI would begin developing robots equipped with custom sensors and published related job openings on its official website. This recruitment covers three key positions: Electronic Perception Engineer, Robotics Mechanical Design Engineer, and Technical Project Manager. The primary responsibility of the Electronic Perception Engineer is to design and develop...

Recently, a Ukrainian website focused on human 3D models, Trilegangers, faced an unprecedented traffic attack that caused its servers to crash. The site aims to provide a vast array of human 3D model data for 3D artists and game developers, but has been overwhelmed by frequent crawling from OpenAI's GPTBot. According to Trilegangers staff, despite the site's usage policy explicitly prohibiting unauthorized crawling and use, the situation has not been adequately addressed.