OpenAI chief Sam Altman apologized Tuesday to Scarlett Johansson after the movie star said she was “shocked” by a new synthetic voice released by the ChatGPT-maker, but he insisted the voice was not based on hers. At issue is “Sky,” a voice OpenAI featured last week in the release of its more humanlike GPT-4o artificial intelligence technology. In a demo, …

Chief executive officer (CEO) of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has been relieved of his appointment by the Board of the popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) company. Chief technology officer Mira Murati has been appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI, as Altman departs the company. A search process was underway to identify a permanent successor. The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc., the …

Elon Musk on Wednesday launched his own artificial intelligence company, xAI, as he seeks to compete with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT — a program he accuses of being politically biased and irresponsible. The xAI website said the Tesla tycoon would run the company separately from his other companies but that the technology developed would benefit those businesses, including Twitter. …