Tech News OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Meta offered $100 million to poach staff Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, ChatGPT’s parent company, said that rival Meta is offering “giant” signing bonuses to his staff if they switch to work for them. 18/06/2025
Tech News From French fishing roots to OpenAI: What we know about Fidji Simo The rising star from the south of France was the first in her family of fishermen to graduate university, talked her way into a job at eBay, and is now joining OpenAI. 09/05/2025
Business Visa wants to give artificial intelligence 'agents' your credit card Visa is collaborating with AI firms like Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI so that consumers will be able to outsource spending to AI agents. 01/05/2025
Tech News OpenAI could ‘adjust’ its AI safety if a competitor makes high-risk AI If a competitor releases an AI model that has a high level of risk, OpenAI says it will consider adjusting its safety requirements so that it might be able to as well. 18/04/2025
Tech News Is OpenAI about to launch a social media platform? Here’s what we know The platform would be based on ChatGPT’s image-generation feature, which caused a trend in reproducing Studio Ghibli alikes, reports citing company insiders say. 17/04/2025
Tech News DeepSeek is developing self-improving AI models. Here’s how it works DeepSeek and China’s Tsinghua University say they have found a way that could make AI models more intelligent and efficient. 07/04/2025
Tech News OpenAI to release new ‘open’ language model in coming months Under pressure from competitors like DeepSeek and Meta’s Llama 3, OpenAI said it is working on releasing a new open-weight large language model in the coming months. 01/04/2025
Business OpenAI secures $300bn valuation in funding round led by SoftBank The firm has raised $40 billion, one of the largest ever funding rounds secured by a private start-up. 01/04/2025
Cinema ChatGPT's viral Studio Ghibli-style images: 'An insult to life itself' “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." Wise words from legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, whose comments on AI in 2016 are going viral following this week's trend of creating Studio Ghibli-style portraits with ChatGPT's latest update. 28/03/2025
Tech News 'Our GPUs are melting': OpenAI puts restrictions on new image tool ChatGPT's new feature that can generate images in the style of a popular Japanese animation studio is so popular that OpenAI has to put temporary limits on its use. 28/03/2025
Culture news More than 400 artists send letter to Trump over AI exploitation Paul McCartney, Ben Stiller, Cate Blanchett and more than 400 celebrities and artists have sent a letter to Trump, urging his administration to not roll back copyright protections. 21/03/2025
Tech News OpenAI faces complaint after ChatGPT alleged man murdered his sons The complaint has been filed to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, alleging that OpenAI violates Europe’s GDPR rules. 20/03/2025
Tech News What is Manus AI and is it having a DeepSeek moment? A new Chinese AI platform is causing a frenzy. But is it worth the hype? Euronews Next takes a look. 11/03/2025
Tech News ChatGPT gets 'anxiety' from traumatic content, researchers say New research has found that OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 gets anxiety when responding to a user’s trauma and that therapy relaxation prompts could bring better outcomes. 10/03/2025
Tech News Zuckerberg's Meta to release standalone AI app According to media reports, Meta will release its own standalone AI chatbot in the second quarter of this year, with subscription services also expected to be part of the plan. 28/02/2025
Tech News Europe could ‘leap ahead’ in AI race, says Mozilla’s president Mark Surman spoke to Euronews Next following the Paris AI Summit about nations collaborating to build better technology. 21/02/2025
Brussels, My Love? Brussels, my love? Can the EU counter Putin's sinister shadow war? In this edition, we hear how Putin is waging a shadow war to destabilise the West and attack our way of life, and discuss plans for investment into AI. 15/02/2025
Tech News Why experts think the Paris AI Action Summit is 'a missed opportunity' Euronews Next spoke to experts at the Paris summit for their reactions on the AI summit’s declaration. 14/02/2025
Tech News Anthropic poaches Google DeepMind talent to lead new European office Anthropic announced to Euronews Next on Thursday in a Europe exclusive that Neil Houlsby would be leading the new Zürich office. 13/02/2025
Tech News ChatGPT may be shifting ‘rightward’ in political bias, study finds ChatGPT is seeing a rightward shift on the political spectrum in how it responds to user queries, a new study has found. 12/02/2025