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All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets

We were promised multimodal, natural language, AI-powered everything. We got nothing of the sort.

David Pierce
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
$20,000 a month for an AI chatbot?

This report from The Information says that OpenAI investors have been told the company plans to charge as much as $20k monthly for PhD-level research agents at the high end. Lower tiers could cost $2,000 or $10,000 per month, which certainly helps its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro subscription look cheap by comparison.

That projection explains why AI companies are selling agents as a future worth paying for -- assuming they can find anyone other than Softbank to pick up the tab.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
UK antitrust watchdog clears Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership.

The Competition and Markets Authority has ruled that the relationship between the two companies “does not qualify for investigation” under merger rules. The CMA said in 2023 that it was assessing whether Microsoft’s $13 billion investment into the AI startup gave it de facto control over OpenAI policy.

While now satisfied that it doesn’t, the CMA says that Microsoft “instead exerts a high level of material influence over that policy.”

The questions ChatGPT shouldn’t answer

ChatGPT has a trolley problem problem.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Elon Musk loses bid to block OpenAI’s transformation.

District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has denied Musk’s request for an injunction to pause the ChatGPT maker’s transition to a for-profit company. The case is now set for an expedited trial this fall given “the public interest at stake.”

This comes after OpenAI unanimously rejected Musk’s unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to buy the AI startup. In February Rogers said she was unlikely to issue an injunction in a case pitting “billionaires versus billionaires.