https://www.scmp.com/rss/518115/feed The latest news on Sam Altman, American entrepreneur, investor and CEO of OpenAI, including celebrity news and updates. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Reuters Reuters ⁠Police in the United States ⁠have arrested a man for allegedly ⁠throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home and for making threats outside the artificial intelligence start-up’s headquarters. In a social media post, the San Francisco Police ‌Department said an unknown man threw an incendiary device at a North Beach residence at 4.12am on Friday and then escaped on foot. The 20-year-old suspect was detained about an hour later after police received a call about a man threatening... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3349719/molotov-attack-openai-ceo-sam-altmans-home-leads-arrest?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3349719/molotov-attack-openai-ceo-sam-altmans-home-leads-arrest?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:34:57 +0000 Alex Lo Alex Lo There is no artificial intelligence (AI) race to dominate the technology except in the minds of America’s billionaire tech bros and the ruling elites in Washington. Unfortunately, the global news media often uncritically adopt this dog-eat-dog narrative, including sometimes this newspaper. Now, I am not denying the intense competition between China and the United States in AI and other major industries of the 21st century. I am, however, claiming that competition is basically an end in itself... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3346675/humane-chinese-ai-versus-dog-eat-dog-american-ai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3346675/humane-chinese-ai-versus-dog-eat-dog-american-ai?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:30:08 +0000 Reuters Reuters Anthropic on Monday filed a lawsuit to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, escalating the artificial intelligence lab’s high-stakes battle with the US military over usage restrictions on its technology. Anthropic said in its lawsuit that the designation was unlawful and violated its free speech and due process rights. The filing in federal court in California asked a judge to undo the designation and block federal ‌agencies from enforcing it. “These actions are... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346019/anthropic-sues-us-government-row-over-ai-use-military-deepens?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346019/anthropic-sues-us-government-row-over-ai-use-military-deepens?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:36:30 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The US Treasury Department said on Monday it is ending use of all Anthropic products, following US President Donald Trump’s government-wide ban on the AI start-up after it rejected the Pentagon’s demands. The US Treasury “is terminating all use of Anthropic products, including the use of its Claude platform, within our department”, said Secretary Scott Bessent in a social media statement. The decision comes at the direction of Trump, he added. “Under President Trump no private company will ever... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345184/us-treasury-says-it-stopping-use-anthropics-tech-including-its-claude-platform?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345184/us-treasury-says-it-stopping-use-anthropics-tech-including-its-claude-platform?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:15:04 +0000 Biman Mukherji Biman Mukherji As tech titans and world leaders descended on New Delhi for the India AI Impact Summit in February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set out his ambition for the country to become a major global power in artificial intelligence – a technology currently dominated by the United States and China. “My vision is that India should be among the top three AI superpowers globally, not just in the consumption of AI but in creation,” Modi told Asian News International in an interview about the summit. Top tech... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3344919/indias-ai-superpower-dream-lands-us200-billion-now-comes-hard-part?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3344919/indias-ai-superpower-dream-lands-us200-billion-now-comes-hard-part?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:00:13 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse President Donald Trump told the US government on Friday to “immediately” stop using Anthropic’s technology after the AI start-up rejected the Pentagon’s demand that it agree to unconditional military use of its Claude models. Anthropic insists its technology should not be used for the mass surveillance of US citizens or deployed in fully autonomous weapons systems, while the Pentagon says it operates within the law and that contracted suppliers cannot set terms on how their products are... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344946/trump-tells-us-government-immediately-stop-using-anthropic-ai-tech?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344946/trump-tells-us-government-immediately-stop-using-anthropic-ai-tech?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:19:58 +0000 Cao Li Cao Li The risk of an artificial intelligence bubble has, for the first time, become the top concern among credit investors, overshadowing geopolitical worries, according to a Bank of America (BofA) survey. In a February survey of investment-grade clients who buy and sell debt, 23 per cent said the threat of an AI bubble was now their top concern, up from 9 per cent in December, according to BofA strategists Barnaby Martin and Ioannis Angelakis and analyst Mohit Agarwalla. “[An] AI bubble is now seen... https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3344555/ai-bubble-overtakes-geopolitics-top-concern-credit-investors-bofa-survey-finds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3344555/ai-bubble-overtakes-geopolitics-top-concern-credit-investors-bofa-survey-finds?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:51:38 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Once a rival, always a rival. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the busiest day of India’s AI Summit in New Delhi, he orchestrated a photo op with 13 other business and political leaders, all standing in a line and holding each other’s hands above their heads. Well, all of them except two. Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, CEOs of rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, were positioned next to each other and, awkwardly, refused to clasp each other’s hands. Instead, they stood with their arms crossed in... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3344074/openai-and-anthropic-ceos-refuse-hold-hands-during-modis-india-ai-summit-photo-op?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3344074/openai-and-anthropic-ceos-refuse-hold-hands-during-modis-india-ai-summit-photo-op?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:16:23 +0000 Biman Mukherji Biman Mukherji One of the world’s most high-profile gatherings on artificial intelligence (AI) has opened in India, with analysts saying it could shift the focus from the race to build ever more powerful models to the challenge of deploying them at scale. As policymakers and tech executives convene for the India AI Impact Summit, they say the five-day event offers emerging and middle-ranking economies a chance to reframe AI as public infrastructure and work together to put it into public services, rather than... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3343818/india-ai-summit-aims-shift-focus-model-races-scaled-reality?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3343818/india-ai-summit-aims-shift-focus-model-races-scaled-reality?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:00:12 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A federal judge in Florida on Thursday set a February 2027 trial date for US President Donald Trump’s US$10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC. Trump filed the suit against the British broadcaster last year over the editing of his speech ahead of the US Capitol riot in a documentary on the flagship BBC current affairs show Panorama. Trump alleges that the BBC’s editing of his January 6, 2021 speech made it appear that he had explicitly urged supporters to attack the Capitol, where... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343374/trumps-us10-billion-bbc-defamation-suit-going-trial-2027-florida?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343374/trumps-us10-billion-bbc-defamation-suit-going-trial-2027-florida?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:00:12 +0000 Zhang Tong Zhang Tong Chinese scientists have unveiled a cooling technology that can plunge a liquid cooling medium from room temperature to sub-zero levels in less than half a minute. This leap in thermal engineering offered a promising heat management solution for energy-hungry data centres that were mushrooming across China and the United States, they said. By harnessing the unique behaviour of ammonium thiocyanate in water under pressure, the team created a liquid cooling system that mimics squeezing a “wet... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341756/frost-20-seconds-can-supercooling-tech-give-china-edge-ai-race?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341756/frost-20-seconds-can-supercooling-tech-give-china-edge-ai-race?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:00:11 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press No longer confined to the partisans and activists, the fierce backlash against Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has begun to break out across American culture, spanning the worlds of business, sports and entertainment. Bruce Springsteen released a new song on Wednesday that slammed “Trump’s federal thugs”. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman told employees that “what’s happening with ICE is going too far”, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And lifestyle icon Martha Stewart... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341657/ice-cracks-down-some-americas-biggest-names-are-speaking-out?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341657/ice-cracks-down-some-americas-biggest-names-are-speaking-out?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:02:38 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow China’s total electricity consumption hit a record high of 10.4 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2025, more than double that of the US, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said on Saturday. The 5 per cent jump from the previous year marked the first time in China’s history that annual electricity consumption had surpassed 10 trillion kWh – the highest in the world and more than the combined total of the European Union, Russia, India and Japan, state broadcaster CCTV said, citing NEA... https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3340261/chinas-ai-and-ev-boom-drives-record-power-demand-widening-energy-gap-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3340261/chinas-ai-and-ev-boom-drives-record-power-demand-widening-energy-gap-us?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:00:13 +0000 Reuters Reuters Apple will use Google’s Gemini models for its revamped ‍Siri coming later this year under a multi-year deal that deepens the tech giants’ alliance in the artificial intelligence era and bolsters Alphabet’s position in the race against OpenAI. The deal announced Monday marks a major vote of confidence for Google. Its technology already drives much of Samsung’s “Galaxy AI”, but the Siri deal ⁠unlocks a large market with Apple’s installed base of more than two billion active devices. “After careful... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3339665/apple-google-strike-gemini-deal-revamped-siri-major-win-alphabet?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3339665/apple-google-strike-gemini-deal-revamped-siri-major-win-alphabet?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Jan 2026 02:53:20 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The “Architects of AI” were named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2025 on Thursday. The magazine cited 2025 as the year when the potential of artificial intelligence “roared into view”, with no turning back. “For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year,” Time said in a social media post. The magazine was deliberate in selecting people – the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3336114/time-names-architects-ai-person-year-2025?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3336114/time-names-architects-ai-person-year-2025?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:56:09 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press OpenAI said Tuesday it has picked Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its first chief of revenue, a message to wary investors that the ChatGPT maker is serious about making a profit from its artificial intelligence technology. OpenAI said Dresser will oversee global revenue strategy and “help more businesses put AI to work in their day-to-day operations”. Dresser had already spent more than a decade at Salesforce when the software pioneer announced in 2020 it was buying work-chatting service Slack for... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3335831/openai-names-slack-ceo-first-chief-revenue-chatgpt-maker-aims-make-profit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3335831/openai-names-slack-ceo-first-chief-revenue-chatgpt-maker-aims-make-profit?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:45:41 +0000 Eunice Xu Eunice Xu China’s artificial intelligence boom is giving rise to a new cohort of “solopreneurs”, who are turning their business dreams into reality with the help of technology, offering a glimmer of hope in an otherwise bleak job market. While there is no government data tracking this group, the proliferation of affordable AI models suggests that the number of AI-powered solopreneurs in China is on the rise. Recent data from the US Census Bureau showed that the US had about 30 million solopreneurs, who... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3335343/chinas-ai-boom-fuels-solopreneurs-1-person-businesses-flourish-tough-job-market?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3335343/chinas-ai-boom-fuels-solopreneurs-1-person-businesses-flourish-tough-job-market?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:00:14 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is redirecting internal resources to speed up improvements to ChatGPT, declaring a “code red” situation that will delay work on other initiatives, according to people familiar with the matter. Altman on Monday sent an internal memo calling for a “surge” to improve ChatGPT, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified discussing nonpublic information. Altman also called for staff to delay progress on other efforts such as autonomous AI agents and advertising, the... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3334982/openai-ceo-declares-code-red-improve-chatgpt-rivals-google-anthropic-move?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3334982/openai-ceo-declares-code-red-improve-chatgpt-rivals-google-anthropic-move?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:07:46 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has released the world’s first open AI model to test and score a gold medal-level performance at the annual International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), the Hangzhou-based start-up said on Thursday. DeepSeek has made widely available its Math-V2 model, which was open-sourced on developer platforms Hugging Face and GitHub, under a permissive licence that allows users to repurpose the model. Held annually since 1959, the IMO is widely regarded as the... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3334553/deepseek-releases-first-open-ai-model-gold-level-scores-maths-olympiad?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3334553/deepseek-releases-first-open-ai-model-gold-level-scores-maths-olympiad?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:00:36 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group and OpenAI on Friday announced an agreement to design and build artificial intelligence data centre hardware, the latest in a string of infrastructure deals for the US creator of ChatGPT. Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer, has seen profits soar after shifting its focus from low-margin iPhone assembly to AI servers that are now in huge demand, as firms plough hundreds of billions of dollars into the technology. Optimism over AI has... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3333657/taiwans-foxconn-expands-ai-hardware-push-openai-deal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3333657/taiwans-foxconn-expands-ai-hardware-push-openai-deal?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 21 Nov 2025 06:52:44 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow The release of Google DeepMind’s latest artificial intelligence model has sparked debate about the future of US-China competition in AI and the ability of Chinese developers to keep up. Gemini 3 Pro, released on Tuesday, overtook OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 to give Google the top spot on leading AI benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis’ Intelligence Index for the first time. The model was roundly praised by fellow industry competitors, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Lin Junyang, the technical lead of... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333446/googles-new-gemini-model-puts-chinas-start-ai-developers-defensive?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333446/googles-new-gemini-model-puts-chinas-start-ai-developers-defensive?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Nov 2025 01:00:31 +0000 Reuters Reuters Microsoft and Nvidia plan to invest in Anthropic under a new tie-up that includes a US$30 billion commitment by the Claude maker to use Microsoft’s cloud services, the latest high-profile deal binding together major players in the artificial intelligence industry. Nvidia would commit up to US$10 billion to Anthropic and Microsoft up to US$5 billion, the companies said on Tuesday, without sharing more details. A person familiar with the matter said both companies had committed to investing in... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333330/microsoft-nvidia-invest-anthropic-claude-maker-commits-us30-billion-azure?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333330/microsoft-nvidia-invest-anthropic-claude-maker-commits-us30-billion-azure?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:45:08 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Chinese artificial intelligence firm Moonshot AI continues to develop AI models with fewer high-end graphics processing units (GPUs) than what its US rivals use, according to the Beijing-based start-up’s executives. In a three-hour-long “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit on Monday evening, a Moonshot AI representative with the handle “ppwwyyxx” – the same moniker used by co-founder Wu Yuxin on X – said the company was “outnumbered” by rival US firms in terms of “high-end GPUs” used for AI model... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3332364/chinas-moonshot-claims-build-models-fewer-high-end-ai-chips-us-rivals-use?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3332364/chinas-moonshot-claims-build-models-fewer-high-end-ai-chips-us-rivals-use?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:00:10 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed back at the idea that the company would seek federal guarantees to reduce the risk of its artificial intelligence infrastructure spending spree, one day after a top executive at the ChatGPT maker suggested there may be a role for the government to help finance the technology. “We do not have or want government guarantees for OpenAI data centres,” Altman wrote in a lengthy social media post on Thursday. “Taxpayers should not bail out companies that make bad business... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3331851/sam-altman-says-openai-does-not-want-government-bailout-ai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3331851/sam-altman-says-openai-does-not-want-government-bailout-ai?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Nov 2025 02:00:38 +0000 Reuters Reuters OpenAI has signed a seven-year, US$38 billion deal to buy cloud services from Amazon.com, in its first big push to power its AI ambitions after a restructuring last week that gave the ChatGPT maker greater operational and financial freedom. The agreement, announced on Monday, will give OpenAI access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia graphics processors to train and run its artificial intelligence models. The deal underscores the AI industry’s insatiable appetite for computing power as companies... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3331405/openai-pay-amazon-us38-billion-seven-year-cloud-services-deal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3331405/openai-pay-amazon-us38-billion-seven-year-cloud-services-deal?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Nov 2025 01:46:42 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service Scrolling through Sora can feel a bit like entering a real-life multiverse. Michael Jackson performs stand-up; the alien from the Predator movies flips burgers at McDonald’s; a home security camera captures a moose crashing through a glass door; and Queen Elizabeth dives from the top of a table at a pub. Such improbable realities, fantastical futures and absurdist videos are the mainstay of Sora, a new short video app released by ChatGPT maker OpenAI. The continuous stream of hyperreal,... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3331082/real-or-fake-how-openais-sora-app-erodes-confidence-everything-we-see-online?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3331082/real-or-fake-how-openais-sora-app-erodes-confidence-everything-we-see-online?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 02 Nov 2025 09:15:09 +0000 Reuters Reuters OpenAI is laying the groundwork for an initial public offering that could value the company at up to US$1 trillion, three people familiar with the matter said, in what could be one of the biggest IPOs of all time. OpenAI is considering filing with securities regulators as soon as the second half of 2026, some of the people said. In preliminary discussions, the company has looked at raising US$60 billion at the low end and likely more, the people said. They cautioned that talks are early and... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3330846/openai-lays-groundwork-juggernaut-ipo-us1-trillion-valuation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3330846/openai-lays-groundwork-juggernaut-ipo-us1-trillion-valuation?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Oct 2025 04:25:08 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Microsoft and OpenAI announced Tuesday a sweeping overhaul of their landmark artificial intelligence partnership, giving both companies greater independence while maintaining their close collaboration. Microsoft will hold approximately 27 per cent of the restructured OpenAI, an investment valued at roughly US$135 billion, as the ChatGPT maker transitions to a public benefit corporation structure, according to a blog post on the OpenAI website. OpenAI has also committed to purchasing US$250... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3330714/microsoft-holds-27-openai-revamped-partnership?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3330714/microsoft-holds-27-openai-revamped-partnership?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:50:07 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time. Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence character called Mico (pronounced MEE-koh) on Thursday, a floating cartoon face shaped like a blob or flame that would embody the software giant’s Copilot virtual assistant and marked the latest attempt by tech companies to imbue their AI chatbots with more of a personality. Copilot’s new emoji-like exterior comes... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3330137/new-clippy-microsoft-unveils-mico-ai-character-embodying-its-copilot-assistant?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3330137/new-clippy-microsoft-unveils-mico-ai-character-embodying-its-copilot-assistant?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Oct 2025 02:29:54 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang Alibaba Group Holding’s Qwen AI models are winning over major Western firms like Airbnb, underscoring the growing global appeal of China’s open-source approach to artificial intelligence. Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based online accommodation booking giant, said Airbnb “relies heavily” on Alibaba’s Qwen models to power its AI-driven customer service agent, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday. Chesky, a friend of OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman, said ChatGPT’s... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3329921/airbnb-picks-alibabas-qwen-over-chatgpt-win-chinese-open-source-ai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3329921/airbnb-picks-alibabas-qwen-over-chatgpt-win-chinese-open-source-ai?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:00:09 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg OpenAI unveiled its first artificial intelligence-powered web browser, putting the ChatGPT maker in competition on a new front with Alphabet’s Google. The browser, called ChatGPT Atlas, is designed to be a more personalised web experience and also field tasks such as booking flights and editing documents on a user’s behalf. Each time a user visits a website within the browser, they will see an “Ask ChatGPT” that pulls up a sidebar to engage with what is on the page. The user might, say, open up... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3329867/openai-launches-ai-powered-chatgpt-atlas-browser-challenge-google?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3329867/openai-launches-ai-powered-chatgpt-atlas-browser-challenge-google?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Oct 2025 02:12:23 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse OpenAI announced plans on Tuesday to relax restrictions on its ChatGPT chatbot, including allowing erotic content for verified adult users as part of what the company calls a “treat adult users like adults” principle. In a social media post, CEO Sam Altman said that stricter guardrails on conversational AI to address mental health concerns had made its chatbot “less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems”. The stricter safety controls came after California teenager Adam... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3329037/openai-allow-erotica-chatgpt-verified-adults?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3329037/openai-allow-erotica-chatgpt-verified-adults?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:20:05 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Broadcom became the latest chipmaker to forge a blockbuster data centre deal with OpenAI, triggering a rally that added more than US$150 billion to its market value. In a pact announced on Monday, OpenAI agreed to buy custom chips and networking components from Broadcom to help power its artificial intelligence services. OpenAI had already struck deals for data centres and chips that easily top US$1 trillion, and the company plans to spend tens of billions of dollars more on Broadcom chips,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3328884/broadcoms-valuation-surges-us150-billion-after-chip-deal-openai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3328884/broadcoms-valuation-surges-us150-billion-after-chip-deal-openai?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:56:02 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Wall Street stocks rebounded on Monday from steep pre-weekend falls as US President Donald Trump softened his posture on China following earlier threats of large tariffs. European stock markets made modest gains while Asia’s leading stock markets began the week in the red as they caught up with Wall Street’s sharp losses on Friday. Gold reached a fresh record high thanks to its status as a safe-haven investment. “Things have calmed down almost as dramatically as the flare up on Friday when... https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3328876/wall-street-stocks-bounce-trump-softens-posture-china-after-tariff-threats?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3328876/wall-street-stocks-bounce-trump-softens-posture-china-after-tariff-threats?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:40:17 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow When Alibaba Group Holding’s CEO Eddie Wu Yongming took the stage at the company’s annual Apsara conference in Hangzhou on September 24, few people expected the media-shy executive to deliver anything shocking, especially since he read from prepared statements at last year’s event. Wu, however, immediately outlined a clear road map for Alibaba’s AI development, with a goal towards so-called artificial superintelligence (ASI) – when the firm’s Qwen open-source models and cloud services would... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3328568/chinas-lesson-us-it-takes-more-chips-win-ai-race?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3328568/chinas-lesson-us-it-takes-more-chips-win-ai-race?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 11 Oct 2025 04:00:13 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) reported a 30 per cent increase in its third-quarter sales as major US tech companies continued to make multibillion-dollar bets on artificial intelligence. Revenue for the three-month period ending in September totalled NT$989.9 billion (US$32.5 billion), according to Bloomberg News calculations based on monthly sales numbers provided by the company, while analysts on average were looking for NT$962.8 billion. The shares of Asia’s most valuable... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3328365/tsmc-posts-better-expected-sales-ai-demand?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3328365/tsmc-posts-better-expected-sales-ai-demand?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:37:42 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg OpenAI is making it easier for ChatGPT users to connect with third-party apps within the chatbot to carry out tasks, the company’s latest bid to turn its flagship product into a key gateway for digital services. With the new option, unveiled on Monday during OpenAI’s annual developers event, a ChatGPT user can ask to create a playlist for the weekend and the app will connect with Spotify to make suggestions. Alternatively, a user can look up a three-bedroom home in a specific neighbourhood on... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3328071/openai-lets-chatgpt-users-connect-spotify-bookingcom-app?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3328071/openai-lets-chatgpt-users-connect-spotify-bookingcom-app?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Oct 2025 02:45:08 +0000 Reuters Reuters Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will supply artificial intelligence chips to OpenAI in a multi-year deal that would bring in tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue and give the ChatGPT creator the option to buy up to roughly 10 per cent of the chipmaker. Shares of the chipmaker surged 24 per cent on Monday, adding roughly US$63 billion to the company’s market value. The deal, latest in a string of investment commitments, underscores OpenAI and the broader AI industry’s voracious appetite for... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3328066/amd-shares-surge-24-after-signing-ai-chip-supply-deal-openai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3328066/amd-shares-surge-24-after-signing-ai-chip-supply-deal-openai?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Oct 2025 01:48:01 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a US$500 billion valuation, propelling the ChatGPT creator past Elon Musk’s SpaceX to become the world’s largest start-up. Current and former OpenAI employees sold about US$6.6 billion of stock to investors including Thrive Capital, SoftBank Group Corp, Dragoneer Investment Group, Abu Dhabi’s MGX and T Rowe Price, a person familiar with the transaction said. That boosted San Francisco-based OpenAI’s price tag well past... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3327625/openai-valuation-reaches-us500-billion-vaults-past-spacex-worlds-largest-start?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3327625/openai-valuation-reaches-us500-billion-vaults-past-spacex-worlds-largest-start?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Oct 2025 08:16:31 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg OpenAI plans to invest roughly US$400 billion to develop five new US data centre sites in partnership with Oracle and SoftBank Group, marking the biggest push yet to fulfil an earlier pledge to spend a half-trillion dollars on artificial intelligence infrastructure in the country. The new locations, spread across Texas, New Mexico and Ohio, will eventually have a capacity of 7 gigawatts of power, or as much as some cities, the companies said Tuesday. The plans were announced by executives from... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3326619/openai-expands-stargate-five-new-data-centre-sites-across-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3326619/openai-expands-stargate-five-new-data-centre-sites-across-us?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Sep 2025 03:06:22 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Nvidia has reached an agreement to invest as much as US$100 billion in OpenAI to support new data centres and other artificial intelligence infrastructure, a blockbuster deal that underscores the booming demand for AI tools like ChatGPT and the computing power needed to run them. The companies announced the agreement on Monday, saying they had signed a letter of intent for a strategic deal. The investment aims to help OpenAI build data centres with a capacity of at least 10 gigawatts of power.... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3326469/nvidia-and-openai-agree-us100-billion-deal-boost-artificial-intelligence-data-centres?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3326469/nvidia-and-openai-agree-us100-billion-deal-boost-artificial-intelligence-data-centres?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Sep 2025 03:24:16 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump kicked off his historic second state visit to Britain on Wednesday amid unprecedented pomp, intense security, technology investments and protests as King Charles and other royals welcomed their nation’s closest ally. Trump and his wife Melania are being hosted by the king at Windsor Castle, the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world and family home to British monarchs for almost 1,000 years, where he is being treated to the full array of British pageantry from... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325785/trump-arrives-uk-unprecedented-second-state-visit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325785/trump-arrives-uk-unprecedented-second-state-visit?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:18:04 +0000 Jack Ilmonen Jack Ilmonen In the global race for artificial intelligence (AI), nations rightly chase cutting-edge technologies, big data and data centres heavy with graphics processing units (GPUs). But thought leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and institutions from the Federation of American Scientists to China’s Ministry of Education are urging investment in educator training and AI literacy for all citizens. They argue for a more human-centred AI strategy. Having taught AI and data analytics in China, I have... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3325364/global-ai-war-will-be-won-key-arena-education-and-training?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3325364/global-ai-war-will-be-won-key-arena-education-and-training?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:30:08 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg The leaders of OpenAI and Nvidia plan to pledge support for billions of dollars in UK data centre investments when they head to the country next week at the same time as President Donald Trump, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The two companies are teaming up with London-based data centre business Nscale Global Holdings on the project, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are part of... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3325536/openai-nvidia-ceos-announce-uk-data-centre-investments?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3325536/openai-nvidia-ceos-announce-uk-data-centre-investments?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Sep 2025 03:37:28 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg OpenAI said it was closer to converting into a more traditional for-profit company – nearing the resolution of painful negotiations with top shareholder Microsoft and outlining terms of at least US$100 billion in equity for its non-profit arm. Planned changes will give the existing OpenAI non-profit control over a new public benefit corporation, Chairman Bret Taylor said in a statement Thursday. And it would provide the non-profit with an equity stake that would make it “one of the most... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3325274/openai-realignment-give-non-profit-over-us100-billion-stake?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3325274/openai-realignment-give-non-profit-over-us100-billion-stake?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Sep 2025 03:06:04 +0000 Cao Li Cao Li Artificial intelligence agents are emerging as an instrument of transformation in the workforce, with the potential to replace humans in traditional roles, according to computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee, founder and CEO of the Chinese start-up 01.AI. “The basic unit of a company will evolve from a human being to an AI agent,” Lee said on Thursday at a summit on disruptive technologies hosted by Swiss bank UBS. AI agents are software apps that use AI to autonomously execute tasks and achieve goals on... https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3325164/ai-agents-poised-replace-humans-basic-unit-company-lee-kai-fu-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3325164/ai-agents-poised-replace-humans-basic-unit-company-lee-kai-fu-says?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:00:10 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Tech world executives showered Donald Trump with praise on Thursday during a rare dinner that saw the US president host some of the most important players in AI at the White House. “This is quite a group to get together,” said Meta chief and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, who was seated at Trump’s right side. At the table were heads of major tech companies including Google-parent Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft and artificial intelligence star OpenAI. Some of those at the dinner had attended Trump’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324421/tech-titans-praise-trump-white-house-dinner-musk-notable-no-show?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324421/tech-titans-praise-trump-white-house-dinner-musk-notable-no-show?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Sep 2025 03:10:08 +0000 Christopher Tang Christopher Tang OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned that export controls alone are not an effective strategy to curb China’s development of artificial intelligence (AI). He’s absolutely right. China’s rapid ascendancy in the global AI race is becoming increasingly evident, driven by its strategic focus on engineering, application-driven development and alignment with national policy. While the US continues to rely on export bans to slow China’s progress, this approach is unlikely to succeed against Beijing’s... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3323961/why-us-export-controls-wont-stop-chinas-ai-rise?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3323961/why-us-export-controls-wont-stop-chinas-ai-rise?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:30:08 +0000 Biman Mukherji Biman Mukherji A plan by OpenAI to launch its first office in India has to be aligned with New Delhi’s goal to transform the country into an artificial intelligence hub, with a focus on objectives ranging from intellectual property protection to quality education, according to industry experts. The move comes as the San Francisco-based maker of ChatGPT faces intense competition from its American AI rivals, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI, with all three companies offering low-cost subscription plans or free... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3323703/can-openais-new-delhi-office-spark-indias-ai-hub-ambition?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3323703/can-openais-new-delhi-office-spark-indias-ai-hub-ambition?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:30:36 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg OpenAI is making changes to its popular chatbot following a lawsuit alleging that a teenager who died by suicide this spring relied on ChatGPT as a coach. In a blog post Tuesday, the artificial intelligence company said that it will update ChatGPT to better recognise and respond to different ways that people may express mental distress – such as by explaining the dangers of sleep deprivation and suggesting that users rest if they mention they feel invincible after being up for two nights. The... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3323270/openai-plans-update-chatgpt-parents-sue-over-teens-suicide?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3323270/openai-plans-update-chatgpt-parents-sue-over-teens-suicide?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Aug 2025 02:59:34 +0000