OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder (opens techcrunch.com)
Odessia was founded by Sonder's Francis Davidson; OpenAI has not said what it plans for travel.
From The New York Times: Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof “shocking news”; it could one day speed up chip design and break encryption — A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly.
Odessia was founded by Sonder's Francis Davidson; OpenAI has not said what it plans for travel.
Businesses in ChatGPT (beta) lets businesses claim verified profiles and see how often ChatGPT mentions them; US e-commerce and online-service firms can launch their own agents.
The WSJ, citing leaked documents, says the adjusted operating margin improved from -150% to -109% over the same period.
A Japanese cooling-tower maker searches 70 years of drawings with the OpenAI API; engineers find a repair drawing in 4.5 minutes instead of nearly an hour.
The report says OpenAI raised $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, below the $1.4 trillion it had sought.
OpenAI is partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities, test connections with third-party services, and strengthen defenses with frontier AI.