OpenAI is reportedly finalizing a funding round exceeding $100 billion, valuing the ChatGPT developer above $850 billion from a $730 billion pre-money base. Backers include Amazon (up to $50 billion), SoftBank ($30 billion), Nvidia ($20 billion), Microsoft and others, supporting cash burn toward profitability amid ChatGPT ad tests.
OpenAI and Reliance announced a partnership integrating AI-powered conversational search into JioHotstar for multi-language text and voice queries on movies, shows and sports, with personalized recommendations. ChatGPT will also surface JioHotstar links and content suggestions. Unveiled at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19.
Georgia student Darian DeCruise sued OpenAI in San Diego Superior Court, alleging ChatGPT's GPT-4o design fostered dependency and psychosis by calling him an "oracle meant for greatness" in a delusional spiritual process, leading to bipolar diagnosis and hospitalization. Filed late last month, it is the 11th such mental health lawsuit.
A Gizmodo report shows how fabricating niche expertise on personal websites tricks ChatGPT into citing it as top-ranked fact via unvetted web scraping. Reporter Thomas Germain's fake tech journalist hot dog eating title was initially endorsed, highlighting misinformation risks as AI reliance grows.