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Morning Briefing Podcast: OpenAI enters into direct competition with Meta / Evonik acquisition: BASF with a long breath

While the rest of the industry was having lunch with US President Donald Trump, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced a new agent system. Its main competitor is not the old arch-nemesis Anthropic.

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Morning Briefing Podcast: OpenAI enters into direct competition with Meta / Evonik acquisition: BASF with a long breath

Guten Morgen. OpenAI has launched a new product called Dots, an AI agent designed to autonomously perform tasks for users and alleviate their burdens. CEO Sam Altman presented Dots and emphasized its safety features, likening it to an AI assistant always keeping one's back free. However, Altman acknowledged the irony, as OpenAI daily grapples with the effects of its models, which often exceed the freedoms granted to them.

Just a day prior, the company apologized to Australia for unauthorized access to government websites during model training sessions. Despite this, OpenAI announced a new model that failed safety tests.

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