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Time of India
2 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
ChatGPT down: OpenAI AI chatbot suffers global outage, users complaint in USA
ChatGPT, OpenAI's AI chatbot, experienced a major global outage on Tuesday, leaving thousands of users unable to access the service across multiple continents, with the USA and India reporting the highest number of disruptions. OpenAI acknowledged the outage on its system status page, confirming that both ChatGPT and its text-to-video platform Sora were affected. According to the real-time monitoring platform Downdetector, user reports of ChatGPT outages surged rapidly around 5.30 am (ET). "Some users are experiencing elevated error rates and latency across the listed services. We are continuing to investigate this issue," OpenAI said. However, it did not provide a specific timeline for resolution. Users attempting to access ChatGPT encountered repeated error messages such as "Hmm…something seems to have gone wrong' and 'A network error occurred. Please check your connection and try again.' The outage led to a flurry of activity on social media, with users sharing memes, voicing frustration, and highlighting the growing reliance on AI tools for daily tasks. Live Events FAQs Q1. Which company owns ChatGpt? A1. OpenAI owns ChatGpt. Q2. Is ChatGpt down ? A2. According to the real-time monitoring platform Downdetector, user reports of ChatGPT outages surged rapidly around 5.30 am (ET). Economic Times WhatsApp channel )
Indianapolis Star
2 days ago
- Indianapolis Star
Is ChatGPT down? Why is ChatGPT not working? When will it be fixed? Partial outages hit Open AI
ChatGPT − the chatbot owned by Open AI − is experiencing issues Tuesday morning, causing partial outages across the platform. Here's what you need to know: According to DownDetector, ChatGpt first started seeing issues around 2:48 a.m. ET Tuesday, June 10. DownDetector showed 705 reported issues around 6:44 a.m. ET Tuesday morning. According to the outage shows a peak of 1,127 reports as of 5:37 p.m. ET but the numbers of users reports fell to 705 by 6:44 a.m. ET. Reports indicate 93% citing ChatGPT issues and 7% noticing app issues. Open AI's status page reported the following issues:
Time of India
21-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Google vs OpenAI ChatGpt: Tech giants find new ways to emerge winners in AI battle?
Silicon Valley is witnessing a new kind of contest in order to dominate the field of artificial intelligence. While the scramble to attract top talent and keep them happy has always been a hallmark of the tech industry, since ChatGPT launched in late 2022, recruiting has escalated to professional athlete levels, a dozen people who have been involved in recruiting AI researchers told Reuters. Companies including OpenAI and Google , eager to get or stay ahead in the race to create the best AI models, court these so-called 'ICs' – the individual contributors whose work can make or break companies. Noam Brown, one of the researchers behind OpenAI's recent AI breakthroughs in complex math and science reasoning, said when he explored job opportunities in 2023, he found himself being courted by tech's elite: lunch with Google founder Sergey Brin, poker at Sam Altman's, and a private jet visit from an eager investor. Elon Musk will also make calls to close candidates for xAI, his AI company, said two people who have spoken to him. xAI did not respond to a request for comment. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Villas For Sale in Dubai Might Surprise You Villas In Dubai | Search Ads Get Rates Undo Ultimately, Brown said, he chose OpenAI because OpenAI was willing to put resources – both people and compute – behind the work he was excited about. A few top OpenAI researchers who have indicated interest in joining former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever's new company, SSI, were offered retention bonuses of $2 million, in addition to equity increases of $20 million or more, if they stayed, two sources told Reuters. Some have only been required to stay for a year in order to get the entire bonus. SSI and OpenAI declined to comment. Live Events Other OpenAI researchers who have fielded offers from Eleven Labs have received bonuses of at least $1 million to stay at OpenAI, two sources told Reuters. Top OpenAI researchers regularly receive compensation packages of over $10 million a year, sources said. Google DeepMind has offered top researchers $20 million per year compensation packages, awarded off-cycle equity grants specifically to AI researchers, and has also reduced vesting on some stock packages to 3 years, instead of the normal 4 years, sources said. Google declined to comment. In contrast, top engineers at big tech companies receive an average yearly compensation of $281,000 in salary and $261,000 in equity, according to a company that tracks tech industry compensation. FAQs Q1. What is full form of AI? A1. The full form of AI is Artificial Intelligence. Q2. Who invented ChatGpt? A2. ChatGpt was developed by OpenAI.
Irish Examiner
24-04-2025
- Business
- Irish Examiner
Media regulator 'very concerned' about AI-generated child sex abuse material online
Ireland's media regulator has told companies behind artificial intelligence (AI) platforms like ChatGPT that it is 'very concerned' about the risk of AI-generated child sex abuse material being created and shared online. Coimisiún na Meán has also said it is seeing 'pushback' from big tech firms it regulates and that its supervision of such companies is 'already bubbling up issues' it may need to escalate to full-scale investigations in future. Under its powers, the regulator is responsible for big platforms with EU headquarters in Ireland such as X and Meta. For breaches of the law, it can levy fines of up to 6% of a company's turnover or €20m, whichever is greater. Digital Services Commissioner John Evans said that while fines are in its remit, 'changing behaviours' is what makes a good regulator. The comments came as Coimisiún na Meán launched its three-year strategy and work programme for the year. The strategy set out six 'key outcomes' where it wants to make progress through to 2027, including upholding the rights and wellbeing of children online, supporting democracy and building trust in the media landscape. Executive chair Jeremy Godfrey said some of its goals are 'very aspirational' and they don't expect to achieve them all in the three-year period. Mr Godfrey denied being 'thrown under a bus' by media minister Patrick O'Donovan regarding a proposed 'Netflix levy' on streamers which would've seen the proceeds fund independent productions in Ireland. The plans, backed by previous minister Catherine Martin, came on foot of a feasibility study carried out by Coimisiún na Meán into the measure but were subsequently ruled out by Mr Donovan who said consumers were 'paying enough'. Mr Godfrey said it was a policy matter and in the power of the minister to press ahead with proposals or not. 'I think what the minister wants to do is bring some clarity to the situation, so schemes need to be approved by the minister of the current legislation,' he said. 'I think that's fine, as far as we're concerned, but there's no question of being thrown under the bus.' Online Safety Commissioner Niamh Hodnett said, among other actions it aims to take this year, one will be around a pilot programme to support children at imminent risk of harm from online content. She said the regulator had concerns around child sex abuse images online and was aiming to take action around this, including images made using artificial intelligence. 'We're very concerned about that,' she said. 'In terms of our close supervision of [online] platforms, that's an area that we engage with them regularly on. We have the full arsenal of tools within our playbook to be able to deal with that. 'We did meet with Open AI – ChatGpt – recently. We discussed concerns in general in relation to online safety, including AI-generated CSAM (child sexual abuse material), and we would meet with all the platforms in this regard to highlight our concerns.' While the regulator is only two years old, the landscape it is tasked with overseeing has changed considerably since then with Elon Musk's approach on X and Meta's dismantling of fact-checkers in the US. 'There's never a dull moment,' Mr Godfrey added.
Yahoo
28-01-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
DeepSeek: How China's 'AI heroes' overcame US curbs to stun Silicon Valley
When ChatGpt stormed the world of artificial intelligence (AI), an inevitable question followed: did it spell trouble for China, America's biggest tech rival? Two years on, a new AI model from China has flipped that question: can the US stop Chinese innovation? For a while, Beijing seemed to fumble with its answer to ChatGPT, which is not available in China. Unimpressed users mocked Ernie, the chatbot by search engine giant Baidu. Then came versions by tech firms Tencent and ByteDance, which were dismissed as followers of ChatGPT - but not as good. Washington was confident that it was ahead and wanted to keep it that way. So the Biden administration ramped up restrictions banning the export of advanced chips and technology to China. That's why DeepSeek's launch has astonished Silicon Valley and the world. The firm says its powerful model is far cheaper than the billions US firms have spent on AI. So how did a little-known company - whose founder is being hailed on Chinese social media as an "AI hero" - pull this off? DeepSeek: the Chinese AI app that has the world talking China's DeepSeek AI shakes industry and dents America's swagger When the US barred the world's leading chip-makers such as Nvidia from selling advanced tech to China, it was certainly a blow. Those chips are essential for building powerful AI models that can perform a range of human tasks, from answering basic queries to solving complex math problems. DeepSeek's founder Liang Wenfeng described the chip ban as their "main challenge" in interviews with local media. Long before the ban, DeepSeek acquired a "substantial stockpile" of Nvidia A100 chips - estimates range from 10,000 to 50,000 - according to the MIT Technology Review. Leading AI models in the West use an estimated 16,000 specialised chips. But DeepSeek says it trained its AI model using 2,000 such chips, and thousands of lower-grade chips - which is what makes its product cheaper. Some, including US tech billionaire Elon Musk, have questioned this claim, arguing the company cannot reveal how many advanced chips it really used given the restrictions. But experts say Washington's ban brought both challenges and opportunities to the Chinese AI industry. It has "forced Chinese companies like DeepSeek to innovate" so they can do more with less, says Marina Zhang, an associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney. "While these restrictions pose challenges, they have also spurred creativity and resilience, aligning with China's broader policy goals of achieving technological independence." The world's second-largest economy has invested heavily in big tech - from the batteries that power electric vehicles and solar panels, to AI. Turning China into a tech superpower has long been President Xi Jinping's ambition, so Washington's restrictions were also a challenge that Beijing took on. The release of DeepSeek's new model on 20 January, when Donald Trump was sworn in as US president, was deliberate, according to Gregory C Allen, an AI expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "The timing and the way it's being messaged - that's exactly what the Chinese government wants everybody to think - that export controls don't work and that America is not the global leader in AI," says Mr Allen, former director of strategy and policy at the US Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. In recent years the Chinese government has nurtured AI talent, offering scholarships and research grants, and encouraging partnerships between universities and industry. The National Engineering Laboratory for Deep Learning and other state-backed initiatives have helped train thousands of AI specialists, according to Ms Zhang. And China had plenty of bright engineers to recruit. Take DeepSeek's team for instance - Chinese media says it comprises fewer than 140 people, most of whom are what the internet has proudly declared as "home-grown talent" from elite Chinese universities. Western observers missed the emergence of "a new generation of entrepreneurs who prioritise foundational research and long-term technological advancement over quick profits", Ms Zhang says. China's top universities are creating a "rapidly growing AI talent pool" where even managers are often under the age of 35. "Having grown up during China's rapid technological ascent, they are deeply motivated by a drive for self-reliance in innovation," she adds. Deepseek's founder Liang Wenfeng is an example of this - the 40-year-old studied AI at the prestigious Zhejiang University. In an article on the tech outlet 36Kr, people familiar with him say he is "more like a geek rather than a boss". And Chinese media describe him as a "technical idealist" - he insists on keeping DeepSeek as an open-source platform. In fact experts also believe a thriving open-source culture has allowed young start-ups to pool resources and advance faster. Unlike bigger Chinese tech firms, DeepSeek prioritised research, which has allowed for more experimenting, according to experts and people who worked at the company. "The Top 50 talents in this field might not be in China, but we can build people like that here," Mr Liang said in an interview with 36Kr. But experts wonder how much further DeepSeek can go. Ms Zhang says that "new US restrictions may limit access to American user data, potentially impacting how Chinese models like DeepSeek can go global". And others say the US still has a huge advantage, such as, in Mr Allen's words, "their enormous quantity of computing resources" - and it's also unclear how DeepSeek will continue using advanced chips to keep improving the model. But for now, DeepSeek is enjoying its moment in the sun, given that most people in China had never heard of it until this weekend. His sudden fame has seen Mr Liang become a sensation on China's social media, where he is being applauded as one of the "three AI heroes" from southern Guangdong province, which borders Hong Kong. The other two are Zhilin Yang, a leading expert at Tsinghua University, and Kaiming He, who teaches at MIT in the US. DeepSeek has delighted the Chinese internet ahead of Lunar New Year, the country's biggest holiday. It's good news for a beleaguered economy and a tech industry that is bracing for further tariffs and the possible sale of TikTok's US business. "DeepSeek shows us that only if you have the real deal will you stand the test of time," a top-liked Weibo comment reads. "This is the best new year gift. Wish our motherland prosperous and strong," another reads. A "blend of shock and excitement, particularly within the open-source community," is how Wei Sun, principal AI analyst at Counterpoint Research, described the reaction in China. Fiona Zhou, a tech worker in the southern city of Shenzhen, says her social media feed "was suddenly flooded with DeepSeek-related posts yesterday". "People call it 'the glory of made-in-China', and say it shocked Silicon Valley, so I downloaded it to see how good it is." She asked it for "four pillars of [her] destiny", or ba-zi - like a personalised horoscope that is based on the date and time of birth. But to her disappointment, Deepseek was wrong. While she was given a thorough explanation about its "thinking process", it was not the "four pillars" from her real ba-zi. She says she will still give it another go at work, as it will probably be more useful for such tasks.
