The company is one of the three largest venture-backed startups ever
Why it matters: We knew OpenAI was hot, but maybe not this hot. The company has just raised a startling $6.6 billion, leading to a valuation of $157 billion. Even by Silicon Valley standards this is a lot of money. OpenAI is close-lipped about how it will invest the capital, only saying it will accelerate AI research and increase its compute capabilities.
GPT's "long-term memory" allows prompt injections to become permanent
Facepalm: "The code is TrustNoAI." This is a phrase that a white hat hacker recently used while demonstrating how he could exploit ChatGPT to steal anyone's data. So, it might be a code we should all adopt. He discovered a way hackers could use the LLM's persistent memory to exfiltrate data from any user continuously.
In brief: Makers of AI PCs and processors will be happy with the news that people are buying these products, which feature NPUs designed to accelerate AI tasks. The less welcome caveat is that according to a new report, many people are purchasing them simply because they want or need a new PC – not because of the AI features.