Darius Rafieyan

Darius Rafieyan was senior reporter covering venture capital and startups. Before joining Business Insider, he was the founding producer for NPR's daily economics podcast The Indicator from Planet Money. He was a 2020-2021 Knight Bagehot Fellow at Columbia Journalism School and completed his MBA at Columbia Business School in 2022.

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Oct 25, 2024

Meet Liam Fedus, the person responsible for getting OpenAI's new products out the door

Turf wars and power struggles at OpenAI have led to leadership changes on key teams, with Liam Fedus now leading the post-training team.

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Oct 24, 2024

Another safety researcher is leaving OpenAI

Mile Brundage, a senior policy advisor and head of the AGI Readiness team at OpenAI, is leaving the company. The team he oversaw will be disbanded.

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Oct 24, 2024

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki leads AI project Strawberry

Learn about Jakub Pachocki's rise at OpenAI as chief scientist, spearheading projects like Q* and Strawberry.

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Oct 24, 2024

Lilian Weng, vice president of research and safety at OpenAI, leads risk management for AI models

OpenAI VP Lilian Weng leads OpenAI's safety-focused preparedness team, tackling significant risks of cutting-edge AI models.

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Oct 24, 2024

The 2024 AI Power List

Artificial intelligence has revolutionized the tech industry. See which people and companies wield the most power in AI and machine learning.

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Oct 9, 2024

Anthropic's power players: Here are the 11 leaders helping shape the future of the Amazon-backed AI company

Meet the leaders at Anthropic, who are driving safe AI innovations, and appealing to Fortune 500 companies amid OpenAI's internal disarray.

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Oct 3, 2024

OpenAI's investors include Silicon Valley's most prolific bubble chasers. Is that a bad sign for the company's future?

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Sep 26, 2024

OpenAI turmoil is a bad look for its huge funding round, VCs say. 'I would vote with my feet.'

OpenAI is on the verge of closing one of the biggest funding rounds in startup history, but can its lofty valuation survive the constant drama?

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Sep 19, 2024

Like digital locusts, OpenAI and Anthropic AI bots cause havoc and raise costs for websites

AI giants send bots out to crawl the web and scrape data for free. Adding insult to injury, the bots are disrupting sites and making cloud bills spike.

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Sep 9, 2024

44 of the most promising AI startups of 2024, according to top VCs

Top venture capitalists reveal the most promising AI startups of 2024, highlighting companies in fintech, health, and logistics..

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Sep 6, 2024

OpenAI is fighting to keep cofounder Ilya Sutskever's files secret

Lawyers in a high-profile copyright lawsuit between OpenAI and book authors are fighting over whose files should be subject to discovery.

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Sep 5, 2024

The Nvidia-backed startup behind pregnant Travis Kelce meme wants to upend the market for computing power

We're all walking around with supercomputers idling in our pockets. What if you could build a network to gather up all that spare compute?

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Aug 30, 2024

OpenAI called ChatGPT as a witness in a major copyright lawsuit

OpenAI, facing several copyright-infringement lawsuits, argues that its models have every right to learn from and build on existing works.

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Aug 26, 2024

OpenAI is hiring someone to investigate its own employees

OpenAI recently posted a job listing for a technical insider risk investigator to "fortify our organization against internal security threats."

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Aug 20, 2024

OpenAI unveiled its first customer within the federal government

USAID has reached a deal to use OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise service. It's part of a broader effort at OpenAI to bring AI to the public sector.

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Aug 7, 2024

85 of the most promising startups of 2024, according to top VCs

Leading VCs name the most promising US startups in 2024, with AI, data infrastructure, and security dominating the list of emerging companies.

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Aug 6, 2024

Prosecutors used an AI tool to send a man to prison for life. Now the person who created it is under investigation.

Adam Mosher claimed his AI tool Cybercheck helped cops and prosecutors with thousands of cases. Now he's under investigation for false testimony.

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Aug 2, 2024

The New York Times and other top news sites block OpenAI's new SearchGPT web crawling bot

The startup launched a new search engine last week. Some top publishers have already made clear that they want nothing to do with the new product.

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Jul 30, 2024

OpenAI's GPT-5 is coming out soon. Here's what to expect, according to OpenAI customers and developers.

OpenAI customers are excited about GPT-5's potential capabilities. But some wonder whether it'll be a game changer, and others are worried about cost.

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Jul 17, 2024

Silicon Valley's loudest investors are suddenly All-In on Donald Trump. Is tech going red?

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are the startup community's latest and most prominent members to back Trump. Other VCs are following suit.

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