Mon. 05/20 – That GPT Voice Is NOT Scar-Jo

No, that ChatGPT voice is not Scarlett Johansson, stop asking. In fact, that voice is going away. What does it mean if OpenAI’s entire superalignment team has gone away? Is Apple News+ the partner publishers have been waiting for? And if you want to be a digital nomad, you’ve got a lot of options these days.

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Links:

• OpenAI to Pull Johansson Soundalike Sky’s Voice From ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
• What We Lose When ChatGPT Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson (NYTimes)
• Apple Needs to Evolve to Compete in the Artificial Intelligence Era (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded (Wired)
• As clicks dry up for news sites, could Apple’s news app be a lifeline? (Semafor)
• Countries wooing corporate digital nomads hope to make them stay (FT)