OpenAI announced that a sample of 20 million ChatGPT conversations from December 2022 to November 2024 does not include business customers and is stored under a legal hold. The company offered the New York Times privacy‑preserving alternatives such as targeted searches and high‑level usage classifications, but the newspaper rejected them and filed a motion demanding the entire data set on a hard drive. OpenAI says the request exceeds the original scope, which was limited to logs related to Times content, and vows to fight any attempts to make the user conversations public. Read more →

AMD is collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy to create two sovereign AI supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The systems will use AMD Instinct GPUs, EPYC CPUs and advanced networking, and are slated for deployment in the mid‑to‑late 2020s. Backed by a $1 billion mix of public and private funding, the machines aim to boost U.S. scientific research, energy innovation, health breakthroughs, and national security, giving the country an early advantage in AI‑driven discovery. Read more →