EP-182 Openai’s $100b Agi Aspirations 🧠, Waymo’s Robotaxi Race 🚕, Vulnerabilities in Chatgpt 🔍

i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for friday, december 27th. dive into the latest tech headlines:

• agi financial benchmark: microsoft and openai set a $100 billion profit goal for artificial general intelligence, but expect losses until 2029. this could extend microsoft's exclusive access to openai's models.
• chatgpt search vulnerabilities: the guardian uncovers flaws in openai's ai-driven search engine, which can be misled by hidden text. openai is working to address these issues.
• waymo's robotaxi lead: waymo leads the u.s. market with over 5 million autonomous rides. tesla and zoox are quickly catching up, with tesla unveiling its cybercab concept.
• openai outage: openai experiences its second major december outage, affecting chatgpt and sora. services were disrupted for over four hours, but openai aims for full restoration.
• larry ellison's wealth surge: oracle co-founder larry ellison's wealth jumps by $75 billion, driven by a 63% stock surge as oracle expands into ai and cloud technology.

that's all for today. we'll see you back here tomorrow!