The mother of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji told Tucker Carlson she believes her son was murdered.

Newsweek contacted OpenAI and the San Francisco Police Department via email for comment. OpenAI has said the company has had no interaction with Balaji since December 2023, almost a year before his death, and that they respected his "right to share views freely."

A former employee of artificial intelligence company OpenAI who alleged the company’s programs violated copyright was found dead of an apparent suicide in his San Francisco apartment last month, officials shared Friday.

San Francisco’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner identified the deceased as 26-year-old Suchir Balaji, who spoke out against his company’s practices in an October article in The New York Times. He was found dead two days before Thanksgiving.

OpenAI is launching a test version of its long-awaited search engine, which it says will cite sources of information including news from business partners such as The Wall Street Journal parent News Corp NWSA 0.37%increase; green up pointing triangle and the Atlantic magazine. 

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Elon Musk on Monday threatened to ban Apple devices at his respective companies if the tech giant integrated OpenAI at the operating system level. 

Writing on X, the Tesla CEO called the prospect an "unacceptable security violation." 

Should he follow through with the ban, Musk said visitors would have to check their Apple devices "at the door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage." 

A little over 12 hours ago, Apple announced that OpenAI’s ChatGPT would be integrated into its technology, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk wasted no time battening down the hatches against the rival technology.

Formerly the world’s richest man, Musk is developing his own artificial intelligence models at EV maker Tesla and startup xAI.

xAI has already released a large language model named Grok.

But not only is ChatGPT a competitor to Musk’s own offerings, the entrepreneur also has an acrimonious history with the Sam Altman-led company.

Elon Musk is beefing with Apple — again.

Apple announced at its Worldwide Developer's Conference on Monday that it will be integrating its new AI software, called Apple Intelligence, across the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

It also separately announced a partnership with OpenAI, which includes the option to integrate ChatGPT powered by GPT-4o across some of its software, including its new and improved Siri. Apple said the ChatGPT integration will be available for free without an account in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia later this year.