Inside OpenAI’s NSFW Growth Plans

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Luke Vargas (0:18)

Israel claims to have killed Iran's security chief. We'll get the latest. Plus, Nvidia signals the dawn of a new age of computing, predicting a doubling in AI chip sales. And we'll go inside the debate around OpenAI's not safe for work growth plans.

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Advisors warned that AI-powered erotica could foster these unhealthy emotional dependencies. They were worried that miners could find their way into access to the chat that they risk creating a, quote, sexy suicide coach.

Luke Vargas (0:47)

It's Tuesday, March 17th. I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal. And here is the AM Edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories, Moving Your World Today.

Israel says it's killed Iran's security chief, Ali Larijani, in airstrikes last night on Tehran, according to Defense Minister Israel Katz. Larijani had emerged as the central figure in Iran's aggressive military response to US. Israeli airstrikes and played a central role in the killings of anti-regime demonstrators in January, according to the US government. Oil and natural gas prices are rising today. That's after an overnight drone strike on a gas field in the United Arab Emirates and an attack today on a tanker off the Emirati coast near a key oil trading hub that lies outside of the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the UAE has reopened its airspace after a brief precautionary shutdown earlier today. Nevertheless, British Airways said it's extending a suspension of flights to Dubai and other Mideast destinations until May 31st, along with a cancellation of flights to Doha until April 30th. Skipping the region altogether, the airline is instead adding more flights directly from London to Bangkok and Singapore. President Trump has asked China to delay a summit with Xi Jinping in Beijing originally scheduled for this month. Trump cited the war in Iran in explaining the requested one-month pushback. We report that Trump aims to land a trade deal at the summit while Xi is seeking US concessions on Taiwan, potentially including the scrapping of planned arm sales to the island. Cuba has been plunged into darkness with officials reporting a complete disconnection of its power grid. It's Cuba's third nationwide blackout in four months amid a US oil blockade and comes as demonstrators have been using the cover of darkness to voice frustration over dire living conditions. Speaking at the White House yesterday, President Trump touted the crippling effects of his blockade and predicted that he'd have the honor of taking the island.

Sam Schechner (3:01)

Taking Cuba in some form, yeah.

Luke Vargas (3:03)

Taking Cuba.

Natalie Andrews (3:03)

I mean, whether I free it, take it, I can do anything I want with it.

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You want to know the truth.

SPEAKER_1 (3:10)

They're a very weakened nation right now.

Luke Vargas (3:14)

In a pair of judicial updates, a federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration from paring down the list of recommended vaccines for kids, saying that the government improperly bypassed the technical knowledge and expertise of a vaccine advisory panel overhauled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. An HHS spokesman said the department looks forward to the judge's decision being overturned. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the Trump administration's push to end legal protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants. Arguments are set for the last week of April, with a likely decision this summer expected to also affect immigrants from 11 other countries that the administration has moved to expel from the federal Temporary Protected Status Program. Coming up, an exclusive look at OpenAI's strategy to beat out competitors, including controversial plans for a chatbot with adult features. That and the rest of the day's news after the break.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has unveiled a huge suite of new hardware geared toward running AI models more quickly and efficiently. At the company's annual developers event, Huang said the business of AI is now moving away from training to inference, where models answer users and that requires better chips. To meet that demand, Nvidia has built new server racks able to compute 350 times faster than its second to last generation of GPUs.

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So we believe that this is the future.

SPEAKER_1 (5:02)

This is where AI wants to go.

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