March 31 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Monday it would raise up to $40 billion in a new funding round led by SoftBank Group (9984.T), opens new tab at a $300 billion valuation to advance AI research ...

The investment was the highest ever raised for a startup and places OpenAI at a $300-billion valuation, tying it with TikTok ...

ChatGPT introduced a feature that lets users generate images in the style of Studio Ghibli anime. Studio Ghibli might have a tough time bringing a successful copyright lawsuit, experts say.

There's a new craze for making "Studio Ghibli"-style photo-edits with ChatGPT. OpenAI's servers are getting swamped by demand — as is the engineer who helped popularize the trend. But it has ...

The world has gone Ghibli-crazy, and OpenAI's GPUs are feeling the heat! The recent launch of ChatGPT's new image-generation features, powered by the new GPT-4o model, has sparked an unexpected ...

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Suwa ...

Gkids, the North American distributor for Studio Ghibli films, is using a statement about the box office for a “Princess Mononoke” re-release to perhaps make an oblique commentary on the ...

This is Atlantic Intelligence, a newsletter in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age. Sign up here. This week, OpenAI released an update to ...

Why can’t wellness be fun—and in neon? That’s the founding principle of Studio Aire (11 Meadow Circle, Lake Saint Louis), a new pole and aerial fitness studio landing in Lake Saint Louis this month.

A legal bid to stop a sewerage pipe being installed in a wāhi tapu area near Rotorua has failed in the Environment Court. Works on the Tarawera Sewerage Scheme paused about a month ago following ...

Earlier this week, 16 teams entered the NCAA men’s hockey tournament holding onto dreams of winning a national championship. That pool of aspirants will soon be down to four. The puck won’t ...

OpenAI's extremely popular AI chatbot tool ChatGPT caught a huge wave this week when untold numbers of users started using it to generate images evoking the style of animation legend Hayao ...