OpenAI plans to remove the waitlist for DALL-E today, giving anyone immediate access; Sam Altman says a public release is an essential step for safe development (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
Q&A with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on why DALL-E 2 made such an impact, the lessons from its success about AI’s next decade, what DALL-E means for society, and more  —  Three things the groundbreaking generative model taught OpenAI’s CEO.  —  Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO …

Wall Street Journal:
A profile of OpenAI, which raised $1B from Microsoft after Sam Altman demoed an AI model to Satya Nadella in 2019, as some remain skeptical about its revenue  —  Behind ChatGPT and other AI breakthroughs was Sam Altman’s fundraising—but skeptics remain  —  ChatGPT, the artificial-intelligence …

Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat:
OpenAI releases DALL-E API in public beta, letting developers integrate DALL-E into their apps and products; the API is priced per image  —  Get ready, developers: Today, OpenAI released the hotly anticipated DALL-E API in public beta, which means developers can now integrate DALL-E directly into their apps and products.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI starts letting DALL-E 2 customers upload and edit people’s faces, after initially banning the uploading of photos that may depict real people  —  After initially disabling the capability, OpenAI today announced that customers with access to DALL-E 2 can upload people’s faces to edit …

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft begins to roll out iCloud Photos integration into Windows 11, in an update to the built-in Windows Photos app  —  Microsoft is starting to roll out iCloud Photos integration into Windows 11.  A new update to the Photos app in Windows 11 is now available, which will include the ability …

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
Interview with founders of Character.ai, who say they left Google’s LaMDA project to let users experiment with large language models through the use of chatbots  —  The creators of Google’s LaMDA have launched the chatbot startup Character.ai, which is open for anyone to try