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OpenAI announced in a Thursday morning post on X that its widely-used ChatGPT assistant, Sora video generator, and programming interface for developers were fully operational again after experiencing several hours of downtime. ChatGPT has become a mainstream tool, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealing on December 4 that the platform now serves 300 million active users every week. On Wednesday, Apple launched updates for its iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices, adding ChatGPT integrations to their software. According to OpenAI’s status page, ChatGPT experienced an outage lasting just over four hours. This was notably shorter than the five-hour downtime the service faced in June. In October, OpenAI reached a valuation of $157 billion following a funding round backed by existing investor Mi...

Microsoft's has introduced a preview of an AI extension library aimed at creating a unified API for AI programming in C#. Additionally, it has released a .NET 9.0 release candidate with a go-live license, ahead of its general availability in November. The Microsoft.Extensions.AI library is designed as "a unified layer of C# abstractions for interacting with AI services." The goal is for developers of AI libraries, such as those for specific service providers, to implement these abstractions so that developers can interact with different AI services through a standard API. Microsoft notes that service-specific APIs can still be used where necessary, allowing developers to "pass through to proprietary APIs only when required." This approach is somewhat analogous to database interfaces ...

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OpenAI Announces Recovery of ChatGPT Service After Extended Outage