🤔 Elon Musk Wants To Buy OpenAI, Half Of AI Assistants Lie

Is AI ready for prime time, or are cracks starting to show?

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February 11, 2025 • Reading time: 7 minutes

AI Innovators, Gather Round

A BBC study reveals over 50% of AI assistant responses are inaccurate, Google’s NotebookLM Plus is now part of Google One AI Premium, OpenAI is under government investigation for DeepSeek, and Elon Musk has made a $97.4B bid to acquire OpenAI.

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  • Don’t deploy an AI Coding Assistant without the AI Trust Score™!

  • BBC Research Shows Issues With Over Half The Answers from AI Assistants

  • NotebookLM Plus is Now Available in the Google One AI Premium Subscription

  • OpenAI Spoke to Government Officials About its DeepSeek Probe

  • Elon Musk-led Team Submits $97.4B Bid For OpenAI

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The BBC’s latest research highlights significant concerns about AI assistants providing inaccurate and misleading responses to news-related queries. 

The study, conducted over a month, tested OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity, revealing that 51% of AI-generated answers had significant issues, with 19% introducing factual errors and 13% altering or fabricating quotes from BBC articles. 

Examples of inaccuracies included outdated political leadership claims and misrepresented NHS recommendations. 

The BBC emphasizes the need for AI companies to ensure accuracy, transparency, and collaboration with publishers to maintain trustworthy news dissemination.

NotebookLM is an AI-powered research assistant designed to help users organize and make the most of their information. It allows users to upload materials, summarize content, ask questions, and even transform information into engaging formats like audio discussions. Whether preparing for a certification, brainstorming ideas, or analyzing data, NotebookLM streamlines the process.

Starting today, NotebookLM Plus is available through the Google One AI Premium plan, offering higher usage limits and advanced features for more personalized research. This expands existing benefits like Gemini Advanced, AI-powered tools in Gmail and Docs, and 2TB of storage—all at the same price.

To support students, Google is launching a 50% student discount on the AI Premium plan. For $9.99/month (valid for 12 months), U.S. students 18 and older can access enhanced AI tools to improve studying, manage coursework, and streamline tasks like writing emails.

JAAP ARRIENS

OpenAI has confirmed that it has discussed its ongoing investigation into DeepSeek with government officials. The company previously claimed to have evidence that DeepSeek trained its AI models using improperly obtained data from OpenAI’s API.

During a Bloomberg TV interview on Monday, OpenAI’s Chief Global Affairs Officer, Chris Lehane, stated that they have engaged with officials regarding the probe.

However, critics have called out OpenAI for hypocrisy, given that it is currently facing lawsuits from publishers for training its own models on copyrighted content. 

Lehane defended OpenAI’s practices, comparing them to reading and learning from a library book, whereas DeepSeek’s approach, he argued, is more like repackaging that book with a new cover and selling it as original work—an argument similar to The New York Times’ copyright case against OpenAI.

MICHAEL KOVAC

A group of investors led by Elon Musk has submitted a $97.6 billion bid to acquire OpenAI, according to Musk’s lawyer, Marc Toberoff, who confirmed the news to The Wall Street Journal.

This unsolicited offer marks the latest development in Musk’s ongoing conflict with OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman. Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015, is already in legal disputes with the company, having filed an injunction in 2024 against its shift away from its nonprofit origins. 

Musk and his team are presenting this bid as an effort to bring OpenAI back to its original mission of open-source AI development.

Musk’s own AI company, xAI, is part of the bid, raising speculation that an acquisition could lead to a merger between xAI and OpenAI. 

In response, Sam Altman posted a lighthearted comment on X, writing: “no thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.” The remark is a nod to Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022.

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