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OpenAI says its board of directors is evaluating its corporate structure, including a plan to turn its for-profit arm into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation — A stronger non-profit supported by the for-profit's success. — OpenAI's Board of Directors is evaluating our corporate structure …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and Slashdot
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
OpenAI says its non-profit arm would receive shares in the new public benefit corporation at a valuation determined by independent financial advisors — OpenAI said it will be restructured as a public benefit corporation, and the nonprofit that controls the organization would receive shares in the new company.
Bluesky: @justinhendrix
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI says the PBC will oversee commercial operations, and the nonprofit will hire staff to pursue charitable activities in health care, education, and science — OpenAI said Friday that in moving toward a new for-profit structure in 2025, the company will create a public benefit corporation … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
An undisclosed 2023 agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI defines achieving AGI as the point when OpenAI develops AI systems that generate $100B+ in profits — Finally, a verifiable, numbers-based description of artificial general intelligence has arrived!
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X: @bgurley, @steph_palazzolo, @privacymatters, @tolgabilge_, @kimmonismus, @parismarx, @davidad, @lessin, @peterwildeford, @ai_for_success, @btibor91, @daniel_271828, @mer__edith, @jjaron, @amir, @silvermanjacob, @aaronpholmes, @amir, and @amir
Forums: r/singularity and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Montenegro says Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon will be extradited to the US, potentially ending a standoff over competing demands by the US and South Korea — “Most criteria envisaged by the law are in favor of the extradition demands from the institutions of the United States of America … | Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3, an open-source MoE model of 671B total parameters, with 37B activated per token, claiming it outperforms top models like GPT-4o — Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, known for challenging leading AI vendors with its innovative open-source technologies, today released a new ultra-large model: DeepSeek-V3.
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| Kyodo News+: |
TSMC says it has started mass production at its first factory in Japan, located in Kumamoto, producing 12nm to 28nm chips for use in cars and image sensors — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Friday it has started mass production at its first factory in Japan … | Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
Tech lobbyists see new opportunities to expand access to high-skilled H-1B visas and green cards by leveraging the sway of Elon Musk over the GOP — A holiday blowup over immigration between Trump's tech advisers and the GOP base suggests the road may be littered with obstacles.
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| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
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| Zachary Small / New York Times: |
Video game executives say making cinematic games is getting so expensive and time-consuming that investing in graphics is providing diminished financial returns — The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?
Bluesky: @baldsavant, @anolen, @thestrangerous, and @thegamechief. Mastodon: @zeh@mastodon.gamedev.place. Threads: @carnage4life. X: @megaapple18
Forums: r/Games, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Gregory Meyer / Financial Times: |
US open-air shopping center vacancies drop to historically low levels, defying forecasts of a retail apocalypse caused by e-commerce, which has ~16% of US sales — Availability of outdoor shopping centre space is at its lowest in nearly two decades — Vacancies at open-air shopping centres … | Financial Times: |
Meta expects AI-generated characters to “generate and share content” and “over time, exist on our platforms”, similarly to regular accounts — US tech group is rolling out a range of artificial intelligence tools to drive engagement
More: PYMNTS.com
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT is mostly recovered and APIs and Sora fully operational, after an outage led to the services “experiencing high error rates” for a few hours — ChatGPT stopped working for many users on Thursday afternoon, when the chatbot suddenly couldn't respond to queries …
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