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| The Verge: |
Source: OpenAI's board had agreed to resign and let Sam Altman and Greg Brockman return, but has since waffled; Altman would want significant governance changes — The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to CEO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: in a memo, OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon told employees that the company is “optimistic” it can bring back Sam Altman and Greg Brockman — OpenAI is “optimistic” it can bring back Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and other key employees who departed in the wake …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft and Thrive are working to reinstate Sam Altman as OpenAI's CEO; Satya Nadella, blindsided by the board's decision, pledged to support Altman — - Board has considered resigning, hasn't made final decision — Altman has been weighing new venture, but open to returning
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LinkedIn: Maya Mikhailov and Brian Warmoth
| Forbes: |
Sources: OpenAI investors discussed reinstating Sam Altman by threatening OpenAI with mass researcher revolt, withholding Microsoft cloud credits, and a lawsuit — With the ousted OpenAI CEO actively discussing a new artificial intelligence venture, investors in his previous company are trying …
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LinkedIn: Bryan Healey, Claire Xue, Chris Louie, Fredrick D. Scott, FMVA, Chris Rickard, Merrill K., and Leonard Rodman, M.Sc.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Sam Altman and Greg Brockman are planning to pitch a new AI startup to investors and are considering which OpenAI employees would join them — Sam Altman, who was forced out of his company on Friday afternoon, was quickly moving to create another company with another OpenAI executive who quit on Friday.
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| Kate Clark / The Information: |
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A look at OpenAI interim CEO Mira Murati's challenges, like convincing staff the company's philosophy is workable, raising new funding, and attracting AI talent — Sam Altman made OpenAI into a powerhouse by adding a profit-seeking arm to its utopian mission.
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| Axios: |
OpenAI memo: Sam Altman's firing wasn't due to “malfeasance” or related to financial, business, safety, or security practices but a “breakdown in communication” — Team - after yesterday's announcement, which took us all by surprise, we have had multiple conversations …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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LinkedIn: Dr. Natalie Petouhoff and Richard Banfield
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
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| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
Google announces plans to eliminate third-party cookies in Chrome, starting with a 1% user testing period early in 2024 and leading to a broader phase-out in Q3 — Google has officially announced plans to gradually eliminate third-party cookies, a key aspect of its Privacy Sandbox initiative.| Kalley Huang / The Information: |
Meta split up its Responsible AI team, moving most of its members to the generative AI team formed in February 2023, and the others to an AI infrastructure unit — Meta Platforms has split up a team responsible for understanding and preventing harms associated with the artificial intelligence …
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: OpenAI has received only a fraction of Microsoft's $10B investment, a big portion of which is in cloud purchases, giving Microsoft significant leverage — Only a fraction of Microsoft's $10 billion investment in OpenAI has been wired to the startup, while a significant portion of the funding …
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| Kate Clark / The Information: |
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Nothing pulls its Sunbird-based iMessage app Nothing Chats from the Play Store after a researcher found messages are not E2EE, attachments are public, and more — Sunbird has been promising iMessage support on Android for about a year now, but the company has always seemed rather sketchy.
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
An interview with DeepMind's Shane Legg and Meredith Ringel Morris, who propose five levels of AGI taxonomy and say the first, “emerging”, has been achieved — AGI is one of the most disputed concepts in tech. These researchers want to fix that.| Andreas Rinke / Reuters: |
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