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| The Verge: |
Sources: the OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO; source: Altman is “ambivalent” about coming back and would want 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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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| New York Times: |
Sources: Sam Altman and Greg Brockman are in the process of pitching a new AI startup to investors — 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.
| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Source: Sam Altman has been in discussions with semiconductor companies, including Arm, on Friday morning about efforts to design new chips that lower LLM costs — Sam Altman, the recently ousted CEO of OpenAI, has been telling investors that he is planning to launch a new artificial intelligence venture …
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| Forbes: |
Sources: OpenAI investors discussed reinstating Sam Altman by threatening OpenAI with mass revolt by staff, 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 … | Greg Brockman / @gdb: |
Greg Brockman describes OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever's role in Sam Altman's firing, Brockman's removal from OpenAI's board, and Mira Murati's foreknowledge — Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today. Let us first say thank you to all the incredible people who we have worked with at OpenAI, our customers, our investors, and all of those who have been reaching out. We too are still trying to figure out exactly...
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Forums: r/programiranje and r/OpenAI
| 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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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Source: Ilya Sutskever defended Altman's ouster at an all-hands meeting, saying it was necessary to protect OpenAI's mission of making AI beneficial to humanity — Everything seemed to be going his way. Then his time at OpenAI was over. — All over Silicon Valley …
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| Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: |
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| Bloomberg: |
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| 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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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: OpenAI got only a fraction of Microsoft's $10B investment and a big portion of the funding 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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| Forbes: |
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| Forbes: |
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: three senior OpenAI researchers resign, including Director of Research Jakub Pachocki, and Head of Preparedness Aleksander Madry — Three senior researchers at OpenAI resigned Friday night as the artificial intelligence developer suffered fallout from the firing of CEO Sam Altman …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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LinkedIn: Dr. Natalie Petouhoff and Richard Banfield
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
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| Steve Mollman / Fortune: |
A profile of Ilya Sutskever, who left Google in 2015 to become OpenAI's co-founder and chief scientist at Elon Musk's urging, and is now focused on AI safety — Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist of OpenAI. — As speculation swirls around the leadership shakeup at OpenAI announced Friday … | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global, Lionsgate, and Comcast suspend ads on X, joining Apple and other companies — - Apple has paused its online advertising campaigns on X, formerly Twitter, after owner Elon Musk made antisemitic comments on the platform.
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X: @elonmusk, @lindayax, @elonmusk, @sifill_, @esqueer_, @mattbinder, @mattgertz, @parkermolloy, @mayawiley, @ndrew_lawrence, @sherman4949, @sherman4949, @rmac18, @rmac18, @asfleischman, and @parkermolloy
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Forums: Hacker News and r/centrist
| Kalley Huang / The Information: |
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