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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as Chair alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo — OpenAI said late Tuesday that it had reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPT, r/neoliberal, r/technology, r/singularity, and r/artificial
| New York Times: |
Sources: before his ousting, Sam Altman made a move to push out board member Helen Toner because he thought a paper she had co-written was critical of OpenAI — Sam Altman attacked a member over a research paper that discussed the company, while directors disagreed about who should fill board vacancies open for months.
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| The Verge: |
Source: OpenAI's initial board plans to vet and appoint a new formal board of up to nine people; Adam D'Angelo remained to give the prior board representation — Sam Altman will return as CEO of OpenAI, overcoming an attempted boardroom coup that sent the company into chaos over the past several days.
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Forums: r/technology and Beehaw
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: as part of the deal, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will not reclaim their board seats; Altman had pushed for more control; OpenAI retains its structure — Sam Altman, who was fired on Friday as CEO of OpenAI and was reinstated Tuesday night after a dramatic battle with the company's board …
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X: @tonytassell and @garymarcus
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: OpenAI's initial board and Sam Altman's camp have agreed to conduct an independent investigation into the ouster of Sam Altman and its aftermath — Company says it will have new initial board of Bret Taylor, Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo — OpenAI said Sam Altman will return … | Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI insiders and other sources describe the turmoil within OpenAI following Sam Altman's ousting and how Altman's supporters rallied behind him — A fired CEO, middle-finger emojis and the battle royale over the future of artificial intelligence — Sam Altman was in Las Vegas … | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
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| CNBC: |
Binance and CZ plead guilty to federal charges as part of a $4.3B settlement with the US DOJ; charges include violating sanctions and anti-money laundering laws — - The U.S. Department of Justice has brought criminal charges against Binance and its billionaire founder and CEO, Changpeng Zhao.
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| @cz_binance: |
Changpeng Zhao steps down as CEO of Binance, saying “it is the right thing to do”, replaced by Richard Teng, formerly the Global Head of Regional Markets — Today, I stepped down as CEO of Binance. Admittedly, it was not easy to let go emotionally. But I know it is the right thing to do.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: Changpeng Zhao agrees to pay a criminal fine of $50M and can retain his majority ownership of Binance but can't hold an executive role at the company — Zhao's crypto exchange will also admit wrongdoing and agree to pay $4.3 billion in fines — The chief executive of Binance …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 206% YoY to $18.12B, vs. $16.18B est., Data Center revenue up 279% YoY to $14.51B, and net income up 1,259% YoY to $9.2B — - Nvidia's results surpassed analysts' projections for revenue and income in the fiscal fourth quarter.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Greg Brockman says that ChatGPT's voice narration feature is now available to all free users — Ex-OpenAI president Greg Brockman — who, as far as we're aware, isn't currently employed at OpenAI in any capacity — is posting updates about OpenAI products on X, including one today …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory confirms a data breach after “SiegedSec” hacktivists leaked stolen HR data on hacker forums and Telegram — The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) confirms they suffered a cyberattack after ‘SiegedSec’ hacktivists leaked stolen human resources data online.
More: CyberScoop, East Idaho News, Infosecurity, Cyber Daily, Nextgov/FCW, and SC Media. Forums: r/InfoSecNews
| Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: |
Anthropic debuts Claude 2.1, offering a context window of up to 200K tokens, or ~150K words, a claimed 50%+ increase in accuracy, new API integrations, and more — Claude 2.1 boasts a 150K word context window to parse long documents, 50%+ accuracy gains, early support for tool integration, and more.| Anel Islamovic / Stability AI: |
Stability AI releases Stable Video Diffusion in research preview, its first foundation model for generative video based on the Stable Diffusion image model — Today, we are releasing Stable Video Diffusion, our first foundation model for generative video based on the image model Stable Diffusion.
More: Engadget, TechCrunch, and Tom's Guide
X: @iscienceluvr, @_akhaliq, and @stabilityai
Forums: Hacker News, r/MachineLearning, and r/StableDiffusion
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sonos plans to make a long-awaited headphones push, launching a $400 model as soon as April, alongside on a video service, streaming device, and more — - Company plans to compete with Bose and Apple with headphones — New Roam speaker, high-end sound bar and video service coming| Reuters: |
The US FTC approves a new resolution to streamline investigations of cases where AI is used to break the law — Investigations of cases where artificial intelligence (AI) is used to break the law will be streamlined under a new process approved by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the agency said on Tuesday.
More: Federal Trade Commission, Cointelegraph, and DeviceSecurity.io
| Winston Cho / Hollywood Reporter: |
A US district judge dismisses most claims in a lawsuit by Sarah Silverman and other authors against Meta's use of copyrighted material to train Llama models — The ruling builds upon findings from another federal judge overseeing a lawsuit against AI art generators, who similarly delivered …
More: Forbes, Semafor, Bloomberg Law, Law360, The Fashion Law, and Technology & …
| Reuters: |
A Florida judge rules he found “reasonable evidence” that Tesla knew about the Autopilot defect, opening the door to a public trial over a fatal Tesla car crash — A Florida judge found “reasonable evidence” that Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and other managers knew … | Greenpeace East Asia: |
A study of tech suppliers' decarbonization efforts: Intel, Foxconn, Luxshare, Samsung, and TSMC's emissions rose from 2020 to 2022; Foxconn and Samsung got a D+ — SEOUL - Greenpeace East Asia has released a new report assessing decarbonization efforts by 11 of the biggest suppliers to the world's top consumer electronic brands.| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
In a letter to Elon Musk, 27 US lawmakers, all Democrats, express concern that X seems to be profiting from anti-Israel propaganda via ads and subscriptions — A group of 27 U.S. lawmakers, all Democrats, wrote to X owner Elon Musk on Tuesday to express concern the platform seemed to be profiting …
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