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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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Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI researchers' letter to the board warning of Q*, an AI breakthrough they said may threaten humanity, was a key development before Altman's ouster  —  Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning …
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 …
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.
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 …
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Larry Summers, now on OpenAI's interim board, believes AI is coming for white-collar jobs; Summers sits on Block's and Skillsoft's boards and advised a16z
Washington Post:
Sources: in 2019, Paul Graham flew from the UK to San Francisco to fire his protégé Sam Altman from YC, worried that Altman put his interests ahead of YC
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority:
Google updates Bard with more in-depth access to YouTube content, allowing users to ask specific questions about the content of a video  —  Bard could already analyze YouTube videos, but now it can return much more specific answers to queries.  —  •  —  TL;DR
Blackwing Intelligence:
At Microsoft's request, researchers find multiple flaws in the top three fingerprint sensors in laptops and used for Windows Hello fingerprint authentication  —  Authors:  —  TL;DR  —  Microsoft's Offensive Research and Security Engineering (MORSE) asked us to evaluate the security …
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
A look at Changpeng Zhao's rapid downfall, from triggering FTX's collapse a year ago and posting a dismissive “4” to news of breaking US laws to pleading guilty  —  - Deal with DOJ may allow Binance to keep operating, report says  — Billionaire played a key role in moving crypto into mainstream
Timmy Shen / The Block:
DefiLlama: Binance's 24-hour outflows reached $1B as of 2:30AM ET on November 22 and seven-day net outflows were $703.1M, after Changpeng Zhao pled guilty
David Voreacos / Bloomberg:
US filings: Binance's lax rules and staff misconduct helped Hamas, al-Qaida, and ISIS raise funds, let Iranians conduct 1.1M+ transactions worth $899M, and more
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
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft says North Korean group Lazarus has breached software company CyberLink and modified one of its installers to push malware in a supply-chain attack  —  Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group has breached Taiwanese multimedia software company CyberLink and trojanized …
Niamh McIntyre / The Bureau of Investigative Journalism:
Interviews with 40 current and ex-content moderators across Match Group, Grindr, and Bumble describe their mental health issues that they link with their jobs  —  Harsh targets and distressing content have left mental scars on a global workforce of content moderators
Alex Konrad / Forbes:
Inflection AI debuts Inflection-2, an LLM the company claims outperforms Llama 2 and Google's PaLM in some tests, and plans to add the model to its Pi chatbot  —  The startup behind the chatbot Pi says its Inflection-2 model outpaces popular alternatives from Google and Meta, and is catching up to OpenAI's flagship fast.
Bloomberg:
Justin Sun-linked crypto exchange HTX and Heco bridge are hacked in separate exploits that may have drained more than a combined $110M worth of crypto  —  - Crypto exchange HTX halts withdrawals and deposits after hack  — Attack is third breach of Sun-linked platform since September

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