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.
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 …
Source: at an OpenAI all-hands meeting, Ilya Sutskever defended Sam Altman's ouster as necessary to protect OpenAI's mission of making AI beneficial to humanity
and the fallout Brian Fung / CNN : OpenAI: Why Sam Altman was fired and what's next after the shocking shakeup Patrick Cooley / The Messenger : Sam Altman's Supporters Pressure OpenAI Board to Bring H...
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 …
Sources: Sam Altman's exit followed a “misalignment” between OpenAI's profit and nonprofit adherents; some may view the company's development speed as too risky
that AGI could kill all of humanity Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis : The Information reports that Ilya told OpenAI employees that “this was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, whic...
Sources: OpenAI Interim CEO Mira Murati tried to calm shell-shocked employees in a companywide meeting following Sam Altman's firing
More senior staff are following Greg Brockman lead and resigning from the company after Sam was ousted. … X: Anissa Gardizy / @anissagardizy8 : OpenAI Interim CEO Mira Murati told staff in a companywi...
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.
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
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.
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 …
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 …
A look at OpenAI's complicated relationship with Microsoft, which does not have a seat on the OpenAI board due to OpenAI's origins as a non-profit organization
but the leading theory about the drama at OpenAI tells a different story Benson Mawira / Cryptopolitan : OpenAI's Mission: Balancing Profit and Ethical AI Development Rohan Goswami / CNBC : OpenAI's u...
Source: Sam Altman was in discussions with semiconductor companies, including Arm, on the morning of November 17 about designing new chips that lower LLM costs
Kate Clark / The Information :
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
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google :
Sam Altman's firing jeopardizes the sale of OpenAI employees' shares; a source says the tender offer values OpenAI at ~$86B and was set to happen in December
Kate Clark / The Information : Threads: @timothybucksf . X: @garymarcus , @garymarcus , @jon_victor_ , and @aaronpholmes . Forums: r/OpenAI Threads: Timothy Buck / @timothybucksf : I really feel for ...
A look at Apple's quest to build key device components in-house, including a cellular modem and other wireless chips, displays, batteries, and camera sensors
This week, we go inside Apple's quest to replace every major part of the iPhone with an in-house design.
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.
A profile of Ilya Sutskever, who left Google in 2015 to become an OpenAI co-founder and its chief scientist at Elon Musk's urging, and now focuses on AI safety
Steve Mollman / Fortune :
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 …
Disney+ Hotstar topped a record 59M concurrent streaming viewers during the India-Australia ICC Cricket World Cup final on November 19
In India, few events garner as much attention as a cricket game. And there's no match for a World Cup final. — The Sunday game has already topped … X: @chandrarsrikant and @1987kulbhushan X: Chandr...
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
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review : Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host . X: @mlamons1 , @the_magrathean , and @elieraad Mastodon: Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy@journa.host : Google D...
Doc: Germany, France, and Italy reach an AI regulation deal that includes binding voluntary commitments for AI providers, which may accelerate EU negotiations
Andreas Rinke / Reuters :
AI artwork is a potential boon for the public domain and may serve as an antidote to the US copyright system, which some see as onerous and overly restrictive
AI image synthesis is getting more capable at executing ideas, and it's not slowing down. — In October, OpenAI launched … Mastodon: @grantpotter@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @harbourfordyce.bsky.socia...
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