Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech
Emily Mullin / Wired : Forums: r/HotScienceNews Forums: r/HotScienceNews : Sam Altman's New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
OpenAI Chief Communications Officer Hannah Wong plans to leave in January; Wong joined in 2021 and led PR during Sam Altman's brief ouster and return in 2023
Hannah Wong, the company's current CCO, announced internally on Monday that she's leaving OpenAI in January. … Forums: r/BetterOffline : OpenAI's Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company r/...
Intel CTO and AI officer Sachin Katti says he is leaving the company after four years to join OpenAI; Intel says CEO Lip-Bu Tan will take over its AI efforts
follows another AI data center exec out the door, Lip Bu-Tan to take up the slack Proactive : Intel AI chief Sachin Katti departs to join OpenAI Tom / NextBigWhat : Intel's AI chief Sachin Katti joins...
Court docs: in a deposition, Ilya Sutskever discussed conflicts at OpenAI that he sent to board members before Sam Altman's firing, his OpenAI exit, and more
Anthropic initially expressed “excitement” about a possible merger with OpenAI two years ago, after OpenAI's board fired CEO Sam Altman …
Sources: Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs hires Mikhail Shapiro, who works on noninvasive techniques for neural imaging and control
The hire suggests that Merge is taking a much less invasive approach than Elon Musk's Neuralink. Also: Sources IRL and reactions to yesterday's Snap scoop.
To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman's deal spree pits Silicon Valley giants against each other as they race to cash in, making OpenAI too big to fail
The CEO's dealmaking blitz has convinced Silicon Valley's giants to tether their fates to his company, essentially making it too big to fail
A profile of AI skeptic Ed Zitron: Sam Altman's firing and return was his “Joker moment”, tech journalism is flawed, his brash persona is not a mask, and more
How a British-born hobbyist blogger became one of Big Tech's punchiest critics — Ed Zitron is not a journalist …
Q&A with Bret Taylor, CEO of Sierra and chairman of OpenAI, on Sierra's AI customer support agents, AGI, Sam Altman's comments on the AI bubble, and more
Welcome to Decoder. This is Alex Heath. For my final episode as your Thursday guest host, I recently sat down with Bret Taylor …
Two new books on OpenAI and the AI industry bust Sam Altman's myths around OpenAI, and highlight the pursuit of power behind the do-gooder rhetoric
Two timely and myth-busting books show that the AI boom is driven by the pursuit of power, wealth and hubris
Sources: Sam Altman had for months sought to delegate more responsibility before hiring Fidji Simo, an adept and detail-oriented manager, in contrast to Altman
Fidji Simo is leaving Instacart for a newly created role at Sam Altman's startup as it prepares for a potential public offering