Alexandr Wang says he is departing Scale AI as CEO to join Meta and names Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege as interim CEO; Wang will remain a board director
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OpenAI backtracks and says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and DE and CA AGs
so it's making a change Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance : OpenAI Scraps For-Profit Plans New York Times : The Stakes for OpenAI's Plan B The Irish Times : OpenAI ditches plan to convert to for-profit bus...
Greg Brockman returns to OpenAI after taking a leave from his role as president in August 2024; a memo says he is working with Sam Altman on creating a new role
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Q&A with AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio on advocating for AI regulation, his support for California's AI safety bill, AI achieving human-level intelligence, and more
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OpenAI hires Sarah Friar, the former CEO of Nextdoor, as its first CFO, and former Instagram and Twitter product chief Kevin Weil as its chief product officer
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Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead Jan Leike to head up a new Superalignment team; a source says Leike will report to Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan
Here's What We Know Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times : OpenAI forms safety and security committee as concerns mount about AI Rounak Jain / Benzinga : OpenAI Former ‘Superalignment’ Lead Joins Jeff Bezos-...
Inflection AI plans to license its technology to Microsoft; a source says investors in Inflection AI, which has raised more than $1.5B, will be made whole
Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-founder Mustafa Suleyman from Inflection to Run Consumer AI Devesh Beri / MSPoweruser : Inflection AI plans to license its technology to Microsoft after CEO moves to the la...
Q&A with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on managing deals with publishers, launching the GPT Store, OpenAI's corporate structure, Sam Altman's departure, and more
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Meta's Oversight Board Trust says the company is giving $150M to the trust as part of ongoing financial support, following a $130M contribution in 2019
Today the Oversight Board Trust announced that Meta has made a commitment that provides for ongoing financial support for the Oversight Board. Tweets: @oversightboard , @charlesarthur , @goldman , @vi...
Sources: Google's attempt to cancel and reschedule an employee-led talk about unionization at its Zurich office drew attention to it and riled up rank-and-file
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox : Tweets: @supernodal Tweets: Jack Poulson / @supernodal : “Google said it was cancelling the meeting because [it] prefers to only host events on the topic organized in partners...