After the failed OpenAI coup, AI development will likely move faster and be more dispersed and less controlled, accelerating what the coup was trying to prevent
AI development will likely move faster and be more dispersed and less controlled after a failed coup at OpenAI, accelerating what the coup was trying to prevent
Failed coups, as seen at OpenAI, often accelerate the thing that they were trying to prevent — Over the past week, OpenAI's board went through four CEOs in five days.
Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI
Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” …
Sources: the UK plans to announce an international advisory group on AI, loosely modeled on the UN's IPCC, at the November 2023 AI summit in Bletchley Park
The British government wants to draw on expert knowledge about the fast-developing technology — The UK is planning to announce …
Meta's Yann LeCun says regulating R&D for AI “is incredibly counterproductive” and only serves to reinforce the dominance of Big Tech and stifle competition
Their innovation is about running over peoples autonomy [embedded post] X: Stephanie Hare / @hare_brain : “There's no question that we'll have machines assisting us that are smarte...
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signs the country's first bill that bans TikTok in a state, set to go into effect on January 1, 2024
Ban is slated to take effect next year—if it survives expected litigation — Montana's governor signed the country's first bill that outright bans TikTok …
Peter Thiel says he had $50M in a personal account at SVB when the bank collapsed, even after Founders Fund warned portfolio companies that the bank was at risk
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To achieve its chip moonshot, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US must reform its education system and triple graduates in chip-related fields by 2032
Rana Foroohar / Financial Times : Tweets: @olivermarks and @chassnews Tweets: Oliver Marks / @olivermarks : Corporations that want a cut of $39bn in Chips and Science Act program ...
SpaceX's Starlink aid to Ukraine has triggered scrutiny in China, as Chinese firms rush to deploy their own satellite constellations to compete
‘Silicon Valley Iron Man’ is under pressure over satellites as Chinese rivals close in on Tesla — In the days after Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops …
Twitter agrees to be acquired “by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk” for $54.20 per share in cash; the ~$44B deal requires shareholder and regulatory approval
- Twitter's board accepted billionaire Elon Musk's offer to buy the social media company and take it private, the company confirmed.
The EU finalizes the Digital Services Act, which will force social networks to toughen content moderation, reduce Google and Meta's ad targeting of minors, more
Companies such as Google and Facebook must moderate content more actively in regulatory clampdown
An attack on Viasat's satellite internet as Russia started its war impacted 27K users in Europe beyond Ukraine; thousands remain offline after almost a month
The biggest hack since Russia's war began knocked thousands of people offline. The spillover extends deep into Europe.
An inside look at Ukrainian efforts to repel Russian cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, as some worry that early success might be unwound over time
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A look at Germany's “Silicon Saxony”, which accounts for one in three chips made in Europe, as the EU aims to double its global chip market share to 20% by 2030
Cluster that began in communist East Germany now seen as strategic asset amid supply chain crisis Tweets: @chassnews , @joemillerjr , @cornelban73 , @mamdorsky , and @cszabla Tweet...
Interviews and documents reveal Wirecard's desperate effort to cover up fraud, hoodwink its auditors, and a plan to take over Deutsche Bank in its final months
Executives at the German payments group hatched a plan to buy Deutsche Bank while desperately trying to cover their tracks Tweets: @lionelbarber , @aallan , @sub8u , @speraltalisbo...