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OpenAI employees revolt after board names new CEO and Altman heads to Microsoft
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards) After two days of roller-coaster negotiations at OpenAI HQ due to the surprise ouster of CEO…
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OpenAI board attempts to hit “Ctrl-Z” in talks with Altman to return as CEO
Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 06, 2023 in San Francisco. (credit:…
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The FCC says new rules will curb SIM swapping. I’m pessimistic
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Panuwat Sikham) After years of inaction, the FCC this week said that it’s finally going…
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Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI
Enlarge / Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI Chief Scientist, speaks at Tel Aviv University on June 5, 2023. (credit: Getty Images) On…
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OpenAI President Greg Brockman quits as nervous employees hold all-hands meeting
Enlarge (credit: OpenAI / Ars Technica) On Friday afternoon, not long after news of CEO Sam Altman’s abrupt and surprising…
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“Hallucinating” AI models help coin Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year
Enlarge / A screenshot of the Cambridge Dictionary website where it announced its 2023 word of the year, “hallucinate.” (credit:…
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Ransomware group reports victim it breached to SEC regulators
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) One of the world’s most active ransomware groups has taken an unusual—if not unprecedented—tactic to pressure…
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“Make It Real” AI prototype wows devs by turning drawings into working software
Enlarge / A shot of tldraw’s “Make it Real” in action, provided by Ashe on X: “Ok…@tldraw is super fun.…
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Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral
Enlarge / Screen capture from a demo video of an AI-generated unauthorized David Attenborough voice narrating a developer’s video feed.…
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No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon
Enlarge / Users in the extended European Economic Area will soon be able to avoid most of the things that…
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