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| The Verge: |
Sources: Sam Altman's move to Microsoft is not a done deal; he and Brockman are open to returning to OpenAI if the remaining board members who fired him resign — Sam Altman's surprise move to Microsoft after his shock firing at OpenAI isn't a done deal. He and co-founder Greg Brockman …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPT, r/singularity, r/technology, r/OpenAI, and Beehaw
| Bloomberg: |
Ilya Sutskever and over 700 out of ~770 OpenAI staffers sign a letter saying they may quit and join Sam Altman unless the board resigns and reinstates Altman — - Majority of OpenAI employees sign letter seeking new board — Board member Ilya Sutskever is among the signatories
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Forums: Hacker News and r/neoliberal
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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,” …
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| CNBC: |
Satya Nadella says “it's very clear that something has to change around the governance” of OpenAI no matter where Sam Altman ends up — - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told CNBC on Monday that the company remains committed to OpenAI and Sam Altman.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Ilya Sutskever / @ilyasut: |
OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever says “I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions”, “I never intended to harm OpenAI”, and will try “to reunite the company” — I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Texas' AG, “troubled” by Elon Musk's claims, probes Media Matters, which calls X's suit “frivolous”; X avoids anti-SLAPP statutes by filing in the 5th Circuit — X, formerly Twitter, has followed through with owner Elon Musk's threat to sue the left-leaning nonprofit Media Matters.
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| Sharon Knolle / The Wrap: |
X files a defamation lawsuit against Media Matters, claiming the outlet “knowingly and maliciously” misrepresented the amount of antisemitic content on X — Musk says the watchdog org “would not let truth get in the way of a story” — Elon Musk has followed through on his threat …
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Threads: @mike.hixenbaugh. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Bluesky: @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com. X: @lindayax, @elonmusk, @watcherguru, @eriqgardner, @jason_kint, @oneunderscore__, @xdaily, @nandoodles, @parismarx, @parkermolloy, @jason_kint, @xdaily, @scottbudman, @oneunderscore__, @jason, @yashar, @jason_kint, and @ggreenwald. Forums: Hacker News
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
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| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about a potential merger as part of an effort to persuade Amodei to replace Sam Altman as CEO — OpenAI's board of directors approached Dario Amodei, the co-founder and CEO of rival large-language model developer Anthropic …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, and r/ChatGPT
| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
In a lawsuit, the US SEC accuses Kraken of commingling customer and corporate funds while operating as an unregistered broker, clearing agency, and dealer — The U.S. crypto exchange is the latest targeted by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a series of similar actions being fought in court by other companies.| Matthew Prince / @eastdakota: |
Microsoft isn't a clear winner in OpenAI chaos, as its ~$11B investment is in danger, building AI systems has reputational risks, and talent might not stay — I'm told mine is a contrarian view on the events of the last few days, so here goes... Contrary to what @kevinroose and others have written, Microsoft was not a winner of the events of the last few days around #OpenAI. They were in a much better place on Friday morning last week...
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
| The Verge: |
Epic v. Google: a Google exec confirms that Spotify pays no commission when users buy subscriptions via Spotify's payment system and 4% when they pay via Google — Music streaming service Spotify struck a seemingly unique and highly generous deal with Google for Android-based payments …
More: Livemint, TechCrunch, SamMobile, Android Central, Music Ally, NewsBytes, and Engadget. Forums: r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ seeks $4B+ from Binance as part of a proposed resolution of a years-long probe; CZ would still potentially face criminal charges in the US — - Resolution could come as soon as the end of this month — Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao would face charges in USSponsor Posts
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