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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI says it has reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with Bret Taylor as Chair, Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo on the initial board — OpenAI said late Tuesday that it had reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce president Bret Taylor.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/artificial
| The Verge: |
Source: OpenAI's initial board will vet and appoint a new formal board of up to 9 people; Microsoft and Sam Altman will likely have seats on the formal board — Sam Altman will return as CEO of OpenAI, overcoming an attempted boardroom coup that sent the company into chaos over the past several days.
More: CoinDesk, TechCrunch, and Wired
| Financial Times: |
Sources: 97%+ of OpenAI staff have signed the letter threatening to quit in board standoff; investors explore legal measures to force board to reverse course — More than 95% of employees have threatened to quit and join Microsoft if board refuses to resign
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| New York Times: |
Sources: before his ousting, Sam Altman made a move to push out board member Helen Toner because he thought a paper she had co-written was critical of OpenAI — Sam Altman attacked a member over a research paper that discussed the company, while directors disagreed about who should fill board vacancies open for months.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI interim CEO Emmett Shear has told people close to OpenAI that he doesn't plan to remain if the board can't clearly tell him why it fired Altman — Sam Altman and members of the OpenAI board have opened negotiations aimed at a possible return of the ousted co-founder …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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| CNBC: |
Binance and CZ plead guilty to federal charges as part of a $4.3B settlement with the US DOJ; charges include violating sanctions and anti-money laundering laws — - The U.S. Department of Justice has brought criminal charges against Binance and its billionaire founder and CEO, Changpeng Zhao.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: Changpeng Zhao agrees to pay a criminal fine of $50M and can retain his majority ownership of Binance but can't hold an executive role at the company — Zhao's crypto exchange will also admit wrongdoing and agree to pay $4.3 billion in fines — The chief executive of Binance …
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| @cz_binance: |
Changpeng Zhao steps down as CEO of Binance, and Richard Teng, formerly the Global Head of Regional Markets, has been named CEO — Today, I stepped down as CEO of Binance. Admittedly, it was not easy to let go emotionally. But I know it is the right thing to do. I made mistakes, and I must take responsibility.
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| Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: |
Anthropic debuts Claude 2.1, offering a context window of up to 200K tokens, or ~150K words, a claimed 50%+ increase in accuracy, new API integrations, and more — Claude 2.1 boasts a 150K word context window to parse long documents, 50%+ accuracy gains, early support for tool integration, and more.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Former OpenAI President Greg Brockman announces that ChatGPT's voice narration feature is now available to all free users — Ex-OpenAI president Greg Brockman — who, as far as we're aware, isn't currently employed at OpenAI in any capacity — is posting updates about OpenAI products on X …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sonos to make a long-awaited push into headphones with a $400 model coming as early as April, is working on a video service and streaming device, more — - Company plans to compete with Bose and Apple with headphones — New Roam speaker, high-end sound bar and video service coming
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory confirms a data breach after “SiegedSec” hacktivists leaked stolen HR data on hacker forums and Telegram — The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) confirms they suffered a cyberattack after ‘SiegedSec’ hacktivists leaked stolen human resources data online.
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| Anel Islamovic / Stability AI: |
Stability AI releases Stable Video Diffusion in research preview, its first foundation model for generative video based on the Stable Diffusion image model — Today, we are releasing Stable Video Diffusion, our first foundation model for generative video based on the image model Stable Diffusion.
More: TechCrunch, Stack Diary, and The Decoder
X: @iscienceluvr, @_akhaliq, and @stabilityai
Forums: Hacker News, r/MachineLearning, and r/StableDiffusion
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 206% YoY to $18.12B, vs. $16.18B est., Data Center revenue up 279% YoY to $14.51B, and net income up 1,259% YoY to $9.2B — - Nvidia's results surpassed analysts' projections for revenue and income in the fiscal fourth quarter.| Winston Cho / Hollywood Reporter: |
A US district judge dismisses most claims in a lawsuit by Sarah Silverman and other authors against Meta's use of copyrighted material to train Llama models — The ruling builds upon findings from another federal judge overseeing a lawsuit against AI art generators, who similarly delivered … | Reuters: |
The US FTC approves a new resolution to streamline investigations of cases where AI is used to break the law — Investigations of cases where artificial intelligence (AI) is used to break the law will be streamlined under a new process approved by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the agency said on Tuesday.
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| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Spotify unveils new royalty policies from 2024: tracks must hit 1,000 streams in the previous year and noise recordings must be over two minutes — The company claims the updates will drive an additional $1 billion toward artists, by re-directing the payments that had previously gone to fraudulent streams …
More: Spotify for Artists, The Verge, and 9to5Mac
| Reuters: |
A Florida judge rules he found “reasonable evidence” that Tesla knew about the Autopilot defect, opening the door to a public trial over a fatal Tesla car crash — A Florida judge found “reasonable evidence” that Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and other managers knew … | CNN: |
Paris Hilton's 11:11 Media suspends an ad campaign on X one month after announcing a partnership with X; it's unclear whether the partnership is still on — Paris Hilton's entertainment company 11:11 Media has pulled an advertising campaign from Elon Musk's X just one month after announcing …
More: SiliconANGLE, Observer, and Vanity Fair
| The Information: |
Tiger Global Management's Scott Shleifer will transition from his role leading private investments to a senior adviser role, effective January 1, 2024 — Scott Shleifer, a key architect of Tiger Global Management's aggressive private tech dealmaking during the 2020-2022 startup boom …
More: Entrackr, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Axios, Bloomberg, and Wall Street Journal
| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
In a letter to Elon Musk, 27 US lawmakers, all Democrats, express concern that X seems to be profiting from anti-Israel propaganda via ads and subscriptions — A group of 27 U.S. lawmakers, all Democrats, wrote to X owner Elon Musk on Tuesday to express concern the platform seemed to be profiting …
More: CNN, Forbes, CNBC, Congressman Jamie Raskin, Adam Schiff, Social Media Today, and New York Post
| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
Australia unveils a A$587M seven-year cyber resilience plan that includes cyber health checks for small businesses and mandatory reporting of ransomware attacks — Australia will give cyber health checks for small businesses, increase cyber law enforcement funding and introduce mandatory reporting … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's Enforcement Directorate accuses edtech giant Byju's of violating rules under the country's Foreign Exchange Management Act to the tune of $1.12B — India's Enforcement Directorate, its crime-fighting agency, has issued a show-cause notice to Byju's, accusing it of violating the nation's foreign exchange rules.Sponsor Posts
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