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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as chair, alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo — 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 co-CEO Bret Taylor.
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: as part of the deal, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will not reclaim their board seats; Altman had pushed for more control; OpenAI retains its structure — Sam Altman, who was fired on Friday as CEO of OpenAI and was reinstated Tuesday night after a dramatic battle with the company's board … | The Verge: |
Source: OpenAI's initial board plans to vet and appoint a new formal board of up to nine people; Adam D'Angelo remained to give the prior board representation — Sam Altman will return as CEO of OpenAI, overcoming an attempted boardroom coup that sent the company into chaos over the past several days.
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: OpenAI's initial board and Sam Altman's camp have agreed to conduct an independent investigation into the ouster of Sam Altman and its aftermath — Company says it will have new initial board of Bret Taylor, Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo — OpenAI said Sam Altman will return …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: before his ousting, Sam Altman moved to push out board member Helen Toner over a paper he thought was critical of OpenAI, among other board tensions — 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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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
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| Washington Post: |
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| Blackwing Intelligence: |
At Microsoft's request, researchers find multiple flaws in the top three fingerprint sensors in laptops and used for Windows Hello fingerprint authentication — Authors: — TL;DR — Microsoft's Offensive Research and Security Engineering (MORSE) asked us to evaluate the security …
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| C. Scott Brown / Android Authority: |
Google updates Bard with more in-depth access to YouTube content, allowing users to ask specific questions about the content of a video — Bard could already analyze YouTube videos, but now it can return much more specific answers to queries. — • — TL;DR
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says North Korean group Lazarus has breached software company CyberLink and modified one of its installers to push malware in a supply-chain attack — Microsoft says a North Korean hacking group has breached Taiwanese multimedia software company CyberLink and trojanized …
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| Timmy Shen / The Block: |
DefiLlama: Binance's 24-hour outflows reached $1B as of 2:30AM ET on November 22 and seven-day net outflows were $703.1M, after Changpeng Zhao pled guilty — The world's largest crypto exchange saw an uptick in withdrawals around the time that CEO Changpeng Zhao pled guilty to criminal charges.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Inflection AI debuts Inflection-2, an LLM the company claims outperforms Llama 2 and Google's PaLM in some tests, and plans to add the model to its Pi chatbot — The startup behind the chatbot Pi says its Inflection-2 model outpaces popular alternatives from Google and Meta, and is catching up to OpenAI's flagship fast.
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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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| John Carreyrou / New York Times: |
How Carl Rinsch's sci-fi TV series became a costly fiasco for Netflix, which burned $55M+ without receiving a single episode, an example of streaming excess — After suitors flocked to a sci-fi project by Carl Rinsch, director of a single movie, the winner handed over money and control.| Bloomberg: |
Justin Sun-linked crypto exchange HTX and Heco bridge are hacked in separate exploits that may have drained more than a combined $110M worth of crypto — - Crypto exchange HTX halts withdrawals and deposits after hack — Attack is third breach of Sun-linked platform since September
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| David Voreacos / Bloomberg: |
US filings: Binance's lax rules and staff misconduct helped Hamas, al-Qaida, and ISIS raise funds, let Iranians conduct 1.1M+ transactions worth $899M, and more — - Crypto exchange turned blind eye to child pornography, US says — Hamas, al-Qaeda raised money through Binance, Treasury claims
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| New York Times: |
In the Russia-Ukraine war, using electromagnetic waves to flummox and follow drones and other smarter weapons becomes a critical part of the cat-and-mouse game — Using electromagnetic waves to flummox and follow smarter weapons has become a critical part of the cat-and-mouse game between Ukraine and Russia.
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| Bloomberg: |
Graphcore lays off most of its staff in China and discontinues sales in the country, citing US export rules; China made up 20% to 25% of Graphcore's business — - British AI unicorn startup cuts most of its staff in China — Company recently shared that it needs funds to keep operating
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