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| 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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| Wired: |
OpenAI staff release a letter, signed by Ilya Sutskever and 500+ others, saying they may quit and join Sam Altman unless the board resigns and reinstates Altman — More than 500 employees of OpenAI have signed a letter saying they may quit and join Sam Altman at Microsoft unless …
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| Ilya Sutskever / @ilyasut: |
OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever “deeply regret[s]” participating “in the board's actions” and says he “never intended to harm OpenAI” and wants 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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| New York Times: |
Memo: OpenAI's board “stands by its decision as the only path to advance and defend” OpenAI's mission and criticizes “Sam's behavior and lack of transparency” — The announcement capped a tumultuous weekend for OpenAI, after Mr. Altman made a push to reclaim his job …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
OpenAI board director Ilya Sutskever told staff that Sam Altman will not return as OpenAI's CEO; OpenAI names Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear as interim CEO — Sam Altman won't return as CEO of OpenAI, despite efforts by the company's executives to bring him back, according to co-founder and board director Ilya Sutskever.
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| Financial Times: |
A look at OpenAI's wild weekend, as an internal debate over its mission became public; investors say OpenAI has not explained why Altman was fired so abruptly — Internal debate about ChatGPT maker's mission exploded into view during wild few days of corporate drama| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Analyzing the Sam Altman-OpenAI saga: nonprofit issues, OpenAI's for-profit work going to Microsoft, staff exits, Altman's motivations, and the new AI landscape — I have, as you might expect, authored several versions of this Article, both in my head and on the page, as the most extraordinary weekend of my career has unfolded.
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| The Atlantic: |
Sources describe how ChatGPT's success widened OpenAI's ideological rifts, as Ilya Sutskever began behaving like a spiritual leader anticipating AGI's arrival — Sam Altman's weekend of shock and drama began a year ago, with the release of ChatGPT. — To truly understand the events …
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| TechCrunch: |
Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns, less than a month after California's DMV suspended Cruise's permits to operate self-driving cars on public roads — Kyle Vogt, the serial entrepreneur who co-founded and led Cruise from a startup in a garage through its acquisition and ownership …
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto exchange Bullish, run by a former NYSE president, acquires CoinDesk for an undisclosed sum in an all-cash deal; DCG acquired CoinDesk for $500K in 2016 — CoinDesk says former Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Matt Murray will chair an independent editorial committee
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| New York Times: |
The White House may condemn Elon Musk, but the US has signed a $1.2B SpaceX deal, including for Starshield, a key China deterrent, showing its dependence on him — Rarely has the U.S. government so depended on the technology provided by a single technologist with views that it has so publicly declared repugnant.| Forbes: |
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