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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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| 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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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Ilya Sutskever and 700+ out of ~770 OpenAI staffers sign a letter saying say 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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| 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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| 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 US| Reuters: |
Cruise co-founder and Chief Product Officer Daniel Kan resigns, a day after CEO Kyle Vogt quit — General Motors' (GM.N) Cruise co-founder and chief product officer Daniel Kan has resigned, the company told Reuters on Monday, a day after Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt quit.| TechCrunch: |
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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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| Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon launches AI Ready, a program with free AI classes that aims to train at least 2M people by 2025 on basic to advanced AI skills — Company aims to train two million people in AI as fight for skilled workers ramps up with Microsoft, Google — Amazon.com is launching a program …
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