The vast majority of employees are ready to walk. Open Mutiny Until Friday, ChatGPT creator OpenAI was the indisputable leader in the nascent space. Then, the entire thing descended into chaos. All hell broke loose when OpenAI’s governing nonprofit board fired CEO Sam Altman, leading the vast majority of employees to actively revolt, voicing their… Continue reading OpenAI Ponders How to Crush Staff Revolt
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Twitter CEO Keeps Getting Texts From Colleagues Telling Her to Resign
How much more of this kind of madness can she take? Find a Replacement After X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk cosigned some awfully antisemitic comments, the website’s punching bag CEO has been inundated with messages from confederates. As Axios and Forbes have both reported, X CEO Linda Yaccarino’s colleagues from the advertising industry have been privately advising her… Continue reading Twitter CEO Keeps Getting Texts From Colleagues Telling Her to Resign
OpenAI Employees Say Firm’s Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims
Why does it feel like everybody at OpenAI has lost their mind? In what’s arguably turning into the hottest AI story of the year, former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was ousted by the rest of the company’s nonprofit board on Friday, leading to a seemingly endless drama cycle that’s included hundreds of staffers threatening to… Continue reading OpenAI Employees Say Firm’s Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims
AI and Military Leaders Gathered for Mysterious Event in Utah
Why so secretive? Secret Summit Last week, before the axis of the artificial intelligence world veritably shifted with OpenAI’s ongoing leadership shakeup, a group of AI and military leaders met in a secretive three-day retreat in the Utah mountains. As Bloomberg reports, the AI Security Summit — not to be confused with British Prime Minister Rishi… Continue reading AI and Military Leaders Gathered for Mysterious Event in Utah
700 OpenAI Staffers Demand Board Reinstate Sam Altman as CEO
This might be the messiest breakup in tech history. The 700 Club A vast majority of OpenAI’s 770 staffers are pressuring the company’s board of directors to reinstate CEO Sam Altman — and if they don’t, they’re threatening to walk. In response to the weekend’s barrage of OpenAI news — which began when the company’s… Continue reading 700 OpenAI Staffers Demand Board Reinstate Sam Altman as CEO
OpenAI’s New CEO Posted Edgelord Tweets About Rape and Nazis
“The Nazis were very evil, but…” Edge Case OpenAI’s latest interim CEO — announced after cofounder Sam Altman was fired and chief technology officer Mira Murati was appointed and then discharged from the role — seems to have made some extremely edgelordy posts. As British journalist Chris Stokel-Walker pointed out on the platform formerly and… Continue reading OpenAI’s New CEO Posted Edgelord Tweets About Rape and Nazis
Microsoft Immediately Hires Sam Altman After He’s Fired by OpenAI
Talk about a quick turnaround. You’re Hired! To cap off one of the most bizarre weekends in tech history, Microsoft has announced that it’s hiring freshly-fired OpenAI chief Sam Altman. In a post on X-formerly-Twitter, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that although he continues to have “confidence” in OpenAI — which just sacked Altman — he was… Continue reading Microsoft Immediately Hires Sam Altman After He’s Fired by OpenAI
This Might Be the Reason OpenAI Fired Sam Altman
Yeah, we can see why corporate governance wouldn’t love that. A warning to anyone with a penchant for side hustles: if you happen to be the CEO of the world’s preeminent AI creator, your board might not be thrilled with your extracurricular activities. It’s still unclear why Sam Altman, OpenAI’s recently-fired CEO, was pushed out… Continue reading This Might Be the Reason OpenAI Fired Sam Altman
Awesome Website Lets You See What Dinosaurs Lived Near Your House
Forget time travel. Time Warp Want to know what kind of dinosaur roamed your backyard eons ago? Short of hopping into a time machine, this fun interactive website features a 3D view of Earth and the option to see what the planet looked like during pivotal snapshots between 750 million years ago and the present.… Continue reading Awesome Website Lets You See What Dinosaurs Lived Near Your House
Prison Phone Company Leaked User Data and Didn’t Tell Them, FTC Says
This is far from the first time this company’s been in trouble with the law. Calling Card A prison phone company is in trouble with the feds after allegedly not just improperly securing its users’ data, but also failing to alert them for the better part of a year. In a press release, the Federal… Continue reading Prison Phone Company Leaked User Data and Didn’t Tell Them, FTC Says