The offer was swiftly declined. No Thanks In the scramble to find a new CEO after the ousting of former chief executive Sam Altman, OpenAI’s non-profit board approached Dario Amodei, the CEO of its competitor Anthropic, with an offer to merge the two buzzy AI firms — and make Amodei CEO in the process, The… Continue reading OpenAI Secretly Tried to Merge With Anthropic
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App That Turned Android’s Texts Blue Taken Down After Researchers Discover Something Horrible
Disastrous. Reverse, Reverse Remember last week, when the alt-smartphone company Nothing — pause for the sigh — announced that it was releasing an app, dubbed Nothing Chats, that would allow its customers to send blue-bubbled iMessage sans iPhone? Well, forget about it. As Ars Technica reports, the messaging service didn’t even make it a full… Continue reading App That Turned Android’s Texts Blue Taken Down After Researchers Discover Something Horrible
Is OpenAI Melting Down Because It Secretly Created Something Really Scary?
Everyone’s still scrambling to find a plausible explanation as to why OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was suddenly fired from his position last Friday, a decision that has led to absolute carnage at the company and beyond. Beyond some vague language accusing him of not being “consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its… Continue reading Is OpenAI Melting Down Because It Secretly Created Something Really Scary?
OpenAI’s New CEO Said Something Terrifying a Few Months Ago
“That should cause you to s*** your pants.” Doom and Gloom Emmett Shear, the guy currently tasked with running OpenAI amid its leadership tumult, has some pretty bizarre ideas about AI for someone who’s now at the helm of the most famous AI company in the world. In a resurfaced clip from June, the new… Continue reading OpenAI’s New CEO Said Something Terrifying a Few Months Ago
OpenAI Ponders How to Crush Staff Revolt
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
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