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☆ Snap slashes 10% of its workforce
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Paul Squire | Camilo Fonseca | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Snap announced another round of layoffs on Monday, the latest for Snapchat's parent company. The company said in a regulatory filing that it would cut 10% of its workforce. Two workers at the social media company previously told Business Insider's Kali Hays that several dozen Snap staffers were let go on Friday and more cuts were expected. Meanwhile, BI previously reported the company has struggled to deal with shifts in the digital ad market and fierce competition from TikTok and Meta. It's the latest company to make cuts in what's been a brutal start to 2024 for tech workers.

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☆ Elon Musk thinks OpenAI may have made a dangerous discovery — and that's behind the Sam Altman drama
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk said he's concerned OpenAI discovered a "dangerous element" of AI. The billionaire said he has "mixed feelings" about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. AdvertisementElon Musk has some theories about why Sam Altman was initially ousted from OpenAI. Musk added that he wanted to know why OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever "felt so strongly as to fight Sam. "He really sweats it over questions of what is right," Musk told Sorkin.

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☆ OpenAI board's plan to get rid of Sam Altman really didn't go so well
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The ousting of Sam Altman by most of OpenAI's board members appears to have badly backfired. AdvertisementThe dramatic coup by most of OpenAI's board members seems to have epically backfired. Their master plan to topple Sam Altman has failed – and it's cost them their seat at the table. Less than a week after the board pushed him out as CEO, Altman is boomeranging back to the company. His fellow previous board members were Greg Brockman, who was also chair; Ilya Sutskever, Tasha McCauley; Helen Toner; and Altman.

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☆ Satya Nadella says it doesn't matter where Sam Altman ends up because he'll still be working with Microsoft anyway
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Satya Nadella said Sam Altman will be working with Microsoft no matter where he ends up working. On Monday, the Microsoft CEO announced he hired Altman after the former OpenAI CEO's shock firing. AdvertisementOn Monday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced he was hiring Sam Altman. Still, Nadella told Bloomberg TV on Monday it doesn't matter where Altman ends up working — because "irrespective of where Sam is, he's working with Microsoft." OpenAI only told Microsoft about Altman's ouster a few minutes before its announcement, sources told Business Insider's Kali Hays and Ashley Stewart.

Persons: Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Altman, —, Greg Brockman, Brockman, Nadella, Sam, OpenAI, Kali Hays, Ashley Stewart Organizations: Microsoft, Service, Bloomberg, BI Locations: Silicon Valley, OpenAI

☆ OpenAI is in a deadlock. The coming hours will determine its fate.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Most OpenAI employees have signed a letter saying they will leave if Altman is not reinstated. Extremely late Sunday, Microsoft CEO Nadella announced that Altman and OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman would join Microsoft to lead a new AI research team. Let's say Microsoft ends up hiring the OpenAI employees threatening to walk, to the tune of almost 800 staff. Nadella has made clear he thinks OpenAI's board needs to change, and he's the man writing $13 billion checks. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has already offered to hire OpenAI employees who leave and match their compensation.

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☆ Chaos at OpenAI ensues
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

In today's big story, we're looking at the continued fallout from the shocking Sam Altman ouster at OpenAI. Altman is alive and well, but his run as CEO of OpenAI ended abruptly on Friday. But in the days since his firing, he's escaped a messy weekend looking like the ultimate hero, Business Insider's Katie Notopoulos writes. To be fair, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear don't seem to know why either. Meanwhile, Salesforce's Marc Benioff is already actively recruiting OpenAI employees on X.

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☆ Both the CEO of OpenAI and the biggest investor of OpenAI still don't seem to know why Sam Altman was fired
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Even so, both still seem to not know why Sam Altman was really fired. He told OpenAI employees the same thing on Sunday evening, The Verge reported. The workers who did show up were told Altman was booted because he'd been accused of giving two staffers the same project. However the OpenAI drama ends, Altman has promised he'll continue to work with the company "some way or other." Press teams for Microsoft and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ If OpenAI's board was trying to save humanity from Sam Altman, it failed. So it's time to come clean.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Henry Blodget | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sam Altman will be in charge of OpenAI's team and products no matter what. So the three remaining OpenAI Board members should explain why they fired him and move on. But, as Business Insider's Alistair Barr has argued, if the goal of the three remaining OpenAI Board members is to save humans from OpenAI's product, it's time for those board members to say so. As a member of humanity, I do thank the three remaining OpenAI members for maybe looking out for us. AdvertisementBecause Sam Altman is going to be leading the OpenAI team and continuing its product development either way.

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☆ OpenAI's new CEO Emmett Shear said the company handled Sam Altman's ousting 'very badly' and 'seriously damaged our trust'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI's new CEO, Emmett Shear, criticized Sam Altman's ousting as damaging trust in the company. AdvertisementThe new CEO of OpenAI said the way Sam Altman was ousted was "handled very badly" and has "seriously damaged our trust." "And it's clear that the process and communications around Sam's removal has been handled very badly, which has seriously damaged our trust." AdvertisementShear claims he accepted the "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to step up as the interim CEO only "a few hours" after he got the call offering him the top job. It comes after OpenAI cofounder Altman was forced out of the company Friday.

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☆ It's starting to look like majoring in computer science isn't the road to the promised land of money and job security after all
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Many computer science majors say job hunting has become tougher after layoffs hit the industry. Ben Leong, a Singaporean computer science professor, said getting a job was never easy. He told Insider he picked his major because he was interested in technology — and also because of the industry's salaries. Wong told Insider last month that he's applied to 17 jobs and has heard back from five companies. AdvertisementAdvertisementBryan Ho, a 23-year-old junior studying computer science at the National University of Singapore, told Insider he's applied for roughly 100 internships.

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☆ OpenAI wants to make its customers less jittery about being hit by copyright lawsuits by offering to pay their legal costs
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI plans to offer assistance to customers that are facing copyright lawsuits. The move is likely aimed at reducing consumer anxiety around unresolved copyright claims. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe move is likely aimed at reducing consumer anxiety sparked by unresolved copyright claims against generative AI systems. The US Copyright Office has been scrambling to deal with the new challenge posed by AI-generated content for some time. Google, which owns ChatGPT rival Bard, told the US Copyright Office: "Any resulting liability should attach to the user."

Persons: Sam Altman, —, Altman, OpenAI, George R.R, Martin, Kali Hays, Bard Organizations: Service, ChatGPT Enterprise, US, Google, Microsoft, US Copyright

☆ X CEO Linda Yaccarino stepped in to remove a pro-Hitler post in an apparent divergence from Elon Musk's 'free speech absolutism'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

X CEO Linda Yaccarino stepped in to remove a viral pro-Hitler post, The Information reports. Hate speech and misinformation have run rampant on X since Elon Musk's takeover in 2022. The post in question appeared on the X page belonging to Afnan Ullah Khan, a member of the Senate in Pakistan, The Jerusalem Post reported. AdvertisementAdvertisementMusk previously described himself as a "free speech absolutist," which is evident in his hands-off approach to moderating hate speech and misinformation. The day before the tweet, in an October 27 blog post, Yaccarino asserted that safety is a "critical priority" for the X team.

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☆ Usage of Elon Musk's X is 'down by every measure' one year after his takeover
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Use of X on both iOS and Android is down by 17.8% compared to last year, according to SimilarWeb. Musk has big plans for X, rolling out new features and discussing new ideas at a recent all-hands meeting. These latest usage estimates echo Insider's previous reporting in September on X use and downloads decreasing since Musk's takeover. He wants X to be the "everything app," similar to the Chinese app WeChat. Most recently, the X app introduced the option to hold video and voice calls on X.

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☆ Elon Musk wants users' 'entire financial life' on X by the end of 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

X owner Elon Musk expects the platform to roll out financial features by end-2024, The Verge reported. AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk expects X to roll out financial features by the end of next year, The Verge reported on Friday. During the all-hands call, Musk said he wants "someone's entire financial life" on the platform so people wouldn't need a bank account. It'll be on our platform — money or securities or whatever," he said. AdvertisementAdvertisementMusk's projected timeline for X to roll out financial services comes a year after Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion.

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☆ X has been slower to act on the misinformation that's swamped the platform after Elon Musk cut hundreds of trust and safety workers
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

False and misleading posts remain on the site, and many don't have Community Notes attached. It comes after Elon Musk cut its trust and safety team from around 230 to 20 full-time employees. "Neither fact-checkers nor Community Notes can keep up with this." "Only 8% had community notes, 26% had unpublished notes, and 66% had neither," he wrote. It added that Community Notes "appear within minutes" of content being shared and are a "critical tool" to help it combat misinformation.

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☆ X CEO slams claims she's CEO in name only as 'not nice;' 'Who wouldn't want Elon Musk sitting by their side running product?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

X CEO Linda Yaccarino slammed questions on whether she's running the company as "not nice." The X CEO took the stage shortly after an ex-Twitter staffer spoke on his negative experience at the company. AdvertisementAdvertisementX CEO Linda Yaccarino slammed claims she's watching Elon Musk run the social media company from the sidelines in an openly tense dialogue about working with the famously controlling billionaire. I don't care what the structure is at Meta, but who wouldn't want Elon Musk sitting by their side running product?" Before joining X, Yaccarino served as chairman of advertising sales and client partnerships at NBCUniversal.

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☆ Elon Musk privately pondered whether it was worth spending so much time focused on Twitter amid the threat of AI: 'It's not like I need to be richer or something'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Walter Isaacson said Elon Musk considered spending less time at Twitter to focus on AI and SpaceX. "With AI coming, I'm sort of wondering whether it's worth spending that much time thinking about Twitter," Isaacson said Musk told him in March at a meeting between the biographer, Musk, and a Neuralink director who gave birth to two of his children. Isaacson said Musk first discussed his plans to build an AI company at the March meeting. The biographer said Musk told him he plans to run the company himself. It is one of six companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, and X, that Musk is helping to lead.

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☆ Elon Musk reportedly helped Larry Ellison reset his Twitter password after the billionaire said he'd invest $1 billion in the company, despite not tweeting in 10 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk reportedly helped Larry Ellison reset his Twitter password, per an excerpt of Musk's upcoming biography. Oracle cofounder Ellison is an investor in X and a longtime friend of Musk's. AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk reportedly helped longtime friend and Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison reset his Twitter password after the billionaire forgot it. Ellison has been a vocal supporter of Musk over the years and has previously sat on the board of Tesla. Ellison reportedly supported Musk through various stages of his chaotic Twitter takeover.

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☆ Billionaire CEOs said working from home made them happier. Some now want to fire workers who don't show up to the office.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Meta CEO told staff they could expect him to spend half of the next year working remotely. True to his word, in his first week Musk banned remote work in a 2:30 a.m email to Twitter staff. Still: Unlike some of the other wealthy CEOs on this list, Eric Yuan has always been a little skeptical of permanent remote work. Roy RochlinSalesforce CEO Marc Benioff was initially outspoken in his support for remote working. Joining the growing list of CEOs that say remote work is not conducive to productivity, Salesforce revised its work-from-anywhere strategy.

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☆ An AI weapons race may create a world where everyone stays inside out of fear of being 'chased down by swarms of slaughterbots,' warns founding Skype engineer
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Kylie Kirschner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jaan Tallinn helped build Skype and is the founder of the Future of Life Institute. He recently warned of the risks of an AI arms race, describing theoretical anonymous "slaughterbots." As AI technology develops, Tallinn is especially afraid of the implications that military use might have for the future of AI. When contacted by Insider, the Future of Life Institute told Insider it agreed with Tallinn's remarks on his fears of weaponized AI. Now AI researchers, tech moguls, celebrities, and regular people alike are worried.

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☆ So, that's the end of OpenAI's ChatGPT moat
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

In the fast-changing world of AI, OpenAI appeared to have created a powerful moat through ChatGPT. But Meta rolling out its own powerful language model, Llama 2, with few restrictions puts ChatGPT at risk. And unlike OpenAI's ChatGPT, Llama 2 doesn't come with an easy-to-use consumer interface. As the first popular entrant into the generative AI space, OpenAI's chatbot had the advantage of capturing the imaginations of millions before Google, Meta and the rest. But open models were always the threat.

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☆ Elon Musk doesn't have a natural feel for empathy or emotions, says his biographer who's followed him for three years.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Walter Isaacson commended Elon Musk's engineering abilities, but suggested he lacks empathy. Isaacson made the comments on CNBC's Squawk Box, discussing his upcoming biography of Musk. Walter Isaacson, whose upcoming biography about Elon Musk is expected in September, said one of his takeaways from three years of observing the voluble executive is that he may lack empathy. He repeated the idea on CNBC's Squawk Box. In the segment, Isaacson also addressed recent headlines about Musk, including a purported cage match with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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☆ Meta's VP of Metaverse says 'the metaverse hype is dead,' but that's OK
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Meta's VP of Metaverse said the hype cycle for the metaverse is dead, but that's okay. The metaverse team can "put their heads down and build" the experiences, Vishal Shah told Fortune. "I think the metaverse hype is dead. People access Meta's metaverse apps through the company's Quest lineup of headsets, but Apple recently announced the $3,499 Vision Pro headset. Interestingly enough, Apple is avoiding the term metaverse in favor of "spatial computing."

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☆ Elon Musk launches new company xAI, which proclaims a lofty mission to 'understand the true nature of the universe'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk officially unveiled his new company xAI on Wednesday. Musk publicly introduced a new company called xAI, whose stated aim is to glean "the true nature of the universe." And an apparently all-male, 12-person team including Musk has been detailed to the heady task, according to its website, which doesn't list any female employees. Hendrycks has published about the potential dangers of AI, including the technology's ability to spread disinformation. With the launch of xAI, Musk now owns or is in charge of half a dozen companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, The Boring Company, and Twitter.

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☆ Threads beat ChatGPT to 100 million users but the AI app is way more consequential
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Zuck can be happy: Threads reached 100 million users faster than ChatGPT. Mark Zuckerberg had cause to celebrate over the weekend as Meta's newest app, Threads, passed the 100 million user milestone less than a week after its launch. The would-be Twitter competitor is now the fastest-growing app ever, beating ChatGPT, the generative AI chatbot that corporate America hasn't stopped talking about all year. But its leap to 100 million users had a massive jumpstart thanks to its integration with Instagram, whose billion-plus users are actively encouraged to download the new app if they fancy adding a new social-media timesuck onto their devices. ChatGPT, released to the public November 30, surpassed the 100 million user milestone in January.

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