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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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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
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.
Persons: Sam Altman, , Satya Nadella, Altman, Board's, It's, Kali Hays, Adam D'Angelo, D'Angelo, Alistair Barr, OpenAI, humanity's Organizations: Service, Microsoft
Details of these verbal assurances stipulated that OpenAI employees who quit would receive the same amount of total compensation they receive at OpenAI should they be hired by Microsoft. What Microsoft can and can't do comes down to what CEO Satya Nadella wants to see happen at his company, a Microsoft employee said. Ultimately, a move to Microsoft is not what OpenAI employees really wish to happen. Although everyone who signed the letter has shown they are willing to work for Microsoft, so long as Altman is there, too, they have little desire to work there. The company is enormous compared to OpenAI, with a reputation for bureaucracy, slower work and lower pay, one of the employees said.
Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Greg Brockman, Satya Nadella, Nadella, Satya, Sam Organizations: Microsoft, Wired, Business, Big Tech
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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He also named Dhanji Prasanna, a longtime Block employee and its chief scientist, as the company's new CTO. "It's a lazy and often surprising approach that we can avoid with direct and consistent feedback," Dorsey said of PIPs. "We want to help everyone achieve excellence here at Block," he added. "That ensures we can have a fair two-way conversation holding each of us accountable to always raising the bar," Dorsey said. Excellence in service to our customers, excellence in our craft, excellence in our respective disciplines, and excellence to each other.
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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.
Persons: Satya Nadella, Emmett Shear, Sam Altman, Nadella, Shear, , Altman, OpenAI, Sam, Greg Brockman, it's, Altman's, he's, Kali Hays, he'd, Hays, Anthropic, he'll Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Bloomberg, San, The Washington Post, Press, BI Locations: OpenAI, San Francisco
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was ousted on Friday, igniting chaos inside the company. Amid discussions that the OpenAI board would be remade, Bret Taylor was asked to join. The former Salesforce executive and Twitter board chair is no longer poised to do so. Yet, in another affront to employees, it seems some expected changes to the board are no longer in the works. Now he is no longer set to join the OpenAI board.
Persons: Sam Altman, Bret Taylor, , Altman, — Emmet Shear, Twitch, Mira Murati —, Elon Musk, Taylor, Greg Brockman, Adam D'Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner, Ilya Setskever, Setskever, Brockman, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Twitter, Elon, Microsoft, Georgetown Center for Security, Emerging Technology Locations: khays@insider.com, @hayskali
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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OpenAI 's current independent board has offered two examples of the alleged lack of candor that led them to fire co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, sending the company into chaos. Staff had spent the day expecting to be told of the reinstatement of Altman as CEO. Sustkever is said to have offered two explanations he purportedly received from the board, according to one of the people familiar. One explanation was that Altman was said to have given two people at OpenAI the same project. These explanations didn't make sense to employees and were not received well, one of the people familiar said.
Persons: OpenAI, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Emmett Shear, Mira Murati, Altman, Shear, Sutskever, Sustkever, it's, Satya Nadella, Adam D'Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner, Setskever, Greg Brockman, Murati, she's, Kali Hays Organizations: Twitch, Business, Staff, Google, OpenAI, Murati, Microsoft, Georgetown Center for Security, Emerging Technology, Twitter Locations: OpenAI's San Francisco, khays@insider.com, @hayskali
Sam Altman was forced out as CEO of OpenAI on Friday, in dramatic fashion. One that was more snarky than loving: "if i start going off, the openai board should go after me for the full value of my shares." AdvertisementYet, it was the one about the OpenAI team that kicked off our current mystery. Various members of OpenAI staff have liked both tweets. Johnathan Lachman, who heads special projects at OpenAI, retweeted Murati's heart reply to Altman adding "our team spirit is just incredible."
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The announcement left OpenAI and Microsoft workers "completely shocked," people inside both companies told Business Insider. Another shock came about an hour later when OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman announced that he had "quit" over Altman's ouster. Perhaps there were signs all was not well when it came to OpenAI's business, one Microsoft employee told BI, which Microsoft has reportedly backed to the tune of at least $10 billion. Are you an OpenAI employee or someone with a tip or insight to share? Are you a Microsoft employee?
Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Mira Murati, Ilya Sutskever, He's, OpenAI, Greg Brockman, Brockman, shakeup, Steve Jobs, Satya Nadella, we're, Kali Hays Organizations: Microsoft, Business, OpenAI's San, Apple, OpenAI, Microsoft Ignite, Twitter Locations: OpenAI, OpenAI's San Francisco, Mira, Copilot, khays@insider.com, @hayskali
Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared to endorse an antisemitic conspiracy theory posted to X.Musk is now facing backlash from advertisers and investors. AdvertisementTesla CEO Elon Musk is under fire after he appeared to endorse an antisemitic conspiracy theory. I don't think he seeks it out, but I just think he does appreciate it for his brand, his name, you know," he said. At the Monterey, California, shopping center, the Tesla Model Y owner said Musk could impact his decision to buy another Tesla. But as he's gotten older, he's like, 'Hmm, I'm not so sure about that brand' — because of Elon Musk," he added.
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Elon Musk recently supported an anti-semitic tweet and other incendiary rhetoric on X.Musk is working to "destroy" Tesla, and is not acting as its CEO, Gerber said. AdvertisementAn ardent supporter of Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk no longer sees the billionaire as the leader of the company. AdvertisementGerber's comments came after Musk responded to an antisemitic comment on X, claiming that "Jewish communities" had been pushing "hatred against whites." "You have said the actual truth," Musk wrote in response to the antisemitic post. Earlier on Thursday, Gerber wrote on X that he plans to ditch his Model Y Tesla for a Rivian due to Musk's statements.
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Snap is doing what it can to get employees working in the office again. The Snapchat parent at the start of September enacted its return to office mandate , requiring workers to be in an office at least four days a week. Besides that, Snap is also "badge tracking," the people familiar said. Snap workers' adherence to RTO rules will become part of their performance reviews going forward, the people familiar added. Snap's attempts to enforce the RTO mandate come alongside piecemeal layoffs , executive departures , ongoing business struggles, and advertising woes.
Persons: It's, Snap's, Evan Spiegel, Evan, Spiegel, he's, We're Organizations: Business, Meta
During the third quarter, the Facebook app's daily active users grew by 1.5% and monthly active users grew by 1.8%, according to data from Apptopia. Instagram's daily users grew by 1.5% and monthly users grew by 1.6%. In its quarterly report , Meta said Facebook's total number of daily users, including web users, grew by 5%, while monthly users grew by 3%. There is one metric where TikTok still has Facebook and Instagram beat: how long the average user spends on the app. Instagram's average user spends 58 minutes a day on the app, while the average Facebook user spends about 45 minutes.
Persons: TikTok, Mark Zuckerberg, China's Bytedance, Evercore, Meta, Instagram, Adam Mosseri, Zuckerberg, Kali Hays Organizations: Meta, Facebook, Evercore, Twitter Locations: Apptopia, Instagram, SensorTower, TikTok, khays@insider.com, @hayskali
The New York Times discovered a big AI training dataset contained links to its copyrighted content. The media company also found its content in other AI training datasets, such as WebText. The New York Times discovered that Common Crawl, one of the largest AI training datasets, contained millions of URLs linking to its paywalled articles and other copyrighted content. The New York Times has found its paywalled articles and other copyrighted content in other popular AI training datasets. It's unclear if The New York Times has managed to get its content removed from WebText and other AI training datasets.
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Meta is asking political advertisers to "self disclose" when they want to run digitally created ads. AdvertisementAdvertisementMeta released a new way to fend off political ads that are created or manipulated by generative AI during the 2024 election cycle. Meta also just barred political advertisers from using its own generative AI tools for ads . 2024 is an election year in the US, along with 39 other countries, and generative AI has become wildly popular and powerful over the last year. If it happens to catch an advertiser trying to publish an improperly altered ad without disclosing it, it can also reject the ad.
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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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Biswanath Panda, vice president of monetization engineering who reported to Khajehnouri, left the company in May after just a year in the role and joined Uber. Jacob Andreou, Snap's former senior vice president of product and growth, left after working there since 2015 and then joined Greylock. Vice president of product Peter Sellis left Snap in September after eight years, taking on a similar role with Discord. Snap in June hired Eric Young as its new senior vice president of engineering, with Khajehnouri then reporting to him. In addition to Young, Darshan Kantak joined as senior vice president of revenue product, Patrick Harris joined as president of Americas, Ronan Harris joined as president of EMEA, and Ajit Mohan joined as president of APAC.
Persons: Nima Khajehnouri, Khajehnouri, Evan Spiegel, Spiegel, he's, Jeremi Gorman, Peter Naylor, Jerry Hunter, Gorman, Ben Schwerin, Biswanath Panda, Uber, Jacob Andreou, Greylock, Peter Sellis, Hunter, Eric Young, Young, Darshan Kantak, Patrick Harris, Ronan Harris, Ajit Mohan Organizations: Snap, EMEA Locations: Snapchat
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
The famed VC firm is fighting alongside Big Tech against potential copyright rules on AI. a16z sees any requirement to pay for copyrighted AI training data as detrimental to its investments. Using copyrighted data for free is the basis of "enormous investment" in AI, the VC firm said. National security"Those expectations have been a critical factor in the enormous investment of private capital into US-based AI companies," a16z said. Instead of spending time on making new laws that would explicitly address AI, the VC firm said the USCO should "embrace it wholeheartedly."
Persons: a16z, , Andreessen Horowitz, A16z, Marc Andreessen Organizations: Big Tech, Service, US Locations: United States, LLMs
Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft called for users to be held responsible for the way they interact with generative AI tools, according to their comments to the US Copyright Office made accessible to the public last week. The USCO is considering new rules on AI and the tech industry's use of owned content to train the large language models underlying generative AI tools. Holding developers responsible for the copyrighted training data making their AI tools tick is akin to holding photocopiers and audio or video recorders responsible for infringement, Google argued. It said a generative AI tool is, like a camera, a "general purpose tool." "In evaluating claims of infringement relating to outputs, the analysis starts with the user," OpenAI wrote.
Persons: Google's Bard, it's, OpenAI Organizations: Google, Microsoft, US Copyright, Big Tech, Columbia Law Locations: OpenAI
And it lived up to it.”Dickinson lived up to the hype, too, finishing with 21 points, eight boards and five assists. “We have 10 new guys who really, none of them have really played Division I basketball," longtime NC Central coach LeVelle Moton said. Dickinson had 17 points, seven boards and four assists by halftime; the Eagles had 18 points, eight rebounds and two assists. “He's going to be a problem, and he's not just going to be a problem for North Carolina Central. BIG PICTURENC Central will find life much easier in the MEAC, where the Eagles were picked to finish third this season.
Persons: LAWRENCE, Kan, — Hunter Dickinson, Allen Fieldhouse, , I’m, Dickinson, , I've, ” Dickinson, Nic Timberlake, KJ Adams, Dajuan Harris, Ja'Darius Harris, LeVelle Moton, McCullar, Parker Braun, Bill Self, ” Moton, “ He's, he's, ” Timberlake, Johnny Furphy, Jamari McDowell, ___ Organizations: Kansas, Jayhawks, Carolina Central, Eagles, NC Central, North Carolina Central, Illinois, Fort, Central, AP Locations: Michigan, Allen, Kansas, Fort Hays State, Virginia, Lynchburg, Manhattan
"Generative AI models need not only a massive quantity of content, but also a large diversity of content," Meta wrote in its comment. But those kinds of deals would provide AI developers with the rights to only a minuscule fraction of the data they need to train their models. And it would be impossible for AI developers to license the rights to other critical categories of works." None of the companies denied using copyrighted material without authorization from rights holders. Instead, they generally argued that putting copyrighted material on the internet makes it "publicly available" and therefore fair game for use.
Persons: Andreessen Horowitz, Google's Bard, OpenAI's, Meta, OpenAI, Bard, A16z, Vince Gilligan, doesn't, Kali Hays Organizations: US, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, News Corp, Getty Locations: khays@insider.com
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