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☆ Microsoft AI boss likens OpenAI partnership to a sibling rivalry
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But Microsoft is also reportedly building its own in-house AI model that could compete with OpenAI's. Microsoft is now developing its own in-house AI model, reportedly dubbed MAI-1, and OpenAI has launched GPT-4o and o1-preview. The two were briefly announced to "lead a new advanced AI research team," a group now known as Microsoft AI. Suleyman said the ties between Microsoft and OpenAI aren't unique, but rather similar to other company relationships across the industry. "I mean, we have a deep relationship with Amazon, believe it or not, on a lot of fronts."

Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, —, Kara Swisher, Suleyman, OpenAI, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Altman, Brockman, Karén Simonyan Organizations: Microsoft, Service, OpenAI Locations: OpenAI

☆ Bill Gates calls for higher taxes on the rich — but warns against crushing the American dream
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Bill Gates' ideal tax system would leave him worth 62% less, but still a billionaire. The Microsoft cofounder said the rich should pay higher taxes and give the rest to good causes. The Future with Bill Gates." Gates' latest comments suggest he'd like to be about $100 billion less wealthy at around $62 billion. He's previously said he would have paid "tens of billions" more in taxes if he'd designed the US tax system.

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☆ Bill Gates shares his 3 biggest concerns about AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementBill Gates is a self-described optimist about the future of AI, but the tech still raises a few key concerns for him. Experts have warned AI models can be abused for purposes like carrying out scams or cyberattacks or spreading misinformation , among other things. Besides Gates, other business leaders have also expressed concerns about AI and an interest in more regulation and guardrails on the technology. Many share some of Gates' concerns. Looking more at the present, Gates has said he uses AI in his own life to summarize meetings he attends.

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☆ Is Bill Gates too rich? 'I would take away 62% of what I have,' he says
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

When an interviewer asked Gates directly if he believed he was "too rich," the billionaire avoided giving a "yes" or "no" answer. Gates is personally invested in the issue: His nonprofit Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated billions of dollars to address global problems like poverty and inequity. He's previously stated that the wealthiest people, himself included, should pay much higher tax rates. "I'm for a tax system in which, if you have more money, you pay a higher percentage in taxes. I think the rich should pay more than they currently do," Gates wrote in a 2019 blog post.

Persons: Bill Gates, Gates, Melinda Gates, He's, Kara Swisher, Sen, Bernie Sanders, Sanders Organizations: Microsoft, Forbes, Netflix, Melinda Gates Foundation Locations: New York

☆ The Barbie playbook: How Mattel's CEO is transforming the toy maker into an entertainment company
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewMattel CEO Ynon Kreiz is trying to transform the toy maker into an entertainment company — but don't look for it to be a funder or distributor in its own right. After 2023's smash success of Greta Gerwig's "Barbie," Kreiz has become one of the most intriguing figures in Hollywood. Kreiz spoke with Business Insider on Wednesday about lessons from Barbie and how he's turning Mattel into an IP company. At a time of massive disruption in entertainment, Kreiz thinks Mattel is well-positioned. But "Barbie" established a blueprint for Mattel's future projects in working with top creatives, providing promotion power, and staying true to its brands, Kreiz said.

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☆ Harris isn’t giving the specifics some undecided voters say they want
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

On another intractable issue, the Israel-Hamas war, Harris was strong on aspiration, vague on specifics and seemed to fall on both sides of the issue. Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris debate for the first time at the National Constitution Center on September 10, 2024, in Philadelphia. And Harris might be smart to avoid taking positions that could scare off disaffected Republicans and moderate suburban voters she’s seeking to win over. Voters want to know more about HarrisStill, recent polls show that the vice president has a window of opportunity to court voters who want to learn more about her. … She needs to be more direct.”From left to right, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris, Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz and Minnesota Gov.

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Elon Musk said his now-deleted X post about how “no one is even trying to assassinate” Vice President and Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden was intended to be a joke. The tech billionaire’s comment came after what the FBI is investigating as an “apparent assassination” attempt on former President Donald Trump on Sunday. Musk, who owns X, had posted a response to a user who had asked, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?” Musk, who took over X — then Twitter — in October 2022, has been known to elevate debunked conspiracy theories on the platform. Musk on Monday also responded to a post from Donald Trump Jr. on X about the former president. “The incitement to hatred and violence against President Trump by the media and leading Democrats needs to stop” Musk wrote.

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☆ Companies failed to solve injustice and now they are giving up on the era of activism
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —Corporate America gave social activism a go. And sales of Bud Light have taken a hit ever since. Bud Light didn’t handle fallout well — it capitulated to the angry mob and dropped Mulvaney even as she faced a barrage of threats. It caught fire as right-wing media fueled the swirl of negativity around Bud Light, framing it as “wokeism” gone amok. On Thursday, the Guardian reported that the Bud Light boycott was fueled in part by the right-wing activist Leonard Leo.

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☆ He tried to oust OpenAI’s CEO. Now, he’s starting a ‘safe’ rival
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —The OpenAI co-founder who left the high-flying artificial intelligence startup last month has announced his next venture: a company dedicated to building safe, powerful artificial intelligence that could become a rival to his old employer. Ilya Sutskever announced plans for the new company, aptly named Safe Superintelligence Inc., in a post on X Wednesday. Sutskever then worked on Google’s AI research team, before helping to found what would become the maker of ChatGPT. It’s also not clear exactly what the new company thinks of as “safety” in the context of highly powerful artificial intelligence technology. “By safe, we mean safe like nuclear safety as opposed to safe as in ‘trust and safety,’” Sutskever told Bloomberg in an interview published Tuesday.

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☆ AOC says she 'wouldn't be surprised' if Trump 'threw me in jail' if he wins in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

AOC suggested that Trump could jail her if he wins the presidency again. "It sounds nuts, but like, I wouldn't be surprised if this guy threw me in jail," she said. "If Donald Trump wins, we are looking at the potential dissolution of democracy," she added. AdvertisementRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested this week that she could be jailed if former President Donald Trump defeats President Joe Biden in November. "I mean, it sounds nuts, but like, I wouldn't be surprised if this guy threw me in jail," the New York congresswoman said during an appearance on the "On With Kara Swisher" podcast.

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☆ More OpenAI drama: Exec quits over concerns about focus on profit over safety
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —A departing OpenAI executive focused on safety is raising concerns about the company on his way out the door. His resignation followed an announcement by OpenAI Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, who also helped lead the superalignment team, on Tuesday that he would leave the company. The technology will make ChatGPT more like a digital personal assistant, capable of real-time spoken conversations. “i’m super appreciative of @janleike’s contributions to openai’s alignment research and safety culture, and very sad to see him leave,” Altman said. i’ll have a longer post in the next couple of days.”–CNN’s Samantha Delouya contributed to this report.

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☆ OpenAI executive is out after key role in CEO Sam Altman’s ouster
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —OpenAI’s chief scientist and cofounder, who played an instrumental role in CEO Sam Altman’s short-lived ouster from OpenAI in November, announced that he was leaving company on Tuesday. “After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI,” Ilya Sutskever said in a social media post. Sutskever’s role at OpenAI will be filled by Jakub Pachocki, previously the company’s director of research, according to the company. Sutskever played a defining role in OpenAI’s rise to power in the AI scene. In 2019, Altman, Sutskever and Greg Brockman jointly formed OpenAI LP, a for-profit entity within the larger nonprofit company’s structure.

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☆ MDMA therapy could be legalized by summer. Why are so many advocates sounding the alarm?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +52 min

Last summer, thousands of tie-dyed Burners and Patagonia-clad tech founders converged on the MAPS Psychedelic Science conference in Denver. The experience "broke the spell of this trauma, and she was able to rebuild her life," Doblin told The Guardian . The video team's job was to store recordings of every MDMA therapy session performed in the clinical trials. Grof believes in something called an "inner healing intelligence," an innate capacity for self-healing that psychedelic therapy helps unleash. Another time, a patient who had come to an MDMA therapy session later acknowledged they had been under the influence of LSD during treatment.

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☆ AI boom in Silicon Valley is going to worsen the housing problem, says CEO of billionaire-backed company trying to build a new city near San Francisco
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jan Sramek, CEO of California Forever, wants to build a new city in Solano County, California. The recent "AI boom" will only make the housing crisis worse, Sramek told Kara Swisher. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Previously published information from California Forever revealed that the city will be about 18,600 acres with a capacity to welcome 400,000 residents. A California Forever spokesperson didn't address the question in an emailed response to Business Insider.

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☆ Analysis: Trump’s DJT stock creates a unique new ethical nightmare
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

In the meantime, he’s also trying to sell “God Bless the USA” Bibles via his social media platform Truth Social for $59.99. )”A history of bankruptcyAnother note of caution for investors in DJT should the history of the last company Trump took public. Trump’s casino company also went by the ticker DJT, but on the New York Stock Exchange between 1995 and 2004, when it went bankrupt and was delisted. None of that has stopped what some experts have referred to as a bubble forming around the Trump Media & Technology Group. Susquehanna International Group did not return a request for comment about the company’s stake in Trump Media & Technology Group.

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☆ Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman: One is clearly winning the nastiest battle in tech
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, years after he left the startup. "Elon Musk is the best PR stuntsman I've ever seen," Kyle Arteaga, the CEO of the national tech PR company, The Bulleit Group, said. Earlier this month, Altman told veteran tech reporter Kara Swisher that Musk was his "absolute hero" growing up. AdvertisementDuring the interview, Swisher told Altman she thought Musk's lawsuit was "nonsense." Representatives for Musk, Altman, and OpenAI did not immediately respond to a requests for comment by Business Insider.

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☆ Sam Altman said he texted Elon Musk after the billionaire sued him
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sam Altman said he texted Elon Musk after the Tesla CEO sued him. Musk sued Altman and OpenAI earlier this year, alleging the company violated its 'founding agreement.' AdvertisementOpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he fired off a text to Elon Musk right after he found out the Tesla CEO had sued him. In the face of Musk's very public disses, Altman has been more diplomatic in his public response to Musk. "I miss the old Elon," Altman told Swisher.

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☆ Salesforce's behind-the-scenes co-founder is tackling Slack as software company turns 25
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +16 min

"The V2MOM had nothing about generative AI," Parker Harris, who co-founded the company with Benioff, told CNBC in an interview. Harris, a Salesforce board member and now the technology chief of Slack, which Salesforce bought in 2021, said he'd rather avoid the limelight. Without the Data Cloud, Harris told CNBC, "I think we would have been in a much worse place." He told Benioff he'd redo the plan, the person said. They'll be talking more frequently, as Harris said they're about to kick off weekly meetings on Slack and Salesforce integrations.

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So we have to talk about the drama that has been playing out in the past week between OpenAI and Elon Musk. According to OpenAI, Elon Musk wanted majority, equity, initial board control, and to be CEO of this new for-profit subsidiary. It’s basically —casey newtonIt’s like, I’m going to find a way to follow your rule, but in the worst way possible. Like, working was one I thought that, oh, I’m going to work in this all the time. kevin roose[LAUGHS]: Well, I thought, like, I’m going to take some spatial videos.

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☆ Sam Altman is done playing nice with Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewWhen it comes to OpenAI, Elon Musk is not afraid to go for the jugular. He addressed his personal relationship with Musk directly in a memo sent to employees shortly after the lawsuit was filed. Though he said he'd considered Musk a personal hero, he expressed disappointment that Musk wasn't on OpenAI's side. AdvertisementThe Journal reported cited people close to Musk, who said Musk was jealous of OpenAI's success in the AI race. Representatives for Musk and Altman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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☆ Sergey Brin once hosted a bizarre baby shower where big-name guests wore oversized diapers and onesies, book says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sergey Brin once hosted a bizarre baby shower featuring oversize diapers and adult onesies. Brin, who stepped back from Alphabet in 2019, has returned to help shape Google's AI strategy. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementGoogle cofounder Sergey Brin once hosted a bizarre baby shower where guests wore oversized diapers and adult-sized onesies.

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Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Google removed the ability to generate images of people from its Gemini chatbot. We talk about why, and about the brewing culture war over artificial intelligence. Then, did Kara Swisher start “Hard Fork”? We clear up some podcast drama and ask about her new book, “Burn Book.” And finally, the legal expert Daphne Keller tells us how the U.S. Supreme Court might rule on the most important First Amendment cases of the internet era, and what Star Trek and soy boys have to do with it. Today’s guests:Kara Swisher, tech journalist and Casey Newton’s former landlordDaphne Keller, director of the program on platform regulation at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy CenterAdditional Reading:

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☆ 'Inflection point with AI': long-time tech journalist Kara Swisher sees key similarities to dot-com boom and bust
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via Email'Inflection point with AI': long-time tech journalist Kara Swisher sees key similarities to dot-com boom and bustKara Swisher, “BURN BOOK: A TECH LOVE STORY” Author, Tech Journalist, “On with Kara Swisher” Podcast Host, joins 'Fast Money' to talk the AI 'bubble', the state of the tech space, how this compares to the internet boom and more.

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☆ Watch CNBC's full interview with Author and Podcast Host Kara Swisher
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC's full interview with Author and Podcast Host Kara SwisherKara Swisher, author, tech journalist and “On with Kara Swisher” Podcast Host, joins 'Fast Money' to talk the AI 'bubble', the state of the tech space, how this compares to the internet boom and more.

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☆ Kara Swisher warns news organizations need to ‘reinvent’ themselves amid existential crisis
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

We spoke to Swisher on Monday to get her insight on some of the challenges facing the media and tech landscape today. And they didn’t anticipate that these tech companies were going to get into media. If so, why haven’t legacy media companies been able to lure in top tech talent to improve their products? Media companies do not get to live by the same anti-gravity rules that tech companies have been able to. But media companies didn’t offer the same kind of upside.

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