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☆ The OpenAI talent exodus has become the joke of the moment in tech world
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Sarah Gray | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Sutskever announced his departure from OpenAI in May and launched his own AI startup focused on safety. Of the 11 cofounders of OpenAI from 2015, only Altman, Brockman (who, again, is on leave), and Wojciech Zaremba remain. Daniel Kokotajlo and William Saunders, who previously worked on OpenAI's governance and safety teams, respectively, left OpenAI in the first half of 2023. AdvertisementAdditionally, OpenAI cofounder John Schulman left in August to join OpenAI rival Anthropic — where Leike also landed. On Wednesday, Meta announced that Meta AI is on track to be "the most used AI assistant in the world."

Persons: —, Mira Murati, Sam Altman, There's, OpenAI, Airbnb, KugtVv9o6N, Matt Turck, Altman, Murati, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Brockman, Sutskever, Sam, Madeline, PnRxZSbGgx — sophie, Bob McGrew, Barret Zoph, Sarah Friar, Jakub Pachocki, Brad Lightcap, Kevin Weil, Wojciech Zaremba, Elon Musk, Musk, Jan Leike, Daniel Kokotajlo, William Saunders, John Schulman, Anthropic, Leike, Andrej Karpathy, Kokotajlo, Fortune Organizations: Service, Bloomberg, Business, Wired, OpenAI, —, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Nvidia, Reuters Locations: OpenAI, Slack, —

☆ OpenAI has 4 big challenges it needs to conquer in its quest for AI dominance
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

OpenAI bleeds C-suite executivesAs OpenAI chases a massive fundraising round, the startup continues to deal with a staff exodus. The nonprofit side of OpenAI will still exist and have a minority stake in the for-profit company, the sources told Reuters. "Given the ambitions of OpenAI, a non-profit structure has been too constraining. AdvertisementThe debate over whether OpenAI should be a for-profit company has been a bone of contention for one very vocal tech industry bigwig — Elon Musk. Park, the corporate law expert, told BI that the for-profit governance structure could also leave OpenAI vulnerable to greater government scrutiny.

Persons: —, OpenAI, Mira Murati, Sam Altman's, Murati, Barret Zoph, Bob McGrew, Altman, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Peter Deng, Sutskever, James, I'd, Slack, Gene Munster, She's, Mira, — Elon, Musk, Gary Marcus, Marcus, Musk's, Mark Zuckerberg, xAI, Sam Altman, Munster Organizations: Service, Technology, Business, Microsoft, Nvidia, Wired, University of California, OpenAI, Bloomberg, Deepwater Asset Management, Reuters, Intelligence, Guardian, Meta Locations: It's, OpenAI, Los Angeles

☆ US scientists are leaving academia. That’s bad news for drug companies
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“Science postdocs perform the science,” Donna Ginther, an economist who studies the science labor market at the University of Kansas, told CNN. Biomedical companies take scientific contributions and, over time, aggregate them into a commercial product. Building on the discovery of mRNA in the 1960’s, the technology behind an mRNA vaccine for humans was in development for decades before the Covid-19 vaccine was first administered in 2020. By using that technology to develop their mRNA vaccines for Covid-19, pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna made a windfall in profits. “That’s how they make money is through commercialization: they have a product, which they then patent and sell.”Why are scientists leaving academic labs?

Persons: postdocs, Donna Ginther, “ They’re, Michael Ciaglo, ”, “, Nobel, Dr, Katalin Kariko, ” Ginther, they’re, Ginther Organizations: New, New York CNN —, National Institutes of Health, NIH, National Science Foundation, University of Kansas, CNN, ”, Pfizer, Moderna, Wired Magazine, NSF, World Health Organization Locations: New York, United States, Denver , Colorado, Europe, Alzheimer’s

WASHINGTON (AP) — If some U.S. lawmakers have their way, the United States and China could end up with something in common: TikTok might not be available in either country. But while U.S. lawmakers associate TikTok with China, the company, headquartered outside China, has strategically kept its distance from its homeland. Since its inception, the TikTok platform has been intended for non-Chinese markets and is unavailable in mainland China. Some have insisted they be called “global companies” instead of “Chinese companies.”But for TikTok, this may not be enough. “America’s foremost adversary has no business controlling a dominant media platform in the United States.

Persons: TikTok, Joe Biden, Zhiqun Zhu, ” Zhu, Alex Capri, Hinrich, ” Capri, Capri, Zhang Yiming, Mike Gallagher, ”, Gallagher, “, Sen, Tom Cotton, Shou Zi Chew, beholden, Chew, Nancy Pelosi, ” Chew, Thomas Zhang, Zhang, It's, Donald Trump, Trump Organizations: WASHINGTON, Bucknell University, “, National University of Singapore, Hinrich Foundation, Chinese Communist Party, CCP, Communist, Wired, Republicans Locations: United States, China, Beijing, Hong Kong, U.S, Washington, there's, Chinese, Chew

☆ Man vs. Musk: A Whistleblower Creates Headaches for Tesla
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Jack Ewing | More About Jack Ewing | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

(Some of the information came from a second, unidentified Tesla employee.) The Data Protection Authority in the Netherlands, where Tesla has its European headquarters, is investigating whether the breach violated privacy laws. Tesla and three lawyers representing the company did not reply to requests for comment. In the United States, Benson Pai, a former Tesla production worker, has sued the automaker in federal court in California, claiming that lax security by Tesla exposed employee information that could be sold to criminals. Lawyers for Mr. Pai are seeking approval from a judge to pursue the case as a class action on behalf of tens of thousands of Tesla employees.

Persons: Handelsblatt, Tesla, Krupski, Benson Pai, Pai Organizations: Wired, Data Protection Authority, Mr Locations: Netherlands, United States, California

☆ How the GOP muzzled the quiet coalition that fought foreign propaganda
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Kevin Collier | Ken Dilanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +14 min

A once-robust alliance of federal agencies, tech companies, election officials and researchers that worked together to thwart foreign propaganda and disinformation has fragmented after years of sustained Republican attacks. The most recent setback came when the FBI put an indefinite hold on most briefings to social media companies about Russian, Iranian and Chinese influence campaigns. "We're having some interaction with social media companies," Wray said. "The symbiotic relationship between the government and the social media companies has definitely been fractured." Tech companies are still sharing their findings with each other, a Meta spokesperson told NBC News.

Persons: Christopher Wray, Wray, Sen, Mitt Romney, they're, Mark Warner, Warner, Hillary Clinton's, Barack, CISA, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Hunter, Mark Zuckerburg, Hunter Biden, didn't, Biden, Nina Jankowicz, Jankowicz, Jen, Jim Jordan, Kara Swisher, we're, Elon Musk, wasn't Organizations: U.S, Capitol, Washington , D.C, GOP, FBI, Force, NBC News, Senate Homeland Security Committee, Justice Department, Committee, Republican, Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security, Microsoft, Senate Intelligence, Kremlin, Internet Research Agency, Facebook, Twitter, National Security Agency, Democrats, New, Digital, Republicans, Homeland Security, Wired, Rep, Tech Locations: Washington ,, Silicon Valley, R, Utah, Russia, Iran, China, U.S, Illinois, CISA, New York, Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, Israel

☆ A young engineer 3D prints drones for rebel forces fighting Myanmar's military dictatorship. 'My parents would kill me' if they knew, he says.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

One engineer began printing semiautomatic rifles and drones to fight the military regime, per Wired. AdvertisementAdvertisementA young engineer has been producing semiautomatic rifles and drones for a rebel group fighting against Myanmar's military regime behind his parents' backs, Wired magazine reported. AdvertisementAdvertisementAs of January 2023, about 3,000 people were killed, nearly 17,000 detained, and more than 1.5 million people displaced under the military regime, according to the US State Department. "That's when I thought, I have to find a way to make weapons from scratch," 3D told Wired. Armed with a 3D printer, the engineer began making FGC-9s, a 3D-printed semiautomatic rifle, using blueprints accessible online.

Persons: —, Thierry Falise, Ukraine's Organizations: US State Department, Service, Wired, Karenni Nationalities Defence Force, Union Solidarity and Development Party, KNDF, Karenni Nationalities Defense Force, Liberator, United Nations Locations: Ukraine

☆ Elon Musk's claim that no monkey died as a result of Neuralink implants contradicts records that show how the animals experienced brain swelling, paralysis, seizures, and other health effects, letter
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Elon Musk's Neuralink used monkeys to test its brain chip that can connect to a device. Musk said on X, formerly Twitter, that "no monkeys died as a result of Neuralink's chips." "First our early implants, to minimize risk to health monkeys, we chose terminal moneys (close to death already)," Musk wrote on September 10, misspelling monkeys. Other health effects included paralysis, seizures, loss of coordination and balance, and depression, PCRM wrote in the SEC letter. The average age of the dozen monkeys that died during Neuralink's research was 7.25 years, the group said.

Persons: Elon Musk's Neuralink, Musk, Elon Musk, PCRM, Andy Fell, UC Davis Organizations: SEC, Service, Securities and Exchange Commission, Responsible Medicine, WIRED, University of California, Primate Research Center, YouTube, UC Davis, UC, Neuralink, Care, California National Primate Research Center Locations: Wall, Silicon, Davis, California

☆ Does Information Affect Our Beliefs?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Amanda Taub | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

‘Filter bubbles’ and democracySometimes the dangerous effects of social media are clear. As a result, they mostly share and see stories from people on their own side of the political spectrum. That “filter bubble” of information supposedly exposes users to increasingly skewed versions of reality, undermining consensus and reducing their understanding of people on the opposing side. “The ‘Filter Bubble’ Explains Why Trump Won and You Didn’t See It Coming,” announced a New York Magazine article a few days after the election. Changing information doesn’t change mindsBut without rigorous testing, it’s been hard to figure out whether the filter bubble effect was real.

Persons: newsfeed, Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump, Trump, ”, it’s Organizations: Trump, New York Magazine, Wired Magazine, Meta, Princeton, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania Locations: Sri Lanka, Brazil, WhatsApp, Brasília, United States, Stanford

☆ Kevin Mitnick: Legendary computer hacker Kevin Mitnick dies at 59
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Andy Rose | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“I was an old-school hacker, doing it for intellectual curiosity,” Mitnick told Wired magazine in a 2008 interview. Mitnick and federal prosecutors agreed to a plea deal in 1999 to seven criminal counts, including wire fraud and causing damage to computers. Mitnick published a memoir on his hacking career, “Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker,” in 2011. Following his prison term, Mitnick became a white-hat hacker, using his expertise to legally help businesses track people trying to break into their systems. “I made some really stupid mistakes in the past as a younger man that I regret,” Mitnick told CNN in a 2005 interview.

Persons: Kevin Mitnick, Matthew Broderick, Mitnick, “, ” Mitnick, ”, Stu Sjouwerman, ” “ Kevin, ” Sjouwerman, Kevin, Kimberley Organizations: CNN, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Digital Equipment Corporation, Wired Locations: KnowBe4, Las Vegas

☆ 71-year-old shares 22 'most useful' life lessons young people should know: 'Live in a tiny room—and eat beans and rice'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Kevin Kelly | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

How to learn from people: If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room. How to find your passion: The best way to start is to be an expert on one thing. It will be shocking and painful, but it's the best way to improve. How to pick the right advice: Advice like these are not laws — they are simply hats! Don't miss:Want to be smarter and more successful with your money, work & life?

Persons: I've, Kevin Kelly Organizations: The New York Times, Street Journal

☆ Check out the pitch decks that hot cannabis startups used to raise millions from top investors
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-19 | by ( Yeji Jesse Lee | Jeremy Berke | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read more:The cannabis-tech startup Fyllo used this pitch deck to land $26 million. Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck it used to close the round. Once hailed as the "Uber of weed," Eaze vastly scaled back ambitions in 2020, as evidenced by its pitch deck. Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck that helped Cann raise $5 million. Here's the pitch deck that made it happen.

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