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☆ From passion to profit: OpenAI's latest shakeup shows the AI race is about who has the deepest pockets
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Altman could reportedly receive a 7% equity stake, which would be worth about $10.5 billion at OpenAI's new valuation. In March, The New York Times reported Murati raised concerns about Altman's leadership style to the board before the ouster. Barret Zoph, the company's vice president of research, and Bob McGrew, OpenAI's chief research officer, are also departing the startup, Altman announced on X . "I obviously won't pretend it's natural for this one to be so abrupt, but we are not a normal company," Altman wrote.

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☆ Why OpenAI should fear a Scarlett Johansson lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“It doesn’t matter if OpenAI used any of Scarlett Johansson’s actual voice samples,” Li posted on Threads. Here, Johansson could accuse OpenAI of illegally monetizing who she is by essentially fooling users into thinking she had voiced Sky. But there’s substantial case law — and one very inconvenient fact for OpenAI — undercutting that defense, legal experts say. According to Johansson, OpenAI approached her to perform as Sky; Johansson declined. While California’s publicity law protects all individuals, some state statutes only protect famous people, and not all states have such legislation on the books.

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☆ AI ‘Accelerationists’ Come Out Ahead With Sam Altman’s Return to OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Sam Altman is a leading proponent of rapidly developing AI technology, while others want to pump the brakes. Photo: joel saget/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesSam Altman ’s triumph in remaining OpenAI’s CEO was also a win for those seeking the swift development of artificial intelligence. OpenAI, and Altman himself, are at the heart of a debate about AI development: how quickly should humanity race toward building “artificial general intelligence”—that is, fully humanlike intelligence, or maybe even superhuman intelligence.

Persons: Sam Altman, joel saget, Sam Altman ’, Altman, ” Organizations: Agence France

☆ Catch up on the OpenAI’s wild 60 hours… in 60 seconds
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

ET, OpenAI publicly announced that it had fired Altman over concerns that he was not always truthful with the board. OpenAI’s strategic partners, including investor Microsoft, were also reportedly informed of Altman’s ouster minutes before the board’s announcement. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reportedly mediated the discussion. Hundreds of employees on Monday morning signed an open letter calling on the company’s board to resign and reinstate Altman and Brockman. The Verge reported Monday afternoon that Altman and Brockman could still return to OpenAI if the board members who fired him resign.

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☆ Ranking the biggest winners, and losers, in the current economy
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

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 . In today's big story, we're ranking how different generations are doing in the current economy. After watching their parents and predecessors (millennials) struggle with finances, Gen Z is taking matters into their own hands. A May survey found more than half of Gen Z respondents had already started investing.

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☆ The death of downtowns
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

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 . But the number of empty storefronts overwhelming downtowns isn't just a product of the post-pandemic world. When it comes to local downtowns, not all small businesses are created equally. A homebuilder executive breaks down the do's and don'ts that've helped her clients lower rates from 8% to 4.875%.

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☆ Sam Altman warns AI could kill us all. But he still wants the world to use it
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Samantha Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

New York CNN —Sam Altman thinks the technology underpinning his company’s most famous product could bring about the end of human civilization. As many as 300 million full-time jobs around the world could eventually be automated in some way by generative AI, according to Goldman Sachs estimates. Challenges aheadWhen starting OpenAI, Altman told CNN in 2015 he wanted to steer the path of AI, rather than worrying about the potential harms and doing nothing. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addresses a speech during a meeting at Station F in Paris on May 26. Sam embodies that for AI right now.”The world is counting on Altman to act in the best interest of humanity with a technology by his own admission could be a weapon of mass destruction.

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☆ We asked Elon Musk's dad what he thought about the new book out on his son. He had a lot to say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Errol Musk told Insider he isn't happy with what he's heard about the new biography on his son. AdvertisementAdvertisementErrol Musk isn't happy with Walter Isaacson's recent biography about his son, Elon Musk. Isaacson's biography on Elon Musk is filled with accounts of incidents where the Tesla CEO and other family members claim Errol Musk bullied and demeaned Elon. In the book, Isaacson wrote that Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal Musk have cut off communication with their father — an assertion Errol Musk denies. Isaacson, Elon Musk, and Kimbal Musk did not respond to a request for comment ahead of publication.

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☆ FTC is investigating ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for potential harm to consumers
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

OpenAI didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addresses a speech during a meeting, at the Station F in Paris on May 26, 2023. As the nation’s top consumer protection watchdog, the FTC is empowered to prosecute privacy abuses, untruthful marketing, and other harms. FTC Chair Lina Khan has argued that the agency’s existing congressional mandate provides ample authority for the FTC to prosecute abusive uses of AI. Some critics of OpenAI previously filed a complaint to the FTC claiming that algorithmic bias, privacy concerns and ChatGPT’s tendency to hallucinate may violate US consumer protection law.

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☆ Sam Altman explains why he's helping to take nuclear microreactor company Oklo public via SPAC
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

And if we get those, we'll be quite surprised about how different and how much better the future is," Altman told CNBC in a phone conversation on Friday. I think there's urgent demand for tons and tons of cheap, safe, clean energy at scale," Altman told CNBC. I mean, maybe we could get there just with solar and storage," Altman told CNBC. There's no lack of desire or need for this," Altman told CNBC. Some of that is the reactor's smaller size, but some of it is how the Oklo reactors have been designed.

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☆ ¿Musk y Zuckerberg pelearán en una jaula? Parece broma, pero quizás no lo sea
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Ryan Mac | Mike Isaac | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter and SpaceX and chief executive of Tesla, tweeted this week that a fight could happen in the Roman Colosseum. Credit... Joel Saget/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Joel Saget Organizations: Twitter, SpaceX, Agence France

☆ Forget about the AI apocalypse. The real dangers are already here
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Left to right: Microsoft's CTO Kevin Scott, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. Joy Malone/David Ryder/Bloomberg/Joel Saget/AFP/Getty ImagesSome AI industry experts say that focusing attention on far-off scenarios may distract from the more immediate harms that a new generation of powerful AI tools can cause to people and communities, including spreading misinformation, perpetuating biases and enabling discrimination in various services. “Motives seemed to be mixed,” Gary Marcus, an AI researcher and New York University professor emeritus who testified before lawmakers alongside Altman last month, told CNN. In his testimony before Congress, Altman also said the potential for AI to be used to manipulate voters and target disinformation were among “my areas of greatest concern.”Even in more ordinary use cases, however, there are concerns. Influencing regulatorsRegulators may be the real intended audience for the tech industry’s doomsday messaging.

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☆ French street artist C215’s heart ‘belongs to the Ukrainian people’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Mariya Knight | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Based in Paris, Guemy has collaborated with British artist Banksy — who has also created works in Ukraine — in the past. “Being French gives a proper sense of tragedy, not irony.”The artist's depiction of Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Matsiyevsky. The artist has even painted his own son Gabin, wearing a traditional Ukrainian shirt, on a building in Kyiv damaged by a Russian missile attack. Ukraine doesn’t want ‘peace,’ Ukraine wants victory and justice.”Guemy is planning to do more works in and about Ukraine. “My heart belongs to the Ukrainian people.”

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☆ France is already sending one armored 'oddity' to Ukraine. Now it might send a slightly odder one.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

France is reportedly considering sending AMX-10P amphibious infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine. France has already sent its AMX-10RC armored vehicle to Ukraine, among other military hardware. Troops exit an AMX-10P armored vehicle in France KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesAbout 2,000 AMX-10Ps were manufactured between 1973 and 1985. It is also relatively easy to learn and operate, Péria-Peigné said, describing it as "simpler than most modern" infantry fighting vehicles. As Ukraine struggles to assimilate a plethora of Western arms quickly, an old but simple armored vehicle may be good enough.

☆ Publicis Reports 9.4% Organic Revenue Growth for Fourth Quarter
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( Megan Graham | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +4 min

Publicis Groupe SA said Thursday that organic revenue grew 9.4% in the fourth quarter as its data and technology services continued to capture a shift in client spending. The growth in the quarter ending Dec. 31 brought Publicis’s full-year 2022 organic revenue growth to 10.1%. The results beat the average analyst estimate of 5.3% growth for the quarter and 8.8% for the year, according to FactSet. Publicis said it expects organic revenue growth of 3% to 5% in 2023. Organic growth refers to the change in net revenue excluding the impacts of acquisitions, disposals and currency fluctuations.

☆ Walmart, Citi, Disney, McDonald’s and others pledge to abolish stigma of cancer at work
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

He still needed to undergo radiation and chemotherapy, and explained to them what that would mean for his work schedule. Instead, they took vacation days for treatments or scheduled very early morning procedures so they could work the same day, Sadoun told CNN. Some even hid their children’s cancer treatments from their boss, he added. Joel Saget/AFP/Getty ImagesThat mission is to create a worldwide campaign to encourage employers to eradicate the stigma and anxiety of having cancer at work. They include Bank of America, Citi, Disney, Google, L’Oréal, Marriott, McDonald’s, Meta, Microsoft, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Toyota, Unilever and Walmart.

☆ The tank-killing armored vehicle that France is sending to Ukraine is 'a bit of an oddity,' but don't call it a tank
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

France said on January 5 that it would send the AMX-10RC armored vehicle to Ukraine. The "tank" vs. "armored vehicle" debate is a long and often contentious one, but AMX-10RCs are armored reconnaissance vehicles and not tanks, which usually have large-caliber main guns, heavy-duty armor, and tracks. Fighting there has become trench warfare, with incremental gains rather than sweeping armored offensives in which fast, armored scout vehicles excel. Armored vehicles are still vital on the battlefield, but an armored car may have limited utility against swarms of anti-tank missiles, attack drones, and smart artillery shells. What's important is that the West is sending armored fighting vehicles.

☆ European Space Agency announces first ‘parastronaut’
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

It’s the first time the space agency has established an astronaut reserve, which is made up of candidates who successfully completed the selection process but were not recruited. McFall, a British medic and Paralympian, said he felt compelled to apply when he saw ESA’s ad for an astronaut with a physical disability. McFall, a British medic, will become the first astronaut with a physical disability. The space agency has been closely involved with NASA’s Artemis mission to put humans back on the moon, and ESA hopes that the first European to set foot on the moon will be among this class of astronauts. The space agency on Wednesday also agreed on a new budget of 16.9 billion euros ($17.5 billion) for the next three years — an increase of 17% from 2019.

☆ A Facebook contractor describes what it's like working on the company's customer service front lines
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In a conversation with Insider, a Meta customer service agent working for third-party firm described what it's like to work with customers, from torrents of abuse to insomnia from the stress. Each day, she fields around 20 cases a day from organizations, businesses, celebrities, and creators who depend on Facebook and Instagram for their livelihoods. More than 200 Gopuff customer service workers were let go last week. On a podcast, Glenn Howerton said he was locked out of his Tesla when his key fob broke, and that he had a difficult time reaching customer service, saying that Tesla "lost a customer." Acquired a decade ago for $22 billion, WhatsApp has yet to become a big business for Facebook.

☆ France hit by nationwide strike as workers protest over pension reforms
▼ + stars: | 2019-12-05 | by ( Silvia Amaro | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

watch nowFrance is experiencing one of its biggest strikes in decades as public sector workers protest against changes to the pension system. According to the French newspaper, Le Monde, more than 180 000 people are taking to the streets in 30 different parts of France. Prior to his election in 2017, President Emmanuel Macron vowed to reform France's pension system. watch nowPrevious attempts to change the pension system have also been met with strong opposition from public sector workers. However, transport workers argue that the new system would mean they would have to work longer into old age or see their pension reduced.

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