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☆ OpenAI cofounder Elon Musk said the non-profit he helped create is now focused on 'maximum-profit,' which is 'not what I intended at all'
  + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk said OpenAI has become a "maximum-profit," closed-source firm "effectively controlled by Microsoft." The billionaire said this is not what he "intended" when he co-founded the company in 2015. Musk wrote in response: "OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it "Open" AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. The company announced a partnership with Microsoft the same year and welcomed a $1 billion investment from the tech giant. Speaking at the 2023 World Government Summit in Dubai this week Musk said "we need to regulate AI Safety."
☆ Putin is 'still convinced he can prevail' in Ukraine, and other nearby countries 'could be at risk of attack' if he wins, top Russia experts warn
  + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The outcome of the Ukraine war will determine the safety of the wider region, Angela Stent and Fiona Hill warn. Putin's "appetite for expansion would not stop at the Ukrainian border" if Russia wins, they said in a new op-ed. They warned that nearby countries like Poland and Finland could face attack if Russia prevails. "Even now, after a year of carnage, Putin is still convinced he can prevail," Stent and Hill wrote in a new op-ed for Foreign Affairs. Putin has often pointed to Russia's imperial past when offering justifications for the war in Ukraine, at one point likening himself to Peter the Great.
☆ Putin says Ukraine fight is taking longer than expected
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +2 min
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged Wednesday that his “special military operation” in Ukraine is taking longer than expected but said it has succeeded in seizing new territory and added that his country’s nuclear weapons are deterring escalation of the conflict. Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Dec. 7, 2022. In response to an increasing influx of advanced Western weapons, economic, political and humanitarian aid to Kyiv and what he saw as Western leaders’ inflammatory statements, Putin has periodically hinted at his potential use of nuclear weapons. When a member of the Human Rights Council asked him Wednesday to pledge that Russia would not be the first to use such weapons, Putin demurred. He said Russia would not be able to use nuclear weapons at all if it agreed not to use them first and then came under a nuclear strike.
☆ Peter Thiel's fellowship program has birthed power players worth more than $220 billion collectively, including design software firm Figma that Adobe said it was acquiring for $20 billion
  + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Katie Canales | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Peter Thiel's fellowship program has been doling out $100,000 checks to young entrepreneurs for 11 years now. Adobe plans to acquire the design software firm Figma in a deal worth about $20 billion, the company announced Thursday. Figma was founded in 2012 by Dylan Field with the help of Peter Theil's fellowship program. The famed Silicon Valley investor and former Trump adviser founded his Thiel Fellowship program through his foundation for students aged 22 or younger. Here are some of the projects that have come out of Thiel's fellowship.
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