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REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Acquire Licensing RightsNov 20 (Reuters) - OpenAI's board of directors approached rival Anthropic's CEO about replacing chief Sam Altman and potentially merging the two AI startups, according to two people briefed on the matter. The news, reported earlier by The Information on Monday, follows various reported calls to find Altman's successor days after OpenAI's board ousted him. OpenAI declined to comment and board member Adam D'Angelo did not immediately respond to a request for comment. On Sunday the board offered ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear to be its interim chief, who accepted. By Monday, nearly all of the startup's more than 700 employees threatened to quit, including one of its executives on OpenAI's now four-person board.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, OpenAI's, OpenAI, Adam D'Angelo, Emmett Shear, Altman, Anthropic, Claude, Jeffrey Dastin, Urvi, Nivedita Bhattacharjee, Sam Holmes Organizations: REUTERS, Sunday, Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, Bengaluru

☆ Fear that AI could one day destroy humanity may have led to Sam Altman's (potentially brief) ouster from OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Fears over the speed of AI development at OpenAI may have sowed discord within its top ranks. Some OpenAI board members may have disagreed with Altman's approach to AI innovation. OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever has long called for caution due to concerns AI could harm humanity. AdvertisementSam Altman's possibly brief dismissal from OpenAI has exposed a schism between the company's top leaders over how to curb the existential threat posed by AI. OpenAI's board has not offered any more details on what led them to fire Altman beyond noting that they had "lost confidence" in him and that he was not "consistently candid" in communications.

Persons: Ilya Sutskever, —, Sam Altman's, OpenAI, Altman, Mayoshi, Sutskever, — Helen Toner, who's, Tasha McCauley —, Dario Amodei, that's, Elon Musk, Tesla Organizations: Service, The New York Times, Georgetown University's Center for Security, Emerging Technology, Wired Locations: OpenAI

☆ Don't let Big Tech write the AI rules, warns AI godfather
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An AI godfather says we should all be worried about the concentration of power in the AI sector. Bengio said the control of powerful AI systems was a central question for democracy. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe concentration of power in the AI arena is one of the main risks facing the industry, an AI godfather says. Regulation, at least in its current form, will not be the boost for big tech companies that some industry experts have suggested it could be, he added.

Persons: Yoshua Bengio, Bengio, —, Yoshua, I've, Yann LeCun, OpenAI's Sam Altman, LeCun, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Benigo Organizations: Service Locations: Canadian, ChatGPT

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☆ Everything you're hearing right now about AI wiping out humans is a big con
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Many are shrugging off the supposed existential risks of AI, labeling them a distraction. They argue big tech companies are using the fears to protect their own interests. The timing of the pushback, ahead of the UK's AI safety summit and following Biden's recent executive order on AI, is also significant. More experts are warning that governments' preoccupation with the existential risks of AI is taking priority over the more immediate threats. Merve Hickok, the president of the Center for AI and Digital Policy, raised similar concerns about the UK AI safety summit's emphasis on existential risk.

Persons: —, You've, there's, Yann LeCun, Altman, Hassabis, LeCun, LeCun's, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Andrew Ng, hasn't, Anthropic, Aidan Gomez, Merve Hickok, Hickok, Rishi Sunak, Michelle Donelan Organizations: Service, Google, CNBC, Stanford University, Australian Financial, Guardian, Center, AI

☆ Google DeepMind boss hits back at Meta AI chief over ‘fearmongering’ claim
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

watch nowThe boss of Google DeepMind pushed back on a claim from Meta's artificial intelligence chief alleging the company is pushing worries about AI's existential threats to humanity to control the narrative on how best to regulate the technology. "If your fearmongering campaigns succeed, they will *inevitably* result in what you and I would identify as a catastrophe: a small number of companies will control AI," LeCun said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday. I also know that producing AI systems that are safe and under our control is possible. "Then there's sort of the misuse of AI by bad actors repurposing technology, general-purpose technology for bad ends that they were not intended for. "And then finally, I think about the more longer-term risk, which is technical AGI [artificial general intelligence] risk," Hassabis said.

Persons: Google DeepMind, CNBC's Arjun Kharpal, Hassabis, DeepMind, Yan LeCun, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, LeCun, Yan, That's, Meta Organizations: Google, CNBC, Cooperation, China

Now, frontier AI has become the latest buzzword as concerns grow that the emerging technology has capabilities that could endanger humanity. The debate comes to a head Wednesday, when British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hosts a two-day summit focused on frontier AI. In a speech last week, Sunak said only governments — not AI companies — can keep people safe from the technology’s risks. Frontier AI is shorthand for the latest and most powerful systems that go right up to the edge of AI’s capabilities. That makes frontier AI systems “dangerous because they’re not perfectly knowledgeable,” Clune said.

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☆ AI one-percenters seizing power forever is the real doomsday scenario, warns AI godfather
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Meta's Yann LeCun thinks tech bosses' bleak comments on AI risks could do more harm than good. Thanks to @RishiSunak & @vonderleyen for realizing that AI xrisk arguments from Turing, Hinton, Bengio, Russell, Altman, Hassabis & Amodei can't be refuted with snark and corporate lobbying alone. https://t.co/Zv1rvOA3Zz — Max Tegmark (@tegmark) October 29, 2023LeCun says founder fretting is just lobbyingSince the launch of ChatGPT , AI's power players have become major public figures. The focus on hypothetical dangers also divert attention away from the boring-but-important question of how AI development actually takes shape. For LeCun, keeping AI development closed is a real reason for alarm.

Persons: Meta's Yann LeCun, —, Yann LeCun, Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Altman, Hassabis, LeCun, Amodei, LeCun's, Max Tegmark, Turing, Hinton, Russell, Tegmark, I'd, fretting, Elon Musk, OpenAI's, OpenAI Organizations: Service, Google, Hassabis, Research, Meta Locations: Bengio, West Coast, China

☆ Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Big Tech is lying about some AI risks to shut down competition, a Google Brain cofounder has said. Some large tech companies didn't want to compete with open source, he added. AdvertisementAdvertisementA leading AI expert and Google Brain cofounder said Big Tech companies were stoking fears about the technology's risks to shut down competition. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn May, AI experts and CEOs signed a statement from the Center for AI Safety that compared the risks posed by AI with nuclear war and pandemics. Any necessary AI regulation should be created thoughtfully, he added.

Persons: Andrew Ng, —, Sam Altman, It's, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, Ng Organizations: Big Tech, Australian Financial, Service, Google, Stanford University, Center, AI Safety, European

☆ Google commits to invest $2 billion in OpenAI competitor Anthropic
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI executives, CNBC has confirmed. The commitment involves a $500 million upfront cash infusion and an additional $1.5 billion to be invested over time, an Anthropic spokesperson told CNBC. That same month, Anthropic was one of four companies invited to a meeting at the White House to discuss responsible AI development with Vice President Kamala Harris. Anthropic was founded by Dario Amodei, OpenAI's former vice president of research, and his sister, Daniela Amodei, who was OpenAI's vice president of safety and policy. "The landscape is just very wide, and there's really quite a lot of room for many different users and types of users to make use of these systems."

Persons: didn't, Anthropic, Claude, that's, Slack, Claude 2, Arthur AI, Kamala Harris, Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Amodei Organizations: Google, CNBC, Street Journal, White, Microsoft Locations: Anthropic, Salesforce, Meta, OpenAI

An illuminated Google logo is seen inside an office building in Zurich, Switzerland December 5, 2018. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 27 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has agreed to invest up to $2 billion in the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, a spokesperson for the startup said on Friday. The company has invested $500 million upfront into the OpenAI rival and agreed to add $1.5 billion more over time, the spokesperson said. Amazon.com (AMZN.O) also said last month it would invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic to compete with growing cloud rivals on AI. Anthropic, which was co-founded by former OpenAI executives and siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, has shown efforts to secure the resources and deep-pocketed backers needed to compete with OpenAI and be leaders in the technology sector.

Persons: Arnd, OpenAI, Dario, Daniela Amodei, Krystal Hu, Chavi Mehta, Jeffrey Dastin, Anil D'Silva, Devika Syamnath, Chris Reese Organizations: REUTERS, Google, Microsoft, Big Tech, U.S . Securities, Exchange Commission, Amazon, Street, Anthropic, Thomson Locations: Zurich, Switzerland, Anthropic, New York, Bengaluru

☆ Live updates: House Speaker race continues
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Mike Hayes | Kaanita Iyer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

After three weeks of infighting, division and tensions that left the House paralyzed they will again attempt to elect a speaker this afternoon. Members can also opt to vote PRESENT, which casts no vote. Additionally, Massie this morning said he would support Johnson after voting present last night. Remember, the math is tricky here: The prevailing candidate will be the one who wins 50% +1 of the total number of the House voting for a person. Should a member not vote or vote present, that will drop the target number that a candidate needs to reach.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Johnson, Hakeem Jeffries, Jeffries, Thomas Massie of, Mark Amodei, Amodei, designee Johnson, Massie, I’m, ” Massie Organizations: House GOP Conference, House, CNN Locations: Thomas Massie of Kentucky, French Hill, Arkansas, Nevada

☆ A ChatGPT rival just published a new constitution to level up its AI guardrails, and prevent toxic and racist responses
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

OpenAI rival Anthropic revamped its constitution around AI safety using public input. Users of its AI chatbot, Claude, want it to admit flaws, and avoid racist or sexist responses. The new guardrails follow months of concerns from tech and government leaders around AI safety. The updates to Anthropic's constitution follow months of concern around AI safety, including from some technology leaders. Read the full version of Anthropic's new AI constitution here.

Persons: Anthropic, Claude, —, Dario Amodei, Sam Bankman, Fried, didn't, Elon Musk, Nadella, Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, Anthropic's Amodei Organizations: Service, Amazon, Intelligence, Microsoft, Google, Apple, White Locations: OpenAI, San Francisco, Washington

☆ You're wrongly conditioned by sci-fi to believe robots want to kill humans, Meta's AI boss says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun said that superintelligent AI is unlikely to wipe out humanity. He told the Financial Times that current AI models are less intelligent than a cat. AI CEOs signed a letter in May warning that superintelligent AI could pose an "extinction risk." AdvertisementAdvertisementFears that AI could wipe out the human race are "preposterous" and based more on science fiction than reality, Meta's chief AI scientist has said. However, LeCun told the Financial Times that many AI companies had been "consistently over-optimistic" over how close current generative models were to AGI, and that fears over AI extinction were overblown as a result.

Persons: Yann LeCun, —, Albert Einstein, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, OpenAI's, LeCun, They're, Meta Organizations: Financial Times, Service, Intelligence, Microsoft

☆ Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude is posting lyrics to popular songs, lawsuit claims
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Universal Music has sued artificial intelligence startup Anthropic over "systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics," per a filing Wednesday in a Tennessee federal court. One example from the lawsuit: When a user asks Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude about the lyrics to the song "Roar" by Katy Perry, it generates an "almost identical copy of those lyrics," violating the rights of Concord, the copyright owner, per the filing. The lawsuit also named Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" as an example of Anthropic's alleged copyright infringement, as Universal owns the rights to its lyrics. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI research executives and funded by companies including Google , Salesforce and Zoom. "We have been focused on businesses, on making Claude as robustly safe as possible," Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic, told CNBC in a July interview.

Persons: Katy Perry, Claude, Gloria Gaynor's, Anthropic's, Anthropic, Kamala Harris, OpenAI's, Daniela Amodei Organizations: Pepsi, University of Phoenix, Farm, Universal Music, Universal, Google, White, Microsoft, CNBC Locations: Glendale , Arizona, Tennessee, Concord, ABKCO

CNN —A band of House Republicans made a historic move this week to punish their own leader, sending the House into chaos by ousting Kevin McCarthy as speaker. For Democrats, the House GOP drama puts them in a wait-and-see mode. Scalise, Jordan make their pitchesBoth Scalise and Jordan have spent the past several days making their pitches to different constituencies in the GOP conference. Democrats waiting on the sidelinesBiden jabbed at House Republicans on Friday while saying he was willing to work with whomever was ultimately elected by the House to be speaker. House Republicans, it’s time for you to do your job,” Biden said at a White House event touting the economy’s better-than-expected job numbers Friday.

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☆ Amazon dominated the first cloud era. The AI boom has kicked off Cloud 2.0, and the company doesn't have a head start this time.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

There's a new stack of hardware, software, tools, and services that will power AI applications for years to come. Cloud 2.0Another key point here: Most AI developers already know how to use CUDA and Nvidia GPUs. Arguably, Nvidia has already created an AI cloud platform – as AWS once did for the Cloud 1.0 era. James Hamilton is an AWS cloud infrastructure genius who can take on Nvidia, even if the chipmaker has a major head start. Her startup spent months building a data center from scratch to help customers train AI models.

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☆ Moderate US Republicans call for change to rule that eased McCarthy's ouster
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Representative Garret Graves, a longtime McCarthy ally, called the current rule structure "completely dysfunctional". The motion to vacate rule is enshrined in the U.S. House's governing manual, but the specifics of it are left to each Congress to decide. Before 2019, the motion to vacate was considered a privileged motion, which any one member could bring to the House floor. But after two Republican speakers were threatened with and ultimately left office over the move, Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed a rule change that required a majority of the conference to support a motion to vacate. Representative Jim Jordan, who is running for speaker, said he would leave any rule change up to the conference.

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Amazon's employees and cloud customers will gain early access to technology from Anthropic as part of the deal, which they can infuse into their businesses. They declined to state how much Amazon now would own of Anthropic or the startup's updated valuation, last estimated at more than $4 billion. The deal also shows ongoing maneuvering by the cloud companies to secure ties with AI startups reshaping their industry. Yet with Monday's deal, Anthropic is giving a boost to Amazon Bedrock, a service that has attracted thousands of users to start building AI applications. Asked if Amazon would invest in additional AI startups beyond Anthropic, Selipsky said, "I honestly don't know what the future will hold."

Persons: Anthropic, OpenAI, Adam Selipsky, Dario Amodei, Selipsky, Claude, Amodei, Jeffrey Dastin, Kenneth Li Organizations: FRANCISCO, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Amazon's, GOOGLE, LexisNexis, Bridgewater Associates, Thomson Locations: Anthropic, San Francisco

They declined to state how much Amazon now would own of Anthropic or the startup's updated valuation, last estimated at more than $4 billion. The deal also shows ongoing maneuvering by the cloud companies to secure ties with AI startups reshaping their industry. Yet with Monday's deal, Anthropic is giving a boost to Amazon Bedrock, a service that has attracted thousands of users to start building AI applications. LexisNexis, a data analytics company, is working with Anthropic and Amazon to make its own legal search capabilities more "intelligent," Amodei said. Asked if Amazon would invest in additional AI startups beyond Anthropic, Selipsky said, "I honestly don't know what the future will hold."

Persons: Anthropic, OpenAI, Adam Selipsky, Dario Amodei, Pascal, Selipsky, Claude, Amodei, Jeffrey Dastin, Kenneth Li Organizations: FRANCISCO, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Amazon's, REUTERS, LexisNexis, Bridgewater Associates, Thomson Locations: Anthropic, San Francisco

☆ Cerebral Valley, the AI conference that spawned a $1.3 billion deal, is coming back to San Francisco this year
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Cerebral Valley, an AI conference run by Eric Newcomer's eponymous publication, just announced its second gathering of 2023. CVAI2 (Cerebral Valley AI Summit version 2.0) will take place on November 15 at the SFJAZZ Center in Hayes Valley, San Francisco. The neighborhood is nicknamed Cerebral Valley these days, due to the plethora of AI startups that have sprouted there. Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, and Naveen Rao, CEO of MosaicML, met for the first time at the initial Cerebral Valley AI Summit. That's the biggest generative AI startup deal so far, by my counting.

Persons: Vinod Khosla, Reid Hoffman, Adam D'Angelo, Eric Newcomer's, Mustafa Suleyman, Ali Ghodsi, Kanjun Qiu, Chris Lattner, May Habib, Naveen Rao, Jason Warner, Max Child, James Wilsterman, Amjad Masad, Clem Delangue, Emad, Daniela Amodei, Cristobal Valenzuela, Shane Orlick, MosaicML, it's Organizations: SFJAZZ, Service, Industry Locations: Hayes Valley, San Francisco, Wall, Silicon, Jasper

☆ Burning Man attendees are expected to 'leave no trace,' but people fleeing the mud and rain left abandoned vehicles, furniture, tents, and trash
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Ed Komenda | Gabe Stern | Scott Sonner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Burning Man attendees are returning home and local businesses are having to manage leftover mess. Burning Man organizers did not immediately respond to questions from The Associated Press about how the rain will impact the cleanup timeline. Next month, teams made up of federal employees and Burning Man organizers will again conduct a site inspection. Nevada U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei, whose district includes the Black Rock Desert, said Burning Man is a positive event for the area. AdvertisementAdvertisementStill, Amodei said, Burning Man organizers have been good partners and have cleaned up after themselves in past years, as their event permit requires.

Persons: Eleonora Segreti, Jeffrey Longoria, San Francisco, Longoria, Scott Sonner, John Asselin, Asselin, Mark Amodei, Amodei, Cliff Osborne, Andy Barron, Osborne, Alexander Elmendorf, Sonner, Stern, Rio Yamat, Ken Ritter Organizations: Service, Rock City, Tahoe, Walmart, U.S . Bureau of Land Management, Burning, Associated Press, AP, BLM, Man, Sierra, Nevada U.S . Rep, America Statehouse News Initiative, America Locations: Wall, Silicon, Nev, Nevada, San Francisco, Reno , Nevada, Reno, Italy, Tacoma , Washington, Las Vegas

Political Cartoons View All 1146 ImagesEleonora Segreti, who lives in central Italy and made her second visit this year to Burning Man, left the site early Tuesday. Burning Man organizers did not immediately respond to questions from The Associated Press about how the rain will impact the cleanup timeline. Last year, after the festival’s return following a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Burning Man team narrowly passed its Oct. 7 inspection. Next month, teams made up of federal employees and Burning Man organizers will again conduct a site inspection. Nevada U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei, whose district includes Black Rock Desert, said Burning Man is a positive event for the area.

Persons: Eleonora Segreti, ”, Jeffrey Longoria, San Francisco, Longoria, “, John Asselin, Asselin, Mark Amodei, Amodei, That’s, ” Amodei, Alexander Elmendorf, ___ Sonner, Stern, Rio Organizations: Rock City, Tahoe, Walmart, U.S . Bureau of Land Management, Burning, Associated Press, BLM, Man, Nevada U.S . Rep, America Statehouse News Initiative, America Locations: RENO, Nev, Nevada, San Francisco, Reno , Nevada, Reno, Italy, Black, Tacoma, Las Vegas

☆ Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic announce industry group to promote safe AI development
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The new organization, known as the Frontier Model Forum, was announced Wednesday by Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic. The companies said the forum’s mission would be to develop best practices for AI safety, promote research into AI risks, and to publicly share information with governments and civil society. Wednesday’s announcement reflects how AI developers are coalescing around voluntary guardrails for the technology ahead of an expected push this fall by US and European Union lawmakers to craft binding legislation for the industry. “Companies creating AI technology have a responsibility to ensure that it is safe, secure, and remains under human control,” said Microsoft president Brad Smith. “In particular, I am concerned that AI systems could be misused on a grand scale in the domains of cybersecurity, nuclear technology, chemistry, and especially biology,” Amodei said in his written testimony.

Persons: Biden, ”, Brad Smith, Dario Amodei, Bengio, ” Amodei, Amodei, Chuck Schumer, Schumer Organizations: CNN, Frontier Model, Google, Microsoft, US, European Union, Amazon, Meta, Companies, European

☆ US senators express bipartisan alarm about AI, focusing on biological attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] ChatGPT logo and AI Artificial Intelligence words are seen in this illustration taken, May 4, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File PhotoWASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - Both Democratic and Republican senators expressed alarm on Tuesday about the potential for a malevolent use of artificial intelligence, focusing on the possibility of AI being used to create a biological attack. In a hearing before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dario Amodei, chief executive of the AI company Anthropic, said that AI could help otherwise unskilled malevolent actors develop biological weapons. Amodei said that AI was not yet capable of helping to build a biological weapon, calling it a "medium-term" risk. "By enabling many more actors to carry out large-scale biological attacks, we believe this represents a grave threat to U.S. national security," he said.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Dario Amodei, Amodei, Richard Blumenthal, Josh Hawley, Diane Bartz, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: REUTERS, WASHINGTON, Democratic, Google, Republican, Thomson Locations: U.S

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