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☆ London Fashion Week: Highlights from the Fall-Winter 2024 runways
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Fiona Sinclair Scott | Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Ben BroomfieldFaux furFleecy, fuzzy or fine: Faux fur was a key textile on the London runways. Ben Broomfield/Ben Broomfield @photobenphotoRobyn Lynch gave the white anorak a romantic silhouette during her Fall-Winter 2024 show. Maja SmiejkowskaStaged in a Gothic Revival church in East London, Dilara Findikoglu's show was a twisted fantasy. Dilara FindikogluSinead O'Dwyer, whose collection was inspired by a not-so-appropriate take on office wear, led the charge on diverse casting this season. Chris YatesModel on the runway at Molly Goddard RTW Fall 2024 as part of London Ready to Wear Fashion Week held at the Cecil Sharp House on February 17, 2024 in London, England.

Persons: scrappy, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Jonathon Ferris, John Malkovich, Maximilian Raynor’s, Harris Reed, Victoriana, — Conner Ives, Sinead Gorey —, Ives, Gorey, Maria Callas —, JW Anderson, Jonathan Anderson, ”, Amy Winehouse’s, Lily Cole, Agyness Deyn, Edward Crutchley, Stephen Jones ’ millinery, Molly Goddard’s, ” Goddard, ” Molly Goddard, Ben Broomfield, Broomfield, Simone Rocha, Jean Paul Gaultier, Queen Victoria, Conner Ives, Precious Lee, Sinead Gorey, Johanna Parv, Parv, Daniel Lee, moleskin, Henry Nicholls, Robyn Lynch, Lynch upcycled outerwear, Ben Broomfield @photobenphoto Robyn Lynch, Chris Yates, Naomi Campell, Joe Maher, Daniel Lee's, Filippo Fior, Burberry Erdem, Giovanni Giannoni, Jason Lloyd Evans, Jason Lloyd Evans Harris, Marc Hibbert Jonathan Anderson's, JW Anderson “, ” Anderson, ” JW Anderson, Ben Broomfield Sinead Gorey, Eamonn M . McCormack, Aldama Precious Lee, Maja Smiejkowska, Dilara, Dilara Findikoglu Sinead O'Dwyer, Chris Yates Lottie Moss, Kate Moss's, Sinead O'Dwyer, Molly Goddard RTW, Cecil Sharp, Aitor Rosas Sune, WWD, Rosas Sune, Molly Goddard's frilly, Ahluwalia Organizations: London CNN, Central Saint Martins, Tate, JW, Fashion, Burberry, British Vogue, Jean Paul Gaultier couture, Getty, ., Company, British Museum, Getty Images Locations: London, Tate Britain, East London’s, Paris, AFP, Irish, East London, England, Nigeria

☆ Dual Mission for Macy’s New Chief: Revive Stores and Fend Off Takeover
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Jordyn Holman | Lauren Hirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As he prepares to take the reins as Macy’s chief executive on Sunday, Tony Spring has a tall order: He must contend with the existential crisis that mall-based department stores are facing to try to stay relevant in an increasingly e-commerce world. In December, an investor group submitted a bid that would take Macy’s private at a value of $5.8 billion. Mr. Spring, 58, has spent his career at Macy’s high-end store group, Bloomingdale’s. He started as an executive trainee in 1987 and rose through the ranks to become chief executive in 2014. He turned the chain into a “scrappy incubator” for ideas that were eventually brought over to Macy’s stores.

Persons: Tony Spring Organizations: Arkhouse Management, Brigade Capital Management

☆ Zelenskyy may want a new commander to replace Ukraine's 'Iron General,' reports say amid signs of rifts in the relationship
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy may be moving to replace his top commander, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, after a period of reported tension between the two. The possibility of such a shake-up raises questions about who would replace Zaluzhny, nicknamed the "Iron General," as well as what Zelenskyy's goals are for Ukraine's war effort in 2024. A senior official familiar with the conversation confirmed to The Washington Post that the Ukrainian president told Zaluzhny he was being removed on Monday. President Of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during meeting with Ukrainian railway workers on November 4, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. AdvertisementA deeper, perhaps more personal division between the Ukrainian president and his top general may also be Zaluzhny's popularity.

Persons: —, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Valery Zaluzhny, Zelenskyy's, Zaluzhny, Ignacio Marin, Zelenskyy, Republicans —, what's, Kyrylo Budanov, Gen, Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Viktor Kovalchuk Organizations: Service, Business, The Washington Post, Anadolu, Getty, Ukraine —, Republicans, Zaluzhny, Economist Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Donetsk Oblast, Israel, Russia, Kharkiv, Kyiv, West, Zelenskyy

☆ Billionaire Jeff Bezos still uses a homemade scrappy door desk from the early days of launching Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewJeff Bezos might be a billionaire, but to this day, he still uses a homemade scrappy door desk from Amazon's early days in the 1990s. The Amazon founder's fiancée Lauren Sanchez posted a photo on Instagram over the weekend, which shows Bezos working from a laptop on the door desk. The door desk was invented by Bezos in 1995, a year after founding the e-commerce giant, according to a blog on Amazon's website . "We built door desks because it was the cheapest way we could support a desk. The door desk has since become a symbol of Amazon's culture and its core value of frugality.

Persons: —, Jeff Bezos, fiancée Lauren Sanchez, Sanchez, Bezos, Nico Lovejoy, Lovejoy, Marc Randolph, Randolph Organizations: Service, Business

☆ Obie Awards, Sans Ceremony, Honor ‘Dark Disabled Stories’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Obie Awards, a scrappy but venerable annual competition honoring the best theater staged Off and Off Off Broadway, has chosen “Dark Disabled Stories,” Ryan J. Haddad’s autobiographical work inspired by his experiences navigating the city with cerebral palsy, as the best new American play. The prize was announced on Saturday night, both by news release and on Spectrum News NY1, as the American Theater Wing, which presents the Obies, decided to forgo a costly ceremony — in most nonpandemic years, the Obies have been handed out at a boozy and often boisterous party — and instead to give grants of $1,000 to $5,000 directly to the winning artists and arts institutions. “These are unprecedented times, and it’s extremely challenging for theater right now, so we absolutely want to celebrate the achievements of Off and Off Off Broadway, but in doing so we want to have the most impact by putting money directly in the pockets of the artists and the companies making the work,” said Heather A. Hitchens, the Wing’s president and chief executive. “Everybody likes a party, and maybe some day it will make sense to do that again, but we’re not made of money — we’re a nonprofit, so how can we use our resources to be the greatest force for good right now?”The Obies, created by the Village Voice in the mid 1950s, have been in flux for years as the Voice foundered and the pandemic battered the theater industry. The Wing, with a board led by artists, has kept the Obies afloat with a combination of in-person and streaming ceremonies.

Persons: ” Ryan J, ”, Heather A, Hitchens, “, we’re, — Organizations: Spectrum News NY1, American Theater, Village

In rousing remarks, Ms. Haley painted a picture of a country and a world in disarray, casting herself as the choice for voters dissatisfied with both President Biden and Mr. Trump. She set up an epic showdown with Mr. Trump in South Carolina, where she is lagging far behind Mr. Trump in polls despite a home-state advantage. Painting herself as an outsider, despite her insider résumé, she pledged to take on Mr. Trump and the political class behind him. Her campaign has bought over $1 million in television advertising from Tuesday through Feb. 6 in South Carolina, according to AdImpact, a media-tracking firm. “I won South Carolina twice as governor,” she told reporters Friday at a retro diner in Amherst.

Persons: Nikki Haley, Donald J, Trump, Haley, Biden, “ We’re, Mr, “, —, Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, ”, Joe, Doug Mills, Chris Sununu, I’m, ” Mr, Ms, Trump’s, Betsy Ankney, Nikki, Ankney, Mark Harris, Harris, Haley’s, Ruth Fremson, Ron DeSantis, Marco Rubio, Allie Cable, ” Richard, Wendy Clymer, Clymer, Maggie Haberman, Kellen Browning Organizations: Republican, Trump, Mr, “, United Nations, U.S, Capitol, New York Times, Granite, Gov, Committee, PAC, South Carolina Locations: New Hampshire, South Carolina, “ New Hampshire, Iowa, Hampton, N.H, Virgin, Charleston, S.C, Nevada, America, Florida, Amherst, Marco Rubio of Florida, Greenville, Concord, New York

☆ Election 2024 Haley Returns to South Carolina Upbeat, but Facing Uphill Climb
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Chris Cameron | Kellen Browning | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

She set up an epic showdown with Mr. Trump in South Carolina, where she is lagging far behind Mr. Trump in polls despite a home-state advantage. Painting herself as an outsider, despite her insider résumé, she pledged to take on Mr. Trump and the political class behind him. Her campaign has bought over $1 million in television advertising from Tuesday through Feb. 6 in South Carolina, according to AdImpact, a media-tracking firm. “I won South Carolina twice as governor,” she told reporters Friday at a retro diner in Amherst. They had rushed into the event late after spending the day rallying support for Ms. Haley and encouraging voters to get to the polls.

For years, the scrappy Iran-backed Yemeni rebels known as the Houthis did such a good job of bedeviling American partners in the Middle East that Pentagon war planners started copying some of their tactics. Noting that the Houthis had managed to weaponize commercial radar systems that are commonly available in boating stores and make them more portable, a senior U.S. commander challenged his Marines to figure out something similar. By September 2022, Marines in the Baltic Sea were adapting Houthi-inspired mobile radar systems. So senior Pentagon officials knew as soon as the Houthis started attacking ships in the Red Sea that they would be hard to tame. As the Biden administration approaches its third week of airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, the Pentagon is trying to thread an impossibly tiny needle: making a dent in the Houthis’ ability to hit commercial and Navy vessels without dragging the United States into a prolonged war.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Marines, Pentagon Locations: Iran, East, U.S, Baltic, Yemen, United States

And the DeSantis campaign made many of them, his advisers, allies and supporters have acknowledged to CNN in interviews. Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, speaks during a campaign event in Hampton, New Hampshire, on January 17, 2024. Michael Reaves/Getty Images DeSantis and his wife, Casey, have three children: from left, daughters Mamie and Madison and son Mason. But that approach was rejected by the woman who would be announced as DeSantis’ campaign manager, Generra Peck. And yet, in the face of this overwhelming rejection of his pitch to Make America Florida, DeSantis refused to change gears.

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☆ Niecy Nash-Betts on 'Dahmer,' 'Reno 911!,' 'Origin' & Acting With Her Kids
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

and whether she'd return for a new seasonNiecy Nash-Betts in costume as Raineesha Williams from "Reno 911!" David X Prutting/Patrick McMullan via Getty ImagesYou wore a prosthetic butt while playing Raineesha Williams on "Reno 911!" AdvertisementOn kissing Glen Powell in front of his mom for 'Scream Queens,' and the quote from her character Denise that fans still loveNiecy Nash-Betts as Denise on "Scream Queens." Your "Scream Queens" costar Glen Powell is certainly having a moment with his new movie right now. And also from "Scream Queens," I would want to do something with Keke Palmer.

Persons: Raineesha Williams, Simone Clark, Niecy Nash, Betts, Nash, Ryan Murphy, Ava DuVernay, Dahmer, Jeffrey Dahmer, DuVernay, Isabel Wilkerson, Aunjanue Ellis, Marion, Wilkerson's, Wilkerson, —, David X Prutting, Patrick McMullan, you've, Raineesha, Kerri Kenney, Silver, we've, Glen Powell, Denise, Brad Falchuk, Glenn, Evan Peters, Glenda Cleveland, Evan, I've, Dominick Nash, Donielle Nash, Jessica Betts, Dia Nash, Araya Doheny, Tiffany Haddish, Keke Palmer Organizations: Reno, Los, AMC, Pride, Getty, Netflix, HBO Locations: Murphy's, Los Angeles, Georgia, Chad, Netflix's, New Orleans

☆ CNN chief Mark Thompson outlines his plan to transform the network for the future: ‘It’s time for a revolution’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —Mark Thompson, on his 100th day as CNN’s new leader, sent his 4,000-person strong workforce a 2,300-word memo that said both a lot and very little at the same time. Thompson began his manifesto by referencing how CNN’s founder, Ted Turner, revolutionized the news by introducing a 24/7 live-feed on cable television. That group, colloquially known internally as “The Quad,” is comprised of Virginia Moseley, executive vice president of editorial; Amy Entelis, executive vice president of talent; Eric Sherling, executive vice president of programming; and David Leavy, chief operating officer. Mike McCarthy, who has for years led CNN International, will become managing editor of CNN, reporting to Moseley, Thompson said. “Change is essential if we’re to secure this great news company’s future,” Thompson wrote.

Persons: Mark Thompson, Thompson, Ted Turner, ”, “, ” Thompson, CNN “, Chris Licht, Virginia Moseley, Amy Entelis, Eric Sherling, David Leavy, Moseley, Mike McCarthy, Alex MacCallum, —, CNN —, MacCallum, it’s, Ted Turner’s Organizations: New York CNN, CNN, CNN International, New York Times, ” Locations: New York

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN's new chief executive says the company needs to recapture the “swagger and innovation” of its early days — and that, he says, increasingly means embracing a future outside of television. Mark Thompson, appointed CNN's chief executive last fall after stints at The New York Times and BBC, outlined a strategy to his staff Wednesday that included a corporate restructuring but few external specifics on how that transformation will take place. In the past, CNN hasn't always “gone the extra mile to squeeze every bit of value from the outstanding news and other intellectual property we create,” he wrote. “No longer.”He said the CNN.com website needs “drastic modernization.” The network also needs multiple digital projects to complement the CNN Max streaming service, he said. Thompson said CNN's television personalities must find multiplatform audiences, and praised Anderson Cooper's “All There Is” podcast about grief.

Persons: —, Mark Thompson, ”, Thompson, “ There's, ” Thompson, Virginia Moseley, Mike McCarthy, Alex MacCallum, It's, CNN hasn't, “, CNN Max, CNN's, Anderson Cooper's, ___ David Bauder Organizations: New York Times, BBC, ” CNN, Associated Press, CNN, Atlanta, The Washington, That's, Times, Fox, Nielsen Locations: U.S

☆ It’s January at a Big Himalayan Resort. Where’s the Snow?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Showkat Nanda | Sameer Yasir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Every morning, Ishfaaq Ahmad Malik, a ski instructor in Indian-controlled Kashmir, opens his bedroom window and, like many others in the region, wonders: Where is the snow? “This has never happened before in January. Not in my lifetime,” said Mr. Malik, 65. “Definitely not in Gulmarg.”Each winter, Gulmarg, one of Asia’s largest and highest ski resort towns, attracts thousands of skiers, many from as far away as Europe and the Americas, drawn by perfect powder, cheap hotels and breathtaking views of the Himalayas. At 8,500 feet, this scrappy ski town’s miles of slopes are usually blanketed by snow from December to March and packed with snowboarders and skiers.

Persons: Ishfaaq Ahmad Malik, ”, Malik, “ Locations: Kashmir, Gulmarg, Europe, Americas

The explosions woke Ali Al-Sunaidar and his children in the middle of the night — a familiar feeling after years of war. He knew that the ancient mud-brick buildings in Yemen’s capital, Sana, could collapse under the pressure released by bombings, so he opened the windows in his home, letting in the winter air. “We were terrified and anxious,” said Mr. Al-Sunaidar, a photojournalist in Sana, after dozens of American-led airstrikes hit Yemen on Friday local time, targeting the Houthi militia that controls much of the country’s north. “We’ve been living in tension, dread and horror for the last nine years.”A day later, the United States struck again, bombing a radar facility in Yemen, U.S. officials said. For nearly a decade, Yemen has been at war, pummeled by a Saudi-led military coalition supplied with American bombs in an effort to defeat the Houthis — a once-scrappy tribal militia backed by Iran that has evolved into a de facto government in northern Yemen.

Persons: Ali Al, Sunaidar, ”, Sana, “ We’ve Locations: Yemen’s, Sana, Yemen, United States, U.S, Saudi, Iran

☆ Howard Weaver, Who Helped an Alaska Newspaper Win 3 Pulitzers, Dies at 73
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Sam Roberts | More About Sam Roberts | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Howard Weaver, a self-described “poor kid from a shabby neighborhood,” was 24 years old and terrified when he was assigned by the floundering Anchorage Daily News to expose a rapacious chapter of the Teamsters union that was corruptly profiting from Alaska’s oil pipeline boom. “Any way you sliced it,” he recalled, “the odds were against us, a mismatch of Goliathian proportions.”But Mr. Weaver was hungry. Hungry enough that after months of investigative reporting, he and his colleagues exposed “a complex maze of political, economic and social power,” which, they wrote, “challenges at times both mighty industry and state government itself.”Three weeks before The Daily News declared that it was on the brink of bankruptcy, the scrappy newspaper with a circulation of about 13,000 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 1976 for its reporting on Teamsters Local 959. It was the smallest paper and the first in Alaska to win the coveted medal.

Persons: Howard Weaver, ”, Weaver Organizations: Anchorage Daily, Teamsters, Daily News Locations: Anchorage, Alaska

☆ Silicon Valley engineers joked you'd go to LinkedIn to retire. Then came the PIPs and layoffs.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Jyoti Mann | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

"For years, there was a semi-joke that some people in Big Tech go to LinkedIn to retire," a current engineer told BI. Amid a transformative year for the social network, LinkedIn spokesperson Nicole Leverich said the company has continued to prioritize its employees. The golden days of growthSome LinkedIn workers like to reminisce about what one engineer called the "golden days." AdvertisementLinkedIn rates its workers on a scale of one to five, seven workers told BI. AdvertisementA current engineering manager added that the goalposts for performance reviews had shifted.

Persons: —, Satya Nadella, we've, It's, Nicole Leverich, Leverich, you'd, Mohak Shroff, ChatGPT, We're, Ryan Roslansky, Kelly Sullivan, he'd, hadn't, Roslanksy, Brian Wieser Organizations: Service, LinkedIn, Business, BI, Microsoft, Big Tech, Google Locations: Big, Madison

Struggling to energize his campaign, DeSantis this week privately encouraged his donor network to support a newly formed super PAC that's taking over advertising responsibilities. The super PAC has also paid for the bulk of his TV ads and almost all of his organizing. On Aug. 8, the DeSantis campaign announced a staff shakeup, replacing its campaign manager and hiring Polyansky from the super PAC to serve as deputy campaign manager. Polyansky is an Iowa campaign veteran who has worked on several presidential campaigns in the state. DeSantis spokesman Andrew Romeo said it was “totally false” to assert that DeSantis coordinated any campaign strategy with the super PAC.

Persons: scrappy, Koch, Trump, “, ”, Bob Vander Plaats, DeSantis, Jasper County —, David Polyansky, Polyansky, Andrew Romeo, James Uthmeier, Right's, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, ” Uthmeier, ” Haley, Haley, Nachama Soloveichik, Emily Seidel, Drew Klein, ___ Peoples Organizations: DeSantis, Republican, Supreme, GOP, PAC, The Associated Press, “, Iowa Caucus, WIN, ”, Trump, Haley, SFA Fund, Haley SFA, Prosperity, ___ Locations: Iowa, U.S, Jasper, Washington, ” Ports, New Hampshire, South Carolina, New York, Meredith , New Hampshire

☆ AI fatigue, sales challenges, and the problem of getting big: Inside growing tension at AWS
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

For Amazon, AWS is more important than ever. Targets missedAWS is falling short of reaching sales goals in its startups and small-business segments, two employees told BI. Burnout and attritionSeveral AWS employees also pointed to high turnover as a major point of concern. AWS employees told BI it still remains to be seen how all these changes will manifest in the months to come. "The most significant single sentiment we feel is uncertainty," one of the AWS employees told BI.

Persons: Matt Garman, Garman, Mark Shmulik, Bernstein, Rob Munoz, Munoz, Charlie Bell, Rachel Thornton, Chris Vonderhaar, Peter DeSantis, DeSantis, Andy Jassy Mike Blake, AWS's, Prasad Kalyanaraman, Kalyanaraman, Amazon's, Bard, Adam Selipsky, Adam Selipsky Noah Berger, Selipsky, Andy Jassy, Jeff Bezos, Jassy, Geekwire Organizations: Amazon Web, AWS, Business, Amazon, SMB, Enterprise, Reuters, Microsoft, Google, BI Locations: Las Vegas, AMZN's, billings

☆ 'Sweeter and sweeter': Souttar racks up 10th goal to save Australia
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MELBOURNE, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Australia defender Harry Souttar is building a record a striker would be proud of, having headed in a 10th goal from his 21st international against the Palestinian team to save the Socceroos in their World Cup qualifier. The goal was virtually a carbon copy of his fourth minute header in the 7-0 rout of Bangladesh in Melbourne last week, also with Goodwin the provider. It's just getting sweeter and sweeter, obviously." "Probably we didn't play our best, but the most important thing was the three points," he said. Reporting by Ian Ransom in Melbourne; Editing by Robert BirselOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Harry Souttar, Craig Goodwin, Goodwin, It's, Kuwait's Jaber Al, Australia's, Mat Ryan, Graham Arnold, we've, Ian Ransom, Robert Birsel Organizations: MELBOURNE, Palestinian, Socceroos, World, Australia, Leicester City, Kuwait's, Ahmad, Lebanon, Thomson Locations: Australia, Scotland, Kuwait, Bangladesh, Melbourne, Israel, Gaza

☆ Rivian is the real winner in Elon Musk's latest drama
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Nora Naughton | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Some Tesla owners said they'd ditch his car company in favor of Rivian as a result. AdvertisementAs Tesla CEO Elon Musk once again courts controversy on his social media platform X, rival EV startup Rivian stands to gain from the fallout. Other angry Tesla owners we spoke with also mentioned considering legacy brands like Ford's Mustang Mach-E or Volkswagen's ID.4. AdvertisementIn response, earlier this year some Tesla owners began putting bumper stickers on their EVs denouncing the CEO . In January, a handful of Tesla owners told Business Insider they'd ditched Tesla over Musk's antics .

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, —, Musk, Ross Gerber, Robert Kuhn, Kuhn, I've, Rivian, Joe Biden, they'd, Dan Ives, Ives, – Organizations: Rivian, Service, EV, Business, Tesla, Bloomberg, Twitter

☆ What OpenAI’s turmoil is really all about
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

OpenAI’s incredible upheaval — with former CEO Sam Altman caught in the middle — could have broad implications for who gets to control the future of artificial intelligence. However, Microsoft has already won the war: It is OpenAI’s most important stakeholder, with a promised $13 billion investment. In the past year, he has become the public face of the industry, and was instrumental in forging OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft, which began in 2019. Altman, sources say, wanted to move quickly, while the OpenAI board wanted to move more cautiously. Both achievements are possible, and OpenAI’s strange structure — a nonprofit overseeing a for-profit company — was designed to contain AI from destroying humanity.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Altman, Greg Brockman, Satya Nadella, Kara Swisher, ”, Jason Schloetzer, Gil Luria, Davidson, “, Luria, ” Schloetzer, —, — CNN’s Clare Duffy Organizations: New, New York CNN, Microsoft, CNBC, CNN, Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, D.A, Google Locations: New York, Silicon

☆ Mira Murati is OpenAI's new interim CEO. Here's what we know about the exec who replaces Sam Altman.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Jordan Hart | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is out, the company's board said late Friday. Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer, will replace Altman as the interim CEO. "A member of OpenAI's leadership team for five years, Mira has played a critical role in OpenAI's evolution into a global AI leader. Murati joined OpenAI as a researcher in 2018 when the company had just 40 to 50 employees, she told Fortune. "Our goal is to get to AGI, and we want to get there in a way that makes sure that AGI goes well for humanity," Murati told Fortune.

Persons: Sam Altman, Mira Murati, Altman, —, Mira, OpenAI, PATRICK T, FALLON, Murati, ChatGPT, Tesla, Eugene Gologursky, She's, AGI, Getty, Rainer Maria Rilke Organizations: Service, Albania who's, Murati, Dartmouth, OpenAI, Time Magazine, Radiohead Locations: Albania, Murati, AGI, Silicon Valley, Vancouver

☆ If you get sued for an AI-generated creative work, OpenAI says it will protect you while Anthropic says you're on your own
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

At its first ever developer's day conference earlier this month, OpenAI tried to tackle the situation head on by announcing Copyright Shield. That's a promise that OpenAI will pay the legal fees of its business customers in the event they're sued for something they made using its products. "We can defend our customers and pay the costs incurred if you face legal claims around copyright," said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in his keynote speech. But OpenAI rival Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI researchers and backed by billions of dollars from investors like Google and Amazon is taking a different approach. But to the extent that liability does exist, Anthropic says it's the person using the product that bears the blame.

Persons: Anthropic, it's, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Janel Thamkul, Thamkul, Erika Fisher, Fisher, I'm, they've, Darius Rafieyan Organizations: New York Times, Business, Google, United States Copyright, Sega Enterprises, Accolade, Sega

☆ Ukraine and the US are mixing weapon systems that weren't built to play together to up Kyiv's defenses, and apparently they work
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

They've seen success in using US missiles with Buk-M1 systems and HARM missiles on Soviet fighter jets. AdvertisementWith its air defenses working overtime to defend against constant Russian strikes, Ukraine is working with the US to create new capabilities by cobbling together Western and Soviet systems that weren't built to play together. Reporting earlier this year indicated Ukraine had found ways to modify the Soviet Buk air defenses to fire the RIM-7. The US and its Western allies have offered Ukraine air defenses like Patriot batteries, IRIS-T, NASAMs, and Gepard anti-aircraft guns, but Ukrainian forces continue to operate a number of Soviet air defenses, the Buk and the S-300 being among the most prominent. AdvertisementThe new capability was promising for Ukraine and indicated future modifications to its Soviet systems could be made, like firing US missiles from Soviet Buk vehicles, which are self-propelled, mid-range surface-to-air missile systems.

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After Boebert won her last race by just 546 votes, she began revamping her campaign strategy. So-called ballot harvesting, which she's decried as an underhanded Democratic tactic, will be part of her campaign strategy. While campaigning in the district this election, Boebert seems “more empathetic" than her disruptive national profile. At events and debates in the last election, Boebert railed against then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who became a foil for bloated government, a broken system and Democratic demagoguery. After Colorado's largely city dwellers voted to reintroduce wolves to Colorado, Boebert has also proposed legislation to give ranchers greater recourse to defend their flocks.

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