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OpenAI fires CEO Sam Altman as ‘board no longer has confidence’ in his leadership

In a surprise shakeup of its c-suite Friday, OpenAI’s board of directors announced that CEO Sam Altman has been fired and will be leaving both the company and the board, effective immediately. Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati has been named interim CEO. Altman’s oustering reportedly follows an internal “deliberative review process” which found he had…

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ousted as ‘board no longer has confidence’ in his leadership

In a surprise shakeup of its c-suite Friday, OpenAI’s board of directors announced that CEO Sam Altman is leaving both the company and the board, effective immediately. Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati has been named interim CEO. Altman oustering reportedly follows an internal “deliberative review process” which found he had not been “consistently candid in…

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What happened to Washington’s wildlife after the largest dam removal in US history

The man made flood that miraculously saved our heroes at the end of O Brother Where Art Thou were an actual occurrence in the 19th and 20th century — and a fairly common one at that — as river valleys across the American West were dammed up and drowned out at the altar of economic…

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Humane’s Ai Pin costs $699 and ships in early 2024, which is about all we know for certain

Wearable startup Humane AI has been dripping details about its upcoming device, the AI Pin, for months now. We firs saw it at a TED Talk in May and, more recently, got a glimpse of its promised capabilities at Paris Fashion Week, ahead of Thursday’s official unveiling. However many questions regarding how the wearable AI…

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Google’s AI-empowered search feature goes global with expansion to 120 countries

Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE), which currently provides generative AI summaries at the top of the search results page for select users, is about to be much more available. Just six months after its debut at I/O 2023, the company announced Wednesday that SGE is expanding to Search Labs users in 120 countries and territories,…

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NVIDIA’s Eos supercomputer just broke its own AI training benchmark record

Depending on the hardware you’re using, training a large language model of any significant size can take weeks, months, even years to complete. That’s no way to do business — nobody has the electricity and time to be waiting that long. On Wednesday, NVIDIA unveiled the newest iteration of its Eos supercomputer, one powered by…

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Meta reportedly won’t make its AI advertising tools available to political marketers

Facebook is no stranger to moderating and mitigating misinformation on its platform, having long employed machine learning and artificial intelligence systems to help supplement its human-led moderation efforts. At the start of October, the company extended its machine learning expertise to its advertising efforts with an experimental set of generative AI tools that can perform…

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GPTs are the single-application mini-ChatGPT models that anyone can create

It’s been nearly a year since ChatGPT’s public debut and its evolution since then has been nothing short of extraordinary. In just over 11 months, OpenAI’s chatbot has gained the ability to write programming code, process information between multiple modalities and expand its reach across the internet with APIs. During OpenAI’s 2023 Dev Day keynote…

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How the meandering legal definition of ‘fair use’ cost us Napster but gave us Spotify

The internet’s “enshittification,” as veteran journalist and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow describes it, began decades before TikTok made the scene. Elder millennials remember the good old days of Napster — followed by the much worse old days of Napster being sued into oblivion along with Grokster and the rest of the P2P sharing ecosystem, until we…

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Sony’s ‘GT Sophy’ racing AI is taking all Gran Turismo 7 challengers

Nearly two years after its prototype debut and eight months after its public beta, Sony’s GT Sophy racing AI for Gran Turismo 7 is back, and going by Gran Turismo Sophy 2.0 now. It will be available to all PlayStation 5 users as part of the GT7 Spec II Update (Patch Update 1.40) being released…