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‘Not consistently candid’: The cryptic phrase that ended Sam Altman’s tenure at OpenAI

November 21, 2023
It was a bombshell that rocked the tech world. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the most prestigious and visionary AI startup on the planet, was sacked by the board on Friday. And he wasn’t the only one. Greg Brockman, the organization’s president, was also ousted. It was a swift and unexpected move, one that raised many questions and doubts. But the explanation that the board gave for their…
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Understanding OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear’s Twitch roots

November 21, 2023
Former Twitch CEO and cofounder Emmett Shear has been named the interim CEO of OpenAI following the board ousting Sam Altman on Friday. Shear stepped down from Twitch in March 2023 after 16 years at the games livestreaming service. Altman appears to have been outed by…
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OpenAI’s leadership drama underscores why its GPT model security needs fixing

November 21, 2023
The leadership drama unfolding at OpenAI underscores how important it is to have security built into the company’s GPT model creation process. The drastic action by the OpenAI board Friday to fire CEO Sam Altman led to the reported possible departure of senior architects responsible for AI security, which heightens concerns by potential enterprise users of GPT models about their risks. Security…
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Breaking report: 700 of 770 employees at OpenAI, including co-founder Ilya Sutskever, tell the remaining board to resign

November 21, 2023
In a shocking twister to the saga unfolding at OpenAI, news broke Monday morning before 6am that 500 of 770 employees at OpenAI have asked the remaining board at OpenAI to resign. As of Monday afternoon, the number had increased to 700, reporter Ashlee Vance said in a tweet. 700 of 770 OpenAI employees saying they will go now. What is the board going to be board of? In a letter signed by twelve…
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AI community fractured over Israel-Hamas war

November 20, 2023
Nearly 200 AI leaders, researchers and data scientists have signed an open letter published last Tuesday by the ‘Responsible AI Community,’ which, in addition to condemning Israel’s “latest violence against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank,” says…
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Realtime generative AI art is here thanks to LCM-LoRA

November 18, 2023
Generative AI art has quickly emerged as one of the most interesting and popular applications of the new technology, with models such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney claiming millions of users, not to mention OpenAI’s move to bundle its DALL-E 3 image generation model directly into its popular ChatGPT service earlier this fall. Simply by typing in a description and waiting a few short…
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