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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 OpenAI’s board due to a disagreement around AI Safety. Despite objections and an attempt to reinstate Altman, Shear was named…
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Inside OpenAI’s chaotic weekend: The Sam Altman dismissal to Emmett Shear’s appointment

November 21, 2023
OpenAI, the buzzy AI startup behind the fastest-growing business application of all time, ChatGPT, faced a weekend of turmoil that rivaled a Shakespearean tragedy. On Friday, the organization announced the abrupt termination of its CEO Sam Altman, accusing him of being “not consistently candid in his communications.” It also removed president Greg Brockman in a boardroom coup that shocked the…
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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 “we also condemn the use of AI-driven technologies for warmaking, in which the aim is to make the loss of human life more…
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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…
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How Microsoft is reducing its dependence on OpenAI

November 18, 2023
The partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI has proven to be mutually beneficial. Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI has propelled it to the forefront of AI innovation, expanding the market for its enterprise cloud and AI offerings.  In turn, OpenAI has leveraged…
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Sam Altman fired as OpenAI CEO: the tech world reacts

November 18, 2023
On the heels of the abrupt announcement today from OpenAI that its board of directors had fired co-founder Sam Altman as CEO due to him allegedly being “not consistently candid in his communications with the board,” the tech world is reacting with a range of emotions to the news. While many on X cracked jokes alluding to OpenAI’s rivalries with Google and other companies, others sought to…
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