On Friday, Mr. Altman was pushed out of the hot A.I. start-up he ran. But an intense pressure campaign and negotiations brought him back.
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The OpenAI Drama Has a Clear Winner: The Capitalists
The fight over OpenAI was at least partly about dueling visions of artificial intelligence. One side clearly won out.
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Explaining OpenAI’s Board Shake-Up
Who is off, and who is on? For now there are three members, including one holdover from the board that ousted Sam Altman as C.E.O. last week.
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U.S. Case Details Binance’s Knowledge About Criminal Users
The crypto exchange treated them as essential customers, the government said. U.S. authorities want the industry to understand how bad that is for business.
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Let Your Maps App Guide You Home for the Holidays
Updates from Google and Apple can help you find efficient routes, locate nearby electric-vehicle charging stations or save a map for offline use.
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Thousands of routers and cameras vulnerable to new 0-day attacks by hostile botnet
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Miscreants are actively exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities to wrangle routers and video recorders into a hostile botnet used in distributed denial-of-service attacks, researchers from networking firm Akamai said Thursday. Both of the vulnerabilities, which were previously unknown to their manufacturers and to the security research community at...
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(BPRW) Media Executives and Clark Atlanta University (CAU) Unveil the First Media Sales, Operations & Marketing Collegiate Curriculum in the U.S.
(Black PR Wire) ATLANTA – For the first time in the U.S., students of the Atlanta University Center (AUC) will have the opportunity to complete a four-year college degree in which the last two years of the curriculum are devoted to equipping th…
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USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A group of Russian-state hackers known for almost exclusively targeting Ukranian entities has branched out in recent months either accidentally or purposely by allowing USB-based espionage malware to infect a variety of organizations in other countries. The group—known by many names, including Gamaredon, Primitive Bear, ACTINIUM, Armageddon, and Shuckworm—has been active...
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95% of OpenAI employees have threatened to quit in standoff with board
Enlarge (credit: FT montage) The future of OpenAI remained uncertain on Tuesday after extraordinary efforts by employees and investors to oust the board had so far failed to persuade its directors to resign and reinstate co-founder Sam Altman. People with direct knowledge of the matter said that by the end of Monday, 747 out of...
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Microsoft Hires Sam Altman Hours After OpenAI Rejects His Return
The announcement capped a tumultuous weekend for OpenAI, after Mr. Altman made a push to reclaim his job as C.E.O. of the artificial intelligence company.