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Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has a seat at the table — or board, rather — once again. OpenAI today announced that Altman will be rejoining the company’s board…
OpenAI says Musk only ever contributed $45M, wanted to merge with Tesla or take control
OpenAI, the most valuable AI startup, said Wednesday it intends to dismiss all claims made by Elon Musk in a recent lawsuit and suggested that the billionaire entrepreneur, who was…
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ‘betrayal’ of nonprofit AI mission
Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, and its affiliated entities, alleging the ChatGPT makers have breached their original contractual agreements by pursuing profits instead…
Andrej Karpathy is leaving OpenAI again — but he says there was no drama
Andrej Karpathy, a widely respected research scientist, announced today that he has left OpenAI. This is the second time Karpathy has left the top AI firm and his departure is…
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Worldcoin to launch new Orb to make its eyeball scanning device look ‘more friendly’
It’s been a little over 180 days since Worldcoin publicly launched – and its futuristic looking Orb device is getting an upgrade, Alex Blania, CEO and co-founder of Tools for Humanity, shared exclusively with TechCrunch. “The new orb is coming and the next iterations will look quite different,” Blania said during a fireside chat at…
In a dramatic turn of events late Friday, ex-Y Combinator president Sam Altman was fired as CEO of AI startup OpenAI, the company behind viral AI hits like ChatGPT, GPT-4…
Worldcoin is no longer offering Orb-verification in India, Brazil and France
Worldcoin is no longer offering its Orb-verification service in India, Brazil and France, just months after the crypto startup expanded the helmet-shaped eyeball-scanning device to those markets. Tools for Humanity,…
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Worldcoin adds integrations with Minecraft, Reddit, Telegram, Shopify and Mercado Libre
Worldcoin, a crypto project co-founded by Sam Altman, said it now supports integrations for its World ID with Minecraft, Reddit, Telegram, Shopify and Mercado Libre. The company already supports integrations with Discord, Talent Protocol and Okta’s Auth0. Launched to the public about four months ago, the protocol recently was updated to World ID 2.0, which,…
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Sam Altman’s officially back at OpenAI, and the board gains a Microsoft observer
Sam Altman is officially back as OpenAI’s CEO after a tumultuous week and change. And OpenAI officially has a new board of directors, replacing most of the board that attempted…
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OpenAI, emerging from the ashes, has a lot to prove even with Sam Altman’s return
The OpenAI power struggle that captivated the tech world after co-founder Sam Altman was fired has finally reached its end — at least for the time being. But what to make of it? It feels almost as though some eulogizing is called for — like OpenAI died and a new, but not necessarily improved, startup…
Meet OpenAI’s new board of directors: Bret Taylor, Larry Summers and Adam D’Angelo. Or, more precisely, the board for the time being. We have reached an agreement in principle for…
So, there were some nonprofit folks up against a wall of money and influence. Guess who won?
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OpenAI will benefit from unity of purpose with Sam Altman’s return
In case you missed it, Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO. His reinstatement comes after a whirlwind few days in which we saw unusual corporate governance lead to an attempt to oust Altman, despite support from both Microsoft and the vast majority of OpenAI’s workforce. While the whole process was incredibly messy, the result…
Sam Altman is returning to OpenAI as its chief executive, the high-profile AI startup said Wednesday, a dramatic reversal that caps an intense five days of discussions, debates and convincing…
OpenAI’s fate took a a twist nobody could have imagined last week, and all we can do is watch to see what the final outcome will be.
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Founders: Pay attention to what happened with OpenAI’s board
Though no one knows precisely what happened, a common theory is that Altman’s for-profit efforts became at odds with the mission-driven nonprofit board.
OpenAI’s board of directors is reportedly in talks with Sam Altman, ex-Y Combinator president and an OpenAI co-founder, to return to OpenAI as CEO as soon as this week. That’s…
With the OpenAI drama continuing to deliver exciting headlines on the company’s uncertain future, Thanksgiving week is anything but slow.
One thing that the OpenAI drama should teach startups is that they should never put all their eggs in one LLM basket.
Amidst OpenAI chaos, Sam Altman’s involvement in Worldcoin is ‘not expected to change’
Sam Altman’s involvement in crypto project Tools for Humanity, which is building Worldcoin, remains uninterrupted, per a source close to the project.
How the OpenAI fiasco could bolster Meta and the ‘open AI’ movement
It has been a whirlwind four days for OpenAI, the generative AI poster child behind the smash hit ChatGPT. Seemingly out of nowhere, the OpenAI board ousted CEO and co-founder…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella suggests that Sam Altman might return to OpenAI
In interviews on CNBC and Bloomberg TV tonight, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear that it’s possible Sam Altman, who was fired from his role as CEO at OpenAI…
European investors grab the popcorn for the new ‘series’ of OpenAI, but are fearful of the fallout
With the OpenAI saga playing out across the pond, the European tech community has been waiting for the latest updates as if a new series of “Succession” was about to…
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Chaos at OpenAI adds fuel to the AI talent poaching war
It may be difficult for just any company to court OpenAI employees even if compensation packages are eye-poppingly high because of loyalty to Sam Altman.
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Investors are souring on OpenAI’s nonprofit governance model
OpenAI was never quite like other generative AI startups — or other startups period, for that matter. Its governance structure is unique and what ultimately led to the abrupt ousting of CEO Sam Altman on Friday. Even after it transitioned from a nonprofit to a “capped-profit” company in 2019, OpenAI retained an unusual structure that…
OpenAI’s crisis will sow the seeds of the next generation of AI startups
OpenAI’s meltdown is likely to become the latest installment in what’s becoming a Silicon Valley tradition. It’s hard to know how this will end.
Effective accelerationism, doomers, decels, and how to flaunt your AI priors
Several political perspectives are shaping quite a lot of the work on artificial intelligence, and so we need to understand them, especially now.
Microsoft may end up as the real winner of the OpenAI chaos that reigned over the weekend, and its rallying stock price is indicative of that. Upon the shocking news…
