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OpenAI buys developer collaboration tool Multi; promptly sunsets its product. What's the big idea?
Multi had recently touted the ability to "work in teammates’ apps like Xcode and Terminal as though they’re open on your computer"
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OpenAI buys Rockset to make AI “more helpful” in the enterprise
Together, the companies will work on solving "hard database problems that AI apps face at massive scale" and help businesses extract actionable intelligence from their data.
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman bends before wrath of Scarlett Johansson
Hollywood actor reclaims her voice. What about the rest of us?
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What a cluster! OpenAI's lead engineer quits. Fresh hire seeks monster-Kubernetes wranglers
"We probably use Kubernetes differently from a lot of people"
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OpenAI will pay to scrape Stack Overflow data; surface it with links
That's the sound of a lifeline being thrown...
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US watchdog warns on "security, equity, civil rights" risks of open LLMs - launches consultation
Open models hold potential for “substantial harms, such as risks to security, equity, civil rights, or other harms due to, for instance, affirmative misuse, failures of effective oversight, or lack of clear accountability mechanisms”
OpenAI’s “Sora” lets you create video from text: Be awed, be worried.
Company says it is releasing examples "to give the public a sense of what AI capabilities are on the horizon" as one expert, NVIDIA's Dr Jim Fan emphasised that "if you think OpenAI Sora is a creative toy like DALLE... think again"
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US regulators investigate who should investigate Microsoft/OpenAI
If only there was a chatbot they could ask...
cybersecurity
OpenAI, TikTok, X hunt insider threat specialists -- on widely diverging salary bands
"In every insider threat case, there is a combination of network activity and employee behaviour. The malicious activity crosses both physical and electronic modalities..."
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Dropbox’s AI integration with OpenAI turns into a messaging mess – as Amazon’s CTO apologises over data protection post
"To data scientists and developers in the domain, the answers to these questions may be laughably obvious and the questions naive, but to most end-users they will not be."
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Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO as ludicrous soap opera continues
From "not consistently candid" to just "not consistent"? Do you care any longer? Should you?
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Sam Altman joins Microsoft as Nadella pounces - and OpenAI appoints former Twitch CEO
"We’ve learned a lot over the years about how to give founders and innovators space to build independent identities and cultures within Microsoft"