Ex-OpenAI director Reid Hoffman says we still don't 'fully know' why board forced out Altman

cnbc.com Three weeks after OpenAI's board briefly pushed out CEO Sam Altman without providing a specific reason for its decision, former director Reid Hoffman says he's still puzzled…

Elon Musk heats up the AI wars. He's seeking $1 billion for xAI

aol.com None Elon Musk wants to raise up to $1 billion for his AI startup xAI, according to an SEC filing. • None So far, xAI has raised close to $135 million in equity financing,…

New report illuminates why OpenAI board said Altman “was not consistently candid”

arstechnica.com Now, in an in-depth piece for The New Yorker, writer Charles Duhigg—who was embedded inside OpenAI for months on a separate story—suggests that some board members found…

How to Build an Advisory Board That Drives Startup Success

entrepreneur.com Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As a startup founder, the composition of your advisory board can significantly impact the trajectory of your…

Sam Altman fired by OpenAI, then reportedly urged to return in ongoing shocker

dlnews.com Happy Sunday! Sam Altman was fired as OpenAI chief executive, then reportedly asked by investors to return in what has become a continuing saga. Jump Trading cut ties with…

CEO Sam Altman’s firing by board of OpenAI shocks tech world

dlnews.com Happy Saturday! Sam Altman was unexpectedly fired by the board of OpenAI about a year after the company released ChatGPT, a Republican presidential candidate released crypto…

Why Investors Should Buy NVDA Stock to Welcome In 2024

investorplace.com Is now the time to buy shares of the world's largest chip maker? Amidst surging global demand for microchips and semiconductors, Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), with a more than…

How Jessica Lessin’s The Information Has Survived a Decade of Media Tumult

vanityfair.com The OpenAI saga was, in many ways, a perfect story for The Information. Reporters at the influential tech site spent the week of Thanksgiving obsessively chronicling the…

Silicon Valley’s AI boom collides with a skeptical Sacramento

politico.com SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Silicon Valley’s freewheeling artificial intelligence industry is about to face its first major policy roadblocks — not in Washington, but in its own…

Sam Altman's biggest lesson for founders: control freaks win

businessinsider.com Sam Altman has emerged from a boardroom battle at OpenAI bruised but victorious. • Altman's former boss, Paul Graham, wrote a prescient essay about control at startups. has…

Why Sam Altman is a no-brainer for Time’s ‘Person of the Year’

marketwatch.com Nothing has changed our lives more this year than the advances made in artificial intelligence — and they have the potential to alter our lives in even more dramatic ways…

OpenAI Commits $51M To Chip Startup Backed By CEO Sam Altman

benzinga.com This AI research organization, headed by CEO Sam Altman, signed a letter of intent in 2019 agreeing to the payout when the chips are produced. Altman himself has reportedly…

ChatGPT's wild first year

foxbusiness.com OpenAI recently celebrated the first anniversary of the public debut of its artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, and what a year it was. The AI startup launched in 2015…

Sam Altman's 'Engagement' In Other Startups Possibly Led To Initial Firing By OpenAI Board

zerohedge.com Sam Altman's 'Engagement' In Other Startups Possibly Led To Initial Firing By OpenAI Board OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's wheeling and dealing in other tech startups could have…

Wall Street underscores why we're in Apple and Microsoft for the long haul

cnbc.com A new batch of Wall Street commentary on Monday highlights exactly why we're bullish on mega cap tech stocks Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT). In a new research note, UBS…

OpenAI Takes On China: Company Files Trademarks For Future AI Models

benzinga.com U.S. artificial intelligence leader OpenAI is seeking entry into the Chinese market after filing trademarks for two future models. A report on Monday in the South China…

Vinod Khosla details how much his venture firm had on the line before Sam Altman’s reinstatement at OpenAI

aol.com There are only a few venture capitalists who elicit the kind of Silicon Valley celebrity status as Vinod Khosla. After stepping off stage from an interview at a startup…

Inside Morgan Stanley’s OpenAI Push

theinformation.com During the most harrowing moments of the OpenAI leadership crisis, one of the startup’s biggest partnerships—a deal with Morgan Stanley that is supposed to demonstrate how…

Shavonne Wong: Not Even Sam Altman 'Is Exempt From Surveillance'

coindesk.com Click here to view and bid on the NFT created by Shavonne Wong. The auction will begin on Monday, 12/4 at 12p.m. ET and ends 24 hours after the first bid is placed. Holders…

Meta’s AI Chief Skeptical about AGI, Quantum Computing

coinspeaker.com Coinspeaker Meta’s AI Chief Skeptical about AGI, Quantum Computing Meta’s AI chief, Yann LeCun, has expressed skepticism about current AI systems surpassing human…

Q&A with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on ChatGPT's launch, GPT-4, DALL-E, overhyping AI, the business of generative AI, ChatGPT Enterprise, multimodal AI, and more

cnbc.com Weeks before OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, the buzzy artificial intelligence company's executive team devoted an entire meeting to debating one question: should…

OpenAI is paying out $51 million to a chip startup that Sam Altman personally invested in, report says

aol.com None OpenAI agreed to pay startup company Rain AI $51 million for when its chips are released, per Wired. • None OpenAI chief Sam Altman reportedly invested $1 million of…

Sam Altman: The World That Sam Made

coindesk.com At the time of this writing, Sam Altman is once again the CEO of OpenAI. The particulars are still unknown. Why did the board turn on him? What will an internal inquiry…

Europe's world-leading artificial intelligence rules are facing a do-or-die moment

apnews.com Hailed as a world first, are facing a make-or-break moment as negotiators try to hammer out the final details this week — talks complicated by the sudden rise of generative…

The Heat Rises at COP28

nytimes.com Dismissive comments by the president of the climate gathering raise questions about the host country’s commitment to addressing rising global temperatures. Tensions are…

Will the EU's landmark bid to regulate AI fall at the last hurdle?

euronews.com Negotiators are due to finalise the world's first set of rules regulating artificial intelligence (AI) but a wobble this week could set it back years. Hailed as a world…

Inflated Egos, Mistrust And More: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Opens Up About Feud With Elon Musk

benzinga.com In an intriguing turn of events, once close allies, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, CEOs of OpenAI and Tesla Inc. respectively, find themselves amid a heated conflict. What…

AI Briefing: Apple and Google feature AI-powered apps in their ‘best of 2023’ lists

digiday.com All the AI hype has made its way into the app stores. Last week, Apple and Google unveiled their lists for the best apps of 2023, both of which showcased a range of…

How Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Peter Thiel tick differently, according to Bismarck’s Samo Burja: ‘I don’t think Elon’s even listening’

aol.com Getting a read on Silicon Valley elites can be challenging, but Samo Burja recently sketched out a "few basics” about three of them: Tesla CEO Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam…

How Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Peter Thiel tick differently, according to political scientist Samo Burja: ‘I don’t think Elon’s even listening’

fortune.com Getting into the minds of Silicon Valley elites is never easy, but a Slovenian political scientist recently tried to “sketch out a interesting few basics” about three…

Sam Altman sheds light on feud with Elon Musk: ‘The closer people are to being pointed in the same direction, the more contentious the disagreements are’

aol.com Sam Altman and Elon Musk are hardly strangers. The CEOs of OpenAI and Tesla, respectively, have dined together and shared a stage. They worked together to launch OpenAI in…

OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman

wired.com Sam Altman was reinstated soon after being fired as OpenAI CEO last month, but still stood to gain had the company continued to develop ChatGPT without him. During Altman’s…

Sam Altman sheds light on feud with Elon Musk: 'The closer people are to being pointed in the same direction, the more contentious the disagreements are'

fortune.com Sam Altman and Elon Musk are hardly strangers. The CEOs of OpenAI and Tesla, respectively, have dined together and shared a stage. They worked together to launch OpenAI in…

Tesla releases the Cybertruck, Sam Altman officially returns to OpenAI, and Evernote cripples its free plan

finance.yahoo.com Hi, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch's newsletter that highlights some of the more noteworthy moments in tech over the past few days. The holiday season is…

OpenAI’s GPT Store won’t be released until 2024

engadget.com OpenAI is pushing the launch of its GPT Store to early 2024, according to an email seen by The Verge. The company introduced its GPT Builder tool in early November at its…

AI Wizard Sam Altman Shows What Real Leadership Is. His Bosses Were Clueless

medium.datadriveninvestor.com A lot happened to artificial intelligence pioneer wizard Sam Altman, recently. But for me mostly it demonstrated how his bosses knew little about leadership. It’s something…

Could OpenAI be the next tech giant?

economist.com T of a new market is like the start of a long race. Competitors jockey for position as spectators excitedly clamour. Then, like races, markets enter a calmer second phase.…

After OpenAI's Chaos, Anthropic Has An Opportunity (And Its Own Untraditional Board)

bigtechnology.com Life got interesting for Anthropic two weeks ago when OpenAI nearly lit itself on fire. Anthropic had been operating comfortably in OpenAI’s shadow, collecting billions in…

The OpenAI Saga: What It Means for Microsoft and Nadella’s Legacy

investorplace.com The OpenAI debacle added to the value of Microsoft stock Microsoft (NASDAQ: ) Vice Chairman and President Brad Smith recently told the BBC the chaos at OpenAI had very…

Why the Entire AI World Was Talking About 'Q' This Week

gizmodo.com In the aftermath of last week’s shocking OpenAI power struggle, there was one final revelation that acted as a kind of epilogue to the sprawling mess: a report from Reuters…

The end of business-class A.I. doomerism

maxread.substack.com If I’m being honest, my immediate reaction to the news that Sam Altman had been fired as C.E.O. of OpenAI was something like … relief? Not, to be clear, because of anything…

How Josh Kushner became a billionaire startup investor before age 40

fortune.com One year ago, Sam Altman was quietly preparing for a world-jolting event. His generative AI startup, OpenAI, was close to launching ChatGPT, the chatbot that would captivate…

IBM highlights the actual promise of AI (not ChatGPT)

thestreet.com In the year since OpenAI launched ChatGPT, its CEO Sam Altman has regularly called for regulation of the technology, sounding the alarm about the existential, societal…

Microsoft Employees Gave OpenAI’s CEO Drama an Amazingly Vulgar Name

futurism.com The OpenAI CEO debacle apparently blindsided its close partner Microsoft so dramaticically that employees there developed a vulgar nickname for the fracas. As The New Yorker…

Sam Altman reveals why he was fired, then re-hired as OpenAI CEO, says 'was hurt and angry'

hindustantimes.com In an interview with The Verge, Altman revealed the real reason why he decided to accept the proposal from the board, and why he was sacked as the OpenAI CEO in the first…

Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement?

forbes.com Forbes has learned that Guillaume Verdon, the founder of stealth AI startup Extropic and a former Google engineer, is behind the provocative Twitter account leading the…

Report: OpenAI Pushes Back Launch of Custom GPT Store to Early 2024

pymnts.com OpenAI has reportedly delayed the opening of its custom GPT store. The store was announced in November and was to launch later that month, but it has now been delayed until…

After OpenAI’s Chaos, Anthropic Has An Opportunity (And Its Own Untraditional Board)

thewrap.com Life got interesting for Anthropic two weeks ago when OpenAI nearly lit itself on fire. Anthropic had been operating comfortably in OpenAI’s shadow, collecting billions in…

In firing Altman, OpenAI’s board wanted to keep the element of surprise

theverge.com We still don’t know the whole story around the conflict between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the company’s board, but more and more is leaking out. A new report, from The New…