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,…

Elon Musk’s XAI Startup Seeking To Raise $1 Billion

forbes.com Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI indicated in a regulatory filing Tuesday it is seeking to sell $1 billion in equity —after already raising over $134 million during its four…

Elon Musk’s xAI files with SEC for private sale of $1B in unregistered securities

cointelegraph.com Elon Musk’s X-linked AI modeler xAI has an agreement for the private sale of $865.3 million in unregistered equity securities, according to a filing with the United States…

Elon Musk seeks to raise $1 billion for xAI, the ‘rebellious’ competitor to OpenAI

fortune.com Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is seeking to raise $1 billion in funding from equity investors, according to a new filing. Musk has already raised nearly…

Elon Musk is looking to raise $1 billion for xAI

techcrunch.com Elon Musk is looking to raise one forty-fourth of a Twitter for his AI company, xAI. In other words, the man behind Tesla, SpaceX and X is seeking $1 billion in funding for…

Elon Musk's xAI has filed with the SEC to raise up to $1B in an equity offering, saying it has raised nearly $135M from four investors since November 29

cnbc.com Elon Musk speaks onstage during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 29, 2023 in New York City. X.AI, an artificial intelligence…

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…

Doctors should think twice about using ChatGPT for medical advice, here's why

thestreet.com In 2023, artificial intelligence has been a huge story. This was the year large language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT program were unleashed on the masses, giving people…

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…

OpenAI Rival Mistral AI Set to Raise Funds from a16z and Others at $2B Valuation

coinspeaker.com Coinspeaker OpenAI Rival Mistral AI Set to Raise Funds from a16z and Others at $2B Valuation Mistral AI, a formidable competitor to OpenAI, is in the final stages of…

One Year of ChatGPT: How A.I. Changed Silicon Valley Forever

nytimes.com ChatGPT’s release a year ago triggered a desperate scramble among tech companies and alarm from some of the people who helped invent it. At 1 p.m. on a Friday shortly before…

Kenya’s tech industry is fighting AI regulation plans

semafor.com The News Kenya’s tech sector is opposed to a new bill aimed at regulating artificial intelligence (AI) in the country, arguing that it would stifle innovation and put off…

Walmart and Target borrowing ideas from each other shows we're in a new economic landscape

businessinsider.com Carts at Target in Wisconsin. Talia Lakritz/Insider This post originally appeared in the Insider Today newsletter. You can sign up for Insider's daily newsletter here. Hi!…

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…

The future of AI is too important to be decided behind closed doors. There is a better way

fortune.com Somewhere during the 96 hours between the surprise firing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his rehiring, observers and social media users started speculating about an eventual…

Links 12/5/2023

nakedcapitalism.com The Evolution of Modern Dogs The Garden of Forking Paths (furzy) Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can ‘Hear’ Them Wired A New Way to Trigger a Tsunami Nautilus…

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…

Inside America’s School Internet Censorship Machine

wired.com Around dinner time one night in July, a student in Albuquerque, New Mexico, googled “suicide prevention hotline.” They were automatically blocked. The student tried again,…

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…

News publishers hesitate to commit to investing more into Threads next year despite growing engagement

digiday.com This editorial series examines industry trends across the media, media buying and marketing sectors as 2023 closes and the new year begins. More from the series → News…

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…

Navigating the Future of AI Regulation for Ethical Innovation

entrepreneur.com It is clear that regulatory practices are a must — there is no exception. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As the conversation around the…

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…

The daily gossip: Nicolas Cage plans to make only 'three or four more movies,' Billie Eilish accuses Variety of 'outing' her, and more

theweek.com 1. Nicolas Cage plans to make only 'three or four more movies' Cinema fans might need to start preparing for a Cage-free world. Nicolas Cage has revealed plans to retire…

Promising Nuclear Power Stocks Just Keep Soaring

investorplace.com There's always a bull market somewhere; and right now, it's in nuclear power stocks Editor’s note: “Promising Nuclear Power Stocks Just Keep Soaring” was previously…

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…

Taylor Swift, ‘Barbie’ And Hollywood Strikers Make Time Person Of The Year Shortlist

deadline.com Taylor Swift, Barbie and Hollywood strikers are among the nine contenders for Time’s 2023 Person of the Year, the magazine announced today. Also up for the designation, in…

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…

Companies say they're closing in on nuclear fusion as an energy source. Will it work?

npr.org Companies say they're closing in on nuclear fusion as an energy source. Will it work? In a gleaming warehouse complex north of Seattle, David Kirtley is building what he…

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…

Taylor Swift, Barbie and Hollywood Strikers Among Time’s Person of the Year Finalists

variety.com Time has released its 2023 Person of Year Shortlist, which includes Taylor Swift, Hollywood strikers, Trump prosecutors and Barbie among the final contenders. The Person of…

Prominent work-from-home CEO has just acknowledged a significant failure in the remote office model

fortune.com In the wake of the waning COVID-19 pandemic, a notable shift has taken place as numerous companies are permanently abandoning their fully remote work policies. Even Zoom,…

That OpenAI Mind-Boggler Whether Mysterious Q* Led To The Unexplained Firing Of The CEO And How Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Might Have Played A…

forbes.com In today’s column, I am going to do a follow-up to my recent “went viral” analysis of the mysterious Q* that OpenAI has apparently devised (see the link here) and will be…

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…

Top headlines: Open AI CEO Sam Altman ousted by board for not being 'candid'

financialpost.com Interfor Corp. ($9.44, 17.41 per cent) Shares of the lumber company have rebounded 30 per cent from their 2023 low late last month. On Nov. 8, the Vancouver-based company…

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…

Miguel Morel: Shining a Light on Crypto's Leaky Pseudonymity

coindesk.com There has long been a push-and-pull between transparency and privacy in the crypto industry. On one hand, Bitcoin's first users were cypherpunks and cryptographers who have…

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…

TikTok's owner is working on a rival chatbot builder to OpenAI, a new report says

businessinsider.com TikTok is Bytedance's most popular product, with over a billion users worldwide. Jaap Arriens/Getty Images ByteDance is launching a chatbot-building service to rival OpenAI,…

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…

Larry Page accused Elon Musk of favoring human species over digital life forms during an argument about the dangers of AI at Musk's 44th birthday

finance.yahoo.com None Larry Page and Elon Musk argued about AI at Musk's 44th birthday party in 2015. • None Page reportedly said humans would eventually merge with machines. • None Musk…

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 experts are roasting the NYT list of 'who's who' in AI for having zero women

aol.com None The New York Times list of "who's who" in AI has been slammed for featuring zero women. • None The list consists of 12 men, most of them the leaders of AI or tech…