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Control Altman delete: OpenAI fires CEO, chairman quits

Chief gets upgraded to customer – LLMs may be coming for your job but the board came for his

 

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Is America's chip blockade working against China? So far, our survey says: No

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Ordered enough Nvidia kit to keep evolving its AI and has plans to work around bans

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's ejection sparks theories as odd as some ChatGPT output

Is he coming back? Doing a startup? Hardware with Jony Ive? Crypto? All of the above?

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Control Altman delete: OpenAI fires CEO, chairman quits

Chief gets upgraded to customer – LLMs may be coming for your job but the board came for his

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IBM pauses advertising on X after ads show up next to antisemitic content

Twitter, meanwhile, tells us its brand safety controls are just as strong – or stronger – than other platforms

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Copilot coming to Windows 10 to help navigate the OS's twilight years

Microsoft has listened, but only to people who like its AI assistant

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Windows users can soon ditch Bing, Edge, other bundleware – but only in the EU

On the other hand, Europeans have to wait for Copilot

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Double Moon crater riddle solved? Spent Chinese rocket booster carrying mystery payload crash landed

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