OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired — and Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO

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OpenAI’s employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired businessinsider.com \| points: 629 \| comments: 885

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Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO theverge.com \| points: 617 \| comments: 892

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Northvolt develops state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery validated at 160 Wh/kg northvolt.com \| points: 486 \| comments: 273

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Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal techcrunch.com \| points: 461 \| comments: 2

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Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty wsj.com \| points: 433 \| comments: 284

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Claude 2.1 anthropic.com \| points: 425 \| comments: 255

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Typst – Compose Papers Faster typst.app \| points: 360 \| comments: 122

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SEC charges Kraken for operating as an unregistered securities exchange sec.gov \| points: 298 \| comments: 290

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FDA considers first CRISPR gene editing treatment that may cure sickle cell cnn.com \| points: 290 \| comments: 115

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.NET Blazor dusted.codes \| points: 286 \| comments: 243

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Early-life stress changes more genes in the brain than a head injury in rats medicalxpress.com \| points: 284 \| comments: 105

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Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code pickcode.io \| points: 275 \| comments: 105

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Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason arxiv.org \| points: 265 \| comments: 69

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FreeBSD 14.0-Release freebsd.org \| points: 264 \| comments: 111

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YouTube punishes ad-blocker users with slower videos on non-Chrome browsers androidcentral.com \| points: 262 \| comments: 200

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Why TSA’s Implementation of Facial Recognition Is More Dangerous Than You Think epic.org \| points: 257 \| comments: 146

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Candela P-12 taking off – Electric hydrofoiling passenger vessel [video] youtube.com \| points: 256 \| comments: 142

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Realtime Planet Shader: Interactive 3D planet animation jsulpis.github.io \| points: 253 \| comments: 37

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Seven signs of ethical collapse (2012) scu.edu \| points: 251 \| comments: 107

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Increasing QUIC and UDP Throughput over Tailscale tailscale.com \| points: 248 \| comments: 31

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