Andy Rubin, creator of Android and a former Google executive, has launched a new startup focused on humanoid robots, said a person with direct knowledge of the venture. His venture is the latest addition to the red-hot and frothy humanoid space, crowded with companies ranging from Tesla to startups such as Figure AI. Rubin’s startup, Genki Robotics, is based in Tokyo, where he is currently living, according to the person.... Read more ›
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Sam Altman won’t return as CEO of OpenAI, despite efforts by the company’s executives to bring him back, according to co-founder and board director Ilya Sutskever. After a weekend of negotiations with the board of directors that fired him Friday, as well as with its remaining leaders and top investors, Altman will not return to the startup he co-founded in 2015, Sutskever told staff. Emmett Shear, co-founder of Amazon-owned video... Read more ›
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Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest backer, is considering taking a role on the board if ousted CEO Sam Altman’s returns to the ChatGPT developer, according to two people familiar with the talks. Microsoft could either take a seat on OpenAI’s board of directors, or as a board observer without voting power, one of the people said. The discussions are part of an effort by OpenAI’s big backers and senior leadership to reinstate... Read more ›
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Two days after OpenAI’s board of directors fired him, Sam Altman joined executives at the company’s San Francisco headquarters Sunday as they pushed the board to reinstate him and other recently departed executives, said a person with knowledge of the situatioin. Interim CEO Mira Murati earlier told staff that she and the leadership team invited Altman, according to people with knowledge of the situation. OpenAI’s former chairman and president, Greg... Read more ›
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For at least a brief moment, OpenAI's rivals caught a lucky break. After spending the last year racing to catch up to the ChatGPT developer’s lead, OpenAI competitors learned the jaw-dropping news: the startup’s board had pushed out Altman. By Sunday it looked like the reprieve would be short-lived, as growing employee and investor backlash to the OpenAI board’s decision put pressure on the board to reverse its decision. But... Read more ›
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OpenAI is “optimistic” it can bring back Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and other key employees who departed in the wake of Altman’s sudden firing on Friday, Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon told staffers in a memo Saturday night, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Executives will be able to share another update by mid-morning tomorrow, Kwon said. Read more ›
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OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman could make a decision as soon as Saturday evening on whether to return to the startup he co-founded, after some major investors urged the board that fired him to reverse the decision, according to people familiar with the discussions. In order to return, the members of the board would have to be replaced. Alternatively, Altman would continue with plans to launch a new venture. Tiger Global... Read more ›
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Sam Altman, the recently ousted CEO of OpenAI, has been telling investors that he is planning to launch a new venture, according to a person familiar with the matter. Former OpenAI president Greg Brockman is expected to join the effort and the project is still in development, the person said. Altman was fired suddenly by the OpenAI board of directors on Friday. Shortly after, Brockman—who was removed as chairman of... Read more ›
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A planned sale of OpenAI employee shares that would value the startup at about $86 billion on paper hangs in the balance after the sudden firing of CEO Sam Altman and a slew of top executive departures. The tender offer, which Thrive Capital is leading, has not yet closed but has been in its final stages and was expected to be completed as soon as next month, according to a... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has split up a team responsible for understanding and preventing harms associated with the artificial intelligence technology it’s developing,as the company diverts more resources to its generative AI work, according to an internal post reviewed by The Information. The changes are part of a wider reshuffle of the AI teams that Meta announced internally this week. Most employees on the Responsible AI team will move to Meta’s generative... Read more ›
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New subscribers can get three months on us with our Black Friday offer, available through November 26. You’ll save 25% on an annual subscription, which gives you unlimited access to our journalism, org charts, events, newsletters—and, of course, every story from The Information Weekend. Subscribe here to save $100+.Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Still reeling from the news of Sam Altman’s apparent firing from OpenAI? Yeah, me too. Two years ago,... Read more ›
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Three senior researchers at OpenAI resigned Friday night as the artificial intelligence developer suffered fallout from the firing of CEO Sam Altman and sudden resignation of President Greg Brockman, according to several people with knowledge of the situation. Jakub Pachocki, the company’s director of research; Aleksander Madry, head of a team evaluating potential risks from AI, and Szymon Sidor, a seven-year researcher at the startup, told associates they had resigned,... Read more ›
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What a turn of events! OpenAI began the day once again as the hottest startup in tech, run by the smartest hotshots in artificial intelligence. But around lunchtime on the west coast, it was a car crash, one that kept getting worse throughout the day. First, the OpenAI board dropped a bombshell with the announcement that it had ousted CEO Sam Altman after finding he was “not consistently candid in... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s ouster of CEO Sam Altman on Friday followed internal arguments among employees about whether the company was developing artificial intelligence safely enough, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Such disagreements were high on the minds of some employees during an impromptu all-hands meeting following the firing. Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and board member at OpenAI who was responsible for limiting societal harms from its AI, took a... Read more ›
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OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who helped launch the artificial intelligence developer and has been key to developing ChatGPT and other core products, has resigned, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The move came after the company's board fired CEO Sam Altman earlier Friday. Brockman was a member of the six-person board that fired Altman, after which the board said in a blog post that Altman had not... Read more ›
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OpenAI Interim CEO Mira Murati on Friday told staff in a companywide meeting that its relationship with Microsoft—its biggest outside source of capital and computing power—was stable following the sudden firing of CEO Sam Altman, according to people with knowledge of the meeting. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and CTO Kevin Scott expressed “utmost confidence” in OpenAI following the unexpected news, Murati said, according to these people. Microsoft’s leaders were blindsided... Read more ›
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Within minutes of meeting Amanda Bradford, founder of dating app The League, I had to bring up the company’s did-they-really-just-say-that subway ads. “Date someone with a 5-year plan that makes you want to ovulate” one reads; “Achieve multiple goalgasms” suggests another. Covering three New York stations—Columbus Circle, West Fourth and Bedford Avenue—the innuendo-laden black-and-white posters have provoked a flurry of criticism and general mockery online. I asked if the blowback... Read more ›
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Amid the Israeli military’s siege of Gaza in late October, Ali, an Arab American tech investor, decided to send a letter to over 200 of his firm’s portfolio founders, fellow investors and other work contacts. He began the letter by saying he was outraged by the Hamas terror attacks of October 7 and he prayed for the safe return of every hostage. Ali, who requested that his real name be... Read more ›
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A few weeks ago, Sam predicted the end of the "venture capital industrial complex," a term he coined to refer to the old way of doing things in the industry. And so, I asked him this week, how—amid news of major new fundraises—that was holding up. That, and lots more, on this week's episode of More or Less. Apple Spotify YouTube Read more ›
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Readers of The Information are spending more on software, especially programs related to artificial intelligence and the cloud, and expect to boost software budgets further in 2024, although perhaps at a slower pace.Our latest survey also found that readers expect conditions for tech companies to improve in the coming months, but they are slightly less optimistic about the outlook for tech than they were a month ago. The results are... Read more ›
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The founder and CEO of InVision saw the siege coming. His successful user interface design startup was growing fast, having built a product that some expected to put Adobe, the juggernaut of the design industry, back on its heels. But Adobe was working on a next-generation app of its own, and another upstart, Figma, was gaining momentum with software that could be a game changer. So InVision’s CEO, Clark Valberg,... Read more ›
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