Steven Levy / Wired: A look at OpenAI interim CEO Mira Murati’s challenges, like convincing staff the company’s philosophy is workable, raising new funding, and attracting AI talent  —  Sam Altman made OpenAI into a powerhouse by adding a profit-seeking arm to its utopian mission. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft and Thrive are working to reinstate Sam Altman as OpenAI’s CEO; Satya Nadella, blindsided by the board’s decision, pledged to support Altman  —  – Possible outcome is that board resigns as soon as this weekend  — Altman has been considering new venture, but open to returning Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: An interview with DeepMind’s Shane Legg and Meredith Ringel Morris, who propose five levels of AGI taxonomy and say the first, “emerging”, has been achieved  —  AGI is one of the most disputed concepts in tech.  These researchers want to fix that. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Clark / The Information: Source: Sam Altman was in discussions with semiconductor companies, including Arm, on the morning of November 17 about designing new chips that lower LLM costs  —  Sam Altman, the recently ousted CEO of OpenAI, has been telling investors that he is planning to launch a new artificial intelligence venture … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Source: OpenAI’s board had agreed to resign and let Sam Altman and Greg Brockman return, but has since waffled; Altman would want significant governance changes  —  The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to CEO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Sources: Sam Altman and Greg Brockman are planning to pitch a new AI startup to investors and are considering which OpenAI employees would join them  —  Sam Altman, who was forced out of his company on Friday afternoon, was quickly moving to create another company with another OpenAI executive who quit on Friday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Forbes: Sources: OpenAI investors discussed reinstating Sam Altman by threatening OpenAI with mass researcher revolt, withholding Microsoft cloud credits, and a lawsuit  —  With the ousted OpenAI CEO actively discussing a new artificial intelligence venture, investors in his previous company are trying … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Satya Nadella, blindsided by the OpenAI board’s decision, has been in touch with Sam Altman and pledged to support him in whatever steps he takes next  —  – Possible outcome is that board resigns as soon as this weekend  — Altman has been considering new venture, but open to returning Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Roose / New York Times: Source: at an OpenAI all-hands meeting, Ilya Sutskever defended Sam Altman’s ouster as necessary to protect OpenAI’s mission of making AI beneficial to humanity  —  Everything seemed to be going his way.  Then his time at OpenAI was over.  —  All over Silicon Valley … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kalley Huang / The Information: Meta split up its Responsible AI team, moving most of its members to the generative AI team formed in February 2023, and the others to an AI infrastructure unit  —  Meta Platforms has split up a team responsible for understanding and preventing harms associated with the artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme