The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […]
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Tinder is revamping its profile pages to make them more informative and create easier starting points for conversations. The company is launching features like profile prompts as conversation starters, profile quizzes, basic info tags, and dark mode. Let’s look at these new features in details. The Match-group-owned app is rolling out profile prompts so that […]
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A new startup is targeting the lucrative workplace productivity space with an open source approach to project and knowledge management — and it has received backing from a who’s who of investors from across the technology spectrum. AppFlowy, as the company is called, has raised $6.4 million in funding from a slew of renowned founders […]
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Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and many of their former OpenAI colleagues will join Microsoft, the software conglomerate’s chief Satya Nadella said Monday, capping an intense three days of discussions following the AI startup’s board abruptly firing Altman. Following the departure of Altman, many OpenAI employees, including the co-founder Brockman, left the firm in protest. At […]
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Capping off a tumultuous weekend at OpenAI that culminated in investors — and a contingent of employees — attempting to convince the company’s board to hire back former Y Combinator president Sam Altman after firing him on Friday, Altman won’t be returning as CEO, according to a report in The Information. Citing an internal memo […]
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Kyle Vogt, the serial entrepreneur who co-founded and led Cruise from a startup through its acquisition by General Motors, has resigned, according to an email sent to employees Sunday evening. The executive shakeup comes a month after the California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended Cruise’s permits to operate self-driving vehicles on public roads after an […]
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