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Healthcare startups scramble to assess fallout after Postmeds data breach hits millions of patients

November 18, 2023

More than two million people across the United States will receive notice that their personal and sensitive health information was stolen earlier this year during a cyberattack at Postmeds, the parent company of online pharmacy startup Truepill. For some of those affected, it’s the first they’re hearing of Postmeds, let alone that the company lost […]

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SpaceX launches Starship for the second time, going farther than ever before

November 18, 2023

Watch Starship’s second integrated flight test → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK https://t.co/cahoRQ72lm — SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 18, 2023 SpaceX flew Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, for the second time ever today – and it went way farther than the first time around. Developing… 

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Small Problem May Loom Large for Bull Market

November 18, 2023
The stock market sure seems bullish in November given the tremendous bounce from bottom. But the large cap bias of the S&P 500 (SPY) continues to hide some of the…

Greg Brockman quits OpenAI after abrupt firing of Sam Altman

November 18, 2023

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has quit the firm, he said Friday, hours after the Microsoft-backed giant abruptly fired its chief executive Sam Altman and assured that Brockman would remain at the startup. Brockman’s sudden departure adds to the day’s uncertainties at OpenAI, following closely on the heels of its inaugural developer conference led […]

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WTF is going on at OpenAI? We have theories

November 18, 2023

In perhaps the most unexpected tech news of the year, billionaire Sam Altman has been ejected from his CEO role at OpenAI by the company’s board after an apparent vote of no confidence. Its exact wording in a release issued this afternoon: Altman’s “departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that […]

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Who is Mira Murati, OpenAI’s new interim CEO?

November 17, 2023

In a surprising move, OpenAI today abruptly fired Sam Altman, its CEO and a member of its board of directors, and installed CTO Mira Murati as interim CEO. But who, exactly, is Mira Murati? Murati, who has a degree in mechanical engineering from Dartmouth College, previously worked as an intern at Goldman Sachs and then […]

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