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Sam Altman firing drama detailed in new book excerpt
An excerpt from the upcoming book “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future” offers new details about why OpenAI’s board briefly fired CEO Sam Altman back in 2023. Written by Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey, the book claims the nonprofit’s board members became increasingly concerned after learning about issues…
Meta releases Llama 4, a new crop of flagship AI models
This article from TechCrunch covers Meta releases Llama 4, a new crop of flagship AI models. By Kyle Wiggers Sat, 05 Apr 2025 20:01:30 +0000 Meta has released a new collection of AI models, Llama 4, in its Llama family — on a Saturday, no less. There are four new models in total: Llama 4…
Elon Musk says xAI acquired X
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has acquired his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in an all-stock deal, he announced in a post on X Friday. “xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction,” Musk said. “The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt).” Musk…
Amazon Kindle’s new feature uses AI to generate recaps for books in a series
By Aisha Malik Thu, 03 Apr 2025 20:32:28 +0000 Amazon is introducing a new “Recaps” feature for Kindle users to help them recall plot points and character arcs before picking up the latest book in a series. While the company’s press release for the new feature doesn’t mention AI, Amazon confirmed to TechCrunch that recaps…
OpenAI’s o3 model might be costlier to run than originally estimated
By Kyle Wiggers Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:21:25 +0000 When OpenAI unveiled its o3 “reasoning” AI model in December, the company partnered with the creators of ARC-AGI, a benchmark designed to test highly capable AI, to showcase o3’s capabilities. Months later, the results have been revised, and they now look slightly less impressive than they…
CoreWeave co-founder explains how a closet of crypto-mining GPUs led to a $1.5B IPO
CoreWeave co-founder Brian Venturo knows that three hedge fund guys, turned crypto miners, now running AI training infrastructure has been a wild ride. Original Source: Read full article