By Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin and Krystal Hu (Reuters) -Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful art

Last weekend, there was massive drama at the board of OpenAI, the non-profit/company that makes ChatGPT, which has grown from nothing to $1B revenue per year in a matter of months. Sam Altman, the CEO

A lot of people are asking for my thoughts on what happened at OpenAI this weekend. As I’ll explain below, I believe what happened ultimately came down to two opposing philosophies on AI—and specifica

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In March 2020, Tagide deCarvalho saw something truly strange — something she thinks no other scientist has ever seen before: a virus with another, smaller virus latched onto its “neck.” The backstory

Jess Palmer / Midjourney. Used with permission. We’re living through a moment of dizzying contradiction. Our news feeds are saturated with images of the most horrific violence and suffering. Doomscrol

A Metro train car travels along the Red Line in Washington, D.C. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, riders have slowly returned to taking mass transit. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images WASHINGTON — In the nati

Atlassian reassessed the severity rating of the recent improper authorization vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server, raising the CVSS score from 9.1 to a maximum of 10. The company overha

1 of 2 | Kristen Carbone, a 34-year-old actress in New York, has... (Michelle V. Agins / The New York Times) There are more Americans who say they have serious cognitive problems — with remembering, c

Countless people have written about AI in the past few years. They largely break down into two camps: the lovers and the haters. They’re both wrong. AI is a tool much like a database or a hammer. If y

Federal health authorities are urging Americans to reach out to their insurers after reports of some people encountering trouble getting their new COVID-19 vaccine shot for free. Those issues have ari

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the fight against climate change is finally going well. The clean-energy revolution is well under way and exceeding expectations. Solar is set to become the cheapes

“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” That question, first posed by Ronald Reagan in a 1980 presidential-campaign debate with Jimmy Carter, has become the quintessential political q

“Do you think it’s weird that I tell Nermal I love her multiple times a day?” My sister’s question was muffled, her face stuffed in the fur of her six-month-old kitten (named for the cat from Garfield

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There's this moment in Gone with The Wind after Ashley Wilkes comes home from the war. Everything lies in ruins. People are starving and robbing each other food. Nobody has any idea what to do next. W

Underneath the vineyards and thermal spas in southern Italy, magma churns to create one of the world’s most active volcanic systems in a region known as Campi Flegrei. Outside of Naples, Campi Flegrei

A once-robust alliance of federal agencies, tech companies, election officials and researchers that worked together to thwart foreign propaganda and disinformation has fragmented after years of sustained Republican attacks. The GOP offensive started during the 2020 election as public critiques and…

The following essay is adapted from a social media post. It attracted quite a bit of attention, so I decided to refine the argument here. I spent more than 25 years in tech. If you asked me for advice today, I’d open with a warning: don’t let a corporate job, no matter how great, become your whole…

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It was just over a decade ago that Emma Smart and her husband, Andy, first decided they would not have children. Back then, her friends and family did not understand. “When you tell people you didn’t

In March, we shared our vision of a new future of software development with Copilot X, where AI infuses every step of the developer lifecycle. Since then, we’ve been working to scale and mature the underlying technology–and in the process we created something even bigger. Our vision has manifested…

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In July, Buzzfeed published a series of pictures of what Barbie looked like in every country, according to “AI”. They used an image generator – MidJourney – which dutifully produced gross stereotypes

WESTFIELD, N.J. — A student at a New Jersey high school is calling for federal legislation to address AI generated pornographic images after she says photos of her and other female classmates were man

People infected multiple times with COVID-19 are more likely to develop long COVID, and most never fully recover from the condition. Those are two of the most striking findings of a comprehensive new

SummaryCompanies Signals sharp downturn in demandTo review share buyback program for 2024Says industry facing overcapacity and lower prices, demandShares down 17.5% to lowest in three years COPENHAGEN

On October 7, the Islamist militant group Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, killed more than 1,400 people in Israel. Israel responded with military operations that have killed several times that nu

Highlights •Trajectory of long COVID in SARS-CoV-2 wild-type, Alpha, Delta, and Omicron •Similar patterns of symptoms and severity of long COVID across all four variants •No clinically significant dec

Let's start with a couple of chilling facts. The war in Gaza has nothing to do with democracy or human rights. It also has nothing to do with Israel's right to defend itself. Until yesterday, that's w

A new study by Apollo Research, an AI safety company, showed how quickly the technology could be co-opted to commit illegal activity, and even trick involved parties into thinking it had done nothing

By Lauren Weber | Photographs by Jovelle Tamayo for The Wall Street Journal Updated Nov. 2, 2023 at 9:49 am ET The return-to-office battle between workers and employers is entering a more combative phase. Workers are filing more charges of disability discrimination to federal and state agencies, and…

Today Microsoft’s Vice Chair and President Brad Smith shared insight on the global cybersecurity landscape and introduced our Secure Future Initiative. These engineering advances anticipate future cyberthreats, such as increasing digital attacks on identity systems. They also address how we will…

WASHINGTON — Voters are mad about the economy. All the polls say so . The U.S. economy has seldom been stronger. The numbers say so . Those two statements are hard to square. Common sense says so. Wha

You might wonder why civilization seems to be backsliding. You might wonder why the richest governments in the world can't seem to take care of their poor. You might wonder why they talk about plannin

Those of us who argue the pandemic isn’t over are invariably confronted with some version of “So does that mean we’re still in the 1918 flu pandemic?” These people aren’t being as clever as they think

Briefing | Higher for longer The economic consequences could be grim image: Patrick Leger Nov 2nd 2023 | NEW YORK N OT LONG ago, as interest rates in the rich world hovered near zero, economists debat

Credit: CC0 Public Domain One in seven people in the US reported having had long COVID by the end of 2022, suggests a large-scale investigation of long COVID and symptom prevalence by academics at UCL

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