OpenAI's official press account on X was hacked by crypto scammers, similar to previous incidents involving company leadership.  The compromised account posted about a fake OpenAIbranded blockchain...

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- OpenAI's official press account on X was hacked by crypto scammers, similar to previous incidents involving company leadership.
- The compromised account posted about a fake OpenAI-branded blockchain token, $OPENAI, linking to a phishing site.
- The phishing site encouraged users to connect their crypto wallets, likely to steal login credentials.
- Comments on the malicious post were disabled, making the hack less obvious.
- Previous hacks targeted OpenAI CTO Mira Murati and other high-profile tech accounts, promoting similar crypto scams. 

 Source: [Techcrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/23/crypto-scammers-hack-openais-press-account-on-x/)

Crypto Scammers Hijack OpenAI's Press Account on X

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What in the hell is happening

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xAI rival of open ai chatgpt and Google bard...Have hired ex-engineers of Google deepmind, open ai, Microsoft..What's your views?

Musk launched xAI.

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Sam Altman fired from OpenAi

Just woke up and read this! Sad indeed, guy challenged dominance of Bigtech and made google look like IBM 🥲

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Get your popcorns🍿
https://x.com/karaswisher/status/1726599700961521762?s=48&t=TQlRCcd7C8YutZv122Uhfw

OpenAI Employees asks the board to resign!

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Interesting article!
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-chaos/676050/

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Inside the chaos at OpenAI

- Just two of OpenAI’s 11 founding team members remain active, following a series of departures after a boardroom coup against CEO Sam Altman in November.
- Three co-founders have left this year, including John Schulman, who joined rival Anthropic, and Greg Brockman, who announced an extended leave.
- The high turnover rate, especially among senior figures, has raised questions about the $86bn company's direction amid fierce competition from Google and Anthropic.
- Some founders have joined rivals or started their own AI companies, while Elon Musk, a former member, has become a vocal critic.
- OpenAI had an unusually large founding team to build an AI supergroup, but recent events have significantly thinned their ranks. 

 Source: [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/638f67f7-5375-47fc-b3a7-af7c9e05b9e0)

Where Have OpenAI’s Founders Gone?

OpenAI is up to something

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-> OpenAI fires Altman & Brockman
-> Microsoft & OpenAI investors try to get both back 
-> OpenAI hires Emmett Shear/Microsoft hires Altman & Brockman
-> 500/700 OpenAI employees tell the board to resign

OpenAI coup! What a Drama!

- OpenAI plans to transition from a nonprofit to a for-profit company, sparking debate.
- Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati resigns, following other top executives' departures.
- The restructuring aims to attract investors, with a funding round of up to $6.5 billion.
- CEO Sam Altman and the nonprofit arm will hold stakes in the new for-profit entity.
- Murati cites a desire for personal exploration as her reason for leaving. 

 Source: [WSJ](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chief-technology-officer-resigns-7a8b4639)

OpenAI's Controversial Shift to For-Profit Amid Leadership Exodus

- Meta's Llama models don't meet Open Source Initiative's new AI standards
- OSI requires full disclosure of training data, source code, and model weights
- Meta argues for 'spectrum of openness' due to LLM development complexity
- Llama models downloaded 300m+ times, setting Meta apart from proprietary LLMs
- Concerns raised about Meta 'abusing' open-source term for regulatory advantages 

 Source: [economist](https://www.economist.com/business/2024/08/28/meta-is-accused-of-bullying-the-open-source-community)

Meta Accused of 'Bullying' Open-Source AI Community

Mira appointed as a new interim CEO,

Any idea what might has happened?

OpenAI Sam Altman Fired

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- OpenAI's new AI model, Strawberry, is designed for reasoning but users are banned from asking about its thought process.
- Users report receiving emails warning them against trying to circumvent safeguards, risking loss of access to GPT-4o with Reasoning.
- The irony is that Strawberry's hype was built around its chain-of-thought reasoning, now restricted by OpenAI.
- OpenAI claims this measure is to maintain safety and competitive advantage, but it limits transparency for developers.
- Critics argue this approach hinders interpretability and transparency, crucial for developing and aligning AI models. 

 Source: [Futurism](https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-ban-strawberry-reasoning)

OpenAI Threatens to Ban Users for Probing AI Reasoning

Emmett Shear is the new CEO of OpenAI

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OpenAI is nothing without its people /s

This will be the fate of every engineer or scientist if they don't learn proper people & stake holder management and let folks that know nothing tell them what to do. 
  
 Elon was the one that poached Ilya from Google. And that was pivotal for OpenAI. 
  
 Just because Sam had the contacts and became the face of Ilyas work in front of the world, Ilya couldn't do a thing when he felt his own company was doing something wrong. 
  
 This is a massive learning for all stupid engineers out there. 
  
 1. Don't let dumb product folk present your work. 
  
 2. Don't let someone else and most definitely not the irrelevant product folk to be the main Point of contact for your business leads. You are the product there, you are responsible for what you build. Show up in front of business now and then, take responsibility for mistakes. Listen to their issues solve a few of them and tell that you will solve it. (I know if you let that take over there will be lot of noise, but you have got to strike a balance not run.) 
  
 3. Start learning crisp communication and stand your ground. Those who have nothing real in tech come up with way too many fantasy ideas and either are impractical or sugar coat things too much. 
 You have got to stand your ground on the beliefs that you have because other non tech ones will not have the realistic view as you do and if you don't lead roadmaps out there, you are betraying your position.

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