Internal memo says Sam Altman’s firing wasn’t due to ‘malfeasance’ or OpenAI safety practices The message to staff, sent by COO Brad Lightcap, was obtained by Axios and The New York Times. Cheyenne MacDonald Sat, Nov 18, 2023 Carlos Barria / reuters An internal memo sent to OpenAI staff on Saturday after former CEO … Continue reading Internal memo says Sam Altman’s firing wasn’t due to ‘malfeasance’ or OpenAI safety practices
Just For You, YouTube Says by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, November 9, 2023 Two three-letter words will change the way brands message consumers in advertisements and marketing in search, email and other media within the next few years, as Google and others phase out browser-based cookies that target consumers and real one-to-one targeting takes hold. … Continue reading Just For You, YouTube Says
A software company called Threads says Meta tried to buy its domain and kicked it off Facebook The software company is threatening legal action against Meta for using its name. Karissa Bell Tue, Oct 31, 2023 SOPA Images via Getty Images A UK-based software company called Threads Software Limited is threatening legal action against … Continue reading A software company called Threads says Meta tried to buy its domain and kicked it off Facebook
Baidu’s CEO says its ERNIE AI ‘is not inferior in any aspect to GPT-4’ The generative AI chatbot can answer questions with text, images and dynamic graphs. Andrew Tarantola Updated Tue, Oct 17, 2023 Baidu ERNIE, Baidu’s answer to ChatGPT, has “achieved a full upgrade,” company CEO Robin Li told the assembled crowd … Continue reading Baidu’s CEO says its ERNIE AI ‘is not inferior in any aspect to GPT-4’
US labor board says X illegally fired a worker in retaliation for critical tweet Software engineer Yao Yue told employees to let Musk fire them rather than resign over his new return-to-work policy. Cheyenne MacDonald Sat, Oct 14, 2023 Clodagh Kilcoyne / reuters X’s firing of an employee who pushed back against a return-to-office … Continue reading US labor board says X illegally fired a worker in retaliation for critical tweet
OpenAI Says ChatGPT Can Now See, Hear, And Speak by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 25, 2023 Speech, voice, and vision features that OpenAI announced Monday in its ChatGPT move the technology to a conversational interface that advertising agencies and companies can build into their own platforms. The voice capability — which supports the … Continue reading OpenAI Says ChatGPT Can Now See, Hear, And Speak
A permission change with Amazon Web Service prevented customers from accessing most Salesforce services for several hours. Constantine von Hoffman on September 20, 2023 There was a huge outage of Salesforce services today following an internal permission change. As a result, customers were not able to access services for several hours. “This is about … Continue reading Salesforce says an internal action caused service outage
By Emily Price July 30, 2023 If you want to send an email to a work colleague and guarantee it’s going to be opened, your best bet might be to send it on Sunday afternoon, according to new research from Axios HQ, the communications software company that spun off of Axios. It analyzed the … Continue reading Sunday emails are the most likely to get read, says new research
By Anne D’Innocenzio—Associated Press July 23, 2023 Elon Musk said Sunday that he plans to change the logo of Twitter to an “X” from the famous blue bird, marking what would be the latest big change since he bought the social media platform for $44 billion last year. In a series of posts on his Twitter … Continue reading Elon Musk says Twitter is scrapping its bird logo in favor of the ‘X’
Twitter finally begins paying some of its creators Will Shanklin Twitter’s ad-revenue sharing program for creators has officially launched — and it’s reportedly already begun paying eligible Blue subscribers. Elon Musk announced the initiative in February, but with scant details about how it would work, nobody knew quite what to expect. However, some high-profile … Continue reading Elon Musk says Twitter’s ad revenue has dropped by 50 percent
