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Kasra Kyanzadeh missed working with people.”I was like: Where are there smart people?” the 33-year-old engineer told Business Insider. “At OpenAI, there are smart people.”So, Kyanzadeh joined the team building the Codex desktop app in June. By mid-August, he said he was feeling tired and drained. He left to pursue…
Sam Altman doesn’t need to see the polls. The OpenAI CEO knows how unpopular his industry has become.”Clearly, people hate data centers—right now, at least,” Altman told Time as part of a series of interviews for a cover story published on Wednesday. “People are pretty negative on AI.”Data centers in…
Uttara Ananthakrishnan, an associate professor of information systems at the University of Washington, told Business Insider that she wouldn’t be surprised if YouTube and TikTok announce similar restrictions in the coming days.Ananthakrishnan, who has authored several research papers about the addictive qualities of TikTok, said that while she welcomed the…
Canada is escalating its response to President Donald Trump’s trade war, with another round of retaliatory tariffs set to take effect September 8.But two key Canadian exports — oil and potash, a key fertilizer ingredient — should stay out of the fight, one Canadian premier said Wednesday.”What we as a…
One of China’s leading AI labs has claimed the cow — aka the mysterious Ox Alpha model — and Chinese fans couldn’t be happier.In a Wednesday blog post, Z.ai said Ox Alpha had been a free-to-use preview of its new GLM-5.3-Flash model. The model had appeared on OpenRouter and OpenCode on…
Teachers are heading back to school, and ChatGPT is coming with them.OpenAI announced 55 new partnerships with American school districts on Wednesday, roughly doubling the reach of its ChatGPT for Teachers product. The districts signed on represent more than 300,000 staffers and 2 million students. The product, a slightly tweaked…
In March 2019, I scored a flight from Seoul to Jeju Island, South Korea.One of my first stops was Oedolgae, a unique rock formation that’s believed to have been formed by a volcanic eruption. As I walked there from my hostel, I passed plenty of waterfalls and witnessed early signs…
Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face, the popular AI platform for sharing and building with open-source models, in what could be one of the chip giant’s biggest deals yet.The two parties have had serious acquisition conversations in recent weeks about a deal that would value Hugging Face…
More cities are walking away from collaborations with Flock.Tempe, Arizona, said on Wednesday that it shut down its network of Flock Safety license plate readers and plans to terminate its contract with the surveillance company, citing privacy risks and cases of alleged misuse reported by other cities.The city said that…
Marc Benioff is going on the offensive about the so-called SaaSpocalypse.”This nonsense of this SaaSpocalypse, I think it’s time for it to stop,” the Salesforce CEO said during the company’s second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday.Benioff used the call to push back on fears that AI threatens traditional software companies.”Our seats…
