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Greg Brockman has been keeping a journal since 2010, when he was a college student figuring out what to study. Last week, he sat in an Oakland federal courthouse and read it aloud to a jury, while roughly 1,200 strangers watched on a YouTube livestream.The OpenAI president and co-founder spent two days walking the court…
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has urged caution about the growing list of tech layoffs being blamed on artificial intelligence, arguing the AI label is increasingly being used to disguise more conventional drivers of job cuts, including the hiring excesses of the pandemic era. In a post on X, Hoffman wrote: “Just a reminder that we’re…
As the legal battle between Elon Musk and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI kicked off on Monday, April 27, the Tesla CEO has launched fresh attacks against CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman. In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), Musk addressed the two as “Scam Altman” and “Greg Stockman”, accusing the two of stealing…
Aman Sanger is emerging as one of the key Indian-origin figures in the global artificial intelligence boom. A co-founder of Cursor, he is part of the team behind one of the fastest-growing AI coding platforms in the world. Recently, SpaceX confirmed it had secured an option to acquire Cursor for around $60 billion, or alternatively,…
Trigger warning: This article mentions death. Reader discretion is advised.Dave Mason, co-founder of the rock band ‘Traffic’ and a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, has died at the age of 79. The singer-songwriter passed away on Sunday, April 19, at his home in Gardnerville, Nevada. His family confirmed the news in a statement,…
In the latest in a series of mysterious drive-by shootings at high-profile terror ideologues and commanders in Pakistan, Lashkar-eTaiba (LeT) co-founder Amir Hamza (67) was shot by unidentified gunmen in Lahore on Thursday. This marks the second assassination attempt on Hamza, a USdesignated terrorist, over the past year; he had survived a shooting in May…
NEW DELHI: In what is being seen as second attempt on his life in less than a year, Lashkar-e-Taiba co-founder Amir Hamza was shot at by unknown gunmen outside a news channel’s office in Lahore on Thursday.The incident happened when Hamza (67) was going home after from local TV station named and was accompanied with…
Indian-origin entrepreneur Arjun Singh has been recognised with the prestigious Mark Bingham Award for Excellence in Achievement by Young Alumni, honouring his impactful contributions to education technology. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Singh co-founded Gradescope, a platform that has transformed how educators assess student work. Built during his time as a doctoral…
Jack Clark, cofounder of Anthropic, has said that degrees often seen as less useful in the tech world, such as liberal arts, are becoming more relevant in the age of AI. Speaking during Semafor’s World Economy Summit, Clark said his own background in literature has helped him understand how people think about the future and…
NEW DELHI: Ten days after ED carried out searches at several premises in Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai on officials of I-PAC, a political consultancy firm whose clients include Trinamool and DMK, the agency on Monday arrested one of its directors and co-founder, Vinesh Chandel. He will be produced before a special court in Delhi…
