A timeline of Sam Altman’s firing from OpenAI — and the fallout
In a dramatic turn of events late Friday, ex-Y Combinator president Sam Altman was fired as CEO of AI startup OpenAI, the company behind viral AI hits like ChatGPT, GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, by OpenAI’s board of directors. Then, the company’s longtime president and co-founder, Greg Brockman, resigned — as
Read moreThe Impact of Technology on the Future of Digital Banking
The banking sector encounters a significant challenge in embracing digital transformation, aligning with contemporary customer expectations for swift, efficient, and user-friendly services. Outdated strategies no longer suffice. To maintain competitiveness, banks must fully engage in the digital transformation journey, leaving behind conventional methods. Digital transformation in African banking is propelled
Read moreNothing Chats has already been pulled from Google Play over privacy issues
Nothing Chats shown in a promotional image. | Image: Nothing Nothing has pulled the Nothing Chats beta from the Google Play store, saying it is “delaying the launch until further notice” while it fixes “several bugs.” The app promised to let Nothing Phone 2 users text with iMessage, but it
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Read moreSchwarz lemma, Schwarz-Pick theorem, and Poincare metric
Let D be the open unit disk in the complex plane. The Schwarz lemma says that if f is an analytic function from D to D with f(0) = 0, then for all z in D. (The lemma also says more, but this post will focus on just this portion of
Read moreDeal Dive: An AI application that isn’t just marginally better
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Read moreRobotics Q&A with Toyota Research Institute’s Max Bajracharya and Russ Tedrake
For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Subscribe here for future updates. Part 1: CMU’s Matthew Johnson-Roberson This week, we’ve got a two-fer. Toyota Research Institute’s Russ Tedrake and Max Bajracharya split the job. Tedrake is
Read moreHealthcare startups scramble to assess fallout after Postmeds data breach hits millions of patients
More than two million people across the United States will receive notice that their personal and sensitive health information was stolen earlier this year during a cyberattack at Postmeds, the parent company of online pharmacy startup Truepill. For some of those affected, it’s the first they’re hearing of Postmeds, let
Read moreHow to build a robust and adaptive data culture that instills investor confidence
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Read moreSpaceX launches Starship for the second time, going farther than ever before
Watch Starship’s second integrated flight test → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK https://t.co/cahoRQ72lm — SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 18, 2023 SpaceX flew Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, for the second time ever today – and even though both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage had to be blown up in
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