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USPTO denies OpenAI’s attempts to trademark ‘ChatGPT’ and ‘GPT’

GeekWire

But if the rulings stand, they will prevent the company from defending its exclusive use of the phrases, opening them up to widespread adoption as common terms across the industry. The Redmond company has applied for related trademarks in conjunction with other brand names, such as GitHub Copilot.

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Why F5 and Tempered Networks founder Jeff Hussey left retirement and ‘bought’ himself a job

GeekWire

Jeff Hussey, CEO and co-founder of Tempered Networks, and his wife on a trip to Austria. Jeff Hussey , co-founder and CEO of Seattle’s Tempered Networks, is not a believer in long-term work-from-home practices. “We But the burst of the dot-com bubble ravaged the company, and its stock plummeted to around $7 at the close of 2000.

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Who’ll blink first: The world’s largest music company or TikTok?

Vox

In a recent episode of Today, Explained , digital activist and writer Cory Doctorow told host Sean Rameswaram that companies like TikTok “don’t have to care” about the disruption they cause their users. Our music is gone until TikTok can pay us like the major social network they are. Universal is a public company.

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Social networks and engineering serendipity in the workplace

Trends in the Living Networks

The New York Times has an interesting article titled Engineering Serendipity which looks at the some of the ways companies are trying to create felicitous and unexpected connections between their staff. and Google are doing in the space, the article continues: As Yahoo and Google see it, serendipity is largely a byproduct of social networks.

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How Optimal’s CEO shifted his company and personal priorities — and is now a better leader

GeekWire

In 2004, he launched Kirkland, Wash.-based About a decade ago, the company shifted its primary goal from marketing to serving students. Rhee decided to put students first — costing the company some of the university accounts. Just as Rhee has shifted his company’s priorities, his personal goals have evolved as well.

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech hires commercial officer; Instacart names new president; and more

GeekWire

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sood was most recently SVP of products at oncology company Guardant Health. Former Microsoft CVP Carolyn Everson will take over as president of San Francisco-based grocery delivery company Instacart in September. Sood will report to Adaptive Biotech CEO Chad Robins. Jaisimha Muthegere.

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Former Microsoft exec Ed Fries shares behind-the-scenes stories from the original Xbox project

GeekWire

After scoring a hit for the company with Age of Empires, Fries was still the lead at the games division when a group of what he called “evangelists,” including Seamus Blackley, met with him to pitch the project that ended up becoming the original Xbox. GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy). Ed Fries Special Edition” Xbox.

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