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Sam Altman’s ouster puts a new twist into OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft

GeekWire

Reports overnight indicate that a conflict between Altman’s ambitions for OpenAI and the mission of the nonprofit were at the core of the board’s decision to oust him as CEO and remove OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman as chairman. At the event, on Nov. The developer day was an issue. ’ ” McIlwain said.

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Microsoft’s Erik Arnold merges passion for tech and philanthropy to help nonprofits gain digital success

GeekWire

Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. For many nonprofits, it’s not a lack of willingness to modernize, it’s simply not knowing where to start.”

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Marguerite Casey Foundation CEO: ‘Innovation isn’t only about the future, but about fixing the past’

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based nonprofit whose focus is on worker empowerment. She called out the uneven application of the invasive technologies. During my morning exercise routine. Rojas was previously the founder and CEO of The Workers Lab , an Oakland, Calif.-based She is the youngest and only Latina president of a nationally endowed U.S.

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Blue Origin gets ready to test its suborbital spaceship with COVID-19 safety in mind

GeekWire

All mission crew supporting this launch are exercising strict social distancing and safety measures to mitigate COVID-19 risks to personnel, customers and surrounding communities.” Applications include cryogenic propellant storage and management for in-space propulsion systems. amounting to a total of 12 commercial payloads.

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Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO Business Intelligence

As a ‘taker,’ you consume generative AI through either an API, like ChatGPT, or through another application, like GitHub Copilot, for software acceleration when you do coding,” he says. That will start with using the Copilot features Microsoft is introducing in many products, including in Cloud for Nonprofit. “It

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15 ways to grow as an IT leader in 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

completed a six-week, web-based MIT-run AI course during the fall and he has started attending external conferences again, saying they’re “great for observing and sometimes sharing different applications of technology.” For example, Claffey Jr.

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Artists are playing takedown whack-a-mole to fight counterfeit merch

The Verge

We comply with applicable intellectual property laws by assessing all reports, removing items when we receive proper notices of infringement and terminating sellers who receive repeat notices of infringement,” Pavlovic told The Verge. Even people who should be experts in copyright matters can struggle to contend with takedown policies.

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