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After personal experience with cyberstalking, tech founder launches startup battling deepfake content

GeekWire

.” “These campaigns of hate and malicious intent — the characters behind these campaigns are usually very committed to their cause and they’re very dedicated to exercising humiliation and exercising power over their victims,” Hutchins said. ” The legal recourse for victims is limited.

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OpenAI taps Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear as interim CEO

GeekWire

OpenAI shocked the tech industry Friday when its board announced that Altman was out as CEO of the company he helped start in 2015. The decision blindsided even Microsoft, a key OpenAI partner that has invested billions into the company. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI,” the company said.

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Researchers detail huge hack-for-hire campaigns against environmentalists

The Verge

“The extensive targeting of American nonprofits exercising their first amendment rights is exceptionally troubling,” Citizen Lab’s report says. The extensive targeting of American nonprofits exercising their first amendment rights is exceptionally troubling”. He has pleaded not guilty and plans to fight the charges.

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

GeekWire

The surprise removal of the OpenAI CEO on Friday is the buzz of the tech industry — raising questions about the company’s role in the AI revolution, the ambitions of Altman and his team, the impact of his exit on the rest of the tech industry, OpenAI’s complex corporate structure, and its unusual partnership with Microsoft.

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OpenAI won the battle, but it may have lost the war

Vox

Sam Altman, the poster boy for AI, was ousted from his company OpenAI. But the truth is, the company was probably always going to break. On Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was fired by the board over an alleged lack of transparency, and company president Greg Brockman then quit in protest. That included hiring and firing power.

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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. His transition to tech began at Corbis, the image archiving company founded by Gates in 1989.

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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.” Blue Origin will also send tens of thousands of postcards to space and back for the company’s nonprofit educational campaign, the Club for the Future.