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

GeekWire

But most of the attention on stopping malicious deepfakes is focused on political candidates and issues , Hutchins notes, which while incredibly important, misses the majority of the technology’s victims. The other two co-founders are the chief technology officer and lead data architect, both of whom also hold 9-to-5 jobs.

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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. The developer day was an issue. At the event, on Nov.

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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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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

CIO Business Intelligence

“Behaviors to exclude me would happen in corporate [workplaces] and even in nonprofits where I volunteered, and I wasn’t prepared for them coming.” Soon after founding Netwatch Solutions as CTO, Beasley realized he would face even more barriers when acquiring funding. So, I started my own tech company,” Beasley says.

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Why OpenAI blew up — and why it matters

Vox

It was also the developer and owner of the technology that could shape how (or if) we live in the future. Second, OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit. In order to do so, the company would need to develop generative AI , or AI that can learn from massive amounts of data and generate content upon request.

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Sam Altman leaving OpenAI after board says he was ‘not consistently candid in his communications’

GeekWire

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati and CEO Sam Altman speak with reporters at OpenAI DevDay in San Francisco earlier this month. In a statement, OpenAI said Altman “was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.” OpenAI CTO Mira Murati will serve as interim CEO.

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