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

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

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.” “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

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RELATED: Sam Altman’s ouster puts a new twist into OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft In a statement on Friday, OpenAI said Altman “was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.” “The OpenAI originally formed as a non-profit organization, OpenAI Inc.,

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

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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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Why OpenAI blew up — and why it matters

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Second, OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit. The rest of the profit — if there was any — would go back into OpenAI’s nonprofit. The company was still governed by a board of directors charged with carrying out that nonprofit mission, but the board was pretty much the only thing left of OpenAI’s nonprofit origins.

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

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

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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.

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