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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.

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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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15 ways to grow as an IT leader in 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

Sanjay Srivastava, chief digital strategist at Genpact, can attest to the value of this leadership-building strategy, saying that “a curated network of like-minded peers across industries that I can brainstorm with” has been extremely helpful. “I Careers, CIO, IT Leadership, IT Strategy It’s not just talk or a label. “All

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Longtime UX leader Karen Clark Cole on staying present and learning to tell good fear from bad

GeekWire

Instead, Cole and co-founder Kelly Franznick launched a strategy to themselves acquire smaller companies, aiming to become the biggest UX business around. Family, sleep, exercise, work and then healthy eating — in that order. The company grew slowly for years before ramping up. Your best advice for managing everyday work and life?

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Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO Business Intelligence

That will start with using the Copilot features Microsoft is introducing in many products, including in Cloud for Nonprofit. “It As a learning exercise for the senior leadership group, her team crated a deepfake video of her with a generated voice reading AI-generated text. If you’re not using it, you’re going to get left behind.”

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CBAP certification: A high-profile credential for business analysts

CIO Business Intelligence

IIBA is a nonprofit professional association founded in 2003 to promote the field of business analysis. We noted the process of documenting the professional experience requirements can be a positive exercise. CBAP benefits: Is CBAP worth it? That said, there are other benefits, perhaps harder to quantify.

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Why OpenAI blew up — and why it matters

Vox

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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