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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia promises to be a “massive improvement over Wikipedia.” How do the two compare?On Monday afternoon, Grokipedia.com went live. Musk did not immediately claim ownership of the site, but its X account was linked to xAI, Musk’s AI venture. The site’s landing page listed 885,279 articles, calling it v0.1.”The goal here is to create an open source, comprehensive collection of all knowledge,” said Musk, who later confirmed the domain.Business Insider examined Grokipedia’s pages about some of the most contentious issues and events, from January 6 and Gamergate to Donald Trump.Here’s how it compares to Wikipedia.January 6Both Grokipedia and…

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has added nine direct reports in the past year or so, according to internal organization charts viewed by Business Insider. Five of those previously worked for Google or DeepMind.Last year, Microsoft appointed Suleyman — cofounder of AI pioneer DeepMind and former head of startup Inflection AI — as CEO of a new Microsoft AI division. The organization is responsible for consumer AI products such as Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot and the Bing search engine.Business Insider wrote about Suleyman’s organizational chart a few months after the new unit came together. Now, an updated org chart shows how…

On Tuesday, a collective shudder ran down the spine of America’s white-collar workforce. Amazon announced it’s laying off 14,000 employees in a memo that cited AI, kicking off a plan that the Wall Street Journal reports will affect as many as 30,000 corporate jobs.CEO Andy Jassy had hinted this was coming back in June, when he said that AI’s capabilities would allow Amazon to shrink its white-collar workforce in the future. But he’d framed that future as “the next few years.” I figured Amazon would get there the same way it had already been: by hiring very little and quietly…

BERLIN (AP) — The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said Wednesday that Germany has agreed to extend another $1.076 billion (923.9 million euros) for Holocaust survivors ‘ home care around the globe for the coming year.The compensation was negotiated with Germany’s finance ministry and is the largest budget for frail and vulnerable Holocaust survivor home care in the organization’s history.“This historic increase to home care funding reflects the complex and growing needs of Holocaust survivors worldwide,” said Gideon Taylor, the president of the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany,…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had mistakenly taught their students about the wrong Roman ruler — Augustus Caesar instead of his predecessor, Julius Caesar. The students in Queensland ended up being exempt from the statewide exam on Wednesday while Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek said he would investigate the mix-up, describing the experience for the students as “extremely traumatic.”Since the error in the curriculum was discovered on Monday, schools applied — and were granted — an exemption from the exam for their students, even as…

Microsoft’s early investments in OpenAI may seem like a no-brainer today, but Satya Nadella says the company and its founder, Bill Gates, saw the decision as a risk back then.Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, less than four years after its founding. The company has since invested over $13 billion in the ChatGPT maker.But getting that first investment deal across the finish line wasn’t that straightforward, Nadella said in an interview with “TPBN,” a tech-focused YouTube show, on Tuesday.”Even at Microsoft, you kind of got to have to get a board approval to just go throw a billion…

OpenAI’s Sora is facing a legal battle.Cameo, the startup known for personalized celebrity videos, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against OpenAI, accusing the ChatGPT maker of trademark infringement over its new “Cameo” feature in the Sora video-generation app.In a complaint filed in the federal court of the Northern District of California on Tuesday, Cameo said OpenAI’s use of the “Cameo” name, which describes a virtual likeness that users can create and share on Sora, is likely to confuse consumers and dilute its brand.The company argued that OpenAI chose the name “in blatant disregard for the obvious confusion it would create.””When naming…

Microsoft and OpenAI have resolved a major dispute, addressing a lingering question ahead of the company’s earnings on Wednesday.On Tuesday’s “TPBN” podcast, the show hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays spoke with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella after the announcement, noting that he is now a “peacetime CEO,” as the dispute with OpenAI has been resolved.”I think AI and everything that it entails is going to be a core driver, and some of it’ll come from just this intelligence and this sort of continual march of capability,” Nadella said in response to the hosts’ question on what he expects from the…

In Bangor, Maine, Geoff Clarke has something a lot of Americans do not: high praise for his recent health care checkup.”If I was doing it in a dream, it was exactly like my dream,” Clarke told CBS News.Clarke is a new patient of Alley and Brad Tuttle, a husband and wife team who’ve started Apotheosis Health, offering what’s known as direct primary care. In this alternative care model, patients pay a regular fee in exchange for unlimited access to certain medical services, while cutting out insurance as a middleman.Direct primary care has exploded in the last decade, going from 140…

A number of monkeys were “destroyed” after they got loose Tuesday morning and Mississippi law enforcement officers were mistakenly told they were dangerous.The rhesus monkeys were being transported when the truck carrying them crashed in Jasper County, Mississippi, about 75 miles east of Jackson, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.The vehicle’s driver told deputies that the primates posed a threat to humans; that they were aggressive; that they had hepatitis C, herpes and Covid; and that they would require personal protective equipment to handle, the sheriff’s department said on Facebook.“The driver of the truck told local law…