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Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, said Meta’s attempts to poach his best staff with generous signing bonuses were not successful.Altman talked about the competition OpenAI faces from Meta on his brother’s podcast “Uncapped with Jack Altman,” in an episode that aired on Tuesday.”I’ve heard that Meta thinks of us as their biggest competitor, and I think it is rational for them to keep trying. Their current AI efforts have not worked as well as they’ve hoped,” Altman said of Meta’s $15 billion investment in data-labeling firm Scale AI.But Altman said he found it “crazy” when Meta tried to recruit…
R. Kelly was hospitalized for an overdose after prison staff gave him “an amount of medicine that could have killed him” and was later forcibly removed from a hospital against medical advice, his lawyer alleged in a statement to CBS News and a federal court filing.The disgraced singer’s lawyer, Beau Brindley, is requesting that a judge move him to home detention from the North Carolina prison where he is serving his sentences.”Mr. Kelly’s life is in danger and the threat comes from Bureau of Prisons officers whose duty is to protect him,” Brindley wrote in a court motion filed Monday.He…
TikTok lives to fight another day.President Donald Trump is set to issue an executive order this week giving the company 90 more days before he enforces a law requiring its owner, ByteDance, to divest from its US app, a White House spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. It’s the company’s third extension.TikTok missed its original January 19 deadline to separate from its Chinese owner, and briefly went dark in the US before coming back online after Trump’s assurances that he wouldn’t immediately enforce the law. The president issued an executive order giving the company until April 5 to find a new…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees Tuesday that AI will shrink the company’s corporate white-collar workforce over the next few years, citing “efficiency gains” as the driving force.Amazon employees weren’t having it.Across internal Slack channels, Amazon’s white-collar workers tore into Jassy’s message, taking aim at his leadership and unapologetic push for AI, according to messages seen by Business Insider.Business Insider viewed dozens of messages found across three different internal channels, which include thousands of employees in total.The criticism was widespread across the channels. Some called for a shift in the company’s mindset and warned of the risks of overrelying on…
Fernando da Silva, who lives in the southern African nation of Angola, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March.Three months later, he underwent a procedure to cut out the cancer from a surgeon who has done tens of thousands of similar procedures.But the doctor performing the surgery was 7,000 miles away — in Orlando, Florida.Society of Robotic Surgury – PHOTO: Dr. Vipul Patel, medical director of the Global Robotic Institute at Advent Health in Orlando, Florida, who performed the robotic telesurgery.MORE: Doctors save baby’s life with first-ever gene fix for deadly rare diseaseDa Silva was the first patient of a…
The latest San Francisco startup culture drama happened on Monday night. And it centered around “the most legendary party that never happened,” Cluely founder and CEO Roy Lee tells TechCrunch. Cluely had hoped to throw an after-party for a Y Combinator event occurring on Monday and Tuesday called AI Startup School. The event drew crowds thanks to scheduled speakers like Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, and Elon Musk. Cluely is an AI startup born of controversy and rage-bait comedy marketing. True to form, Lee posted a satirical video on X advertising his after-party. It shows him camped out by the famed…
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Sam Bennett won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP on Tuesday night after leading all players in goals scored to help the Florida Panthers win a second consecutive Stanley Cup championship.Bennett scored 15 goals during a postseason run that culminated with a victory in Game 6 of the final against the Edmonton Oilers. He finished ahead of teammate Brad Marchand in the voting.“The amount of guys that stepped up this year and had incredible years, incredible playoff runs, it truly could have went to anyone,” Bennett said. “I’m so grateful. It’s such a huge honor,…
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The loudest cheers among Florida Panthers fans at Amerant Bank Arena are always for Sergei Bobrovsky.Pregame warmups. Jumbotron appearances. Each and every save. Florida fans know how important the veteran goaltender is to their team. So do the Panthers.It’s why Florida never appeared rattled during its third straight Stanley Cup Final run. The defending champion Panthers remained even-keeled, never looking too far ahead, and certainly not harping on the past — mirroring the attitude of their unflappable, two-time Vezina Trophy-winning goaltender.And Bobrovsky has rewarded their trust in him with a brilliant showing in this year’s playoffs,…
(Reuters) -General Mills said on Tuesday it would remove artificial colors from its full U.S. retail portfolio by the end of 2027.The Cheerios maker also said it would remove synthetic dyes from all its U.S. cereals and foods served in K-12 schools by summer 2026.General Mills added the change will impact only a small portion of the K-12 school portfolio, as nearly all of its school offerings are made without certified colors while 85% of the U.S. retail portfolio is made without artificial colors.This move comes a few months after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. laid out plans to…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a hiring spree lately, trying to staff up Meta’s new superintelligence team with top-tier AI researchers from competing labs. To work on a team led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and at a desk physically near Zuckerberg, Meta has reportedly offered employees from OpenAI and Google DeepMind compensation packages worth upwards of $100 million. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed those reports on a podcast with his brother, Jack Altman, which was published on Tuesday. However, the OpenAI CEO noted that Zuckerberg’s recruiting efforts have been largely unsuccessful and made…