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Netflix’s Reed Hastings built a multi-billion-dollar company while sustaining a decadeslong marriage. Loading audio narration… The now-retired cofounder and former CEO spoke on Graham Bensinger’s “In Depth” podcast on Monday about his days at the helm of the streaming giant and its effect on his marriage.Thirty-five years and two kids in, Hastings says he’s still not qualified to give marriage advice, but he shared some tips he picked up that helped his union last through a demanding career.In a world where some tech leaders encourage going “founder mode” and working around the clock, Hastings’ advice makes room for priorities beyond work.Hastings said he…
OpenAI is disrupting almost every industry in its path. But moving fast comes with costs. Loading audio narration… In its journey to transform from an AI research lab to one of the most valuable companies in the world, OpenAI — and its CEO, Sam Altman — face significant legal challenges. Everything from OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit business model to how it scrapes the internet has been fodder for lawsuits.These cases could cost Altman and his company billions of dollars and impact how all of AI trains its chatbots. The risk of multibillion-dollar financial judgments could also complicate any plans…
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A man killed four children in a machete attack inside a nursery school in the Ugandan capital of Kampala on Thursday, police said.The man gained access to the Gaba Early Childhood Development Program in Kampala by disguising himself as a parent, the Daily Monitor newspaper reported. He first entered the school offices, where he briefly engaged the administrator in charge, then stepped outside, locked the gate and began attacking the children, the report said. The attacker “brutally stabbed and killed four juveniles,” police said in a statement. Video footage aired by local broadcaster NTV showed some…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In rain, snow and bitter cold, a steady drumbeat of small protests have been held in recent months on the Ohio State University main campus with a single goal in mind: removing billionaire retail mogul Les Wexner’s name from buildings where it’s emblazoned. At issue — for union nurses at OSU’s Wexner Medical Center, for former athletes at the Les Wexner Football Complex, and for some student leaders who may walk past the Wexner Center for the Arts near the campus oval — is Wexner’s well-documented association with the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.Similar cries are…
Legacy software makers are not sleeping behind the AI wheel, says OpenAI’s chief operating officer. Loading audio narration… On an episode of the “Uncapped” podcast released on Wednesday, Brad Lightcap said that the software sell-off may have been unwarranted because software companies are working hard to incorporate AI.”A is: All of these companies are kind of as motivated and moving as quickly as any startup,” he said. “B is: They’ve got amazing customer relationships.”Lightcap joined OpenAI in 2018 as its chief financial officer and transitioned to becoming the COO of the frontier lab in 2022.On Wednesday’s podcast, he said that,…
KAJIADO, Kenya (AP) — Valerie Wairimu has no time to rest during break time at Kenya’s Greenland Girls School. The teenager grabs a snack and goes straight to what makes this school unique: its nursery.The 19-year-old is met by a team of nannies who have been watching her baby, Kayden, before she feeds him between classes.The school is the only educational institute in Kenya dedicated to teenage mothers and cares for many of their children. For its 310 students and more than 80 children from infants to toddlers, Greenland represents a second chance at school that is free from stigma…
Anthropic accidentally caused thousands of code repositories on GitHub to be taken down while trying to pull copies of its most popular product’s source code off the internet. On Tuesday, a software engineer discovered that Anthropic had, seemingly by accident, included access to the source code for the category-leading Claude Code command line application in a recent release. AI enthusiasts pored over the leaked code for clues about how Anthropic harnesses the LLM that underlies the application, sharing it on GitHub. Anthropic issued a takedown notice under US digital copyright law asking GitHub to take down repositories containing the offending…
Sigrid Jin woke up at 4 a.m. on Tuesday. His phone was “blowing up” with the Claude Code leak. Loading audio narration… The 25-year-old student at the University of British Columbia got to work. It took two humans, 10 OpenClaws, a MacBook Pro laptop, and a few hours to recreate the popular AI agent’s source code and share it with the world.Three hours earlier, X user Chaofan Shou posted that he’d discovered an accidental publication of 512,000 lines of the source code for Claude Code, including details about how the tool works and tests for new features.Though Anthropic quickly clamped…
When a segment of the source code for Anthropic’s celebrated AI agent, Claude Code, ended up on GitHub on Tuesday, it was a ravenous free-for-all. Loading audio narration… Engineers of all stripes soaked it up as quickly as they could, hoping to learn from it and perhaps use it to improve their own projects.If relying on content made by others to improve intelligence sounds familiar, that’s because it’s exactly what the big AI companies have been dabbling in for years as they compete to train their large-language models — Anthropic included.So it was not without a hint of irony that,…
When it comes to getting ahead in the office, a retired Amazon vice president has some words of wisdom: Closed mouths don’t get fed. Loading audio narration… “There is some truth to the old saying, ‘the squeaky wheel gets the grease,'” Ethan Evans told “The Peterman Pod” in an episode released on Tuesday. “This is another harsh truth people don’t like.”Evans said two employees could have roughly the same performance, but the one who doesn’t vocalize their needs or intentions could get lost in the shuffle of company reorgs.”It’s not that I mean to screw you. I’m focused on saving…