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Published: Dec. 8, 2023, 6:30 a.m.

This week, we look back at the drama at OpenAI and look forward to the growing A.I. Arms Race. Plus, we talk about calendaring \u2014 again!

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• A.I. Arms Race
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• Table 4 needs pork chops
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• Run with that
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• Thanks for not saving us from the AI
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• The King of Cameos
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• Rebels going to rebel
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• Ivory Tower Scruples
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• The sign of something
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\n\nRundown\n\n

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• OpenAI\n\n
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  • Sam Altman Out At OpenAI
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  • A statement from Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella
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  • OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is leaving, too
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  • Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI \u2014 Hard Fork
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  • Greg Brockman quits OpenAI after abrupt firing of Sam Altman | TechCrunch
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  • Breaking: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
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  • OpenAI Investors Plot Last-Minute Push With Microsoft To Reinstate Sam Altman As CEO
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  • Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
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  • OpenAI board names a new interim CEO \u2014 and it's not Sam Altman
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  • Who Controls OpenAI?
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  • Inside the OpenAI Meltdown \u2014 Plain English with Derek Thompson
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  • The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy | Semafor
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  • Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI
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  • Read Microsoft\u2019s internal memos about the chaos at OpenAI
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  • Thrive-Led OpenAI Tender to Continue After Altman Returns
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  • Amazon\u2019s Q has \u2018severe hallucinations\u2019 and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn
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• A.I. Arms Race\n\n
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  • Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever
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  • Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model
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  • Google unveils Gemini
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  • Thomas Kurian On Google Cloud\u2019s AI Differentiators Vs. Rivals AWS, Microsoft
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  • Amazon\u2019s Q has \u2018severe hallucinations\u2019 and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn
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  • Confident about safety of AI: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
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  • OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman
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\n\nRelevant to Your Interests\n\n

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• Unhinged Elon Musk Tells Advertisers: 'Go F-ck Yourself'
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• Looking Good, Elon! Feeling Good, Trashcan Man! | Defector
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• New myApplications in the AWS Management Console simplifies managing your application resources
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• Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals for automatic instrumentation of your applications (preview)
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• Okta admits hackers accessed data on all customers during recent breach
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• "We have no plans to bring Xbox Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo." Xbox CEO Phil Spencer on console hardware, the future of Activision-Blizzard, and much more
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• 534 startups have failed so far in 2023
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• Why We're Dropping Basecamp - Duke University Libraries Blogs
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• Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to 'get butt back to office' after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies
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• Spotify to lay off 17 percent of its workforce in latest round of job cuts
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• 'Return to Office' declared dead
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• Apple TV+ and Paramount+ May Soon Bundle Streaming Services
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• US Commerce Secretary Says Any AI Chips Designed To Circumvent Restrictions On China Will Be Banned The Very Next Day
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• Twilio to cut about 5% of total workforce
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• Honey, I shrunk the telemetry - bitdrift Blog
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• GitLab shares soar as developer-tools company posts first adjusted operating profit
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• It\u2019s All Bullshit | JS Tan
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• IDC\u2019s first Software Supply Chain Security Market Glance
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• Meta Sees Little Risk in RISC-V Custom Accelerators
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• AWS exec: Our understanding of open source is changing
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023. Here is what they do \u2014 and don\u2019t \u2014 tell us.
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• The Clock of the Long Now
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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Brandon: Bookings with me in Outlook
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• Matt: ortho-k
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• Cot\xe9: Descript (for finding social clips), GMail, D&D in ChatGPT
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