OpenAI just dissolved its team dedicated to managing AI risks, like the possibility of it 'going rogue'

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Ilya Sutskever played a key role in ousting Sam Altman last year, and recently announced he was leaving the company.

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  • OpenAI's Superalignment team was formed in July 2023 to mitigate AI risks, like "rogue" behavior.
  • OpenAI has reportedly disbanded its Superalignment team after its co-leaders resigned.
  • One of the former leaders critiqued OpenAI's focus on "shiny" products over safety in

Apple is said to be working on a 'significantly thinner' iPhone

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Just like it slimmed down the latest iPad Pro, Apple is said to be looking at making the iPhone more slender. To be more precise, the company is working on a "significantly thinner" device that may arrive as part of the iPhone 17 lineup in place of a Plus model, according to The Information.

This model has been described as an iPhone X-level leap forward in design language for the company

REI’s anniversary sale is slashing prices on some of the best Garmin watches

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Both the Garmin Epix Pro and Fenix 7S Pro are currently matching their all-time low. The same goes for Garmin’s inReach Mini 2. | Image: Garmin

Here at The Verge, our deal writers spend a lot of time covering the latest discounts at Amazon, Best Buy, and other retailers that happen to sell the tech we cover. Admittedly, REI is often not one of them, but the company’s

Trump's hush-money trial is almost over. Deliberations could begin as early as Thursday — unless Trump testifies.

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Donald Trump addresses reporters outside his New York hush-money trial courtroom with lead attorney Todd Blanche, right.

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  • The Trump hush-money trial has finished its fourth week of testimony.
  • Michael Cohen is set to finish on Monday as the prosecution's last direct-case witness.
  • Will Trump testify? No one is saying, but if he takes the stand, deliberations would be pushed back.

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The best wireless earbuds of 2024

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The best wireless earbuds include models from brands like Sony, Technics, Anker, Apple, and more.

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The best wireless earbuds let you listen to music on the go without any pesky cables getting in the way. Top models also have extra features like active noise cancelation (ANC) to block unwanted

Why more US banks could collapse

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Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic are among the largest bank failures in US history. But more banks could fail, according to Fed chair Jerome Powell.

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25 Great Things About The Phantom Menace

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This weekend, The Phantom Menace turns 25—and while we’ve celebrated the ways the film brought so much to Star Wars in the past, for its 25th anniversary we wanted to look back at a few different things, big and small, that make Phantom Menace so great all these years later, whether you caught it on the big screen agai…

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The US secretly sent communist-friendly Coca-Cola to a Soviet general in a bid to maintain good ties across the Iron Curtain

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British Gen. Bernard Montgomery, left, US Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, center, and Soviet Gen. Georgy Zhukov, before a toast on June 10, 1945.

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  • Worsening relations between the Allies after World War II meant no commerce between East and West.
  • That was an issue for Soviet Gen. Georgy Zhukov, who came to like Coca-Cola during the war.
  • The US tried to get Coke to Zhukov to keep at

You can now create interactive charts with GPT-4o — how to access with ChatGPT

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ChatGPT, underpinned with GPT-4o, just got a little more useful for people who like doing stuff with charts.

OpenAI announced in a blog post that paying members (Plus, Team, and Enterprise tiers) will get access to some new time-saving chart and table features "in the coming weeks" as part of its new GPT-4o initiative. These include the ability to upload charts directly from Google Drive or