Google took 25 years to be ready for this AI moment. Apple is just starting.

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin eating lunch with early Google employees.

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The Nobel Prize-winning 'godfather of AI' says he's glad one of his students had a hand in ousting Sam Altman from OpenAI

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"I'm particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman," computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton said on Tuesday.

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OpenAI execs were reportedly worried the company could collapse when Ilya Sutskever left — and tried to woo him back

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OpenAI executives like Mira Murati and Greg Brockman were worried OpenAI would collapse after Ilya Sutskever left the company in May.

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Who is running OpenAI now?

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The core crew that helped Sam Altman start OpenAI has dwindled from 10 to 2

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Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman were part of OpenAI's 11 founding members. Musk left the company's board in 2018.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shouts out OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever for sparking 'the big bang of deep learning'

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, right, credited OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, left, and two renowned computer scientists for pioneering the field of deep machine learning.

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The man who dared to revolt against Sam Altman at OpenAI just started a research lab promoting 'safe superintelligence'

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left) and Safe Superintelligence Inc. founder Ilya Sutskever (right).
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left) and Safe Superintelligence Inc. founder Ilya Sutskever (right).

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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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It was their job to make sure humans are safe from OpenAI's superintelligence. They just quit.

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The Superalignment team at OpenAI is now without both of its chiefs, machine learning researcher Jan Leike and cofounder Ilya Sutskever.

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Another top OpenAI exec just announced he's out, hours after Ilya Sutskever said he's leaving the company

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OpenAI released the latest version of its GPT tool

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