A former OpenAI board member says Sam Altman's firing wasn't 'motivated by a desire to slow down OpenAI's work'

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Helen Toner (left) and Sam Altman (right).
Former OpenAI board member, Helen Toner (left) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (right).

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Feeling read by your Spotify city? You just have the musical taste of a depressed liberal college student.

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The author's Spotify city matching his music taste.
The author's Spotify city matching his music taste.

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Elon Musk just used very foul language to tell X advertisers to go away

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Left to right: Andrew Ross Sorkin and Elon Musk speak onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit 2023.

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Stunning video shows Antarctic killer whales appearing to use icebergs as scratching posts, possibly to exfoliate their skin

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Orcas in Antarctica, photographed in 1981.

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An American Airlines passenger is facing charges after an chaotic meltdown before takeoff, according to a wild police report

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An American Airlines Airbus A319.

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Charlie Munger had 3 'basic rules' for career happiness. One of them: don't work for anyone you don't respect.

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Charlie Munger (L) and Warren Buffett attend a BYD Co Ltd new product launch conference at China World Hotel on September 29, 2010 in Beijing, China.
Charlie Munger (L) and Warren Buffett attend a BYD Co Ltd new product launch conference at China World Hotel on September 29, 2010 in Beijing, China.

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It sure looks like Mark Cuban is walking away from everything that made him Mark Cuban

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Mark Cuban.
Mark Cuban recently said that he was leaving ABC's "Shark Tank" after the next season. The billionaire is also looking to sell his majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks, per reports.

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Charlie Munger once funded a $185 million windowless dorm at his alma mater, the University of Michigan: 'You never saw a happier bunch of students'

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Charlie Munger (left) and a student dorm room (right).
The late Charlie Munger (left) funded the construction of the Munger Graduate Residences (not pictured) at his alma mater, the University of Michigan. Aside from the common areas, dorm rooms there are windowless.

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The Bureau of Land Management will no longer allow the use of 'cyanide bombs' to kill coyotes

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A coyote pup standing on a rock (the coyote pup mentioned in this story is not pictured).

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McCarthy visited Mar-a-Lago after January 6 because staffers said Trump was 'not eating,' Liz Cheney writes in forthcoming book

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and US President Donald Trump attend a legislation signing rally with local farmers in Bakersfield, Calif., on February 19, 2020.

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