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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Geoffrey Hinton speaking at a panel in Toronto, Ontario; Sam Altman walking at the US Capitol in Washington, DC.
"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 backer Vinod Khosla on why all the executive departures may be a good thing, taking on Elon Musk, and fixing AI's image problem

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AI expert Gary Marcus thinks OpenAI will be the 'most Orwellian company of all time'

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AI skeptics worry the tech could be used to create a surveillance nightmare.

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The rise of Sam Altman, OpenAI's billionaire CEO

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Sam Altman was well known in the startup scene in Silicon Valley.

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There's a catch in OpenAI's $6.6 billion funding deal that no one is talking about

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

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OpenAI has secured a $157 billion valuation. Now comes the hard part.

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Competition in generative AI is set to get fiercer after OpenAI secured itself a fresh $157 billion valuation.

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Elon Musk's xAI has moved into OpenAI's old HQ: report

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is racing to upstage OpenAI, the startup he helped cofound in 2015.

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OpenAI's investors include Silicon Valley's most prolific bubble chasers. Is that a bad sign for the company's future?

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SoftBank's boss, Masayoshi Son.

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OpenAI's chairman says AI is in a bubble — but one that could be wildly lucrative

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"I think the AI bubble will rhyme with the dot-com bubble and I believe with the benefit of hindsight, most of the excess of the dot-com bubble might have been justified," OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor told venture capitalist Harry Stebbings on the latter's podcast.

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Elon Musk called OpenAI 'evil' for telling investors not to fund his company and other rivals

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Elon Musk has been in an ongoing feud with OpenAI, which he cofounded in 2015.

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