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My latest feature for Fortune looks at the collision of all these factors â and what it says about where the AI boom is headed next. Check out the full story for some holiday weekend reading!
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At the edges of the AI data center boom, rural America is up against Silicon Valley billions | Fortune
When a multibillion-dollar AI data center proposal pitted developers against a handful of rural Arizona residents, the locals were outgunned and outvoted.
https://fortune.com/2025/12/27/ai-data-centers-arizona-hassayampa-ranch/
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Citation is the foundation of academic promotion. Itâs noisy, sure, but its integrity is worth fighting for. Hallucinated citations should be a desk reject.
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Wow, thanks Toby!
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In mid-2025 I reported fake references in a 2023 paper to NeurIPS Ethics and Grievances Committee. They said they had contacted the authors, who apologized & sent a corrected version. This story prompted me to check the NeurIPS proceedings, and it's still the original, uncorrected pdf.
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I'm actually surprised it's not higher - it's not like reviewers and ACs are checking all the references.
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What is wild to me is the defense, BY THE NEURIPS BOARD, that fabricated citations do not mean "the content of the papers themselves [is] necessarily invalidated" It does. It very much does. What do you think citing other work is for? What do you think writing a paper is for? What do you *think*?
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NeurIPS reviewers typically review 6+ papers, each with 100 or so citations. The reviewers can't possibly check that every citation is real. But why don't we have an automated way to do this checking (and desk-rejecting if fake citations found) *before* the papers are sent to reviewers?
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This community knows just how unreliable AI sourcing is, and yet. The cognitive bias toward trusting these things is so strong even the people who should really, really know better can't help themselves. Which means you (and I) probably can't either. Be careful out there, knowledge workers!
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Accurate and thorough representation of prior and related work is one of the cornerstones of good research. It is shocking to me that so many published NeurIPS papers, even from top institutions, have fabricated references. I recommend reading the original report:
gptzero.me/news/neurips/
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The disparity between fields and rigor of peer-review is wild. I've been scrutinized for citing the wrong edition of a particular book, meanwhile some people are just having AI write the whole damn lit review apparently.
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NEW: NeurIPS,one of the worldâs top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims
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NeurIPS papers contained 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims | Fortune
An analysis of NeurIPS 2025 papers by startup GPTZero reveals how AI-generated citations are slipping into elite academic research.
https://fortune.com/2026/01/21/neurips-ai-conferences-research-papers-hallucinations
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Iâve been covering AI as a daily beat since April 2022. From the start, the AI beat felt more fast-paced than anything I had covered in more than two decades as a journalist, writer, and editor.
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The AI industry is moving faster than journalism can follow
What itâs like to report on a beat that never slowsâand may be outrunning the people trying to explain it
https://open.substack.com/pub/sharongoldman/p/the-ai-industry-is-moving-faster?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=9xkx3
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We talk about AI in abstractions â compute, scale, trillions. But on the ground, itâs about water, land, noise, jobs, and who gets a say. I spent time in the Arizona desert reporting on what the AI data center boom looks like up close.
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Reporting From the Front Lines of the AI Data Center Boom
On the ground 50 miles west of Phoenix, where the race for compute collides with a rural community
https://open.substack.com/pub/sharongoldman/p/reporting-from-the-front-lines-of?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=9xkx3
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NEW: A few weeks ago, I traveled to the desert outside Phoenix to report a story thatâs a true microcosm of the AI data-center boom: Silicon Valley billions colliding with rural America, land, power, water, and local politics.
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Why I really pushed to talk to OpenAI's Greg Brockman for my latest Fortune story
Hint: I can think of $1.4 trillion worth of reasons
https://open.substack.com/pub/sharongoldman/p/why-i-really-pushed-to-talk-to-openais?r=9xkx3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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NEW: AI data centers have suddenly become one of the most potent political flashpoints of 2025, igniting fierce debates over power, water, land, and jobs.
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Huge AI data centers are turning local elections into fights over the future of energy | Fortune
Rising energy bills and growing scrutiny of Big Techâs political influence are transforming AI data centers from obscure infrastructure into political flashpoints for both progressives and conservativ...
https://fortune.com/2025/10/22/ai-data-centers-politics-elections-energy/
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From Fortune reporter
@sharongoldman.bsky.social
's email announcing this story: "Reporting the story, what struck me most is how belief itself has become a form of capital â how people are literally investing in a worldview about where AI is heading."
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How former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner turned a viral AI prophecy into profit, with a $1.5 billion hedge fund and outsize influence from Silicon Valley to D.C. | Fortune
Aschenbrenner is a Wall Street novice. So why have some of Silicon Valleyâs biggest names trusted him to manage billions?
https://fortune.com/2025/10/08/leopold-aschenbrenner-openai-ftx-1-5-billion-hedge-fund-situational-awareness/?j=61888&sfmc_sub=15935681&l=1584_HTML&u=4087780&mid=546014653&jb=24&utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NL_eye-on-ai_2025-10-9_61888&sfmc_id=15935681
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How a 23-year old former OpenAI researcher turned a viral AI prophecy into profit, with a $1.5 billion hedge fund and outsized influence from Silicon Valley to D.C. I spent several weeks reporting on the unlikely rise of Leopold Aschenbrenner đ
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How former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner turned a viral AI prophecy into profit, with a $1.5 billion hedge fund and outsized influence from Silicon Valley to D.C. | Fortune
Aschenbrenner is a Wall Street novice. So why have some of Silicon Valley's biggest names trusted him to manage billions?
https://fortune.com/2025/10/08/leopold-aschenbrenner-openai-ftx-1-5-billion-hedge-fund-situational-awareness/?utm_content=socialShare_null&utm_medium=x&utm_campaign=social_share
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Many assume C2PA fights deepfakes. But a new report from the World Privacy Forum says it doesnât â instead itâs building a vast metadata system that raises thorny questions about privacy & who gets to count as âtrusted. Thanks to
@katekaye.bsky.social
for chatting!
fortune.com/2025/09/18/b...
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It's a podcast world (I regularly think about being at the crazy AI Action Plan rollout a couple of months ago with the All-In bros where JD Vance sat on a couch with them and later the whole thing was rolled away to make way for Trump and his lectern and American flags )
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"Person says: "So you mean, they're like dumb animals". Me: "HOW DARE YOU SIR ANIMALS EXHIBIT RICH MORAL SENSIBILITIES BACK AWAY FROM MY OTTERS AND TURTLES" (ok maybe I didn't quite say it that way)" Yaaaas
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Most AI red teams break models. Anthropicâs Frontier Red Team also evangelizes the risks of AI itself â a rare hybrid of security + policy. I did a deep dive on this unusual group that sits in Anthropic's policy organization under co-founder Jack Clark.
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Inside Anthropic's 'Red Team'âensuring Claude is safe, and that Anthropic is heard in the corridors of power
Unique among AI labs, Anthropic's "Frontier Red Team" reports to its policy chief and has a mandate to publicize the dangers it finds
https://fortune.com/2025/09/04/anthropic-red-team-pushes-ai-models-into-the-danger-zone-and-burnishes-companys-reputation-for-safety/
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âLate last year, David Shor, one of the Democratic Partyâs top data scientists, surveyed some 130,000 voters about whether they had a âfavorableâ or âunfavorableâ opinion of Jewish people. Hardly anyone over the age of 70 said their view was unfavorable. More than a quarter of those under 25 did.â
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The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler
A growing constituency on the right wants America to unlearn the lessons of World War II.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/maga-hitler-anti-semitism/684078/
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Yes amen exactly this
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NEW: Chinaâs DeepSeek quietly released an open-source rival to GPT-5 â optimized for Chinese chips and priced to undercut OpenAI. Here's what that means and why that's a big deal.
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Chinaâs DeepSeek just dropped a new GPT-5 rival â optimized for Chinese chips, priced to undercut OpenAI
DeepSeek's new V3.1 model debuts several design innovations and highlights the intensity of the U.S.-China AI rivalry
https://fortune.com/2025/08/21/china-deepseek-releases-open-source-v3-1-model-to-rival-openai-gpt-5/
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Superintelligence, shmooperintelligence - for Meta, it's still always going to be about ad revenue, which is, hello, like 98% of revenue đ€·ââïž
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Meta wants to speed its race to âsuperintelligenceâ â but investors will still want their billions in ad revenue
Even as Meta reorganizes once more to chase AI âsuperintelligence,â the companyâs core business still lives and dies by advertising revenue
https://fortune.com/2025/08/20/meta-ai-race-superintelligence-investors-billions-in-ad-revenue/
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I was not invited to Sam Altmanâs cozy dinner with reporters in San Francisco last week (whomp whomp), but maybe thatâs for the best. I have trouble suppressing exasperated eye rolls when I hear peak Silicon Valleyâironic statements.
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Sam Altmanâs AI paradox: Warning of a bubble while raising trillions
Sam Altman says AI might be in a bubbleâthen touts trillions for OpenAIâs buildout. Call it the paradox powering Silicon Valleyâs biggest spending spree.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/19/sam-altmans-open-ai-paradox-warning-of-ai-bubble-while-raising-trillions/
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this is very interesting. I do wonder how much the tamper-proofing can survive extreme attacks, but it's encouraging. 1/2
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Thanks to
@stellaathena.bsky.social
for chatting with me about Deep Ignorance: the new paper/project from Eleuther AI and the UK AISI. Bottom line: Worried AI could teach people to build bioweapons? Donât teach it how
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AI safety tip: if you donât want it giving bioweapon instructions, maybe donât put them in the training data, say researchers
New research shows that scrubbing risky material from AI training data can build safeguards that are harder to bypass â and one author calls out tech giants for keeping such work under wraps.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/14/worried-ai-could-teach-people-to-build-bioweapons-dont-teach-it-how-say-researchers/
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NEW: OpenAI's GPT-5 was supposed to be a leap forward. Instead, it sparked backlash, raising questions about whether the model router is the path to AI's future (hint: many say it still is)
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Why GPT-5âs most controversial feature â the model router â might also be the future of AI
OpenAIâs latest upgrade was supposed to be a leap forward. Instead, it sparked backlash â and raises big questions about whether stitching together multiple models is the path to AIâs future.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/12/openai-gpt-5-model-router-backlash-ai-future/
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Um wasn't Leopold Aschenbremmer focused on AI safety đ± 23-year-old former OpenAI Super alignment team guy running an AI focused hedge fund đź
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https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/billions-flow-to-new-hedge-funds-focused-on-ai-related-bets-48d97f41?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAiB1inpp_vW376mT8ouhsXkO-B5rnY42DVSSYDoyAlzJK2zUBMXlngJIIC_ns8%3D&gaa_...
https://t.co/9k28gT4HKd
5 months ago
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Mark Zuckerberg is pouring billions of dollars into AI âsuperintelligenceââso why does today's Instagram pitch feel so underwhelming? Kind of like a legless metaverse avatar? đââïž
fortune.com/2025/07/30/m...
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Mark Zuckerberg is pouring billions into superintelligenceâso why does his Instagram pitch feel so underwhelming?
The Meta founder and CEO mostly seems to want to sell more Ray Bans.
https://fortune.com/2025/07/30/mark-zuckerberg-meta-billions-ai-superintelligence-instagram-pitch-underwhelming/
6 months ago
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NEW: Silicon Valleyâs elite descend on D.C. to celebrate Trumpâs AI Action Plan in a surreal fusion of podcast and policy (oh, and Trump ran so long I missed my train back from DC đ)
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Podcast, policy, and pomp in D.C. at the surreal celebration of Trumpâs AI Action Plan
David Sacks, Trumpâs AI czar, shared the stage with his cohosts from the All-in podcast on Wednesday, walking through various elements of the new 28-page AI Action Plan.
https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/all-in-podcast-trump-ai-action-plan-david-sacks-jd-vance-jensen-huang/
6 months ago
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NEW: I chatted with ex-OpenAI researcher Steven Adler this week about role-playing a 'rogue' AI (he says we should all try it) đ”âđ«https://fortune.com/2025/06/26/former-openai-researcher-thinks-its-time-to-war-game-ai-superintelligence-scenarios/
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This former OpenAI researcher thinks we should be gaming out the AI apocalypse
Former OpenAI safety researcher Steven Adler explains why he thinks more people should 'wargame' AI superintelligence scenarios.
https://fortune.com/2025/06/26/former-openai-researcher-thinks-its-time-to-war-game-ai-superintelligence-scenarios/
7 months ago
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In the billionaires-are-not-relatable category: very weird emailing with Lucy Guo to check that she did, in fact, receive $650M in cash from the Meta/Scale deal and her responding that she did, in fact, receive $750M đ
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6 things I learned after spending a week writing a story about Scale AI's Alexandr Wang
Often one of the great pleasures of writing is the process of researching and crafting a story.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sharongoldman/p/6-things-i-learned-after-spending?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=9xkx3
7 months ago
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I was in DC this week. Hereâs the takeaway: Big AI isnât just knocking on Washingtonâs doorâitâs moved in. OpenAI models on govât supercomputers. Metaâs Llama for defense. Anthropic building tools for national security. And Eric Schmidt? Playing matchmaker. My latest:
fortune.com/2025/06/05/b...
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From Silicon Valley to the Pentagon: Big AI is going full Beltway
In Washingtonâs new AI universe, national security and corporate AI ambitions are fusingâreshaping policy, procurement, and the global balance of power.
https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/big-ai-eric-schmidt-lobbying-washington/
8 months ago
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Eric Schmidtâs AI Expo in DC this week showed how fast the AI-military-policy triangle is locking into place. The vision? A future where geopolitical competition is won with frontier models and flying bots.
#SCSPAIExpo25
fortune.com/2025/06/04/e...
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidtâs AI Expo serves up visions of war, robotics, and LLMs for throngs of tech execs, defense officials, and fresh recruits
From drone swarms to doomsday scenarios, former Google CEO Eric Schmidtâs DC showcase reveals how AI, geopolitics, and defense are fusing into one strategic vision.
https://fortune.com/2025/06/04/eric-schmidt-ai-expo-washington-dc-openai-tesla-drones-military/
8 months ago
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Spent some time in DC this week: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's AI Expo serves up visions of war, robotics, and LLMs for throngs of tech execs, defense officials, and fresh recruits
fortune.com/2025/06/04/e...
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidtâs AI Expo serves up visions of war, robotics, and LLMs for throngs of tech execs, defense officials, and fresh recruits
From drone swarms to doomsday scenarios, former Google CEO Eric Schmidtâs DC showcase reveals how AI, geopolitics, and defense are fusing into one strategic vision.
https://fortune.com/2025/06/04/eric-schmidt-ai-expo-washington-dc-openai-tesla-drones-military/
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Copyright and IP law is complicated. And AI and copyright is a logic puzzle no one can solve â no matter what the hot takes say on social media.
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Copyright law and AI is a twisted logic puzzle, not a no-brainer
Despite what the hot takes say, thereâs no easy answer to this debate
https://open.substack.com/pub/sharongoldman/p/copyright-law-and-ai-is-a-twisted?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=9xkx3
8 months ago
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I find Bluesky to be absolutely useless, with no post engagement. Am i missing something?
8 months ago
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NEW for
@fortune.com
: When an AI model misbehaves, the public deserves to knowâand to understand what it means
fortune.com/2025/05/27/a...
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An AI tried to blackmail its creatorsâin a test. The real story is why transparency matters more than fear
Safety testing AI means exposing bad behavior. But if companies hide itâor if headlines sensationalize itâpublic trust loses either way.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/27/anthropic-ai-model-blackmail-transparency/
8 months ago
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My AI Side Notes from this week - behind-the-scenes musings, links and leftovers from a Fortune reporter on the AI beat. Free to subscribe!
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[AI Side Notes] AI model wars, Ive â€ïžAltman, Ch-Ch-China
Itâs been one of those weeks.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sharongoldman/p/side-notesai-model-wars-ive-hearts?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=9xkx3
8 months ago
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Is Kevin still pining for Sydney?
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9 months ago
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I hate shopping. ChatGPT is already helping me in ways Google never did. My latest for
@fortune.com
's Eye on AI newsletter:
fortune.com/2025/04/24/i...
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I hate shopping. ChatGPT is already helping me in ways Google never did
A basic Google search can't match the personalized styling tips and recommendations that ChatGPT offers.
https://fortune.com/2025/04/24/i-hate-shopping-chatgpt-is-already-helping-me-in-ways-google-never-did-eye-on-ai/
9 months ago
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Why is he doubling down on this? đ
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NEW: OpenAI no longer considers manipulation and mass disinformation campaigns a risk worth testing for before releasing its AI models
fortune.com/2025/04/16/o...
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OpenAI no longer considers manipulation and mass disinformation campaigns a risk worth testing for before releasing its AI models
OpenAIâs new AI safety policy drops pre-release testing requirements for persuasive or manipulative capabilities, sparking concern among experts
https://fortune.com/2025/04/16/openai-safety-framework-manipulation-deception-critical-risk/
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NEW: 12 former OpenAI employees asked to be heard in Elon Muskâs lawsuit against the company; one calls Sam Altman a âperson of low integrityâ
fortune.com/2025/04/11/1...
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12 former OpenAI employees asked to be heard in Elon Musk's lawsuit against the company; one calls Sam Altman a 'person of low integrity'
In a friend of the court filing by Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, a dozen former employees accuse OpenAI of abandoning its nonprofit roots and betraying the mission that originally attracting ...
https://fortune.com/2025/04/11/12-ex-openai-employees-elon-musk-lawsuit-amicus-filing-lessig/
10 months ago
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NEW: I spoke to seven former Meta employees, including several ex-FAIR researchers, for this piece in the wake of Joelle Pineau's departure from Meta.
fortune.com/2025/04/10/m...
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Metaâs AI research lab is âdying a slow death,â some insiders say. Meta prefers to call it âa new beginningâ
Metaâs storied AI research lab faces existential questions amid leadership changes and internal reshufflingâwhile its founder insists itâs just entering a new chapter
https://fortune.com/2025/04/10/meta-ai-research-lab-fair-questions-departures-future-yann-lecun-new-beginning/
10 months ago
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Shopify is saying the quiet part out loud: AI will replace new hiringâother CEOs just wonât admit it
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Shopify's CEO just said the quiet part out loud: AI will replace new hiringâother CEOs just won't admit it
It is time for CEOs to level with their employees and for society to get ready for a world with fewer jobs.
https://fortune.com/2025/04/10/shopify-ceo-ai-will-kill-jobs-other-ceos-just-wont-admit-it/
10 months ago
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