Turbulent days at OpenAI: More than two thirds of the AI startup’s employees are threatening to quit if the board doesn’t step down. A board member is also among the revolters. It was previously announced that the executives Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, who were fired from OpenAI on Friday, were going to Microsoft. For his part, Microsoft boss Satya Nadella sent a disguised request to the previous OpenAI board. Meanwhile, the crypto company Tether has frozen several hundred million US dollars in connection with a fraud scheme in Southeast Asia – the most important reports at a glance.
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The future of OpenAI is uncertain. The AI startup, which quickly became a major player in the AI industry after releasing AI chatbot ChatGPT last year, has been in turmoil since it fired previous CEO Sam Altman on Friday. In the last 24 hours, the company briefly considered a proposal to reinstate Altman, but then rejected it. Shortly thereafter, both Altman and Greg Brockman, a co-founder of OpenAI, were hired by Microsoft to lead a new AI research lab. Microsoft boss Satya Nadella is looking forward to the two of them and also to a new OpenAI board. OpenAI: Altman and Brockman go to Microsoft, “new board” expected
In response to Altman’s ouster, more than 700 of OpenAI’s 770 employees signed an open letter to the incumbent OpenAI board on Monday calling on him to resign. Otherwise, according to the signatories, there would be mass layoffs. The board’s actions, the authors said, made its inability to govern OpenAI obvious. You can’t work with people who lack competence, judgment and care for the startup’s mission and employees. OpenAI revolt: Employees issue resignation ultimatum to the board
The so-called “pig slaughter” romance scam refers to cases in which fraudsters use social media, messaging and dating apps to build trust with their victims and then pressure them into investing in fake cryptocurrencies or online trading systems. In one such fraud scheme, the crypto company Tether – itself the target of investigations two years ago – has now cooperated with US law enforcement authorities and “proactively and voluntarily” frozen approximately 225 million USDT tokens in external, self-custody wallets. According to Tether, it is the largest freeze of USDT in history. Tether: $225 million frozen in connection with human trafficking
At the end of October, the British Library, Britain’s national library, first announced that it had been affected by an unspecified cybersecurity incident that caused a “major technical outage” at its locations in London and Yorkshire. The website, phone lines and on-site services such as visitor Wi-Fi and electronic payments were disrupted. Since then, visitors no longer have access to the extensive digital catalog; the gift shop had to switch to cash payments to stay open. The library has now confirmed that the disruption was caused by a ransomware attack. A ransomware gang known as Rhysida claimed responsibility for the cyberattack and threatened to publish the data stolen from the British Library if a ransom was not paid. British Library: Week-long outage due to ransomware attack
Under the motto “Digital transformation in the changing era,” the federal government’s digital summit attracts more than 1,000 participants and speakers to the Thuringian city of Jena. Also taking part are Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens), Digital Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) and Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens). Chancellor Olaf Scholz will come to Jena this Tuesday. However, another minister who is responsible for digitalization is missing. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) did not find time for the digital summit. Read what happened on the first day here. The Federal Government’s Digital Summit: Digitalization in the changing era
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