Nov 26th 2023
This Week in Tech 955
Marmite or Nothing
Hosted by
Iain Thomson
Altman returns to OpenAI, X sues Media Matters, Church of AI, Manifest V3
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- Sam Altman returns as CEO after staff threatened mass resignation
- Microsoft's role and attempts to hire OpenAI staff
- Concerns over OpenAI's technology and capabilities
- Speculation over what caused the OpenAI board member revolt
- Impact and future of OpenAI as a non-profit and for-profit entity
- Musk sues Twitter shareholders, sued over ads next to hate speech
- Musk's behavior on Twitter concerning hate speech and anti-Semitism
- Truth Social finances and Trump lawsuit against media companies reporting losses
- EU regulations and lawsuits against tech giants over gatekeeping and anti-competitive behavior
- Tesla lawsuits over false Autopilot and battery claims
- Gay furry hackers steal Idaho National Lab nuclear secrets
- Levandosky launches Church of AI organization
- Video game addiction lawsuits
- Google to restrict ad blockers in Manifest V3 update
- Advertiser boycotts of Twitter
- Surveillance and the Hemisphere spying scheme
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Links
- Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO
- OpenAI’s meltdown won’t be the last corporate drama spurred by AI
- X Sues Media Matters Over Research on Ads Next to Antisemitic Posts - The New York Times
- Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect | Reuters
- Trump’s Truth Social Parent Company Sues 20 Media Outlets - Bloomberg
- Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting | Techdirt
- What do Apple, Meta, TikTok have in common? Fighting off Europe's stiff antitrust rules
- Anthony Levandowski Reboots Church of Artificial Intelligence
- US nuke reactor lab hit by 'gay furry hackers' demanding cat-human mutants