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Ilya Sutskever becomes CEO of Safe Superintelligence after Meta poached Daniel Gross
Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, speaks at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 5, 2023. Jack Guez | AFP | Getty Images OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said he will assume the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence, the artificial intelligence startup he launched last year. Sutskever’s announcement on Thursday comes after Meta […]
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Amazon to shut down Freevee streaming TV service in August
Amazon logo on a brick building exterior in San Francisco on Aug. 20, 2024. Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Amazon is discontinuing its stand-alone free streaming TV service next month as it looks to consolidate its content offerings under Prime Video. The service, called Freevee, launched in 2019 underneath IMDb, […]
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Elon Musk’s X is down for some users
The X logo appears on a phone, and the xAI logo is displayed on a laptop in Krakow, Poland, on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s social media platform X was hit with an outage on Wednesday, leaving some users unable to load […]
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Jeff Bezos sells $737 million worth of Amazon shares
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos leaves Aman Venice hotel, on the second day of the wedding festivities of Bezos and journalist Lauren Sanchez, in Venice, Italy, June 27, 2025. Yara Nardi | Reuters Amazon founder Jeff Bezos unloaded more than 3.3 million shares of his company in a sale valued at roughly $736.7 million, according to […]
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Google promotes ‘AI Mode’ on home page ‘Doodle’
Google CEO Sundar Pichai addresses the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. Camille Cohen | AFP | Getty Images The Google Doodle is Alphabet’s most valuable piece of real estate, and on Tuesday, the company used that space to promote “AI Mode,” its latest AI search […]
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Web giant Cloudflare to block AI bots from scraping content by default
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Internet firm Cloudflare will start blocking artificial intelligence crawlers from accessing content without website owners’ permission or compensation by default, in a move that could significantly impact AI developers’ ability to train their models. Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be asked […]
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Elon Musk’s xAI raises $10 billion in debt and equity as it steps up challenge to OpenAI
Elon Musk announced his new company xAI, which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images XAI, the artificial intelligence startup run by Elon Musk, raised a combined $10 billion in debt and equity, Morgan Stanley said. Half of that sum was clinched […]
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Amazon CEO Jassy says AI will lead to ‘fewer people doing some of the jobs’ that get automated
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the rapid rollout of generative artificial intelligence means the company will one day require fewer employees to do some of the work that computers can handle. “Like with every technical transformation, there will be fewer people doing some of the jobs that the technology actually starts to automate,” Jassy told […]
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Mark Zuckerberg announces creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Read the memo
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms. Artificial intelligence has been an integral focus for the tech giant’s leader amid competition from players like OpenAI, Microsoft and Google. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that he’s creating Meta Superintelligence Labs, which will be led by some of his company’s most […]
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Meta shares hit all-time high as Mark Zuckerberg goes on AI hiring blitz
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta shares hit a record high on Monday, underscoring investor interest in the company’s new AI superintelligence group. The company’s shares reached $747.90 during midday trading, topping Meta’s previous stock […]
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