Month: November 2023

The surprise sacking of the AI venture’s CEO was followed by a near mutiny at the company and his reinstatement OpenAI’s messy firing and re-hiring of its powerful chief executive this week shocked the tech world. But the power struggle has implications beyond the company’s boardroom, AI experts said. It throws into relief the greenness …

‘Huge egos are in play’: behind the firing and rehiring of OpenAI’s Sam Altman Read More »

In the top company in the world’s most explosive industry, the boss was fired and rehired – and no one has said why • OpenAI was ‘working on model so powerful it alarmed staff’ The OpenAI farce has moved at such speed in the past week that it is easy to forget that nobody has …

OpenAI’s directors have been anything but open. What the hell happened? Read More »

Weeks after the Bankman-Fried trial, the billionaire founder of the largest cryptocurrency exchange has been fined $50m and resigned • Crypto giant Binance admits to money laundering Changpeng Zhao, founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, warned last year that it was difficult to prevent illegal activity in the industry that he dominated. “[If] …

Changpeng Zhao: another crypto king is dethroned by America’s courts Read More »

Microsoft’s Bing falls victim to long-running part-joke internet conspiracy theory Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Australia doesn’t exist. That’s at least according to Bing search results for some users on Wednesday when the Microsoft search engine cited long-running internet conspiracy theories denying the existence of the country. Several very real Australian …

Does Australia exist? Well, that depends on which search engine you ask … Read More »

Reports say new model Q* fuelled safety fears, with workers airing their concerns to the board before CEO Sam Altman’s sacking OpenAI was reportedly working on an advanced system before Sam Altman’s sacking that was so powerful it caused safety concerns among staff at the company. The artificial intelligence model triggered such alarm with some …

OpenAI ‘was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff’ Read More »

In this week’s newsletter: Journalists put the plant-based brand to the test in The Oatly Chronicles. Plus: five of the best Today in Focus episodes • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Build the Life You WantWidely available, episodes weeklyThis spin-off from the staggeringly successful Super Soul podcast is packed …

Best podcasts of the week: The truth about Oatly’s climate-friendly credentials Read More »

Limited Run Games; PC, PS4/5, Switch, XboxThe cult retro label has curated and updated a series of digital dino fossils for modern players and fans of the movie franchise who missed out first time round For a period during the mid-1990s, it was ruled that no blockbuster movie was really complete until it had also …

Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection review – a great way to relive a lost world of gaming Read More »

Hidden Pikmin, secret Mario logos and mad merch … the world of Mario has been brilliantly reconstructed in real life, letting me live out a fantasy decades in the making • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I’ve always written about the intersection of games and real life – that’s …

Pushing Buttons: I went to Japan’s Nintendo theme park – and it was a childhood dream come true Read More »

TikTokers are sharing strangers’ conversations, hoping to expose gossipers to the very people they’re talking about. Is the humiliation worth it? Marissa Meizz was out to dinner with a friend when her phone started vibrating. It was an unusually frenzied buzz, unresponsive to the silence button – a flood of texts from friends, acquaintances and …

‘It’s not a public service, it’s toxic’: welcome to the world of gossip surveillance Read More »

Sharing videos is a love language for the presenter and author. Here, she shows us a dancing frog and multiple mischievous children Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email One of my first memories of the internet was as a horny 13-year-old sitting in my best friend’s bedroom. We were using her family computer to …

Linda Marigliano: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet) Read More »