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[ad_1] Calvin French-Owen worked at OpenAI for about a year, but says he only received about 10 emails during his time at the ChatGPT maker.French-Owen joined OpenAI in May 2024 and left in June, per his LinkedIn. The MIT graduate wrote about his experience working at OpenAI in a blog post published on Tuesday.”I wanted to share my reflections because there’s a lot of smoke and noise around what OpenAI is doing, but not a lot of first-hand accounts of what the culture of working there actually feels like,” he wrote.French-Owen said in his post that OpenAI didn’t rely on…
[ad_1] Eric was paid to catch employees secretly working multiple jobs. Then he became one of them.A few years ago, Eric was working in an IT role at a large company. His job responsibilities included investigating three types of “illicit employment” within the organization: workers who outsourced their job responsibilities to overseas contractors, foreign actors who infiltrated companies by posing as legitimate hires, and employees secretly juggling multiple jobs without the company’s approval.But Eric said there wasn’t much suspicious activity to investigate, and that he was working as little as one hour each day. Then he had an idea: What…
[ad_1] CNN — An $8 billion trial by Meta Platforms shareholders against Mark Zuckerberg and other current and former company leaders kicks off on Wednesday over claims that they illegally harvested the data of Facebook users in violation of a 2012 agreement with the US Federal Trade Commission. Jeffrey Zients, White House chief of staff under President Joe Biden and a Meta director for two years starting in May 2018, is expected to be one of the first witnesses to take the stand in the non-jury trial before Kathaleen McCormick, chief judge of the Delaware Chancery Court. The case will…
[ad_1] CNN — PBS and NPR stations are on the verge of losing the federal funding that has helped keep them on the air for decades. The Senate is preparing to vote on a rare measure called a “rescission,” which would claw back money that was already budgeted by Congress, including nearly $1.1 billion in funding for public media. Here’s what will happen if lawmakers zero out the funding for PBS and NPR. What will viewers and listeners notice? Over time, some local stations may be forced off the air, while other stations may have fewer shows to broadcast. Stations…
[ad_1] CNN — Battered by multiple years of high health care costs, employers are planning to shift more of the expense to workers in 2026, a new survey released Wednesday found. Just over half of employers are planning to adjust their health insurance offerings to increase staffers’ share of the cost, such as instituting higher deductibles or annual out-of-pocket maximums, according to Mercer’s Survey on Health and Benefit Strategies for 2026. The tight labor market and rising cost of living in recent years had made companies more reluctant to add to workers’ financial burden, Mercer said. Some 45% of employers…
[ad_1] Elon Musk’s xAI says it is willing to pay out six-figure salaries to software engineers who can help the AI startup to develop its AI “companions.” The listing, titled “Fullstack Engineer – Waifus,” was posted on xAI’s career portal on Tuesday, just a day after the company released two AI “companions” on its Grok platform. The term “waifu” refers to female anime characters that fans may view as a romantic partner or wife.The tongue-in-cheek job title may have been a reference to one of the “companions.” That’s “Ani,” a Japanese anime girl wearing a black corset dress and lace…
[ad_1] Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The writer is a philanthropist, private investor and co-founder of PimcoSome say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.— Robert FrostThe American poet Robert Frost once wrote of the world’s potential destruction by fire (desire) or ice (hate). While obviously not meant as a reference to markets and economies, it could describe the opposing menaces of inflation (fire) and deflation (ice) that have loomed over them in the past century.The 1930s Great Depression showed the economic devastation wrought by…
[ad_1] When €19bn software group Visma last month chose London as the venue for its future initial public offering, it signalled a success for the UK capital in more ways than one. The decision was an obvious boost for the UK’s beleaguered capital markets, where IPOs have become vanishingly rare — let alone ones of multibillion-pound tech companies. However, it was also a milestone for Visma’s British backer, Hg: the London-headquartered private equity firm that has quietly built itself into a specialist software investor and is on track to surpass $100bn in assets under management this month. That is bigger…
[ad_1] CNN — The United States has launched an investigation into “unfair” trading practices by Brazil, escalating President Donald Trump’s spat with the world’s 10th-largest economy over issues including the criminal case against its former President Jair Bolsonaro. The investigation will focus on digital trade and electronic payment services, preferential tariffs, and anti-corruption interference, as well as intellectual property protection, to determine whether there are “unreasonable or discriminatory and burden or restrict” American commerce, according to a statement by the United States Trade Representative (USTR). It will also look into ethanol market access and illegal deforestation. “At President Trump’s direction,…
[ad_1] Elon Musk is a man who named a government agency after a memecoin, designed a robotaxi test network in the shape of a phallus, and once went to court for tweeting weed jokes in relation to Tesla stock. So it’s not surprising that his company xAI’s first AI companions on the Grok app are a lustful anime girl and a homicidal panda. You can see why I had no choice but to ask my boss to buy me a $30 “Super Grok” subscription so that I could spend my Tuesday afternoon talking to these characters. It’s curious timing for…