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Thinking Machines Ousts CTO Barret Zoph. Hours Later, OpenAI Welcomed Him Home.

Marcus Schuler / implicator - Mira Murati ousted CTO Barret Zoph for "unethical conduct." Hours later, OpenAI welcomed him back along with two other researchers. The competing narratives can't both be true.

#ai #startups #ml #openai #genai #business #deeptech #jobs #technology #research

Zoph Out. Zoph Back. Musk Under Fire.

7 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

OpenAI brings back three top researchers from Mira Murati's startup Thinking Machines

7 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

OpenAI rehires top talent as Murati’s $12B startup loses co-founders

7 wks / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

The news is a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about what happened. www.wired.com/story/thinki...

7 wks / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

@mzeff.bsky.social reports: “Zoph told Thinking Machines CEO Mira Murati on Monday he was considering leaving, then was fired today, according to the memo from Simo. She goes on to write that OpenAI doesn’t share the same concerns about Zoph as Murati.” w

7 wks / bsky / @kylierobison.com / kylierobison.com

Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI

7 wks / techcrunch / Lucas Ropek

Thinking Machines Ousts CTO Barret Zoph. Hours Later, OpenAI Welcomed Him Home.

7 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

OpenAI Hires Three Staffers From Mira Murati’s AI Startup

7 wks / bloomberg / Natasha Mascarenhas

Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI

7 wks / wired / Maxwell Zeff

Back to Top / Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 9:21 pm / permalink 17886 / 9 stories in 7 wks


Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public

BeauHD / slashdot - Digg is officially back under the ownership of its original founder, Kevin Rose, along with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. "Similar to Reddit, the new Digg offers a website and mobile app where you can browse feeds featuring posts from across a selecti…

#startups #business #internet #reddit #ux #community #media #technology #contentmoderation

Digg Makes a Comeback: Why the Original Reddit Rival is Trending Again

7 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Digg launches public open beta as toxicity-free Reddit rival

7 wks / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/14/233241/digg-launches-its-new-reddit-rival-to-the-public?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

7 wks / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

Digg, an Early Social and News Site, Officially Relaunches

7 wks / cnet / Corin Cesaric

Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public

7 wks / slashdot / BeauHD

Digg is back from the grave (again) and taking on Reddit: How to try the Digg beta

7 wks / mashable

Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

7 wks / reddit / /u/holyfruits

Back to Top / Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 8:20 pm / permalink 17884 / 7 stories in 7 wks


VoiceRun gets $5.5M in seed funding to give enterprises more control over voice AI agents

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - VoiceRun, a startup that’s helping enterprises to develop voice-enabled artificial intelligence agents that they control, has raised $5.5 million in seed funding to help customers move beyond simple pilots and demonstrations and deploy voice-powered appli…

#ai #startups #vc #saas #enterprise #voice #genai #assistant #api

VoiceRun Raises $5.5M in Seed Funding

7 wks / finsmes / FinSMEs

VoiceRun gets $5.5M in seed funding to give enterprises more control over voice AI agents

7 wks / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

VoiceRun nabs $5.5M to build voice agent factory

7 wks / techcrunch / Dominic-Madori Davis

Back to Top / Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 11:21 am / permalink 17866 / 3 stories in 7 wks


Spot Ship Raises £1M To Modernise Ship Chartering

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Spot Ship, a SaaS platform modernising global ship chartering, has raised £1 million in a funding round led by Ventures.eu, marking the Lisbon-based VC’s first investment from Fund I. The round also included Improbable CEO Herman Narula, Tradeworks.vc, Ma…

#startups #innovation #fintech #saas #digitaltransformation #enterprise #business #supplychain #europe #technology

Spot Ship Raises £1M To Modernise Ship Chartering

7 wks / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Ventures.eu’s Fund I marks its maiden voyage by leading the €1.1 million round in maritime tech startup Spot Ship

7 wks / eu-startups / Rahul Raj

Spot Ship closes £1M round led by Ventures.eu to modernise ship chartering

7 wks / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

Back to Top / Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 5:21 am / permalink 17854 / 3 stories in 7 wks


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