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.
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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…
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Verizon Outage Knocks Out US Mobile Service, Including Some 911 Calls
Lily Hay Newman / wired - A major Verizon outage appeared to impact customers across the United States starting around noon ET on Wednesday. Calls to Verizon customers from other carriers may also be impacted.
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Competitor, Investor Response: Rival jabs and stock resilience
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Tesla to stop selling FSD as a standalone package and switch to subscription only
Andrew J. Hawkins / theverge - As its sales continue to slip and its robotaxi strategy seems to falter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said today that the company would stop selling its Full Self-Driving feature as a standalone package. Instead, starting on February 14th, the Level 2 driver-assis…
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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…
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Mannheim’s osapiens Raises €85.8M Funding In Series C Round
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Mannheim-based osapiens, a provider of enterprise software for sustainable growth, has secured an €85.8 million ($100 million) Series C funding round led by Decarbonization Partners, a joint venture between BlackRock and Temasek. With this round, osapiens…
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