SecurityWeek
Sam Altman is Back as OpenAI CEO Just Days After Being Removed, Along With a New Board
OpenAI reached an agreement for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of directors, after he was fired a week prior.
CyberNews
OpenAI reinstates Sam Altman as CEO
Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI.
CyberNews
OpenAI board, Altman in talks for return of former CEO
Sam Altman and OpenAI's board have opened up discussions to bring back the former CEO and founder of the AI startup, while investors seek legal action.
Ars Technica
95% of OpenAI employees have threatened to quit in standoff with board
OpenAI's future hangs in the balance as staff says they'll join former CEO at Microsoft.
CyberNews
Salesforce and other rivals want to recruit unhappy OpenAI researchers
The recruitment drive has begun. Marc Benioff, CEO of software company Salesforce, has said that he will match the salary of any researcher who resigns from OpenAI.
Ars Technica
OpenAI employees revolt after board names new CEO and Altman heads to Microsoft
Ilya Sutskever announces regret; 505 OpenAI employees sign letter asking board to resign.
SecurityWeek
Microsoft Hires Sam Altman and OpenAI’s New CEO Vows to Investigate His Firing
Microsoft hired ex-Open AI chief Sam Altman and another architect of OpenAI for a new venture after their sudden departures.
CyberNews
Tech whiz kid Sam Altman is out of OpenAI for good: what happened?
Sam Altman, the ousted CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, will definitely not return to the company he co-founded. It’s time to ask what happened.
CyberNews
Microsoft hires Sam Altman as OpenAI announces his replacement
OpenAI has appointed ex-Twitch boss Emmett Shear to lead the startup, replacing Sam Altman who will join the company's top backer Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team, the CEO of the software giant said.
Ars Technica
Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI
Microsoft CEO Nadella "furious"; OpenAI President and three senior researchers resign.
Ars Technica
OpenAI introduces GPT-4 Turbo: Larger memory, lower cost, new knowledge
Novel-sized context window, DALL-E 3 API, more announced on OpenAI DevDay 2023.
CyberSecurity Dive
Microsoft touts demand for its security services in fiscal Q1, driven by AI appetite
The company said it is gaining market share in the cybersecurity segment and is opening access to its AI-based Security Copilot after an early preview.
Ars Technica
Panos Panay, leader of the Surface and Windows teams, is leaving Microsoft
Will be replaced by Yusuf Mehdi, who has been leading the way on AI efforts.
Infosecurity News
Security Risks to Boom in the Era of Widespread Generative AI Adoption
Enterprise usages of generative AI are what is going to turn the threat model of many organizations upside down, Maria Markstedter argued during her speech at Black Hat USA
Ars Technica
President Biden meets with AI CEOs at the White House amid ethical criticism
"A room full of the dudes who gave us the issues & fired us for talking about the risks."
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft Bing introduces ChatGPT answers in search results
Microsoft has introduced a new update to Bing.com that includes a significant change in its search results — the addition of ChatGPT responses to search queries.
Cyber Security News
Google to Integrate Chat AI to it's Search Engine, Says Sundar Pichai
Google has officially confirmed that it is working on conversational artificial intelligence for its search engine since the AI evolution pressures its business.
Ars Technica
Microsoft aims to reduce “tedious” business tasks with new AI tools
LLM tech comes to Power Platform and Dynamics 365, courtesy of OpenAI partnership.
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft launches new AI chat-powered Bing and Edge browser
Microsoft announced on Tuesday a new version of its Bing search engine powered by a next-generation OpenAI language model more powerful than ChatGPT and specially trained for web search.
Ars Technica
Microsoft announces AI-powered Bing search and Edge browser
ChatGPT-style AI tech brings more context to search, available today in a limited preview.
Ars Technica
Big Tech companies use cloud computing arms to pursue alliances with AI groups
Deals between Big Tech and "generative AI" startups raise competition concerns.
CyberSecurity Dive
Microsoft surpasses $20B in security revenue as enterprise customers consolidate
The company’s cybersecurity business is growing, but CEO Satya Nadella warned that customers, in an uncertain economy, are exercising caution.
SecurityWeek
Microsoft Invests Billions in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI
Microsoft it is making a “multiyear, multibillion dollar investment” in the artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and other AI tools.
Ars Technica
Microsoft to lay off 10,000 workers, blames decelerated customer spending
“We will have to do more with less," CEO Satya Nadella says.
SecurityWeek
Investors Pour $200M Into Compliance Automation Startup Drata
San Diego startup Drata continues to attract major venture capital investor interest, banking $200 million in Series C funding that values the company north of $2 billion.
CyberSecurity Dive
M&A sets record pace as ransomware, nation-state threats fuel security demand
Enterprise customers seek consolidated, end-to-end platforms to anticipate, detect and eliminate threats.
Ars Technica
Businesses are adopting Windows 11 more quickly than past versions, says Microsoft
Windows, Surface, Office, Xbox, and LinkedIn all earned more money than in 2021.
Computerworld
Windows 11 — we haven’t seen anything, yet
Microsoft this week talked up a number of changes and advances it plans to roll out for Windows 11 in the year ahead. Here's what the company has in mind.
CyberSecurity Dive
Microsoft rolls out security red carpet for competitors' cloud customers
With a cloud-agnostic security tool in hand, Microsoft is vying to support customers' multicloud strategies.
CyberSecurity Dive
Mandiant stock jumps on takeover report as incident responder swings to Q4 profit
After divesting FireEye Products, Mandiant has a streamlined portfolio, but expansion will be expensive.
ZDNet
Twitter removes another 3,000 state-backed accounts linked to six countries | ZDNet
2,000 banned accounts were linked to Chinese Communist Party narratives related to the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.