OpenAI names new nonprofit ‘advisors’

OpenAI names new nonprofit ‘advisors’

Source: The Verge OpenAI has revealed the “advisors” for its new nonprofit commission: Dolores Huerta, Monica Lozano, Dr. Robert K. Ross, and Jack Oliver. The company says the four advisors will help “inform OpenAI’s philanthropic efforts,” according to an announcement on Tuesday. Huerta was a prominent labor activist during the 20th century, while Lozano was…

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Sam Altman at TED 2025: Inside the most uncomfortable — and important — AI interview of the year

Sam Altman at TED 2025: Inside the most uncomfortable — and important — AI interview of the year

Source: Venture Beat Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that his company has grown to 800 million weekly active users and is experiencing “unbelievable” growth rates, during a sometimes tense interview at the TED 2025 conference in…

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Google’s geothermal energy ambitions are growing

Google’s geothermal energy ambitions are growing

Source: The Verge Google, for the first time, inked an agreement to purchase geothermal energy for its facilities in Asia. The deal also marks the first geothermal power purchase agreement for Taiwan, according to the company. Google is working toward climate goals of cutting the company’s planet-heating emissions in half and matching its electricity use…

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Google Search is going to be google.com globally

Google Search is going to be google.com globally

Source: The Verge Google announced Tuesday that it’s going to redirect country code top-level domain names (ccTLD) for Google Search to google.com over the coming months to “streamline people’s experience on Search,” according to a blog post. The change means that if, for example, you used google.ng (for Nigeria) or google.com.br (for Brazil), you’ll see…

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Mark Zuckerberg once suggested wiping all Facebook friends lists to boost usage

Mark Zuckerberg once suggested wiping all Facebook friends lists to boost usage

Source: The Verge Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a “potentially crazy idea” in 2022 to get people using Facebook more: deleting everyone’s friends’ lists. The possibility was discussed on Monday via internal emails shown by the FTC as Zuckerberg testified during Meta’s antitrust trial. Zuckerberg floated the idea of considering “wiping everyone’s graphs” — their…

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Mark Zuckerberg suggested spinning off Instagram

Mark Zuckerberg suggested spinning off Instagram

Source: The Verge About a year before the Federal Trade Commission first opened its antitrust investigation into Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, CEO Mark Zuckerberg internally suggested “the extreme step of spinning Instagram out as a separate company.” In a 2018 email to his executives, Zuckerberg wrote that, ​​“while most companies resist break-ups, the…

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