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‘An act of betrayal’: Gabriel García Márquez’s son on publishing his father’s work against his will | Books

A novel written by the Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez in the last years of his life has been published – against his instruction that it be destroyed. Until August, written when the author had dementia, comes a decade after his death, on what would have been his 97th birthday. It has been described by his sons as “the fruits of one last effort to carry on creating against all odds”, and tells the story of a woman who makes a yearly pilgrimage to her mother’s grave on a Caribbean island, a trip that…

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, claiming “stark betrayal” of the AI company’s mission

Elon Musk sues OpenAI 04:52 Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, with the Tesla founder alleging they violated the artificial intelligence company's original mission statement by putting profits over benefiting humanity. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in San Francisco, comes amid a larger debate over the potential impact of AI, such as that it could produce misleading or…

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming betrayal of its goal to benefit humanity

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker's founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits.In a lawsuit filed at San Francisco Superior Court, billionaire Musk said that when he bankrolled OpenAI's creation, he secured an agreement with Altman and Greg Brockman, the president, to keep the AI company as a non-profit that would develop technology for the benefit of the public. Under its founding agreement, OpenAI would also make its code open to…

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ‘betrayal’ of non-profit AI mission

Elon Musk sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and affiliated entities on Thursday, alleging the ChatGPT makers have breached their original contractual agreements by pursuing profits instead of the nonprofit’s founding mission to develop AI that benefits humanity. Musk, an early backer of OpenAI, claims Altman and Brockman convinced him to help found and bankroll the startup in 2015 with promises it would be a non-profit focused on countering the competitive threat from…

Betrayal, bluegrass and Backwoods Barbie: Dolly Parton’s 20 best songs – ranked! | Dolly Parton

20. Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That (1989)There are Dolly Parton songs that deliver an emotional gut-punch, and there are Dolly Parton songs that play to her glitzy public image. Why’d You Come in Here … is firmly in the latter category: it’s lustful, funny (“you could stop traffic in a gunny sack”), insanely catchy, and overflowing with camp exuberance.19. Just Someone I Used to Know (1969)Conventional wisdom dictates that Parton only really flowered after breaking up her duet partnership with Porter Wagoner:…

Nightwing #110 Preview: Beasts, Bats, and Betrayal

Posted in: Comics, DC Comics, Preview | Tagged: nightwingWill Damian Wayne's feral antics in Nightwing #110 break up the Super Sons? Bludhaven has never looked so grim... or furry.Published Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:27:08 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary Discover Nightwing #110's furry chaos in Bludhaven when it drops on January 16th. Can Nightwing and Jon Kent mend the Super Sons before Damian's cat conundrum? Heroes as threats: Nightwing, Batgirl, and Titans struggle to save their world. LOLtron…

Betrayal is being pulled from Steam, players to be offered a refund – Destructoid

Forget The Walking Dead; now it’s The Playing Dead, as The Walking Dead: Betrayal is being pulled from Steam and offering a refund. The game’s being pulled after Skybound Games and Other Ocean Interactive were “not able to find a path to build the spirited community of backstabbers we originally envisioned,” the developers said in a blog shared to the game’s Steam page. The game, which has been available in Early Access since September, never received a full release. It’s the second stumble for the otherwise popular…

‘The ultimate betrayal’: more details emerge in Hall & Oates lawsuit | Pop and rock

More details have emerged in the spat between pop duo Hall & Oates, after Daryl Hall filed a lawsuit and restraining order against John Oates last week.The initial lawsuit was sealed, and only scant details were revealed days later, showing that it concerned a dispute over Oates’s reported plan to sell his share of the pair’s publishing to Primary Wave Music, the company that has acquired numerous song catalogues in recent years by artists including Prince, Stevie Nicks, Burt Bacharach and many more.In a declaration…

The Walking Dead Betrayal Is Among Us With Zombies, Closed Beta Coming In August

The social deception genre made famous by games like Among Us is about to go undead, as Skybound and Other Ocean Interactive have announced The Walking Dead Betrayal, a new eight-player game based in The Walking Dead's zombie apocalypse.The Walking Dead Betrayal sees eight players maintaining a settlement in rural Canada--gathering supplies, building houses and other structures, and more--as zombies infest the world around them. Some players, however, are hidden traitors, whose goal is to sabotage the…

Red Hat’s new rule: Open source betrayal?

Once upon a time, the Community Enterprise Operating system (CentOS) -- founded by Gregory Kurtzer -- was the most successful of the RHEL downstream clones. CentOS was also more popular than RHEL in such critical markets as web servers. Red Hat was not pleased. In 2011, Red Hat began incorporating its patches directly into its kernel tree. All the code was still in there, but, as one person put it at the time, "It's sort of like asking someone for a recipe for the family's chocolate chip cookies, and getting cookie