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Newly ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former president Greg Brockman are meeting with executives at the company’s San Francisco headquarters now as discussions about possibly reinstating their positions continue, The Information reports. Per The Information, interim CEO Mira Murati and others have been leading the push to get Altman reinstated as CEO, and invited the two to HQ on Sunday. Altman and Brockman showed up for talks this afternoon, sources told The Information.After Altman was fired without warning on Friday,…

In a private call Wednesday evening, more than a dozen Jewish celebrities and TikTok creators addressed rising antisemitism on the social media platform. Speaking to TikTok executives, actors Sacha Baron Cohen, Debra Messing, and Amy Schumer were among the 30 people in the meeting led by Adam Presser, TikTok’s head of operations, and Seth Melnick, its global head of user operations, according to the New York Times. The company set up the call in response to an open letter sent by creators last week urging TikTok…

Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: In 2022, Meta quietly began letting ads say past US elections were “rigged” or “stolen”; sources say execs made the decision based on free speech considerations — Company weighed free-speech considerations in changing its policy last year Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: In 2022, Meta quietly began letting ads say past US elections were “rigged” or “stolen”; sources say execs made the decision based…

The son of a Hollywood executive arrested after he allegedly tossed body parts into a dumpster in Encino was charged Monday with three counts of murder in connection with the disappearance of his wife and in-laws, prosecutors said.The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office filed three special circumstances murder counts against Samuel Bond Haskell in the killing of his wife Mei Haskell and her parents, Yanxiang Wang and Gaoshen Li. Haskell last Tuesday tried to get day laborers to remove bags from his Tarzana home…

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A group of former Apple executives is launching a consumer device that will be among the first to use a ChatGPT-powered voice assistant, one of a number of new hardware offerings seeking to free users from the ubiquity of smartphones.On Thursday, the San Francisco-based startup Humaneannounced the availability of a wearable device, called the Ai Pin, which sits on a user’s chest like a Star Trek badge. The company said its main function is to access an artificial-intelligence assistant that uses ChatGPT, the hugely…

Humane, the startup founded by ex-Apple Inc executives that raised $100 million earlier this year, said on Friday that it will use Qualcomm Inc's chips in its forthcoming wearable device.Humane has not given a release date or many other details for a gadget that it said on Friday will be called "Ai Pin." Humane co-founder and President Imran Chaudhri demonstrated the Ai Pin earlier this year, showing an internet-connected device worn like a lapel pin that can answer spoken questions and project information on the user's…

Humane, the startup founded by ex-Apple Inc executives that raised $100 million earlier this year, said on Friday that it will use Qualcomm Inc's chips in its forthcoming wearable device.Humane has not given a release date or many other details for a gadget that it said on Friday will be called "Ai Pin." Humane co-founder and President Imran Chaudhri demonstrated the Ai Pin earlier this year, showing an internet-connected device worn like a lapel pin that can answer spoken questions and project information on the user's…

“If you love Barbie, this movie is for you,” the main trailer for Barbie tells us in glorious neon-pink font. “If you hate Barbie, this movie is for you,” it slyly adds. We are primed for Greta Gerwig’s surreal smash of the summer to give us a loving, but knowing look at all the iconic doll represents—but it seems like the execs behind her aren’t so keen.Spoilers of the Week | June 17thIn a truly fascinating cover story for Time magazine this week—which covers everything from just how star Margot Robbie pulled off that…

watchOS 10, the upcoming Apple Watch operating system, was previewed early this June during WWDC 2023. While this update brings a revamped Home Screen, new interactions for the Apple Watch, improved workouts, and two watch faces, one thing is still missing for the Apple Watch system: the ability to add third-party watch faces. Apple VPs Kevin Lynch and Deidre Caldbeck, in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger (via 9to5Mac), were questioned about the possibility of third-party watch faces on the…