… Toner also said that Murati had been “strikingly unsupportive” and “remarkably passive” after Altman’s removal, adding, “She seemed totally uninterested in telling her team that her conversations with us had been a significant factor in our decision to fire Sam.” During the 78 text messages between… …
… Microsoft had been encouraging employees without any coding experience to experiment with Claude Code, allowing designers and project managers to prototype ideas. Microsoft had also originally expected employees to use both Claude Code and GitHub Copilot, to compare the two and provide feedback. …
… Internally, employees have voiced dissent in ways that strongly echo the pushback against Project Maven almost a decade ago. Externally, OpenAI’s Pentagon deal sparked widespread controversy, leading CEO Sam Altman to announce he was attempting to renegotiate the deal. …
… But it was fascinating because Elon Musk summarily fired 2,000 employees and had clearly promised severance that he refused to pay. And these employees had unfortunately signed arbitration agreements, which prohibited them from being class actions. …
… He says that if Altman is amenable, employees could convert cash to stock in Y Combinator, adding that it’s fine if they’d rather convert some or all to SpaceX stock instead. “I can pretty much do what I want on the SpaceX side, as it is private thank goodness ,” Musk writes. …
… The list of ideas in terms of what we want to build so outscales our throughput at this point, that generally we are looking to add more engineers to our employee base. Now, there is a trade-off, and we are dealing with the trade-off right now as we speak. …
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… Some drivers don’t want to be full-time employees; they like the flexibility. To the point when Uber had regulatory problems, they were putting ads in the app, asking people to lobby their local politicians. …
… It had lower margins and required costly data centers, Bloomberg reported, citing employees who’d heard Catz’s reservations. …
… There is no federal statute protecting AI company employees who disclose these kinds of safety concerns that are being aired in this piece. We have cases where Jan Leike, who was a senior safety guy at OpenAI, was leading super alignment at the company. …