OpenAI on Friday announced CEO Sam Altman would be returning to the company's board, along with three new outside board members. The moves come as OpenAI wraps an external investigation into the events that led to his brief ouster last year.
Why it matters: The company has been looking to move past its dramatic leadership crisis of last November.
Put the pencil sharpeners away. The SAT is going digital starting Saturday.
Why it matters: Standardized testing is already losing relevance for college admissions. These changes make the most popular entrance exam shorter, easier to administer and offer more flexibility for students who opt to take it.
The U.S. government, academic research and official review panels have not confirmed sightings of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), the Defense Department said in areport unclassified on Friday.
Why it matters: UAPs, or UFOs, have been on Congress' radar with national security and transparency at the center of the bipartisan conversation.
Microsoft said Friday the Russian nation-state hackers who breached some of its executives' emails late last year are continuing to target its networks and go after its source code.
Why it matters: Microsoft currently has the highest market cap of any company in the world, and the continuing attacks could give Russian spies critical information about its customers, corporate secrets and ongoing projects.
Tech firms pushing to deploy AI fast are facing mounting pushback from whistleblowers who say that generative AI products aren't ready or safe for broad distribution.
Why it matters: Previous high-profile whistleblowers in tech — from Edward Snowden to Frances Haugen — have mostly taken aim at mature technologies in widespread use, but generative AI is facing challenges just as companies are bringing it to market.
Former President Trump came out in support of TikTok in the face of congressional legislation pushing for Chinese divestment from the app in a Thursday night post that also attacked Facebook.
Members of Congress are being flooded with calls from angry constituents after TikTok launched a new campaign warning its users that the Chinese-owned app was at risk of being shut down in the U.S.
Why it matters: A key House committee voted unanimously Thursday afternoon to advance bipartisan legislation that would force ByteDance — TikTok's Chinese parent company — to divest its ownership of the app within 165 days.
House Democrats are launching an investigation into Elon Musk's SpaceX over concerns that Russian forces have obtained the company's internet satellite terminals, per a letter sent Wednesday.
Why it matters:Ukraine has relied on SpaceX's Starlink in its counteroffensives against Russia, the letter said, and the U.S. government has poured resources into supporting Ukraine.
ChatGPT rival Pi, from Inflection, now performs "neck and neck with" OpenAI's GPT-4 thanks to a new model, according to data first shared with Axios.
Why it matters: Inflection faces a crowded field in the market for AI-based assistants, competing against better-heeled rivals including Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, among others.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) will start providing more hands-on support to open-source software developers as they work to better secure their projects, the agency first told Axios.
Why it matters: Open-source projects are the foundation of most major software running today — but they're often riddled with easy-to-hack bugs because developers lack the resources to properly update and maintain their projects.
Why it matters: The $44 billion purchase by one of the world's richest men captivated media and tech as he shook the company with layoffs and stunning changes to the platform.
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