The CEO of OpenAI Fidji Simo, in charge of AGI implementation, will leave her full-time position at the company and become a part-time consultant. The move comes after Simo took a month-long medical leave due to a worsening neuroimmune condition. “Three months ago, I had to take medical leave after a serious exacerbation of a
On May 31, Sarah Wynn-Williams took to the stage as a panelist at the prestigious Hay Festival, alongside law professor Tim Wu and journalist Carole Cadwalladr. Before she said a word, she was greeted with applause. She never said a word, sitting silently as the other two panelists discussed the evils of Big Tech. Yet
Apple presented a lawsuit against OpenAI and its hardware chief on Friday for allegedly stealing the iPhone maker’s trade secrets, including unreleased parts and prototypes, confidential designs and documents on secretive projects. The lawsuit accuses OpenAI hardware director Tang Tan, who spent 24 years at Apple and oversaw iPhone product design, and his colleagues at
The head of OpenAI security systems, Johannes Heidecke, told staff this week that he is leaving the company, WIRED has learned. Heidecke’s departure follows a reorganization that sought to integrate OpenAI’s research and security teams. In a memo to staff seen by WIRED, research director Mark Chen said OpenAI’s security teams will now report to
Meta did an “atrocious” job of rolling out a new artificial intelligence division and will aim to “rekindle” a more cheerful internal culture through better communication, career growth, and even snacks, a top executive told employees on Monday in an internal post seen by WIRED. The comments made by Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s chief technology officer,
When Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical on artificial intelligence at the Vatican on Monday, he invited Christopher Olah, cofounder of Anthropic, to speak. The move signaled an unprecedented alliance between the Catholic church and Silicon Valley. But to understand how this partnership came about, we need to go back to Anthropic’s founding. Why