A Big Plot Twist at OpenAI
Summary
It’s hard to understate Sutskever’s importance to OpenAI: He helped found it in 2015 along with Altman and others including Elon Musk, and his stature as a leading researcher in neural networks gave the fledgling company instant credibility. After Altman’s reinstatement, Sutskever has stayed quiet publicly — though he did spearhead the creation of a so-called Super Alignment team to help ensure that OpenAI’s products didn’t harm humanity. A hotter-than-expected report could set up a volatile trading day given warnings by Jay Powell, the Fed chair, that stubborn inflation may force the central bank to keep interest rates higher for longer. The firm was hired after a Wall Street Journal investigation that detailed reports of senior bank examiners and other officials sending junior female employees nude pictures of themselves and taking them to brothels on work trips. (WaPo) • None “Walmart’s Reign as America’s Biggest Retailer Is Under Threat” (WSJ) • None To celebrate Mark Zuckerberg’s birthday, the Meta C.E.O.’s wife recreated key locations like his college dorm room — with a guest appearance by the fellow Harvard dropout Bill Gates.