November 20, 2023

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🤖 OpenAI's ousted CEO to lead AI team at Microsoft

🚀 SpaceX shares stunning close-ups from Starship launch

🕹️ Building the best gaming PC in the world wasn't worth it

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OpenAI's ousted CEO Sam Altman to lead AI team at Microsoft

Altman is a key figure in generative-AI development and his dismissal came as a huge shock

It’s been a turbulent weekend for ChatGPT maker OpenAI. On Friday, Sam Altman was ousted as CEO in a boardroom coup, with OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman quitting in solidarity shortly after.

Rumors then began swirling that Altman would be reinstalled, but it came to nothing.

And then Satya Nadella, the boss of OpenAI-backer Microsoft, announced that Altman and Brockman would be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team.

OpenAI said that it fired Altman over his “behavior and lack of transparency,” which “undermined the board’s ability to effectively supervise the company.” CNN suggested it was linked to a disagreement over how aggressively to push AI development.

Emmett Shear, the former CEO of Amazon’s streaming service Twitch, will become interim CEO at OpenAI ...

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

SpaceX shares incredible close-ups of Saturday's Starship launch

It was a dramatic start — and finish — to the second test flight of SpaceX's Starship vehicle

SpaceX and its CEO Elon Musk have been posting some extraordinary close-up photos and footage from Saturday’s launch of Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket.

The stunning content shows the Super Heavy rocket’s 33 Raptor engines blasting the 400-foot-tall vehicle away from the launchpad at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas.

Saturday’s mission was the second integrated test flight of the first-stage Super Heavy and second-stage Starship spacecraft (collectively known as the Starship).

While SpaceX saw its vehicle fly for longer than the failed test in April, the Super Heavy exploded shortly after stage separation, and the spacecraft also failed to complete its flight ...

EXPERIENCE by Jon Martindale

I built the best gaming PC in the world — and it wasn't worth it

'The system booted much faster than the old one and everything was shiny, fresh, and responsive ... and then I played some games'

I love PC hardware. I’ve been researching it, building it, tweaking it, and writing about it for 20 years and I still get just as excited by the latest generation of CPUs as I did when I put together my first PC in my teens.

But as well-read and experienced as I like to think I am, even I can fall foul of FOMO (fear of missing out). I might write guides on how to maximize your budget, but it turns out I’m not the best at following my own advice.

I built one of the fastest gaming PCs in the world — and if I’m being honest — it was (almost) a complete waste of time ...

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