The biggest tech story of last week ended with a brilliant and beloved CEO — Sam Altman — set to return to the fold at OpenAI.
The reinstatement capped days of drama — with hundreds of outraged employees threatening to walk, irate investors, and a board torn over the power its generative AI had unleashed on the world.
Microsoft scooped up Altman, thinking it had scored the ultimate hiring coup — until it hadn’t.
Another tech CEO making news — the mercurial Elon Musk… his endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory caused companies from Disney to Apple to pull advertising from X, his social media platform.
A new computer model to predict the weather built by Google and powered by artificial intelligence consistently outperforms government models used for decades.
The Google model even displayed accuracy superior to the European model, widely considered the gold standard.
Yet, weather forecasters and meteorologists aren’t ready to give us their old tools just yet.
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Guests:
- Steven Levy, Editor at Large, Wired
- Dan Stillman, meteorologist and editor of the Capital Weather Gang, The Washington Post
- Russell Holly, Managing Editor for Commerce at CNET
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