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Thu. 11/30 – The Prodigal Son Is Back

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🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Sam Altman is officially back at work as OpenAI CEO. Meta is about to launch Threads in Europe, but their plan to offer ad free subscription tiers for their services has hit a speed bump. You can trick LLMs into revealing their training data. And I warned you before, but if you have any dormant Google accounts, better see to them toot suite. Sponsors: Crashplan.com/ridehome Miro.com/podcast Links: OpenAI Will Add Microsoft as Board Observer, Plans Governance Changes (Bloomberg) Interview: Sam Altman on being fired and rehired by OpenAI (The Verge) Meta’s Threads to Launch in Europe in App’s Biggest Expansion Since Debut (WSJ) Meta Platforms' ad-free service targeted in EU consumer complaint (Reuters) It’s not just electricity — Bitcoin mines burn through a lot of water, too (The Verge) ChatGPT's training data can be exposed via a "divergence attack" (StackDiary) Your Unused Gmail Account May Be Permanently Deleted Friday (WSJ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, November 30th,

0:07.0

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:09.0

Sam Altman is officially back at work as Open AI CEO.

0:12.0

Meta is about to launch threads in Europe, but their

0:15.1

plan to offer ad-free subscription tiers for their services has hit a speed bump.

0:19.5

You can trick LLMs into revealing their training data, and I warned you before, but if you have any

0:23.7

dormant Google accounts, better see to them too sweet. Here's what you missed today in the world

0:27.6

of tech.

0:30.6

It's official, quoting Bloomberg, Open AI said that Sam Altman was officially

0:37.3

reinstated as chief executive officer and that it has a new initial board of

0:41.3

directors with Microsoft joining as a non-voting observer.

0:45.9

The announcement Wednesday, a blog post penned by Altman comes two weeks after the CEO's

0:50.3

shock firing from the artificial intelligence startup followed by an operatic

0:54.0

boardroom power struggle.

0:55.9

Open AI also said that Mira Marotti, who had been chief technology officer until Altman's

1:00.8

ousting when she was briefly named Int interim CEO, is once again the company's

1:04.8

CTO, open AI co-founder Greg Brockman will return as the company's president after he quit

1:10.2

in protest over Altman's firing.

1:12.0

Microsoft, the company's largest investor,

1:14.5

had not previously had a position on the board

1:16.6

before it took the observer role.

1:18.4

The new directors are Brett Taylor,

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