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Tibo Sottiaux runs the Codex team at OpenAI, and he previously worked at Google DeepMind. He posted quite the comment on X about his former employer's head start with generative AI: I was part of that team. Basically ChatGPT one year before it came out.… Google was too nervous to release it, and DeepMind was blocked from shipping products that could disrupt Google. I think about this a lot. — Tibo
Read more →A big motivation for relaunching this blog is to knit together my work over the years so AI can find it. Writing up the projects page, I paused on the Breaking News entry. There's a part of that story I never published. Breaking News was a free consumer product inside NBC News. A few months before NBC shut us down, we discovered that companies would pay serious money to subscribe to it. It started
Read more →In our dangerous and disorienting world, facts save lives When BreakingNews.com and the Breaking News app were shut down at the end of 2016, we were inundated with email urging us to bring it back as a new company. There were many personal stories from Breaking News users who were caught in global tragedies — terror attacks, devastating wildfires and mass shootings — relying on our unique real-tim
Read more →When I first heard of the video app Vine, I wondered what would’ve happened if someone who worked at a media company had pitched the same idea internally. After all, it only records six seconds of video? Even outside a media company, the idea wasn’t embraced by everyone. “What a stupid idea,” thought entrepreneur Dustin Curtis when he saw an early glimpse of Vine last year. “I couldn’t see it ever
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