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Ex Treasury boss Summers resigns from OpenAI after named in Epstein files

Al Jazeera

Does'America First' make the US weaker? Who is Marjorie Taylor Greene? Former United States Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from the OpenAI board, days after US President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate his and other prominent Democrats' ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The outlet Axios first reported the resignation on Wednesday. Anthropic's AI hacking claims divide experts We appreciate his many contributions and the perspective he brought to the Board," OpenAI's board of directors said in a statement. The move comes one day after the Republican-controlled US Congress voted almost unanimously to force the release of Department of Justice files on Epstein, an outcome Trump had fought for months before ending his opposition. He has served on the OpenAI board since late 2023, following the brief removal of the ChatGPT maker's CEO, Sam Altman. Other prominent companies with ties to Summers include edu-tech firm Skillsoft, where he has been a board member since 2021, and Santander, where he chairs the bank's international advisory board. He was also a former president of Harvard University. The resignation comes after Summers announced that he would step back from all other public commitments to "rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me". "Everyone in Washington has known who Larry Summers is for decades.






OpenAI has fixed ChatGPT's infamous 'em dash' obsession (somewhat)

PCWorld

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. The em dash is seen by some as a dead giveaway of AI-generated text, mainly because ChatGPT loves to use it. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared in a social media post that the company has now fixed ChatGPT's overuse of the "em dash," which is the extra-long hyphen that's commonly seen in AI-generated text. In the past, ChatGPT was overzealous in its use of the em dash, to the point where it'd continue to include them even when users asked it not to. Now, with the fix, a user can instruct ChatGPT to not use em dashes and it will respect the instruction.



Google's Gemini for Home users just got a paywall scare

PCWorld

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Google's Gemini for Home users just got a paywall scare Even Gemini is confused about which Google Home features now cost extra. Gemini for Home has only been working on Google's Nest smart speakers for a month, and users are still getting used to what costs extra and what doesn't. But Gemini surprised some Google Home users recently when it suggested an upsell for an old Google Assistant feature that should be free. A Gemini for Home user complained on Reddit that Gemini on their Nest Mini speaker declined to give a definition of a word, saying instead that "Live conversations are only available if you buy the Premium subscription."