It’s been a whirlwind week for Sam Altman at OpenAI - where he was removed by the board and has now been reinstated. It’s the biggest news in artificial intelligence this week, and hosts Greg Stuart and Rex Briggs give their takes and share their past experiences with boards making decisions like this.
Apr 21
AI is Rewriting Discovery. Are You Ready?
Brian Stempeck, CEO and cofounder at Evertune AI, says brands need to get smart about how they’re showing up across the major LLMs, from ChatGPT to Claude and Gemini and beyond - and a small sample isn’t enough to build a plan. He explains how Evertune samples AI platforms to hel ... Show More
47m 22s
Apr 7
Agentic AI Is Reinventing Marketing Personalization
Paul Meinshausen, CEO and co-founder of Aampe, sees a future where marketing is about learning, not targeting - where marketers, with the help of powerful AI agents, design interactions that help systems learn and improve continuously. Rather than sending the same message to mill ... Show More
40m 32s
Mar 24
Pushing the Boundaries of Creativity with AI
Jamie Umpherson, Chief Creative Officer at Runway, is using AI to power charge his - and his organization’s - creativity. Drawing on years in agencies working as a creative director, he shares how AI-powered tools are changing marketing, the bottlenecks that the technology can br ... Show More
41m 31s
Nov 2023
Mayhem at OpenAI + Our Interview With Sam Altman
<p>Last week, we interviewed Sam Altman. Since then, well, everything has changed. The board of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, fired Altman as chief executive on Friday. Over the weekend, it looked as if he might return. On Sunday night, Microsoft hired Altman to lead a new A.I. ventu ... Show More
1h 30m
Nov 2023
(Yet Another) Emergency Pod: Sam Altman Is Back
<p>In yet another head-spinning twist at OpenAI, Sam Altman was reinstated as the company’s chief executive on Tuesday night, a mere five days after the OpenAI board had fired him. The board will be overhauled and a new set of directors, including Bret Taylor and Lawrence Summers ... Show More
13m 48s
Nov 2023
Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI
<p>Sam Altman, the chief executive of Open AI, was pushed out of the company by its board of directors on Friday. The news was a complete shock to much of the company’s employee base and to its largest corporate partner, Microsoft. Silicon Valley insiders are scrambling to get an ... Show More
21m 16s
Nov 2023
Emergency podcast: chaos at OpenAI
The Verge's Nilay Patel and Alex Heath join David Pierce after a long, winding weekend reporting on the dramatic shakeup at OpenAI, still in progress. Further reading: Turmoil at OpenAI: after firing Sam Altman, what's next for the creators of ChatGPT? Sam Altman fired as CEO of ... Show More
1h 9m
Jun 2024
Former OpenAI Engineer William Saunders on Silence, Safety, and the Right to Warn
This week, a group of current and former employees from OpenAI and Google DeepMind penned an open letter accusing the industry’s leading companies of prioritizing profits over safety. This comes after a spate of high profile departures from OpenAI, including co-founder Ilya Sutsk ... Show More
37m 47s
Apr 2024
Sam Altman & the Battle for OpenAI | If You Come At the King… | 2
<p>OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s move to fire Sam Altman with no warning kicks off five days of chaos for the tech company. After he gets over the shock, Altman uses all his corporate savvy to fight back. For days, over McDonalds and Boba tea, Altman and the board ... Show More
37m 22s