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OpenAI’s staff is reportedly not happy about its board of directors firing founder and former CEO Sam Altman. According to a social media post from tech podcaster Kara Swisher, employees sent a letter to the board demanding that the members resign. The post states that 505 of the company’s 700
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The turmoil at OpenAI continues to escalate after its founder Sam Altman was abruptly ousted on Nov. 17, with three senior researchers reportedly quitting the artificial intelligence company.OpenAI’s board of directors announced Altman's removal from the CEO position in a blog post, claiming that Altman “was not consistently candid in
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Ava Labs, the team behind the Avalanche Blockchain, has confirmed it laid off 12% of its employees in a recent wave of staff cuts, citing the need to reallocate its resources.The firm’s founder and CEO Emin Gün Sirer confirmed the news on Nov. 7 after several former Ava Labs employees
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Nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea announced on Nov. 3 that it was laying off employees. Co-founder and CEO Devin Finzer broke the news on X (formerly Twitter), saying the company was launching OpenSea 2.0 with a smaller team.OpenSea launched in 2017, when NFTs were an innovation. It operates on a
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Chinese blockchain personality Justin Sun, who also serves as the de facto owner of crypto exchange HTX (formerly Huobi Global), claims that the firm posted a profit of $98 million in Q3 2023.According to the October 26 thread, Sun says that HTX generated a total of $202 million in revenues
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Parity Technologies, the company behind the Polkadot blockchain, is cutting 30% of its workforce — about 100 employees — amid a widespread wave of staffing cuts across the crypto industry.See related article: Chainalysis cuts 150 employeesFast FactsThe decision to lay off staff arrives as Parity attempts to refocus on its
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Developer and programmer platform Stack Overflow is cutting the company’s headcount by approximately 28% amid a rise in the popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. On Oct. 16, Stack Overflow CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar, made the announcement citing the challenges of macroeconomic pressures impacting the entire tech industry. The firm is on
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A 75-minute secretly recorded audio clip of Caroline Ellison has revealed the exact moment 15 former Alameda Research staff found out the hedge fund was “borrowing” user funds from FTX. The full-length recording, obtained by Cryptox, provides fresh insights into the palpable tension felt by Ellison and Alameda staff in the
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Cutbacks at Yuga LabsBored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs has announced a restructuring that has seen several roles “eliminated across the company.” The exact number of layoffs hasn't been specified, however, in an Oct. 6 blog post shared via X ( formerly Twitter), Yuga Labs CEO Daniel Alegre suggested
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