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OpenAI defended firing three safety researchers, calling it a 'breach of trust'

The company said the dismissals were not retaliation for raising safety concerns, but the researchers dispute that account

OpenAI defended firing three safety researchers, calling it a 'breach of trust'

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AI vs. the rest of the economy

Data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, FactSet; Chart: Axios/Matt Phillips; Note: Data center construction includes construction costs, such as labor, materials, profits of contractors, architectural and engineering work and miscellaneous overhead, interest and taxes. Does not include servers, racks, chips or memory.

You can run AI models on that Intel Mac Pro

Assuming you've got an AMD video card, and you probably do, you can still run local AI projects. The ToshLLM project claims "Native Metal acceleration, zero cloud, and no per-token bill." It won't be as fast as the M5 Ultra Mac Studio, of course, but it'll use the hardware you already have, at least.

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