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The enigma of Satya Nadella’s board, kiss cam fallout, and Glass Lewis and ISS fight back (finally)
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Astronomer HR chief Kristin Cabot resigns following Coldplay ‘kiss cam’ incident MM
Astronomer’s human resources chief Kristin Cabot has resigned from the company following an affair that was caught on camera at a Coldplay concert.
The intimate moment between Cabot and CEO Andy Byron went viral on the internet after the two hid when Coldplay’s lead singer called them out during the concert.
Both Byron and Chabot have now resigned from Astronomer and have been removed from the company’s leadership team webpage.
They did it! Zero women! 10 execs/ 5 directors
Trump's order to block 'woke' AI in government encourages tech giants to censor their chatbots
Tech companies looking to sell their artificial intelligence technology to the federal government must now contend with a new regulatory hurdle: prove their chatbots aren't “woke.”
President Donald Trump's sweeping new plan to counter China in achieving “global dominance” in AI promises to cut regulations and cement American values into the AI tools increasingly used at work and home. But one of Trump’s three AI executive orders signed Wednesday — the one “preventing woke AI in the federal government” — marks the first time the U.S. government has explicitly tried to shape the ideological behavior of AI.
The move also pushes the tech industry to abandon years of work to combat the pervasive forms of racial and gender bias that studies and real-world examples have shown to be baked into AI systems.
OpenAI's Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned the financial industry of a “significant impending fraud crisis” because of the ability of artificial intelligence tools to impersonate a person's voice to bypass security checks and move money.
“A thing that terrifies me is apparently there are still some financial institutions that will accept the voiceprint as authentication,” Altman said. “That is a crazy thing to still be doing. AI has fully defeated that.”
Uber will let women drivers and