‘Huge egos are in play’: behind the firing and rehiring of OpenAI’s Sam Altman

The surprise sacking of the AI venture’s CEO was followed by a near mutiny at the company and his reinstatement

OpenAI ‘was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff’

Reports say new model Q* fuelled safety fears, with workers airing their concerns to the board before CEO Sam Altman’s sacking

OpenAI staff: share your view on developments at the company

We want to speak to employees at the company, anonymously if needed

Elon Musk calls strikes ‘insane’ as Swedish workers take on Tesla

Strike at carmaker prompts sympathy action from dockers, painters and postal workers in fight over Swedish labour model

‘Fire on fire’: how migrants got blamed for Greece’s devastating blazes

In August, wildfires in Evros killed a group of people, including children, passing along a well-trodden migration route. Locals and politicians made the victims scapegoats for the disaster

Best podcasts of the week: The truth about Oatly’s climate-friendly credentials

In this week’s newsletter: Journalists put the plant-based brand to the test in The Oatly Chronicles. Plus: five of the best Today in Focus episodes

Thursday briefing: What the meltdown at OpenAI means for the future of artificial intelligence

In today’s newsletter: Why Sam Altman was fired as the company’s CEO, why he was rehired – and what it all means for the field

Who is Helen Toner the Australian woman ousted from the board of OpenAI?

Sam Altman and Toner reportedly discussed a paper she had written criticising the timing of OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT shortly before Altman was fired

Does Australia exist? Well, that depends on which search engine you ask …

Microsoft’s Bing falls victim to long-running part-joke internet conspiracy theory

Supermarkets are ditching self-checkouts in a sign that we can push back against the technofuturist tide

The kiosks have saved corporate chains money on retail wages – but come at a price for our shared sense of community

Social media platforms and police not tackling romance fraud, MPs told

Women describe being groomed, abused and scammed online, in evidence to home affairs select committee

Changpeng Zhao: another crypto king is dethroned by America’s courts

Weeks after the Bankman-Fried trial, the billionaire founder of the largest cryptocurrency exchange has been fined $50m and resigned

‘Putting a number on art’: musicians nervous as Spotify announces royalty changes

Streaming giant says tweaks will bring more revenue to artists and away from fraudsters, but some musicians are worried about further creeping change

Judge finds ‘reasonable evidence’ Tesla knew self-driving tech was defective

Ruling clears way for lawsuit brought against company over fatal crash in 2019 in which Stephen Banner was killed near Miami

Linda Marigliano: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

Sharing videos is a love language for the presenter and author. Here, she shows us a dancing frog and multiple mischievous children