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Reddit Cofounder Had a Bad Feeling About Giving Data To Sam Altman

3 months 2 weeks ago
Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian said he had serious doubts a decade ago about sharing the platform's data with Sam Altman. Ohanian recounted on the "Brew Markets" podcast that between 2015 and 2016, Altman asked Reddit to let him "aggressively scrape" the site's content. Altman had recently helped Reddit raise $50 million in a Series B round and was launching OpenAI as a nonprofit. Ohanian described Altman as "very smart" and "incredibly cunning" but questioned whether he was "the most philanthropically minded guy." The Reddit cofounder said he "felt in my bones" the company should refuse the request and debated internally about it against Steve Huffman. Ohanian said he "lost that debate." Reddit and OpenAI announced a formal licensing deal in 2024.

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France Fully Lifts Travel Ban on Telegram Founder Durov

3 months 2 weeks ago
An anonymous reader shares a report: France has lifted its travel ban on Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who is under investigation over illegal content on his messaging app, judicial sources close to the case said Thursday. The entrepreneur, 41, was detained in Paris in 2024 and is under formal investigation by French authorities over the platform's alleged complicity in criminal activity. Durov, who was initially banned from leaving France, had his judicial control relaxed in July, allowing him to reside in the United Arab Emirates, where Telegram is based, for a maximum of two weeks at a time.

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ERP carnage continues as orgs jump in unprepared

3 months 2 weeks ago
Lack of executive backing, unrealistic plans, and muddled goals remain recipe for failure

In Barcelona this week, consultancy Gartner once again tried to answer one of the perennial questions in IT: what is it about ERP projects that makes them so likely to fail?…

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