Internal memo: Iranian strikes have rendered two AWS zones “hard down” in Dubai and Bahrain and Amazon expects them to be “unavailable for an extended period” — Amazon tells its employees to deprioritize these regions as the Iran war deals meaningful damage to its infrastructure in the Gulf.
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Interviews with Codex lead Alexander Embiricos, OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger, and others about OpenAI's upcoming superapp that combines ChatGPT with Codex — Why Codex is becoming the foundation for everything. Also: Fidji Simo's internal memo about taking a leave of absence. — ∙ Paid
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OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role reporting to Sam Altman; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks — OpenAI's chief operating officer is shifting into a new role and two other top executives are going on leave due to health reasons …
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Sources: Mercor asked professionals in fields like entertainment to sell their prior work materials for AI training, even if the IP could belong to ex-employers — AI models from the tech giants constantly need new training data. This $10 billion startup is on the hunt for fresh resources.
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Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok — Mr. Musk is requiring Wall Street firms to purchase subscriptions to his A.I. chatbot if they want to advise on one of the largest initial public offerings in history.
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