The Download: chaos at OpenAI, and the spa heated by bitcoin mining
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Summary
In a rebuttal to a story that enraged OpenAI, Niall Firth, executive editor of MIT Technology Review, explains the mission of the organisation and how it had taken a series of twists and turns that eventually revealed its true ambition
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