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Schism owed much to the very different personalities and ambitions of the core group behind the company
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Move comes as Open AI board taps Emmett Shear for CEO position after weekend talks with Altman collapse
Cofounder had pushed hard to change the company from a nonprofit to a commercially successful business
Board of OpenAI accused him of ‘being not consistently candid in his communications’
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Ireland will be a key player in regulation but setting rules requires unsettling levels of guess-making about how AI technologies might affect us
‘I think that AGI will be the most important technological development in human history’
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Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen also among those joining funding round
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