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Greg Brockman’s diary takes centre stage in Musk vs OpenAI

eriinfo.com6 months ago010 mins

The bitter legal fight between Elon Musk and the leading AI firm, OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, may come down to a few pages in one executive’s personal diary. “This is the only chance we have to get out from Elon,” wrote Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and a co-founder, in 2017. “Is he the ‘glorious…

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Africa: Apongo Was a Rebel Leader in Jamaica – a Diary Entry Sheds Light On His West African Origins

eriinfo.com10 months ago013 mins

For over three centuries, between 1526 and 1866, at least 10.5 million Africans were forcibly trafficked to the Americas in the transatlantic slave trade. Over half of them (with known places of departure) left from a 3,000km stretch of the west African coast between what are today Senegal and Gabon. Scholars trying to uncover the…