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sam altman was back as the ceo of openai a dizzying, whirlwind few days in tech, which surely cements altman s position as one of the foremost figures in artificial intelligence if he wasn t already. the turning point was an open letter signed by almost all the employees, some 700 of them, demanding his return. hard to imagine how the existing board would prevail if the entire workforce including some of al s brightest coders were proposing to walk out the door. the company which created the popular app chatgpt says it is also shaking up the board. greg brockman, the co founder and president, is back. out go two of the board members who called for altman s ouster, and in comes a new chair, the former sales force ceo bret taylor, and someone bryan will know well, the former treasury secretary, larry summers. joining me now is melissa heikkila, who is a senior reporter for al at mit techonolgy review. thank you for coming on the programme thank you for comin ....
another government shutdown. congress only has five and a half days to pass some kind of measure to keep the federal government funded or otherwise risk closing down some agencies and suspending some services right before the holidays. but as has been the case since the beginning of this congress, unresolved issues within their is functional house republican caucus continue to derail progress. the conference wide call yesterday afternoon, the new speaker mike johnson unveiled his plan to fund the government, which involves a novel approach called a lag, continuing resolution, or c r. under this plan, fundi for some services and agencies, such as military vet programs, department of transportation and housing, and urban development, among others, will be extended at current levels until the first deadline of january 19. meanwhile, funding will be extended until february 2nd, a couple of weeks later, for the rest of the government, including for the departments of state, ....
it looked like when robert f. kennedy junior officially announced that he would run as a third party candidate for president. [crowd chanting] [applause] i need my speech. [laughter] you can t read anything. you can t read anything. what? [crowd chanting] it s upside down. it s upside down. it s upside down. that is how rfk junior began his independent bid for the presidency last month, and that is kind of how it s been the whole time with rfk junior. his campaign has been full of unfortunate stunts, like pushing videos of himself doing pushups shirtless for the camera, for no reason at all. he is trafficked in wild conspiracy theories that are more suited to the dark web or a reddit page. covid-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people. the people most immune are ashkenazi jews. i don t know what happened on 9/11. i mean, i understand with the official explanation is. i understand that there is the scent. so there s that in your mind that al-qaeda wa ....
thursday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now, good evening, alex. alex wag chris, domestic polin israel, netanyahu s ability to survive are just a dimension address that never ceases to stop me. it does seem like particularly with the war effort right now, andy fractiousness and the rage s government, even some of it beforehand, but in the aftermath, there is pressure building up in the chamber. we ll see where that goes. we will. thank you, my friend. thank you at-home for joining me this evening. if you missed it, this is what it looked like when robert f. kennedy junior officially announced that he would run as a third party candidate for president. [crowd chanting] [applause] i need my speech. [laughter] you can t read anything. you can t read anything. what? [crowd chanting] it s upside down. it s upside down. it s upside down. that is how rfk junior began his independent bid for the presidency last month, and that is kind of how it s been the whol ....
dominic cummings had written about helen macnamara on whatsapp. he said he would personally handcuff her and walk herfrom the building. we cannot keep dealing with this horrific meltdown of the british state while dodging stilettos from that he wrote. in fact, he used the c word. helen macnamara was asked what she made of that. it s been disappointing to me that the prime minister didn t pick him up on the use of some of that violent and misogynistic language. the fact that there were no women contributing to the policy discussions is a problem in itself because there were some expert women who were not being listened to. and also, women were being looked over. just an interesting copy that s been dropped on my desk, justin, relating to what she was saying. a witness statement published by the inquiry, that officials had sought to obscure how seriously ill boris johnson that officials had sought to obscure how seriously ill borisjohnson had become after he was admitt ....