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bet gg A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and prevent an artificial intelligence "dictatorship" is now heading to a federal judge as Musk seeks to halt the ChatGPT maker's ongoing shift into a for-profit company. Musk, an early OpenAI investor and board member, sued the artificial intelligence company earlier this year alleging it had betrayed its founding aims as a nonprofit research lab benefiting the public good rather than pursuing profits. Musk has since escalated the dispute, adding new claims and asking for a court order that would stop OpenAI’s plans to convert itself into a for-profit business more fully. The world's richest man, whose companies include Tesla, SpaceX and social media platform X, last year started his own rival AI company, xAI. Musk says it faces unfair competition from OpenAI and its close business partner Microsoft, which has supplied the huge computing resources needed to build AI systems such as ChatGPT. “OpenAI and Microsoft together exploiting Musk’s donations so they can build a for-profit monopoly, one now specifically targeting xAI, is just too much,” says Musk's filing that alleges the companies are violating the terms of Musk’s foundational contributions to the charity. OpenAI filed a response Friday opposing Musk’s requested order, saying it would “debilitate OpenAI’s business” and mission to the advantage of Musk and his own AI company and is based on “far-fetched” legal claims. A hearing is set for January before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California. At the heart of the dispute is a 2017 internal power struggle at the fledgling startup that led to Altman becoming OpenAI's CEO. Musk also sought to be CEO and in an email outlined a plan where he would “unequivocally have initial control of the company” but said that would be temporary. He grew frustrated after two other OpenAI co-founders said he would hold too much power as a major shareholder and chief executive if the startup succeeded in its goal to achieve better-than-human AI known as artificial general intelligence , or AGI. Musk has long voiced concerns about how advanced forms of AI could threaten humanity. “The current structure provides you with a path where you end up with unilateral absolute control over the AGI," said a 2017 email to Musk from co-founders Ilya Sutskever and Greg Brockman. “You stated that you don't want to control the final AGI, but during this negotiation, you've shown to us that absolute control is extremely important to you.” In the same email, titled “Honest Thoughts,” Sutskever and Brockman also voiced concerns about Altman's desire to be CEO and whether he was motivated by “political goals.” Altman eventually succeeded in becoming CEO, and has remained so except for a period last year when he was fired and then reinstated days later after the board that ousted him was replaced. OpenAI published the messages Friday in a blog post meant to show its side of the story, particularly Musk's early support for the idea of making OpenAI a for-profit business so it could raise money for the hardware and computer power that AI needs. It was Musk, through his wealth manager Jared Birchall, who first registered “Open Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Inc.,” a public benefit corporation, in September 2017. Then came the “Honest Thoughts” email that Musk described as the “final straw.” “Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit,” Musk wrote back. OpenAI said Musk later proposed merging the startup into Tesla before resigning as the co-chair of OpenAI's board in early 2018. Musk didn't respond to emailed requests for comment sent to his companies Friday. Asked about his frayed relationship with Musk at a New York Times conference last week, Altman said he felt “tremendously sad” but also characterized Musk’s legal fight as one about business competition. “He’s a competitor and we’re doing well,” Altman said. He also said at the conference that he is “not that worried” about the Tesla CEO’s influence with President-elect Donald Trump. OpenAI said Friday that Altman plans to make a $1 million personal donation to Trump’s inauguration fund, joining a number of tech companies and executives who are working to improve their relationships with the incoming administration. —————————— The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement allowing OpenAI access to part of the AP’s text archives. This story has been updated to correct the name of the company registered in 2017. 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NoneCHEYENNE – After several weeks of discussion and hearing passionate feedback from the community, the Cheyenne City Council voted Monday to implement a ban on oversized vehicles from parking on public roadways. The governing body said the decision is with safety at top of mind, and that it will also help with clearing snow from the roads in the winter and keep narrower streets accessible. Initially drafted as a total ban on oversized vehicles, the City Council voted to substitute new language in the ordinance that excludes summer months from the ban. As indicated in the ordinance, oversized vehicles will be able to park on public roadways without a permit from five days before Memorial Day to five days after Labor Day. All other times of the year, owners must apply for a five-day permit to park their vehicle on the road, which will cost $15. This substitute was made as an attempt to address some of the concerns made by oversized vehicle owners who frequently use their campers or recreational vehicles during the summer months. However, several council members opposed this substitute, as they believed it does not adequately address the primary concern of safety issues caused by the large vehicles on the street. “My support of this entire process has been really around safety,” said council member Michelle Aldrich, “and I don't see how making this only a nine-month ordinance ... is actually going to be the safest for our community when we have more people that are out recreating during the summer months, kids out on their bikes and walking and playing in the neighborhoods, than what we have currently.” Community members in opposition to the ordinance said that, while they don’t find the timeframe restriction ideal, it is more appealing than a total year-long ban. City Public Works Department Director Vicki Nemecek, speaking as a Cheyenne citizen and RV owner, said she supports the substitute ordinance. “I would also be in favor of this because it will help our winter operations for street and alley and traffic and those sanitation areas that operate in the winter on the streets, when they're icy, snowy, those kinds of conditions,” she said. A primary concern for opponents of the ordinance was the price for storage of large vehicles. They said many vehicle storage units are full and were out of their budget, if they were required to pay for storage most of the year. “It seems to me that we're changing the rules in the middle of the game,” said Cheyenne resident and RV owner Tom Fuller, indicating that current owners should not be required to change the way they have been living. Others expressed concern with the potential technological difficulties with filing for a permit online for the less tech-savvy residents, and some demanded numerical data on the safety issues created by the oversized vehicles, rather than evidence based on complaints councilors heard from constituents. Permits can be obtained at the clerk's office as well as online. One resident, Jon Puls, said that he parks oversized vehicles on the street in front of his house, which he uses for work. He said that he and other business owners like him will be forced out of town if they can no longer do this. “Not every business can afford to build overnight, move overnight, react overnight to something like this,” he said. “People build things, and it takes time. Everything takes time, and as long as you do it properly, and you do it by the books, and you take the time to do it right, it turns out nice. But right now, things aren't nice. I just spent a week packing my home because I feel I'm being driven out by this, and I'm going to sell my house in the spring because of this.” The substitute implementing the timeframe restriction passed with council members Aldrich, Pete Laybourn and Tom Segrave voting against on the grounds that it does not address their safety concerns in the summer months. The ban will go into effect on Sept. 7, 2025. Council member Jeff White moved to increase the maximum width of a compliant vehicle from 7 feet to 81⁄2 feet to meet the same requirements in state statute and allow for some larger pickup trucks to remain parked on public roadways. This amendment passed 8-1, with only council member Bryan Cook voting against. With this amendment, the city defines an oversized vehicle as any vehicle or any combination of vehicles which exceeds 25 feet in length, 81⁄2 feet in width or 9 feet in height. This does not include vehicles adapted for people with disabilities. Additionally, council member Mark Rinne moved to amend the ordinance to where no one may park a vehicle where any part of the vehicle extends onto or over any public sidewalk or onto or over the travel lane of any public street for more than eight hours during the daytime. This amendment, which was approved, was intended to keep sidewalks and roadways clear while also allowing owners to extend their RV slide-outs for a brief period to prepare it for trips. Get any of our free email newsletters — news headlines, sports, arts & entertainment, state legislature, CFD news, and more.

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By DAVID BAUDER Time magazine gave Donald Trump something it has never done for a Person of the Year designee: a lengthy fact-check of claims he made in an accompanying interview. Related Articles National Politics | Trump’s lawyers rebuff DA’s idea for upholding his hush money conviction, calling it ‘absurd’ National Politics | Trump wants to turn the clock on daylight saving time National Politics | Ruling by a conservative Supreme Court could help blue states resist Trump policies National Politics | A nonprofit leader, a social worker: Here are the stories of the people on Biden’s clemency list National Politics | Nancy Pelosi hospitalized after she ‘sustained an injury’ on official trip to Luxembourg The fact-check accompanies a transcript of what the president-elect told the newsmagazine’s journalists. Described as a “12 minute read,” it calls into question 15 separate statements that Trump made. It was the second time Trump earned the Time accolade; he also won in 2016, the first year he was elected president. Time editors said it wasn’t a particularly hard choice over other finalists Kamala Harris, Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu and Kate Middleton. Time said Friday that no other Person of the Year has been fact-checked in the near-century that the magazine has annually written about the figure that has had the greatest impact on the news. But it has done the same for past interviews with the likes of Joe Biden, Netanyahu and Trump. Such corrections have been a sticking point for Trump and his team in the past, most notably when ABC News did it during his only debate with Democrat Kamala Harris this fall. There was no immediate response to a request for comment on Friday. In the piece, Time called into question statements Trump made about border security, autism and the size of a crowd at one of his rallies. When the president-elect talked about the “massive” mandate he had received from voters, Time pointed out that former President Barack Obama won more electoral votes the two times he had run for president. The magazine also questioned Trump’s claim that he would do interviews with anyone who asked during the campaign, if he had the time. The candidate rejected a request to speak to CBS’ “60 Minutes,” the magazine said. “In the final months of his campaign, Trump prioritized interviews with podcasts over mainstream media,” reporters Simmone Shah and Leslie Dickstein wrote. David Bauder writes about media for the AP. Follow him at http://x.com/dbauder and https://bsky.app/profile/dbauder.bsky.social.

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