TECHNOLOGY

Starting a successful startup requires a great idea and a huge amount of resilience, but attending the right university – one with a strong reputation, world-class education, and influential connections – can give aspiring founders a crucial advantage.

This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Kayla Zhu, visualizes the top 10 undergraduate and graduate schools ranked by the number of alumni who have founded their own startups.

Every year, PitchBook ranks universities across the world (more…)

Authored by Andrew Fenton via CoinTelegraph.com,

ASI Alliance founder Ben Goertzel says the alpha version of OpenCog Hyperon — the artificial general intelligence system he’s been developing for more than two decades — is already “self-aware” to a certain extent.

Goertzel also tells Magazine he believes OpenAI likely shied away from making its “very impressive” new o1 model an autonomous agent for fear that it would be seen as “risky and dangerous” and (more…)

OpenAI's Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati became the latest in a string of high-profile departures from the leading AI company this afternoon.

 Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist, left in May. In August, co-founder Greg Brockman said he would go on leave until the end of the year and researcher John Schulman left for AI rival Anthropic. The departures leave only two members of OpenAI’s original founding team at the company: Altman and Wojciech Zaremba.

How (more…)