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With Sam Altman at Microsoft, Who Leads OpenAI Now?
On November 20th, Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, announced that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, having parted ways with OpenAI, are set to join his company to head up a newly minted forefront AI research division. Does OpenAI now look back at their decision with a tinge of regret? We aim to unpack the remaining key figures within their ranks. 
Microsoft's newly announced AI tools for crafting dialogues and quests in games have sparked controversy in the gaming community. Concerns arise about potential declines in game quality, while voice actors fear job loss and view such automation as a threat to nurturing new talent. 
Official web portals from various jurisdictions, including India, Nigeria, Egypt, Colombia, Brazil, and Vietnam, are funneling users to a bogus MetaMask website. Visitors receive a phishing warning from Microsoft Defender the moment they access the site. Ignoring this alert and connecting one's MetaMask could result in catastrophic loss of funds.The fraudulent website is depicted beside the authentic one in a screenshot. 
Tech leaders Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and AI startup Anthropic are forming a new industry watchdog group, the Frontier Model Forum, to supervise the "safe and responsible" development of frontier AI models.
The alliance aims to push research on AI safety, pinpoint responsible development practices, collaborate with governments and civil leaders, and back the development of applications.
This move follows a commitment made by these AI companies to the White House for the safe and transparent development of AI. Axelar Reveals Partnership with Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation and the cross-chain protocol Axelar have declared a strategic alliance aimed at merging public and private blockchains. This collaboration positions the Axelar project on the Microsoft Azure platform, marking it as the first cross-chain protocol to be accommodated within the Microsoft developer store. 
Microsoft Forms an AI Lobby: Expert Insights
Roger McNamee, a co-founder of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners, provides a unique insight into the recent gathering of tech industry leaders at Capitol Hill. Fierce competitors—Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, X, and others—convened to discuss the future of AI. Microsoft Introduces AI-Powered Copilot for Windows 11
It was designed to enhance popular applications like Paint, Photos, and Clipchamp. Additionally, Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, will be bolstered by OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 model. In the realm of enterprise solutions, Microsoft 365 Copilot will integrate a chat assistant. 
OpenAI and Microsoft are under fire in a class-action lawsuit over alleged web scraping to gather private data for training AI models like ChatGPT. The lawsuit, filed on Sept. 5 in San Francisco, accuses the companies of using stolen private info, including personal data from countless internet users, without consent. The plaintiffs argue that without this data theft, products like ChatGPT and DALL-E wouldn't be the billion-dollar businesses they are today. They seek damages and a halt to the alleged illegal data scraping. 
Aptos Labs is set to work with Microsoft to infuse its blockchain products, including fresh developments, with artificial intelligence.
Aptos Assistant, a chatbot, is one such innovation that educates users about the Aptos ecosystem and assists developers in crafting smart contracts and decentralized apps.
A 15% rise in the APT token's value followed the announcement of the collaboration. 
ChatGPT and China’s AI: Advantages and Hidden Threats
Intense competition is heating up within the Chinese AI industry, with key players like Tencent, Alibaba, and Bytedance all vying for superiority. They're looking to challenge the dominance held by the American-developed ChatGPT, a product of OpenAI and Microsoft.