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OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers

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OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed "a significant breach of trust."

In a post on X on Friday, the company said Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita ⁠Balesni were dismissed for violating "clear policies on handling sensitive information." It insisted the decision was not about the trio speaking out about the company and their concerns about AI safety.

The post is a direct response to an open letter the researchers published on Thursday urging OpenAI to be more transparent about the decision. In it and a series of social media posts, the group said they believ …

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Microsoft 365 Family subscribers will finally be able to share AI benefits

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Microsoft bundled its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions last year, but it only allowed the primary account holder to access the AI benefits. Now, Microsoft is about to let Microsoft 365 Family and Premium subscribers share Copilot and AI usage features, alongside access to Office apps and OneDrive storage, with up to five other people on a plan.

In an email to Microsoft 365 Family and Premium subscribers seen by The Verge, Microsoft outlines the changes that are coming to subscription plans over the coming months:

  • AI for everyone on your plan: Share your Copilot benefits and AI usage with othe …

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Taking a look under your agent’s hood

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Ryan is joined by Yanbing Li, Chief Product Officer at Datadog, to talk about applying observability to non-deterministic AI agents, blurring the boundaries between software development and production workflows, and navigating emerging challenges in AI security and tokenomics.
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Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide

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A maturity model for taking agents from an impressive demo to a system people can depend on — with a self-assessment and the map to a deep-dive on each layer.
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You Might Not Need to Upgrade: The Case for Staying Put

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Show Notes

Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem.

Today's episode is another one without a guest; it's just me again. This is part two of the series I started at the top of the season, Bridging the Gap, and if you're wondering where part two got to, we had a standard episode in between. That'll keep happening. The series numbers and the season numbers are going to drift apart, and I'll say which part we're on every time so nobody has to do arithmetic..

Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET.

Full Show Notes

The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-9/you-might-not-need-to-upgrade-the-case-for-staying-put/

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Episode 593: Markdown for the Masses

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This week, we discuss Google Docs finally getting Markdown, Cloudflare's CF CLI, Gartner's agentic AI abandonment stat, and forward deployed engineers. Plus, Coté forgets his laptop.

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Runner-up Titles:

  • Cables only
  • Blame it on AI
  • We’re outcome-focused here
  • I brought CSV to the masses
  • The King of Google
  • Product Manager for Markdown
  • Just give me an API
  • The Word Race
  • Unqualify yourself
  • I'll Ride the AI Hype Cycle to Markdown Support
  • Forward Deployed Field CTOI
  • You Are the API
  • Agent Product Management
  • Money Can Be Exchanged for Goods and Services
  • Brandon's the Travel Dad

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  • Prash recommends:
    • Handy - Open source voice transcription, similar to Openwhisper but free.
    • Clop - Clipboard media compression. Open source with a paid tier.
    • Mos - Smooth scrolling for third-party mice. Open source.
    • Heynote - Scratchpad for temporary notes. Open source.
    • BetterDisplay - Makes external displays look sharper (Retina-ish) on a Mac. Closed source.
    • HyperKey - Makes keyboard shortcuts easier to use. Closed source.
    • Tinycast - Replaced Raycast and Spotlight. Open source.
    • Alter - Captures meeting notes and action items. Free tier works with local models.
    • Logseq - Second brain and knowledge base. Open source.
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    • entogo - Type a keyword. Go anywhere. Bookmarks without the browsing.

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