Twitter's Wednesday outage reportedly happened because an employee accidentally deleted data and the team that could fix it left in November: 'It’s chaos here right now'

An engineer who deleted files reportedly caused the outage. But the team that could have fixed it was fired last November.

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Google is investing $300M in an OpenAI challenger that will take on ChatGPT while focusing on A.I. safety

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