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OpenAI’s nonprofit parent company — the one with the board that suddenly fired Sam Altman last month — has its finances made public each year by the government. The numbers for 2022 were recently published by the IRS, and you can view the filing below.

The new Office of Critical and Emerging Technology is supposed to track developments in AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and biotech. The DOE also appointed a new Chief Artificial Intelligence, Semafor reports. Joe Biden’s October executive order on AI development established the office.

Zach Seward, the co-founder of Quartz, is joining the publication to figure out the best ways to use AI in the newsroom, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. An internal memo seen by the Journal says Seward will establish a small team to experiment with AI tools, adding that he believes “Times journalism will always be reported, written and edited by our expert journalists.”

It’s hard to overstate Wendy’s satisfaction with its FreshAI chatbot, which it’s currently using to take drive-thru orders at four restaurants in Columbus, OH. In an update, the company says the generative AI system can takes orders without the need for employee intervention 86 percent of the time, and in one location is 22 seconds faster than average. Franchisees will be able to pilot the AI next year.

Two weeks after Futurism’s report about how the publication appeared to be publishing articles from fake writers with AI-created profile pictures, now-former CEO Ross Levinsohn is out.

Microsoft says it’s partnered with the United States’ largest federation of unions in a move that aims to ease workers into a “new AI era.”

Google showed off Bard’s new ability to pull deep content from YouTube videos recently, but if the robot is watching YouTube for you, does the YouTube Creator make any money?

Max Tani at Semafor:

The New York Times published a look at OpenAI’s firing and rehiring of CEO Sam Altman. The moment-by-moment rundown doesn’t dig into the claims of Altman being “psychologically abusive” from yesterday’s Washington Post story.

The company acknowledged on Thursday that ChatGPT has been phoning it in lately (again), and it’s fixing it. Then overnight, it made a series of posts about the chatbot training process, saying it must evaluate the model using certain metrics — AI benchmarks, you might say — calling it “an artisanal multi-person effort.”

A new report from The Washington Post says that senior OpenAI staffers had indicated to the board Altman had been “psychologically abusive.” The board had also worried that it couldn’t keep Altman accountable.