(VOR News) – Established under Delaware law and housed in Mountain View, California, a scientific OpenAI research organization filed an application with the Internal Revenue Service in 2016 seeking recognition as a tax-exempt charitable entity.

The nonprofit OpenAI has sent their goal statement to the IRS as “Advance digital intelligence in the manner most likely to benefit mankind as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial returns.”

Among its assets was a $10 million loan from Sam Altman, the present CEO and one of the four founding directors of the company.

The application offers a window into the early years of the artificial intelligence powerhouse, which has since grown to include a for-profit subsidiary lately valued at $157 billion by investors.

Since charities had documented it, OpenAI forwarded it to The Associated Press.

It is only one illustration of the notable advancements in less than a decade OpenAI and the technologies it creates have accomplished.

Though it has already done so, OpenAI indicated in its application that it would not engage in any collaborative ventures with for-profit companies. Moreover, it said it “did not intend to participate in the development of commercial products or equipment” and committed itself to providing the public unlimited access to its research.

OpenAI spokesman Liz Bourgeois claims that the organization’s goals and policies have stayed the same; but, the way it has carried out its mission has changed in line with technology developments.

Nonprofit legal advisory experts have closely watched OpenAI’s changing organizational structure and extraordinary expansion. Some, however, wonder whether its breadth and scale have exceeded or surpassed what NGOs and for-profits can achieve taken together.

They also ask whether certain people might benefit personally from its illegal activities and to what degree its main operations support its required charity goals.

Generally speaking, nonprofit professionals feel that OpenAI has made tremendous efforts to set its organizational structure in line with the regulations controlling charitable entities. Litigator Andrew Steinberg of Venable LLP and member of the American Bar Association’s nonprofit organizations committee believes OpenAI’s application to the IRS seems typical.

According to Steinberg, the company must reveal any changes to its plans and structure in its yearly tax returns—which it has already done.

“The current business structure and the investment structure they implemented were the ones they had in mind when the IRS reviewed the application,” he said. It’s reasonable as such an option might have developed later on.

The salient features of the application are:

First research goals

The company’s research goals at the time seemed ancient in comparison to the rivalry to create artificial intelligence, which was mainly driven by OpenAI’s publishing of ChatGPT in 2022.

OpenAI told the IRS it wanted to create AI software to solve a wide range of games. Its goals were to create an automaton able to do home tasks and a system able of “executing intricate instructions in natural language”.

These days, its capacity much exceeds those technical limitations. Among its offerings are text-to-image generators and chatbots capable of recognizing emotions and creating code.

There are no plans to get into business.

Declaring in its application, OpenAI, a nonprofit, said it did not want to form alliances with for-profit companies. “OpenAI has no intention of engaging in the development of equipment or goods for sale.”

It aims to provide free, public access to its research. According to OpenAI’s spokesman, Bourgeois, the company thinks that the best way to achieve its goals is to create tools—many of which are free—that help artificial intelligence to be applied to address problems. Still, she said, they feel that forming commercial relationships has helped their goal to be advanced.

Intellectual property

OpenAI said in a 2016 IRS report that their goal is to routinely publicly publish its research. OpenAI plans to regularly post its research results on its website and provide open source licensed software to the public.

Furthermore mentioned was the company’s “aspires to maintain ownership of any intellectual property it generates.”

If OpenAI decides to change its organizational structure, serious questions about the value of the intellectual property and whether it belongs to the nonprofit or for-profit subsidiary could surface, Altman said in September.

SOURCE: USN

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(VOR News) – Meta Platforms Inc. (META.O) announced on Friday that it had terminated a network of group accounts that targeted individuals in Moldova who spoke Russian as their first language.

The aforementioned individuals were targeted by the network. The firm has broken its policy against phony accounts, which was taken into consideration, by adopting this action, which was taken into consideration.

This particular action was selected to be performed in order to get ready for the election that is going to take place in Moldova on October 20th. We have scheduled the election.

Moldova is a country that is located between the countries of Romania and Ukraine, and it is home to a total population of around 2.5 million people.

Some estimates put its Meta population close to Ukraine’s.

There is a sizeable portion of the community that is able to speak Russian, despite the fact that Romanian is the language that is spoken by the majority of the population.

The presidential election that is scheduled to take place this month will be held concurrently with a referendum that will answer the Meta question of whether or not the country should become a member of the European Union. A referendum will be held in connection with the election that will take place.

A candidate for the position of president of the country is President Maia Sandu, who is a supporter of the Western world and is running for a second term in office. She is also a candidate for the position of president of the country.

In addition, Meta said that the bogus accounts did a good job of drawing attention to the complaints that were directed at President Sandu, parliamentarians who supported the European Union, and the tight ties that exist between Moldova and Romania.

In addition to that, she made it clear that the accounts were not accurate. In addition to this, the fake accounts made it possible for pro-Russian organizations in Moldova to employ their resources in order to acquire assistance.

The work of the group was focused on more than a dozen fake news brands that were written in Russian and gave the impression of being independent businesses.

From the organization’s point of view, this was the appropriate response. At the same time that they maintained a presence on a variety of online platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, OK.ru, and TikTok, these news companies also maintained a presence on a number of other websites.

The company Meta has made the news that it has terminated seven Facebook accounts, twenty-three pages, one group, and twenty Instagram profiles due to the fact that they broke its policy, which is known as the “coordinated inauthentic behavior policy.”

In addition, the Meta company has terminated twenty Instagram profiles.

In addition to this, Meta announced that it had removed twenty profiles from Instagram. A deletion of Facebook accounts was carried out. This process took place.

In accordance with the data that was supplied by Meta, there were approximately 3,355,000 users who followed one or more of the Instagram profiles, and there were approximately 4,200 accounts that followed one or more of the 23 corresponding pages.

The majority of people who followed the fake accounts were situated in countries other than Moldova, according to the information that was provided by the company. It was a result of this that the accounts were given the impression of being more popular than they actually were, which was not the case at all.

TikTok is laying off tens of thousands of employees from all around the world. These employees come Meta from both domestic and international locations. These workers are located in the nations in which they are employed, hence their locations are situated there.

While Russia has accused Sandu and her colleagues of inciting “Russophobia” in the country, the government of Moldova has decried Russia’s persistent intervention in the affairs of the country.

Sandu is from Moldova. Such conduct has been alleged to have been committed by Sandu and her colleagues. Sandu is also considered to be a member of the Russian Federation, which is an additional point of clarification.

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(VOR News) – Apple was accused of violating the rights of workers to collectively campaign for improved working conditions by the National Labor Relations Board of the United States of America in a statement released on Friday.

The board imposed restrictions on the use of social media and the workplace messaging tool Slack. The statement was released in response to Apple’s decision to limit the access of employees to these tools.

The iPhone manufacturer is accused of creating the impression that employees were being monitored via social media, illegally firing an employee who advocated for workplace changes on Slack, requiring another worker to delete a social media post, and maintaining unlawful work rules regarding the acceptable uses of Slack, according to the complaint that was submitted to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Thursday. The complaint contained each of these allegations.

The National Labor Relations Board filed a second complaint against Apple last month.

The government agency filed claims against the firm last week. The agency alleged that the corporation had imposed regulations that were excessively broad in scope with respect to social media and misconduct.

Additionally, the agency claimed that the corporation had requested that employees throughout the country sign unlawful agreements regarding confidentiality, noncompete, and nondisclosure.

A spokeswoman for Apple issued a statement on Friday, stating that the company is dedicated to the preservation of a “positive and inclusive workplace” and that it takes employee complaints seriously. Apple issued the statement.

The company issued a statement in which it said, “We strongly disagree with these claims and will continue to share the facts throughout the course of the hearing.”

Apple responded to the complaint that was submitted the previous week by issuing a statement that asserted the company’s commitment to the rights of its employees to participate in discussions regarding their salary, hours, and working conditions. The company also stated that it does not practice any form of malfeasance.

In the event that Apple is unable to negotiate a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an administrative judge will conduct an initial hearing on the matter in February.

The labor board, which is composed of five members, has the authority to issue judgments that may be appealed to the federal court. The labor authority has the capacity to evaluate the judge’s decision.

Janneke Parrish submitted a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) more than three years ago, and this complaint serves as the foundation for the current case.

Apple fired her for her role in 2021 employee dissatisfaction, she claims.

Parrish utilized Slack and other public social media platforms to advocate for permanent remote employment, disseminate a pay equity survey, chronicle alleged instances of racial and sexual discrimination at Apple, and compose open letters that were critical of the company, as per the most recent lawsuit. In addition, Parrish conducted a survey on wage equity.

During the COVID-19 outbreak several years ago, Apple implemented Slack, a tool that enables employees to engage in group discussions. As a discussion forum, it quickly gained popularity and was extensively utilized by staff.

According to the complaint submitted to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Apple has a policy that prohibits employees from establishing new Slack channels without first obtaining permission from their managers. All posts that pertain to potential workplace challenges must be directed to either a manager or a “People Support” group. This is consistent with the complaint.

Laurie Burgess, the attorney who is representing Parrish, issued an email statement on Friday. Apple had engaged in “extensive violations” of workers’ rights, she asserted in the statement.

“We anticipate holding Apple accountable in court for enforcing blatantly unlawful policies and dismissing employees for participating in the fundamental protected activity of exposing gender discrimination and other civil rights infringements that pervade the workplace,” Burgess stated regarding the allegations.

Parrish is pursuing compensation for the financial losses and other damages that resulted from her termination. Furthermore, the complaint is requesting an order that would compel Apple to cease its purportedly unlawful practices. Parrish is in pursuit of both of these items.

SOURCE: DN

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