According to official news, Web3Labs has become a strategic partner of The Bitcoin Conference to jointly build Bitcoin Asia 2024 Hong Kong Bitcoin Conference. It is reported that the Bitcoin Asia 2024 Hong Kong Bitcoin Conference hosted by The Bitcoin Conference will be held at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in Hong Kong from May 9th to 10th.

On December 8, local time, the British Competition and Markets Authority said that it is collecting information from stakeholders to determine whether the cooperation between Microsoft and OpenAI threatens the UK’s headquarters for Google’s artificial intelligence research laboratory Deepmind. market competition. Subsequently, a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement: "While the details of our agreement remain confidential, it must be noted that Microsoft does not own any shares in OpenAI and is only eligible to share profit distribution." An OpenAI spokesperson said, " Microsoft’s non-voting observer seat on the board of directors does not provide them with management authority or control over OpenAI’s operations.” (Financial World)

OpenAI announced that Sam Altman has returned as CEO, Mira Murati as chief technology officer, and Greg Brockman as president. OpenAI forms a new board of directors. According to The Information, the OpenAI bidding activity led by venture capital institution Thrive will continue after the return of Sam Altman. (Golden Ten)

According to Foresight News, OpenAI is currently investigating a rise in error rates for ChatGPT. The information comes from OpenAI API Status, which reported the issue.

OpenAI said that it has reached an agreement in principle, Sam Altman will return to OpenAI as CEO, and form a new board of directors, including Bret Taylor (chairman), Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo.

Microsoft said that if Sam Altman is to return to OpenAI, the governance issues that led to the existing OpenAI board of directors' dismissal of Altman need to be resolved. Changes Microsoft is considering could include requiring OpenAI to expand the size of its board and raise the level of experience required for members, according to people familiar with the matter. Microsoft is also considering whether it should try to add an executive to OpenAI's board. (Bloomberg) According to a previous report by The Verge, multiple sources revealed that Sam Altman’s transfer to Microsoft has not yet been finalized. Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman remain open to returning to OpenAI if the other board members who fired him resign. Altman, Brockman and OpenAI investors are still trying to find a dignified way for the board to step down.

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, posted on the Get the company back together."

OpenAI co-creator Greg Brockman forwarded Sam Altman's tweet and said: "After learning about today's news, I sent the following message to the OpenAI team." The message content is as follows: I am very proud of the business we have built together since starting in my apartment 8 years ago. We've been through the hard and the great together and accomplished so much, even when it all seemed impossible. But based on today's news, I'm quitting.

The OpenAI Status page shows that the OpenAI API endpoint, Labs, Playground and ChatGPT are out of order and are under investigation. Currently, OpenAI related Labs, API, ChatGPT and Platform.openai.com are inaccessible. According to previous news, on November 9, ChatGPT was periodically interrupted due to DDoS attacks, but was immediately repaired.