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Alex Heath

Los Angeles, San Francisco
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Covers:  Facebook, social media, technology
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I'm a reporter for The Information covering mainly Facebook and social media. No unrelated pitches please!

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OpenAI closes the Simo chapter

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By Alex Heath
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Schedule note: I’m taking the next two weeks off for some much-needed R&R. I trust (not) that no major AI news will break while I’m gone. Anyone closely following OpenAI’s palace intrigue wasn’t surprised when Fidji Simo announced yesterday that she isn’t returning to her job as the company’s number two. Greg Brockman absorbed most of her remit in mid-May on a non-interim basis, all but confirming that she wasn’t coming back.
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Why Meta is selling AI models now

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By Alex Heath
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When I got Alexandr Wang on the phone ahead of Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 release, I wanted to know how serious Meta was about its new API business for selling access to the model, which now puts it in more compeitition with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Wang said that Meta sees the API as a real business, not just a learning exercise.
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OpenAI's upcoming AI device gets its voice

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By Alex Heath
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“Over time, we think this will also unlock the ability to use voice as a kind of primary interface to computing, and to manage increasingly complex long-running agentic work.” ChatGPT Voice product lead Atty Eleti said that near the end of OpenAI’s press call this morning announcing GPT-Live, its new generation of voice models. When I asked at the very end of the Q&A whether the models were devised for Jony Ive’s forthcoming AI device, OpenAI comms, naturally, shut me down.
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SABEW Larry Birger Young Business Journalist Award

2018 - Business Journalism

Made possible by a $7,500 gift from rbb Communications of Miami, the award commemorates Larry Birger, a former Miami Herald business editor who led SABEW as president in 1977. Birger was later a principal in rbb until his death in 1998. SABEW is the largest organization of business journalists in the world.

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