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From @Sourced Network Productions, @It's 5:05!, the Podcast , with a special report on the release of the OWASP BOM Maturity Model. It’s Point of View Friday, featuring Trac Bannon, Katy Craig, Shannon Leitz, and Olimpiu Pop, with their perspectives on the release of the BOM Maturity Model by the OWASP Foundation. We’ll start with Trac Bannon. 🎙️ Free access to 280+ episodes of “It’s 5:05!” on your favorite #podcast platforms: bit.ly/505-updates

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Hello, this is Trac Bannon reporting from Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. The news of San Altman sacking by the OpenAI Board of Directors shook the world on Friday, November 17th. As events unfolded in the following hours and days, the world suffered collective whiplash. While many are asking why the board made that decision, more profound questions are being raised about the balance between innovative leadership and effective governance. The sacking of Altman, coupled with the ChatGPT outage on...

The recent turmoil at OpenAI, stemming from the ousting of CEO Sam Altman, has thrown the AI community into a state of intense discussion and speculation. We have a whole saga that looks more like a new season of HBO's Game of Thrones than a sane tech company that is crafting the future of humanity. The coup backfired and Altman seems to be returning in a more powerful position, just in time for the Thanksgiving turkey. The saga has significant implications for the broader AI industry....

Hi, this is Shannon Leitz from San Diego, California. With all the brouhaha going on with Sam Altman and OpenAI, there's a lot to unpack and digest. A few things for all of us. When OpenAI, not yet a year ago, released its ChatGPT to the world, a fabulous capability if you ask me, it was pretty obvious at the time that they were chasing adoption and velocity as a brand new organization entering into the market. I say that because most folks know that there's sort of a chase for go to...

This is Katy Craig in San Diego, California. In an extraordinary twist fit for a Silicon Valley drama. OpenAI's boardroom coup against CEO Sam Altman not only failed, but spectacularly backfired, leading to a reshuffling of the board itself. The recent turmoil at OpenAI, a beacon in the AI industry, laid bare the complexities and power dynamics at play in the high stakes world of technological innovation. The attempt to oust Altman, ostensibly for a lack of transparency, was more than just a...

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