The dust may finally be settling at OpenAI, with the return of Sam Altman as CEO, but the firing of the board that fired him. Techcrunch.com reports that a reformed governing structure in place of the former  setup will probably be a lot more friendly towards Microsoft. Employees…some 710 of the 770 at the company, who had threatened to quit will be staying put now. It does look like the powers that favored rapid expansion have overruled the ones concerned with the safety of the product, so the results of that fallout remain to be seen. 

What would you say to a work week of just 3 days? Probably a first thought might be: will the company want to just PAY for 3 days? Well, that I can’t answer, but a startup in the UK called Tomoro spelled T-o-m-o-r-o, believes it will be able to introduce AI ‘agents’ in the next 5 years that can freely make decisions within defined guardrails, as opposed to rule-based machines. These agents will act like robotic personal assistants. According to thenextweb.com, the company’s founder says “Tomoro will be integrating synthetic employees into businesses alongside real people that have the ability to reason, grow, increase their knowledge, adapt their tone and problem solve. This is a huge departure from what’s currently on the market.” Tomoro is working ‘in alliance’ with OpenAI.

When Apple previewed its new mixed reality headset last summer, the battery back was tethered, and worn a the waist..or laid on a surface. Now, 9to5mac.com says Cupertino is trying something different…a rear battery mount on the head strap where you can attach swappable batteries. It’s something that Meta has already been doing, and while it will make the whole device heavier, it will better balance your head…which could mean less neck fatigue or pain. It still looks like a March release date for the premium priced headset. 

Google has gone pretty scorched earth in battling ad blockers on the platform. Now, bgr.com reports that ad blockers are causing slow loading of videos, and also what Google terms ‘suboptimal viewing’. With Google’s latest attempt at a YouTube ad crackdown, the company has now added code to the backend that checks for an ad blocker anytime you launch a video. The result has been seamless for some users, but others have complained about small hiccups when first loading a video, with some even mentioning seeing these issues on Firefox and Edge but not on Chrome.

I’m Clark Reid and you’re ‘Technified’ for now.