2024-01-25
Congratulations to NSF on the launch of the NAIRR pilot, which will enable a more diverse set of developers to accelerate human progress via AI R&D. Now Congress should pass the CREATE AI Act to authorize and expand this important effort. https://eshoo.house.gov/...
Forbes
The US National Science Foundation partners with OpenAI, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and others to launch NAIRR, a pilot to expand researchers' access to AI tools
combining the best of safety, privacy, & use! We're hiring!!! https://openmined.org/... @whostp : Today, @NSF launched the National AI Research Resource pilot. Giving researchers, ...
2021-01-19
We found significant errors of judgment and procedure in a recent employee separation. We have reversed the separation, and our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub. We apologize sincerely to the employee. https://github.blog/...
The Verge
GitHub apologizes to the employee it fired for using the term “Nazis” on January 6, offers him his job back, and says the company's head of HR has resigned
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2021-01-18
We found significant errors of judgment and procedure in a recent employee separation. We have reversed the separation, and our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub. We apologize sincerely to the employee. https://github.blog/...
The Verge
GitHub apologizes to the employee it fired for using the term “Nazis” on January 6, offers him his job back, and says the company's head of HR has resigned
The company is offering the employee his job back — GitHub is admitting that a Jewish employee was fired in error and is offering him his job back.
2020-11-17
Our priority is the developer community. Today we reinstated youtube-dl repo: https://github.blog/...
The GitHub Blog
GitHub reinstates the youtube-dl project, raises its bar for DMCA takedown requests, and creates $1M legal defense fund to help open source devs fight takedowns
Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project …
2019-10-10
We believe in empowering developers around the world. We also believe in basic human rights and treating people with respect and dignity. Our perspective on immigration policy and how we plan to advocate for change. https://github.blog/...
VICE
Leaked email from GitHub CEO shows the company will renew its $200K contract with ICE, despite stated opposition to child separation policies
seems fair that you'd protest selling software to ICE, but should Microsoft pull their Office 365 license too? Do you want a word processing software vendor making judgements about...