Source: News Agencies
Security & Justice
Southern Lebanon Endures Massive Damage: 40,000 Homes Leveled Across 37 Towns
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed entire neighborhoods in southern Lebanon, leveling more than 37 towns and wiping out over 40,000 residential units, according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Gaps in Coastal Radar Enabled Israeli Raid in Batroun, Army Commander Says
Lebanon’s army chief, General Joseph Aoun, detailed to Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati how Israeli forces likely exploited gaps in the country's coastal radar system during the recent raid carried out in Batroun. The briefing comes as Lebanese officials seek answers on how Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out the landing undetected.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Saturday 9 March 2024 14:21:48
OpenAi Officially Brings Its CEO Sam Altman Back To Its Board Of Directors
In November 2023, the board of directors at generative AI company OpenAI suddenly, and with no warning, fired its CEO and co-founder Sam Altman, and removed him from his position on the board.
For the next few days, there was chaos at OpenAI as most employees stood by Altman and efforts were made to bring him back. That finally happened five days later, as Altman returned as CEO, while the board members who voted to fire him agreed to depart.
OpenAI said it would conduct an investigation into what happened during those five days, and late on Friday, it announced that the third-party group that ran its investigation had completed its work. As a result, the decision was made to bring back Altman to the company's board. Also, the board "expressed its full confidence" in continuing to keep Altman as OpenAI's CEO and Greg Brockman as its President.
The blog post also announced that three new board members have been added. They are Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Nicole Seligman, the former EVP and General Counsel at Sony, and Fidji Simo, the current CEO of Instacart.
OpenAI said it will add some improvements to how the company is run. That will include adding new corporate governance guidelines, an anonymous whistleblower hotline, and more.
As far as the investigation into Altman's firing in November, OpenAI said WilmerHale, the third-party group that looked into the matter, conducted "dozens of interviews" with prior members of the company's board and others, along with looking into 30,000 documents.
In the end, the blog post stated that in WilmerHale's opinion, a lack of trust had developed between the prior board members and Altman. However, it added:
