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    Havas Group launches Havas Sovereign Technologies

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    Fabien Aufrechter,
    PARIS --

    To meet the challenges raised by the acceleration of innovation and to inject meaning into the core of technological projects, Havas Group has launched Havas Sovereign Technologies.

    Havas Sovereign Technologies offers its clients end-to-end support in appropriating innovations, protecting their reputation and mitigating the risks associated with new technologies. This new platform includes the Havas Blockchain offering, which will continue to support innovative companies on the blockchain technology front, as well as a new series of offers to provide 360° support on all subjects related to sovereign technologies such as NFTs and cryptocurrency.

    This approach is based on four pillars:
     

    • Expertise in technological intelligence,
    • Strategic consulting in digital governance,
    • Deployment of digital infrastructures,
    • Global communication support.

    Havas Sovereign Technologies offers its expertise to companies and start-ups as well as public institutions and non-governmental organizations.

    “This evolution comes at an opportune time,” said Fabien Aufrechter, until now director of Havas Blockchain, who is taking over the management of this new platform of offerings. “The technological leap of the last five years has turned digital sovereignty from a purely technological issue into a real strategic challenge. The issues of innovation, trust and technological security have become inescapable for both public and private players. With its expert and agile approach, Havas Sovereign Technologies will accompany brands and institutions in their quest to no longer offer ‘just technology’ but ‘the right technology’.”

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    Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died

    Saturday, December 21, 2024
    Suchir Balaji poses for a photo in Hawaii in 2018. Balaji was a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who died in November 2024. (Balaji Ramamurthy via AP)

    Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26.

    Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI's strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products.

    "We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news and our hearts go out to Suchir's loved ones during this difficult time," said a statement from OpenAI.

    Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said "appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation." The city's chief medical examiner's office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide.

    His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a "happy, smart and brave young man" who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends.

    Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and first arrived at the fledgling AI research lab for a 2018 summer internship while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned a few years later to work at OpenAI, where one of his first projects, called WebGPT, helped pave the way for ChatGPT.

    "Suchir's contributions to this project were essential, and it wouldn't have succeeded without him," said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post memorializing Balaji. Schulman, who recruited Balaji to his team, said what... Read More

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