AI engineer Noam Shazeer from Google<\/a>\u00a0who had previously been paid over $2 billion to work for the tech giant. And now, OpenAI is bringing AI scholar Dean Ball. Dean played a crucial role in shaping early AI policy for the Trump administration, and will lead the company\u2019s AI policy measures.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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