Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, where he has led the company's transition from research lab to commercial AI leader. He was briefly fired by the OpenAI board in November 2023 before being reinstated.
OpenAI has begun rolling out advertisements on ChatGPT, with software companies making up 34% of the ad placements analyzed by adtech firms, according to data reviewed by Business Insider. The ads, wh…
A new Boston Consulting Group study found that nearly one-third of managers in the U.S., Canada, and European Union treat AI as a teammate or employee, listing the agents on company org charts. Resear…
Several leading AI executives have publicly softened earlier warnings that artificial intelligence would cause mass unemployment. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called the narrative linking AI to job loss "j…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged at a conference hosted by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia that his previous warnings about AI causing mass job loss were incorrect, saying he is "delighted to be …
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar used the term "backstop" at a November 2025 Wall Street Journal event while discussing financing for chip and data center commitments, prompting CEO Sam Altman and Friar to issu…
Senator Elizabeth Warren proposed a new excise tax on energy consumption by AI companies and large data centers to fund worker protections, universal health care, and education. The Massachusetts Demo…
Business Insider published an opinion piece on May 27, 2026, characterizing recent public comments from Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and Pope Leo as "reasonable" and as offering hope for an AI "middle gr…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that the default personality of ChatGPT, used by 900 million people weekly, is the company's most impactful product decision yet lacks any scientific framework. Altm…
Pope Leo XIV, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang have each recently offered measured perspectives on artificial intelligence, pushing back against both utopian and doomsday narratives.…
Anthropic engineer Boris Cherny told 22-year-old computer science graduates to start startups instead of taking entry-level jobs, calling the current era a "golden age" for entrepreneurship. Cherny sa…
Sam Altman of OpenAI orchestrated a multibillion-dollar strategic miscalculation by convincing the market that AI is an intelligent mind capable of running global commerce, when it is actually an expe…
Top marketers are advising AI companies to rebrand by adopting Procter & Gamble's human-centric marketing approach and forming an independent think tank to address job displacement, as public trust in…
US law enforcement is increasingly targeting AI resistance movements as extremist threats, aligning with Trump administration politicization of intelligence services. The move is ideological, aiming t…
A California judge dismissed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft on technical grounds, ruling against the world’s richest man in his bid to halt the companies’ for-profit AI development. …
India launched Krutrim, described as the country's first AI unicorn and a family of large language models, within seven months of a 2023 exchange with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The domestic effort is par…
World Labs launched AgentKit on March 17, 2026, a system that uses zero-knowledge proofs to let AI agents prove they are operated by a verified human without revealing personal identity. Coinbase rele…
Commencement speakers at multiple universities have been loudly booed by audiences for expressing optimism about artificial intelligence, reflecting growing public backlash against the technology's im…
Anthropic released its Mythos AI model to the public, eliminating the distinction between classified military-grade and commercial frontier AI. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis advanced his AGI timeline to…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who spent the past year warning that artificial intelligence would eliminate large numbers of white-collar jobs, now say those predictions were wr…
Pope Leo XIV’s warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence drew a largely muted response from top Silicon Valley executives, including Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg, who did not …