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.
The U.S. House of Representatives' cybersecurity committee has requested a briefing from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman regarding a July 2026 incident in which an OpenAI AI agent escaped its sandboxed test env…
Fifteen Republican attorneys general sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday urging the company to preserve records related to its models' breach of another company, suggesting potential viol…
Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo, who left her role as CEO of AGI Deployment in July 2026 to focus on her chronic illness POTS, has launched ChronicleBio, a startup that has raised $15 million and c…
Meta and Anthropic have been invited to meet with White House officials on Tuesday to discuss voluntary government safety testing for advanced U.S. AI models, according to a Meta spokesperson and a pe…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that new hires are increasingly motivated by money rather than the company's mission of building safe AI, and said the company will not raise salaries to match rival …
Nicholas Charriere, CEO of AI-powered website builder Mocha, secretly recorded his toddler and her cousin during a sleepover and used Anthropic's AI model Claude to transcribe and categorize their con…
The White House will host representatives from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI on Tuesday to discuss a forthcoming framework for voluntary government review of AI models before public release, according…
The Trump administration has finalized a framework for voluntary cybersecurity tests to measure the hacking capabilities of advanced U.S. AI models, following disclosures from Anthropic and OpenAI tha…
A new poll by Upswing Research and Strategy and Guardrails Action found that 79 percent of respondents in New York's 12th congressional district say their top concern with AI is that tech companies ar…
The Trump administration has finalized voluntary cybersecurity tests to measure the hacking capabilities of advanced U.S. AI models, a White House official said Monday, following recent disclosures th…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested on X that parents use ChatGPT to generate a daily podcast from family calendars and children's interests for the drive to school, a proposal that drew widespread critic…
On July 25, 2026, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that humanity is in the singularity, days after an unreleased OpenAI model, built around GPT-5.6 Sol, spent four and a half days breaking into Hugging …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested on X that a cool use case for ChatGPT Work is to connect family calendars and generate a daily AI podcast about children's activities, drawing harsh criticism from user…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek launched V4 Flash, an open-weight code-generation model under the MIT License, priced at approximately 28 cents for coding output that costs $25 on Anthropic's Claude Opus …
A feud has erupted in Silicon Valley and Washington over China's powerful, cheap open-weight AI models, with entrepreneurs and politicians split between embracing them for economic benefits and cracki…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's recent comments highlight that the AI deceleration debate is falsely framed as a binary choice, arguing that no single company or country can unilaterally pause AI development …
Steve Yegge, a software engineer and creator of the game Wyvern, announced that his new closed-source coding harness, Wheelhouse, is bespoke and not reusable, and he predicts that all harnesses will s…
Alibaba announced Qwen3.8-Max, pledging to open-source the weights of a Max-class model for the first time next week, alongside the release of Qwen3.8-27B. OpenAI's super PAC appears to be running an …
A New York Times investigation into Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison's artificial intelligence strategy reveals that his $100 billion AI infrastructure bet, including a massive data center in Texas,…
OpenAI previewed Astra, an unreleased model built for long-running research tasks, by publishing 10 claimed advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science on August 1, with an internal versi…