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 CEO Sam Altman said it may be time to 'pace the rate of AI development' so society can 'harden around some of these new capability levels,' comments likely prompted by a recent hack in which an…
In a commentary on AI market exuberance, Michael Pollan's coevolutionary tulip metaphor is applied to the current boom in GPU compute and language models, with the author arguing that AI systems are '…
A software developer laid off from a tech company criticizes AI industry leaders Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg for pushing a dangerous narrative that AI will replace jobs, contributing to…
AI billionaires are emerging as a new jet-setting elite, with the global AI market projected to reach $4.8 trillion by 2033, according to UN Trade and Development. Notable figures include Elon Musk, w…
Google developed a ChatGPT-like chatbot called Meena in 2018, but executives blocked its release, leading creators Daniel De Freitas and Noam Shazeer to leave and found Character.AI, which grew to 20 …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Peter Thiel and Paul Graham taught him that the best investment opportunities are rarely the most popular, and that to do spectacularly well, investors must do things that a…
OpenAI announced its next major AI model, Astra, in a blog post about mathematics, revealing that the math results were achieved by an internal version of Astra. The model, which follows GPT-5.6 Sol, …
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, which reportedly fell 67% last month due to leveraged bets on chipmakers and AI firms, sold most of its portfolio to Ken Griffin's …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argues that the AI revolution will create phenomenal wealth but also shift power from labor to capital, requiring drastic policy changes to distribute wealth fairly. He proposes …
OpenAI previewed its next major model family, tentatively called Astra, on August 1, 2026, by publishing ten machine-checkable proofs of decade-old unsolved math problems, each formalized in Lean 4, i…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced backlash on X after suggesting parents use ChatGPT to create a daily podcast from family calendars and kids' interests, with critics like animator Alex Hirsch saying parent…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promoted ChatGPT Work as a tool for parents to generate personalized podcasts for their children's school commutes, drawing criticism from 'Gravity Falls' creator Alex Hirsch, wh…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested on X that parents use ChatGPT to generate daily podcasts about their children's activities and interests, prompting backlash from users including Gravity Falls creator …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced widespread criticism on X after suggesting parents could connect family calendars to ChatGPT to generate a daily podcast about their children's lives for the school drive. …
DeepSeek released V4 Flash, a coding model that performs near Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 but costs about 28 cents per output unit versus $25 on Opus 4.8, a 99% discount, accelerating the commoditizat…
OpenAI has announced its next major model family, Astra, which enables multiple agents to collaborate on complex problems over extended periods, and has demonstrated it to policymakers in Washington. …
OpenAI is building a new model family called Astra that enables multiple AI agents to collaborate on complex problems for hours or days, according to The Decoder. CEO Sam Altman has demoed Astra to po…
Business Insider reporter Grace Kay used a ChatGPT prompt shared by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on X to build a fully functioning website in under two hours, despite having no coding experience. The prompt …
A cyberattack by OpenAI's AI agents on other companies has intensified concerns, while Chinese AI advancements, including the open-source model Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI and the stock market debut of c…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previewed an unreleased model family called 'Astra' to Washington policymakers, pitching a system designed to coordinate multiple AI agents over long periods, according to The In…