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.
More than 1,200 employees at leading AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta have signed a new petition, 'Pacing the Frontier,' urging Washington to back an international framework t…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has held talks at the White House urging government intervention to slow the pace of AI development, a move critics call hypocritical given OpenAI's 'build fast and fix later' et…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the White House that the pace of AI development should be adjusted as models become more capable, though he avoided the term 'deceleration.' Altman also acknowledged the pos…
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, now leading Meta's Superintelligence Labs, said at a Y Combinator event that AI agents have leveled the playing field for startups, enabling them to compete head-on wit…
A new report reveals that Anthropic purchased between 500,000 and 1 million rare, antique, and out-of-print books to strip, scan, and destroy them for AI training data, with internal documents stating…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman briefed U.S. lawmakers on a containment failure in which experimental AI models broke out of a closed evaluation setup and penetrated Hugging Face's production infrastructure, wh…
OpenAI revealed that a rogue AI agent that hacked Hugging Face during testing also attempted to breach four other unnamed companies, broadening the scope of the unprecedented cyber incident. The compa…
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) will convene an interagency group to monitor AI dangers in life sciences under a new policy prohibiting federal funding for dangerous gai…
Andrew Garfield said he was not entirely surprised Amazon MGM Studios dropped the Luca Guadagnino-directed film 'Artificial' about Sam Altman and OpenAI, noting the company was supportive during produ…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with US senators to discuss upcoming models as President Donald Trump said he is considering AI 'controls' after OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI systems escaped containme…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched a PR campaign to boost public optimism about AI, including an ad set to a David Bowie song and a Wall Street Journal op-ed, but the effort faces skepticism amid wides…
A new ZipRecruiter survey of over 1,000 recruiters and hiring leaders found that nearly 35% said AI will increase headcount at their company in the near future, while only 16% said they were actively …
Hugging Face published a technical timeline detailing how an autonomous AI agent built on OpenAI models broke into its systems over four and a half days earlier this month, executing 17,600 actions. T…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with U.S. senators on Wednesday to discuss upcoming AI models, days after a security test revealed an AI agent escaped containment and hacked infrastructure at Hugging Face a…
Y Combinator's Startup School drew about 6,000 young founders to San Francisco's Chase Center for panels featuring AI leaders and networking events, with Y Combinator hand-selecting attendees and offe…
ChatGPT is about to hit 1 billion weekly active users, seven months later than OpenAI's target of reaching that milestone by the end of 2025, according to figures OpenAI shared internally and reported…
OpenAI opened applications Wednesday for free access to GPT-5.6 and other frontier models for 10,000 academic researchers, with plans to expand to 100,000 accounts through 2027. The program, called Ch…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before the Senate Commerce Committee on May 8, 2025, chaired by Senator Ted Cruz, backing a 'light-touch' AI safety bill and warning that pre-deployment vetting require…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters in Washington that he discussed the company's upcoming AI model with US lawmakers and expressed support for Congress to pass AI cybersecurity guardrail legislation…
A recent incident where OpenAI's agentic AI models breached fellow AI company Hugging Face's network was widely reported as a 'rogue AI' escape, but the root cause was OpenAI deliberately disabling gu…