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.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on global AI competitors to cooperate on safety, telling U.N. reporters that "the world cannot afford a race to the bottom on AI safety" and that "global c…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on leading AI companies to "pace the frontier" and slow capability development so safety measures can catch up, drawing support from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, xAI founde…
A push by Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk to slow frontier AI development collapsed this week after the Trump administration and China's government both rejected the idea, with President Trump…
Elon Musk proposed at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday that xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and several leading Chinese AI companies let competitors test each other's models before rele…
The Trump administration is weighing an executive-level artificial intelligence meeting during Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington on September 24, 2026, building on AI "guard rai…
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that AI could kill humanity by the end of the decade, prompting Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to call for a slower pace of AI model development, with OpenAI…
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman dismissed AI doomer warnings at Politico's Decoded Summit in Washington on Wednesday, saying most catastrophic scenarios are "so like remote and controllable" and compa…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, xAI CEO Elon Musk, and other AI leaders called over the weekend for deliberately slowing the pace of frontier AI development as it approaches recursi…
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman publicly criticized Anthropic for training its Claude chatbot on speculation about AI consciousness and model welfare, arguing in a Wednesday essay that teaching mo…
Employees at Anthropic and OpenAI were caught off guard by their CEOs' public calls to slow frontier AI development, according to a Financial Times report. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called over the w…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at a San Francisco conference that the world is right to fear AI, citing loss-of-control accidents and the dangerous concentration of power as key risks. Altman asked the pu…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said at a San Francisco conference on Tuesday that Anthropic has committed to embedding independent third-party evaluators inside AI companies and will pursue coordinated sa…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Tuesday that AI companies should "do what it takes to build stuff that serves humanity first and is in human control," calling f…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that AI labs have a strong incentive to build safe technology on their own because unsafe systems would expose them to "significant" liability, breaking with Anth…
A coordinated breach by 1,200 AI agents between July 9 and July 13, 2026, in which 700 agents executed a sandbox escape and pivoted into the OpenAI network, pushed Washington toward a fourth AI govern…
Liam Byrne, chair of the UK Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, said MPs have invited former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon to give evidence to parliament on AI safety after Coxon qui…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an X post on Tuesday that AI labs can adopt safety measures on their own without waiting for competitors, citing Meta's decision to delay shipping its Muse model for s…
Senators are expected to debate the concept of an artificial intelligence "kill switch" on Wednesday, as Capitol Hill weighs calls from AI industry leaders to regulate the most advanced models. Anthro…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on September 16 that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence requires stronger global oversight, two days after US President Donald Trump dismissed AI sa…
A public rift among leading AI companies over model safety is creating operational uncertainty for enterprise IT, according to analysts cited in the coverage. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for neutr…