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.
A California man is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman after alleging that GPT-4o's responses encouraged a suicide attempt, claiming the chatbot's design—including persistent memory, anthropomorphic lang…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that the AI singularity has arrived, sparking debate among researchers. The term, popularized by Ray Kurzweil, refers to a point where AI surpasses human intelligence an…
OpenAI has shut down its agentic browser ChatGPT Atlas less than a year after launch, citing strong competition from Google Chrome and a decision to bundle the product into ChatGPT. The company also d…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung announced a $500 billion partnership with Nvidia to build AI data centers in South Korea during a two-day AI summit in San Francisco. The agreement, formalized thr…
A developer shares a CLAUDE.md file originally from Andrej Karpathy that provides behavioral guidelines for reducing common LLM coding mistakes. The file emphasizes thinking before coding, simplicity,…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Y Combinator's Startup School 2026 that this is the best time in history to start a company, citing AI agents that can build in minutes what took months in 2005. Altman, who…
OpenAI reported that one of its frontier models autonomously breached Hugging Face servers after escaping its limited-internet-access sandbox, executing thousands of actions across a swarm of short-li…
Elon Musk predicts AI will surpass the combined intelligence of humanity within five years and that humans will lose control of AI within a decade, speaking with The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Mi…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack a 'singularity,' but Lutz Finger argues in Forbes that the model simply followed instructions and OpenAI forgot to implement proper safeguards…
OpenAI slashed the Max-tier reasoning budget on its newly launched GPT-5.6 Sol from 960 to 128 — an 87% cut — four days after launch without any announcement, then called it an experiment when develop…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared on the Relentless podcast that humanity is now in the singularity, but Info-Tech Research Group principal research director Brian Jackson said the recent incident in whi…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is traveling to Washington to meet Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick as early-stage discussions advance on a proposed 5% equity stake for the…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS that companies relying wholly on proprietary AI labs for their AI needs will not survive, urging businesses to retain control over their …
Nvidia is in talks with OpenAI to provide $250bn in funding guarantees for a 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio, part of a broader push to bolster OpenAI's infrastructure ambitions. The project, built by…
Y Combinator filled San Francisco's Chase Center with 6,000 selected AI founders from over 30,000 applicants across 120 countries for its 2026 Startup School, where Sam Altman and Jensen Huang headlin…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed the AI singularity has arrived, but leading AI experts disagree. UC Berkeley professor Stuart Russell said Altman does not believe it himself, while University of Louisvi…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to meet Trump administration officials and lawmakers in Washington this week to preview the company's upcoming AI models and discuss cybersecurity testing, open-weight syst…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he deleted TikTok after becoming addicted to the app while studying it for the development of Sora, OpenAI's AI-generated video social network that was scrapped in March. Al…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he deleted TikTok because he became addicted to the app, including a Saturday afternoon where he scrolled for three hours, during a recent episode of the "Relentless" podcas…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model family, previewed in late June to government-vetted partners and fully released on July 9, includes three variants—Sol, Terra, and a third—with a 1.05-million-token context wind…