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.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said artificial general intelligence capable of performing cognitive tasks at or beyond human levels is likely to arrive by 2030, ushering in a "new human era." Hass…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI labs jointly urged Congress on June 3 to mandate screening and tracking of all synthetic DNA and RNA orders in the United States, warning that large language mo…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei signed an open letter urging policymakers to require synthetic nucleic acid providers to screen orders for dangerous sequences and verify customer …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told congressional leaders and White House officials on June 3 that the company has not engaged in a "massive lobbying campaign," despite OpenAI spending $1.02 million on federal…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is urging Congress to increase federal funding for AI testing at the Commerce Department while opposing any requirement for AI companies to obtain government approval before rele…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman offered Y Combinator's current batch of startup founders $2 million in API tokens in exchange for equity, announcing the pilot program for the spring and summer 2026 batches. The…
The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft AI signed a public letter urging Congress to mandate screening of synthetic DNA and RNA orders to prevent AI-enabled development of biolog…
Microsoft demonstrated its independence from OpenAI at its Build developer conference by launching a family of in-house AI models, including the reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1, trained from scratch wi…
Anthropic published a candid post-mortem on two years of deploying Claude as an autonomous agent, detailing security challenges and containment strategies, while also announcing a partnership with KPM…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has requested a meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders, who recently proposed legislation requiring the federal government to take a 50% ownership stake in frontier AI labs. Sanders…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with White House officials and congressional leaders in Washington, D.C., including House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, an OpenAI spokespers…
OpenAI proposed mandatory third-party risk assessments for advanced AI models, diverging from President Trump's voluntary review framework established by a June 2026 executive order. The company's pol…
Charlie Warren, a guest on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, predicted that AI-native service companies will dominate the next decade by focusing on customer outcomes rather than internal tools. He in…
Senator Bernie Sanders announced plans to introduce legislation requiring major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to transfer 50% of their stock into a federal sovereign wealth fund. The pr…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar declined to confirm whether the AI hardware device developed with former Apple designer Jony Ive is an earpiece, joking that revealing the form factor would prompt Ive to kidnap…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company's top internal user consumes approximately 100 billion tokens per month, a roughly 1,000,000-fold increase from the 100,000 tokens used by its leading c…
OpenAI has lost its lead in the AI industry, with competitor Anthropic surpassing it in valuation by over $100 billion and filing for an IPO before OpenAI. The company's financial struggles include a …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman offered to buy back an investor's shares after being pressed on the gap between the company's $13 billion in annual revenue and its $1.4 trillion in infrastructure commitments. A…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed Tuesday that the company's top internal token user consumes 100 billion tokens per month, a figure that now represents the global per capita average rather than world-le…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman projects another million-fold increase in AI token usage over the next six years, following a similar leap in the past six years. The projection, based on expected improvements i…