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.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has endorsed a temporary halt on advanced artificial intelligence development, aligning with the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. G…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reversed his 2023 congressional testimony calling for a nuclear-style licensing regime for high-capability AI models, now lobbying against mandatory pre-release approvals and…
Vice President JD Vance said on the All-In podcast on September 15, 2026 that AI companies warning about their own technology should stop building it rather than lobby Washington for regulation, telli…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the world is "right to be afraid" of artificial intelligence while urging the public to "trust that we are going to do the right thing," comments that followed a week of war…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly rejected calls for government regulation of AI, arguing that safety should be left to individual companies. Zuckerberg wrote on X late Tue…
The Trump administration finalized a rule eliminating a Biden-era requirement that fossil fuel–fired power plants cut carbon dioxide emissions starting in the 2030s, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin annou…
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman publicly challenged Anthropic's training approach for its Claude chatbot, telling Reuters that teaching Claude it might deserve welfare protections would "make it a…
The Cato Institute warned in a Monday blog post that a government-mandated pause on artificial intelligence development would shield dominant firms from competition and delay beneficial technology, wi…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 13, 2026 calling for frontier AI development to slow down so safety measures can catch up, drawing endorsements within hours from O…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 calling for the AI industry to slow down, with OpenAI's Sam Altman, xAI's Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis signin…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are calling for slower development of frontier AI while pushing for Washington-Beijing talks on preventing catastrophe, according to the article. A…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said each AI company must ensure its own technology is safe, rejecting rival calls for a coordinated slowdown in advanced AI development. Zuckerberg's social media post follow…
Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders appeared together at the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, 15 September, calling for greater safeguards around artificial intelligence, while Presiden…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference on September 15 that the AI industry should be trusted to regulate its own safety, telling the audience "the world should trust that we…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he is "confident" the industry can competently police AI safety, following his earlier warnings about the technology's rapid development. RBC Capital Markets head of derivat…
President Donald Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's cellphone mid-speech at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday, dismissing fears of an AI takeover as "a hoax" and calling data centers "the…
New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin sent formal letters on September 15 inviting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to testify at a special AI safety hearing on October 5, to b…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference on Tuesday that "some degree of accidents are unavoidable with new technology," urging the AI industry to adopt an aviation-style cultu…
Internal disagreements over AI safety priorities have surfaced at OpenAI and Anthropic, with CEOs Sam Altman and Dario Amodei reportedly differing on whether to prioritize safety over development spee…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are expected to attend the White House state dinner for China's Xi Jinping next week, according to the Wall Street Journal, which reported a heavy tec…