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.
The Canadian province of British Columbia is suing OpenAI, alleging the company failed to notify police after its staff flagged violent ChatGPT conversations linked to the perpetrator of a February ma…
British Columbia's Attorney General Niki Sharma announced on July 7 that the province has retained legal counsel to explore legal action against OpenAI, alleging the company failed to alert authoritie…
Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley conference in July 2026 attracted AI leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, alongside media moguls discussing deals involving Comcast, Paramou…
A federal judge appointed a mediator to resolve the legal dispute between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over OpenAI's restructuring, after a jury rejected Musk's claims that Altman betrayed OpenAI's foundi…
OpenAI has offered the US government a 5% equity stake valued at $42.6 billion, part of a broader regulatory framework proposed by CEO Sam Altman to preempt AI regulation. The move has already impacte…
Anthropic launched web and smartphone versions of its Claude Cowork AI agent, revealing that 33.4% of customers use it for business operations and 16.4% for tasks like slide decks and documents. The c…
Nobel laureate Christopher Pissarides dismissed the idea that artificial intelligence will restore rapid productivity growth in Western economies, arguing that the fast-growth years may be over. Speak…
Sam Altman is reportedly discussing giving the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI, worth roughly $320 per American household, to address concerns about AI benefiting from human work and to provide a s…
Researchers warn that generative AI may weaken critical thinking, memory, and creativity, echoing past fears about the Google effect and calculators. MIT researcher Nataliya Kosmyna argues AI poses a …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with President Trump to give the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI, worth about $42.6 billion, which could be distributed to American households as roughly $320 each…
Tech CEOs including Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have shifted from predicting AI-driven job losses to emphasizing productivity gains and worker retention, with a survey showing the share of CEOs expect…
The US government took two major steps toward regulating AI as national infrastructure this week: the FTC opened a comment period proposing that undisclosed AI output manipulation may constitute consu…
French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are personally courting tech CEOs to secure AI infrastructure investments, resulting in tens of billions of dollars in commitme…
TechCrunch published a comprehensive AI glossary defining key terms like AGI, AI agents, API endpoints, and chain-of-thought reasoning to help readers navigate the rapidly evolving field of artificial…
Two San Francisco tech founders, Elliot Roth and William Joy, attempted to implant a cockroach control kit into lobsters to allow an AI agent called OpenClaw to control their nervous systems, but all …
OpenAI has proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake worth about $42.6 billion, with CEO Sam Altman pitching the idea to President Trump and top officials. The plan aims to democratize AI's econo…
OpenAI is in early talks to give the U.S. government a 5% stake, a move that could improve relations with the Trump administration and share AI wealth with the public. The proposal, which may require …
OpenAI has proposed granting the U.S. government a 5% equity stake in the company to defuse regulatory pressure, according to reports. CEO Sam Altman pitched the plan to President Trump and other offi…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proposed donating 5% of the company's equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund to secure good relations with the administration and address political blowback, according to the Fin…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in early talks with the Trump administration about the US acquiring a 5% stake in the AI firm, a move aimed at sharing AI benefits with the public and countering negative publ…