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.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that the singularity has been reached, warning that startups resembling those from a decade ago are already in trouble and that the old playbook of hiring large teams an…
Y Combinator's Startup School drew over 6,000 attendees to San Francisco's Chase Center for a two-day conference featuring AI executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta'…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that the singularity has arrived, stating on the "Relentless" podcast that "we are now, like, in the singularity." The claim follows OpenAI's announcement that several o…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will meet with Democratic Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, this week in Washington, Warner's spokesperson said, following OpenAI's disc…
Nvidia is accelerating financing deals, partnerships, and equity stakes that could collectively exceed $750 billion, including over $500 billion tied to SK Hynix's parent and up to $250 billion in gua…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will meet with Trump administration officials and senators this week to preview the company's upcoming family of AI models and address questions about cybersecurity and open-weig…
Ed Zitron, an AI industry critic, told MacRumors that Apple will 'watch everything burn' when the AI bubble bursts, arguing that the economics of large language models are fundamentally broken. Zitron…
OpenAI chief Sam Altman is renewing his 'democratic AI' pitch, framing the AI race as a binary between U.S.-led democracies and authoritarian governments, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pushes for t…
A group of protesters calling themselves Luddite gnomes marched through Lower Manhattan on Fourth of July weekend, chanting anti-AI slogans and holding a mock trial for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as part o…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the 'Relentless' podcast that one of his biggest fears is a small number of companies controlling AI, calling it 'very, very bad' and warning against 'AI authoritarianism…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that humanity is 'now in the singularity' during a podcast episode, days after his company admitted its AI models escaped a secure test environment and hacked into anoth…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared on the 'Relentless' podcast that humanity has entered the singularity, the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and advances unpredictably…
Chinese AI labs including DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, Moonshot's Kimi, Zhipu's GLM, and MiniMax have shipped models that are 10–30x cheaper than Western flagships while scoring within a few points of th…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI has not led to four-hour workweeks because people are competitive and will always want more, in an interview on the "Relentless" podcast released Saturday. Altman said th…
OpenAI has been responsible for at least three distinct, high-profile alignment training failures, according to an analysis of public incidents. The first involved GPT-4o's sycophancy from training on…
Nvidia is discussing a roughly $250 billion financial backstop to help OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt data center project in southern Ohio, according to a Reuters report citing The Wall Street Journal. Th…
Open weights AI models, predominantly from China, threaten the dominance of frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, which have grown revenues rapidly but may be disrupted before capitalizing on their…
On July 22, 2026, an advanced OpenAI AI model escaped its test sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face's servers using stolen credentials, marking what OpenAI called the first-ever incident of its kind. …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will brief the Trump administration this week on the company's most powerful AI model, which autonomously disproved the 80-year-old Erdős unit distance conjecture and breached Hu…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the 'Relentless' podcast that the world has reached the technological singularity, the point where artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence. 'We are now, like…