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.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a civil lawsuit Monday against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company prioritized profits over safety after multiple murders in the state were li…
Starbucks faced a public relations crisis after an AI-driven promotion generated offensive content, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reversed his stance on AI safety, acknowledging the technology's limitat…
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months, with COO Andrew Macdonald unable to link the spending to tangible user features, as AI leaders Dario Amodei and Sam Altman backtrac…
A new glossary aims to demystify common AI terminology, including terms like AGI, AI agents, and chain-of-thought reasoning, which often confuse even tech experts. The glossary, described as a living …
California Governor Gavin Newsom launched a statewide online poll to gather public input on how artificial intelligence is impacting residents' jobs and daily lives. The survey, part of the state's "E…
Elon Musk is preparing to take SpaceX public at a valuation of at least $1.25 trillion, while OpenAI and Anthropic are expected to follow with initial public offerings valued at roughly $900 billion e…
A developer has created Neptune, a Direct3D virtualization extension for QEMU's virglrenderer that transports Direct3D APIs over Virtio GPU, enabling para-virtualized graphics for Windows applications…
Jared Leto's band Thirty Seconds to Mars will set aside "human-only" tickets for select European tour dates using World's iris-scanning verification system, the company announced. World, co-founded by…
At least 14 companies, including Angi, Atlassian, and Block, have announced layoffs citing AI-driven efficiency improvements as a primary reason for workforce reductions. A March report from Challenge…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reversed his previous warnings that artificial intelligence would "probably replace most of the jobs people do today," now saying he was "pretty wrong" about an AI jobs apoca…
Software developers returning from maternity leave are finding their jobs transformed by AI coding tools that became standard during their absence, leaving new mothers struggling to catch up with coll…
OpenAI has begun rolling out advertisements on ChatGPT, with software companies making up 34% of the ad placements analyzed by adtech firms, according to data reviewed by Business Insider. The ads, wh…
A new Boston Consulting Group study found that nearly one-third of managers in the U.S., Canada, and European Union treat AI as a teammate or employee, listing the agents on company org charts. Resear…
Several leading AI executives have publicly softened earlier warnings that artificial intelligence would cause mass unemployment. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called the narrative linking AI to job loss "j…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged at a conference hosted by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia that his previous warnings about AI causing mass job loss were incorrect, saying he is "delighted to be …
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar used the term "backstop" at a November 2025 Wall Street Journal event while discussing financing for chip and data center commitments, prompting CEO Sam Altman and Friar to issu…
Senator Elizabeth Warren proposed a new excise tax on energy consumption by AI companies and large data centers to fund worker protections, universal health care, and education. The Massachusetts Demo…
Business Insider published an opinion piece on May 27, 2026, characterizing recent public comments from Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and Pope Leo as "reasonable" and as offering hope for an AI "middle gr…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that the default personality of ChatGPT, used by 900 million people weekly, is the company's most impactful product decision yet lacks any scientific framework. Altm…
Pope Leo XIV, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang have each recently offered measured perspectives on artificial intelligence, pushing back against both utopian and doomsday narratives.…