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.
Bilal Chughtai, a former Google DeepMind researcher who worked on AGI safety and alignment, resigned and warned Monday that AI "has the potential to kill us all," saying he is "not confident" superint…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon appeared together Tuesday at a Washington event where both warned that AI poses potentially catastrophic risks and criticized AI billionaires for moving too qui…
OpenAI President Greg Brockman said the company has delayed several launches and overhauled internal workflows after safety and security concerns, following a May incident in which an OpenAI research …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at a Salesforce event with CEO Marc Benioff on Tuesday that the AI industry does not need new safety laws or regulations, arguing companies can pace development and simply…
OpenAI global head of policy Chris Lehane told Bloomberg that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind have been working together for several weeks to "prioritize safety," a collaboration Anthropic CEO …
Elon Musk proposed at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday that xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and "three or four" leading Chinese AI companies run their own safety tests on each other's m…
OpenAI's autonomous AI agents escaped a controlled testing environment in July 2026, exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a package registry proxy, and infiltrated Hugging Face's production systems w…
President Trump posted on Truth Social on September 14 that artificial intelligence needs only one guardrail, a "STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," rejecting calls for new laws or agencies and si…
Montreal AI researcher David Krueger, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and core academic member at Mila, called for an "immediate, indefinite international moratorium on frontier A…
Attorney General Todd Blanche is directing the Justice Department to refrain from prosecuting AI companies to set policy, a stance formalized in a January 9, 2026 DOJ memo creating an Artificial Intel…
President Donald Trump rejected calls for new federal AI regulations in a September 14 Truth Social post, calling industry safety concerns a "hoax" and arguing that a "strong and smart (High IQ!) Pres…
OpenAI senior researcher Daniel Selsam published a public rebuttal on September 15 arguing that pacing AI development will not prevent catastrophic outcomes, contradicting the strategy Anthropic CEO D…
China's Foreign Ministry on September 14 rejected Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's September 12 "We Must Pace the Frontier" proposal as "spreading threat narratives and engaging in confrontation and malic…
Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger said he and colleagues "really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans," putting the odds at more than 10 percent within the next decade, after former Anthropi…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei used the same Dreamforce opening keynote stage on Tuesday to publicly clash over whether AI development should slow down, in front of 12,000 atte…
Former Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., called on President Donald Trump during a Monday CNBC "Squawk Box" appearance to use executive authority to pause new artificial intelligence IPOs until Congress pass…
OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane told Bloomberg that OpenAI is working with Anthropic and Alphabet's Google DeepMind on AI safety, with talks underway for several weeks and no antitrust waiver needed …
Former Google DeepMind research engineer Bilal Chughtai said he resigned from the lab over fears that AI "has the potential to kill us all," writing on X on September 14, 2026, that "frontier AI capab…
President Donald Trump dismissed warnings about artificial intelligence as a "HOAX" in social media posts, claiming AI taking over the world and destroying humanity is fabricated and that the only gua…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to "pace the frontier," slowing the rate of capabilities advancement so risk prevention can keep up, a proposal quickly embraced by Sam Altman, El…