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.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun rejected calls by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to slow frontier AI development, saying on Monday that "fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competiti…
Bill Gates warned in a Reuters interview that no government is adequately prepared for AI-driven crises, saying "Governments are way behind on this one" and citing risks including job losses, cyberatt…
President Donald Trump dismissed warnings that artificial intelligence could destroy humanity as a 'HOAX' in Truth Social posts on Monday, 14 September, arguing that 'the only control or "guardrails" …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX and xAI founder Elon Musk have backed calls to slow the pace of frontier AI development, with Altman saying "I agree with Dario that we nee…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told President Donald Trump during an All-In Podcast call that "we're going to make sure that everybody wins in the AI race of America," taking a more nuanced position than AI …
Dreamforce 2026, Salesforce's flagship conference running September 15-17 at San Francisco's Moscone Center, will feature separate appearances by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei b…
President Donald Trump dismissed warnings that AI could lead to robots marching on U.S. cities, calling the concern a "hoax" in a Truth Social post on Monday, roughly a week after he shared an AI-gene…
Former US Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan said existing US laws already allow prosecutors to charge AI companies and their CEOs for releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products, writi…
President Donald Trump said on Truth Social Monday that the only guardrails AI needs are a "STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," rejecting calls for independent oversight after Anthropic CEO Dario …
Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff accused President Donald Trump of being "compromised" on AI, citing the First Family's financial stake through 1789 Capital, the venture firm where Donald Trump Jr. …
AI industry leaders Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis have converged on the position that the latest generation of large language models are not safe, according to MIT Technology…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI developers to slow the pace of improving advanced model capabilities in a 3,800-word blog post titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," warning that faster progress …
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old British researcher, resigned from Anthropic on Sept. 8 after three years of pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, posting on X that neither company is acting respons…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell that the company will not go public in 2026, pushing its IPO window to 2027, citing safety concerns rather than market conditions. "I…
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said the latest advances in frontier AI are an "OMG moment" for cyber crime and that countries need to "arm ourselves," speaking at the annual City of London Pol…
Anthropic chief Dario Amodei's September essay "We Must Pace the Frontier" calls for pacing AI capability advances so safety work can keep up, a position backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman and other indust…
European Union government officials will meet in Brussels on Thursday to discuss setting global rules to counter threats from new AI models, with the European Commission providing updates on EU and in…
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are discussing creating an industry-wide AI safety body to set common standards for frontier AI systems, according to a report by The Information. The talks follow Anthro…
Former U.S. President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris called for stronger oversight and a slowdown in artificial intelligence development, following a proposal by Anthropic CEO Da…
Congress has not passed any comprehensive AI legislation in the three years since Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman met with senators in September 2023, and lawmakers are unlikely to act befor…