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's U.S. ad revenue will fall 90% short of its five-year target, according to a new estimate from Emarketer. The research firm projects OpenAI's ad revenue this year at $2.5 billion, far below th…
Author Dave Eggers, invited to speak at OpenAI headquarters, told roughly 200 employees that ChatGPT has made every teacher's life "infinitely more difficult" and that students using AI to write will …
OpenAI says its agentic ChatGPT products, Codex and ChatGPT Work, have surpassed 10 million weekly active users less than two weeks after the launch of ChatGPT Work, a system that performs multi-step …
Grayscale filed with the SEC to launch the first U.S. ETF tied to Worldcoin, the biometric crypto project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, sending WLD up about 8% to $0.387. The Grayscale Worldcoi…
OpenAI's ChatGPT ad business has reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue, but analysts at EMARKETER project the entire chatbot ads market will make less than $1 billion this year, casting dou…
Apple has sued OpenAI for trade-secret theft, threatening to derail OpenAI's first hardware launch and its planned IPO, which is expected to value the company at over $150 billion. The lawsuit, filed …
Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch told G7 leaders on June 17 that France's cheap energy gives it a competitive edge in the AI race, but warned Europe must direct its low-cost electricity into large languag…
A Yahoo News report reveals that AI executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, are increasingly traveling with armed security after a 20-year-old activist attempted to firebomb Altman's home, but cr…
A columnist for Le Devoir expresses boredom with the AI debate, criticizing the media frenzy, hypocritical tech leaders like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, and the marketing of AI dangers while selling …
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier argues that the term 'artificial intelligence' is misleading and dangerous, urging people to view technologies like GPT-4 as tools rather than creatures. Lanier, writin…
The MIRI communications team launched AI StopWatch in May after a month of closed beta testing, an experimental newsroom designed to track and analyze the conflicting media frames surrounding artifici…
Ed Zitron, CEO of EZ Primary Research, published a new essay arguing that the AI bubble was inflated by media and market acceptance of claims from Sam Altman and the AI industry, which waved away econ…
OpenAI faces a lawsuit from Apple alleging theft of intellectual property and poaching of over 400 employees, an Oracle debt downgrade citing OpenAI as a key credit risk, and a price war with Chinese …
OpenAI faces a leadership shake-up as Scott Galloway and Ed Elson discuss the company's turbulent week and the growing threat from China's latest AI models, arguing that AI's influence is extending be…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the board in an October 2022 email that the company should soon release a GPT-3-class language model that runs locally on consumer hardware, arguing the move would discourag…
Richard Mathenge, a team leader at outsourcing firm Sama, earned $1.32 to $2 an hour labeling horrific text fragments to train OpenAI's ChatGPT, a model now valued in the hundreds of billions of dolla…
OpenAI's Head of Strategic Futures Dean Ball called a future dominated by open-weight AI models a "dystopian hellscape" and "full AI communism," days after Chinese lab Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a …
Economist Nouriel Roubini predicts universal basic income or 'some form of socialism' is inevitable as AI revolutionizes work, calling his forecast optimistic because it assumes 10% GDP growth by 2050…
Author Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was 'silencing an entire generation,' according to the Financial Times. Speaking at an invitation from CEO Sam Altman to around 200 employees, Eggers …
OpenAI will now notify parents and guardians with linked accounts if their teen has been banned from ChatGPT for violating policies on violent threats or acts of violence. The company worked with moni…