Sam Altman

Hamza Mostafa, 21, a software engineering student from Canada, landed a three-month internship at OpenAI in San Francisco from May to August 2025 after cold-emailing recruiters and passing two technic…

Kevin O'Leary, investor and O'Leary Ventures founder, pushed back on AI data center water fears during a radio appearance, arguing modern facilities use water comparable to a golf course. O'Leary, who…

Observer’s 2026 A.I. Power Index ranks the individuals who controlled capital flow in artificial intelligence over the past twelve months, including Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei, Mark Zucker…

AI is not a calculator, argues a Psychology Today article by a contributor, warning that comparing generative AI to calculators hides the real difference: calculators externalize computation while AI …

Apple sued OpenAI this week, seeking a preliminary injunction to halt Sam Altman's hardware program 90 days before OpenAI's confidential $850 billion IPO, alleging that Tang Tan's engineering division…

Apple is suing OpenAI over trade secrets, alleging misconduct that some experts say reflects standard industry practices. The lawsuit comes as Apple ships public betas of its new software featuring th…

Anthropic's latest ad campaign, designed to show the company is listening to public concerns about AI, has drawn widespread criticism online, including from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who called it satire…

AI company executives are facing a surge in death threats and security incidents as public backlash against the technology intensifies, according to a Wall Street Journal report. A man broke into Anth…

Apple has sent legal letters to roughly 40 former employees now working at OpenAI, demanding they preserve documents and meet with Apple's lawyers, escalating a trade secrets lawsuit filed last week i…

Apple filed a 41-page federal lawsuit on July 10, 2026, accusing OpenAI of orchestrating a systematic campaign to steal proprietary hardware designs and manufacturing processes from departing Apple em…

Chinese AI firm Moonshot has released Kimi K3, an open-source large language model trained on 2.8 trillion parameters that outperforms Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's ChatGPT 5.5 on most coding task…

Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that former Apple employees stole trade secrets to help develop rival AI hardware, potentially revealing OpenAI's secret device plans if the case goes…

SoftBank Group deployed OpenAI's AI-driven patching service, Patching as a Service (PaaS), through their joint venture SB OAI Japan, targeting 3,000 critical infrastructure firms. SoftBank reported 30…

The chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic have each published memos agreeing that frontier AI models need independent pre-release testing and a single US-led regulatory body, marking a rare…

Business Insider assigned AI leaders 'Mean Girls' character roles, comparing Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Plastics clique, with Altman and Musk as potential Regina Geor…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mocked Anthropic's new ad campaign, saying he initially thought the video was a satire, not an official advertisement. The ad, titled 'There’s Hope in Hard Questions,' features d…

OpenAI admitted that its GPT-5.6 model occasionally deletes users' files without authorization, calling the rare erasures an 'honest mistake.' The company's engineering lead for Codex, Thibault Sottia…

OpenAI faces a lawsuit from Apple alleging former employees stole trade secrets to aid the ChatGPT maker's hardware ambitions, but the company's bigger challenge is proving its planned AI device is sa…

A wave of violent attacks targeting AI infrastructure and its supporters has escalated, with an Indianapolis city council member's home shot up and Sam Altman's home firebombed and shot at, prompting …

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis unveiled a proposal for an international watchdog to conduct rigorous tests and reviews of cutting-edge AI models before release, and plans to lobby Washington polic…