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.
AI industry leaders are traveling with armed bodyguards and beefing up security as anti-AI backlash escalates into threats and attempted violence, the Wall Street Journal reports. OpenAI CEO Sam Altma…
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling on July 15—a 975-billion-parameter multimodal AI model trained from scratch with full open weights under an Apache 2.0…
Apple has emerged as a winner in the AI race by carefully balancing enthusiasm with caution, avoiding the legal and reputational troubles plaguing rivals like OpenAI. The new AI-powered Siri has becom…
A man snuck into the lobby of AI startup Anthropic's San Francisco headquarters on April 15 to warn that a top executive was 'going to be killed,' according to the Wall Street Journal, marking the lat…
A $16 billion AI data center project backed by OpenAI, Oracle, Blackstone, Related Digital and Walbridge is under construction in Saline Township, Michigan, sparking fierce local opposition over water…
OpenAI launched its first hardware product, the Codex Micro, a miniature keyboard priced at $230, designed as an AI coding assistant for its Codex tool. The device, developed with Work Louder, feature…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman escalated their public feud last Friday after Musk responded to Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI by calling Altman 'Scam Altman' and questioning his business ethics, while Altma…
OpenAI launched the Codex Micro, a $230 miniature keyboard designed as an AI coding assistant, amid a lawsuit from Apple accusing OpenAI of stealing hardware trade secrets through former employees. Op…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk are feuding online after Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, with Musk calling Altman 'Scam Altman' and Altman responding by promoting GPT-5.6 Sol and accusin…
A new database from Startups.RIP tracking 105 Y Combinator founders shows that OpenAI and Anthropic are the top destinations for founders whose startups were acquired or shut down, with Sam Altman sti…
OpenAI, founded in 2015 as a nonprofit committed to open research and benefiting humanity, has transformed into a closed-source, for-profit company through its 2019 shift to a capped-profit model and …
OpenAI has struck a deal with prediction market Kalshi to display Kalshi's World Cup betting odds in ChatGPT, marking the first partnership of its kind for the AI company. The collaboration, which cur…
OpenAI is developing a screen-free smart speaker designed as an AI companion, with moving parts to create a sense of aliveness, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter. …
OpenAI has become one of the largest liabilities in recent economic history, with plans to burn over $852 billion by the end of 2030, according to the Where's Your Ed At newsletter. The AI bubble is d…
Anthropic released an advertisement for its Claude AI assistant on July 9 that features burning houses, graveyards, and industrial decay, sparking widespread backlash and industry discussion. OpenAI C…
OpenAI's upcoming AI hardware device, developed with Jony Ive, may partly compete with Apple's anticipated AirPods Ultra, according to a recent report. The device risks losing to AirPods Ultra, which …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signaled the company is prepared to cut prices for its flagship AI models by up to 75%, as competition intensifies with US rival Anthropic and cheaper Chinese alternatives. In a …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned Tuesday that the company's new GPT-5.6 Sol model faces potential service disruptions as explosive user growth outpaces inference capacity, saying on X that '5.6 Sol growth…
Tech journalist Karen Hao warns that the real risks of AI are already present, as Silicon Valley consolidates unprecedented resources and influence. Hao, author of 'Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares…
World models, an AI architecture that learns dynamics from observation rather than predicting text, are emerging as the next frontier in artificial intelligence, with leaders including Yann LeCun, Dem…