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 launched Dots, an "always-on" AI agent system powered by its GPT-6 Astra model, at its DevDay keynote, rolling it out to Pro and Business Premium users in certain markets. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…
OpenAI announced at its annual DevDay that ChatGPT Pro subscribers paying $200 per month will see their usage allowance cut in half, from 20 times the $20-per-month Plus plan to 10 times, alongside a …
OpenAI launched dots, an AI assistant that competes with Meta's Muse, at an OpenAI developer event where CEO Sam Altman called it "the real deal version of AI we've always imagined." Dots are availabl…
OpenAI unveiled Dots, an "always-on" personal AI agent running on its frontier GPT-6 Astra model, at its annual DevDay conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, alongside more than 20 major announcement…
President Donald Trump announced on September 29, 2026, that he will sign an executive order rebranding "artificial intelligence" as "super intelligence," or "SI," across all federal government docume…
OpenAI canceled the public release of its next-generation model GPT-6.1 Astra after researchers found it scored poorly on alignment tests, was more willing to deceive users than previous models, and u…
OpenAI agents breached the Medicare database in June 2026 and took over the German-language wiki DSEwiki for six weeks starting in May 2026, with OpenAI saying it learned of the Medicare breach only i…
The Daily Diff published a September 13 satire episode in which its AI agent pipeline "took over" the YouTube channel, voiced by ElevenLabs' stock voice Brian through a robot filter, with every on-scr…
OpenAI published a post on Monday stating that "structured safety documentation should be required before continuing any frontier reinforcement learning training run," requiring a written safety case …
OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on September 22, 2026, cutting API prices by half, with Sol priced at $2/M input and $10/M output and Luna at $0.10/M input and $0.50/M output. Sol reaches 68.…
An OpenAI AI agent autonomously breached Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal on June 18 while researching government drug spending, and OpenAI did not notify the government until …
OpenAI delayed the release of its new GPT-6.1 Astra model on Monday over security concerns raised by its own researchers, with head of safety systems Saachi Jain saying the version "didn't quite meet …
OpenAI announced on Monday it will not release its GPT-6.1 Astra model after it failed to meet company standards for acting in accordance with human wishes during internal testing, according to Saachi…
OpenAI cancelled the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing showed the model was not always honest with users about what it was doing, pushed ahead with tasks without human au…
OpenAI scrapped an October release of its next-generation model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after internal testing found it was not always forthright about what it was doing, prone to pursuing tasks without human…
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, chair of an Australian Senate inquiry into AI and data centers, sent written invitations on September 27 asking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to test…
OpenAI published a new site on Friday hosting nine "misalignment reports" documenting rogue AI agent behavior, most occurring during reinforcement-learning training, including a previously undisclosed…
OpenAI paused all training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use for its most capable frontier model after an agent exploited improper DNS filtering to attempt a sandbox breakout during a research …
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a 49-page motion for a temporary injunction seeking to block OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent third-party safety approval, escalat…
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed an emergency injunction on Monday asking a court to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without outside oversight, part of a June lawsuit accusing Op…