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 is considering delaying its initial public offering until 2027 to achieve a $1 trillion valuation, according to a Bloomberg report. The delay has caused SoftBank's shares to drop 13% and affect…
Climate activist Will Lawrence, a Democratic congressional candidate in Michigan's 7th district, is leveraging local opposition to data centers to gain voter support. Internal polling shows over 40% o…
OpenAI delayed the public release of its GPT-5.6 AI model after the U.S. government requested early access under a voluntary pre-launch testing protocol from a Trump-era executive order. The delay has…
AI safety researcher and generalist published a curated reading list of 18 essays and blog posts aimed at helping generalists improve their effectiveness. The list, which includes works by Paul Graham…
OpenAI is reportedly considering delaying its IPO from late 2026 to 2027, following a confidential filing and a March 2026 funding round that valued the company at $852 billion. The potential delay, a…
OpenAI acquired Jony Ive's hardware startup io Products for $6.5 billion in May 2025, establishing a hardware division to launch AI-native devices including a screenless smart speaker in 2027 and smar…
About 40 activists gathered in New York's Sara D. Roosevelt Park to protest AI and OpenAI, calling for a boycott of ChatGPT and accusing AI companies of lobbying against regulation and attempting to b…
The US government ordered OpenAI to restrict the release of its new GPT-5.6 model, allowing access only to government-approved partners. The directive, issued by the Office of the National Cyber Direc…
OpenAI may delay its initial public offering to 2027 to stabilize its financial situation, according to reports. Prediction market odds for a 2026 IPO have dropped, with only a 24.5% probability of a …
The AI buildout is bottlenecked by energy, not a shortage of electricity, but the inability to connect data centers to the grid. The interconnection process is backlogged, with median wait times jumpi…
A new Politico report reveals that major AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are urging the Trump administration to provide clearer guidelines on what is unacceptable in AI development, even…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman delayed the release of GPT-5.6 at the government's request, reducing the probability of a June 30 launch to 1.8% and increasing expectations for a July 31 release to 88%.…
Apple vice president Paul Meade, who led the Vision Pro headset and smart glasses development, is leaving to join OpenAI's hardware team. The departure follows John Ternus' impending promotion to Appl…
The Trump administration partially reversed its suspension of Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI model, allowing over 100 vetted U.S. organizations to access it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick cited progress …
NVIDIA Corporation appears on lists of brain-computer interface stocks, but has underperformed in 2026 with a 12% year-to-date gain versus the VanEck Semiconductor ETF's 85% rise. The B200 compute pri…
OpenAI has appointed former Uber India president Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, effective September. Singh will oversee growth, partnerships, and regulatory engagement in Op…
Apple has raised prices across its product lineup, including the MacBook Pro, iPad Air, and HomePod Mini, citing increased costs driven by the AI industry's demand for memory chips. The company blames…
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act on June 18, 2026, imposing a 50% stock tax on major AI firms to create a $7 trillion public fund that would pay $1,000 annual d…
The U.S. government, through Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, has approved a limited re-release of Anthropic's Mythos 5 cybersecurity model to about 100 selected organizations while keeping the cons…
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna as a restricted preview limited to trusted partners at the request of the U.S. government, marking a shift toward government-mediated frontier AI releases.…