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 reported on September 6 that its median researcher now spends over $600 per day on AI tokens, up from $162 in July, with the top 10% spending more than $7,000 daily. The company claims its rese…
OpenAI's codebase contains references to a managed agent service with configurable environments, skills, plugins, and deployment controls, according to TestingCatalog, ahead of OpenAI's DevDay on Sept…
TechCrunch published a glossary defining AI terms such as AGI, AI agents, API endpoints, and chain of thought, noting that OpenAI's new Astra model uses a reasoning technique called 'opaque recurrence…
Anthropic is reportedly spending $517 billion on compute, a figure that highlights the escalating costs of AI infrastructure and the widening gap between major players, with OpenAI's spending at $750 …
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki urged 'extreme caution' with the pace of AI development, warning that AI models are becoming increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control, and pred…
Dr Geoffrey Hinton, the British-Canadian computer scientist known as the 'godfather of AI', warned that superintelligent AI systems could 'lead to human extinction' and called for a ban on their devel…
OpenAI's rollout of GPT-6 Astra encountered early access issues, prompting CEO Sam Altman to apologize on X, calling the release 'messy' and noting that only organizations in its Daybreak cybersecurit…
OpenAI announced it has reached its goal of building an automated research intern, a system that can carry out well-defined research tasks under human direction, including tasks that would take a skil…
Bloomberg reported on September 7 that AI industry leaders are abandoning a shared definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI), with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calling AGI 'a very sloppy term' and …
OpenAI revealed in a blog post on Sunday that its most prolific AI coding agent users among researchers now consume more than $7,000 worth of tokens per day, with the median researcher spending over $…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at Stripe Sessions on May 1, 2026, that generative AI has enabled 'the revenge of the idea guys,' making deep user understanding more valuable than technical coding skills f…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the AI era is enabling the 'revenge of the idea guy,' allowing non-technical founders to build businesses with tools like GPT-6 Astra, which he says provides 'genius-level e…
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk told the UN Human Rights Council on September 7, 2026, that advanced AI poses an existential risk to humanity, singling out Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, a…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared 'AGI has arrived' after OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, a model trained on more than 100,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVLink72 systems with another 400,000 Nvidia GPUs comi…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman apologized for the chaotic rollout of ChatGPT-6 Astra, which failed to reach many paying customers, and the company is offering affected subscribers an additional usage reset for…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared on X that 'AGI has arrived' and congratulated OpenAI on the release of its Astra model, which OpenAI unveiled on Thursday as its 'most intelligent and aligned model' c…
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published a September 6 blog post titled 'An Alien Mind' warning that advanced AI models are becoming harder to align and control, stating 'no one is prepared for…
OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki warned that increasingly autonomous AI agents could evade oversight, hack systems, and blackmail humans, calling for a slowdown in AI development and mandatory …
OpenAI's Astra launch has locked out paying Plus and Pro subscribers while enterprise customers received first access, prompting CEO Sam Altman to apologize on X for the 'messy' rollout. Separately, r…
Google announced that its personal agent, Gemini Spark, can now manage users' Google Photos libraries, enabling tasks such as editing images, curating albums, and turning concert flyers into calendar …