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 CEO Sam Altman said Tuesday that AI budgeting has become a "huge issue" for some companies, citing memes about companies exhausting their annual AI budgets in the first quarter. The remark trig…
A new analysis finds that 80% of the economic value generated by large language models comes from just 20% of the tokens used. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman noted that AI budgeting has become a "huge issue" f…
Companies cited artificial intelligence as the reason for 40% of 97,006 job cuts by US-based employers in May 2026, the highest monthly total since Challenger, Gray & Christmas began tracking AI-relat…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Wednesday he does not plan to donate to any 2026 U.S. election campaigns, even as other Silicon Valley billionaires pour money into midterm races that will decide control of…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that the cost of AI tokens has become "a huge issue" for the company, as overspending on computational resources has turned into a widely discussed problem. OpenAI i…
Top AI executives including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis signed a public letter urging Congress to enact laws requiring synthetic DNA sellers and…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman identified "proactive AI" as the next major phase of artificial intelligence, describing systems that run continuously in the background and act autonomously rather than waiting …
Anthropic, SpaceX-xAI, and OpenAI are racing toward public listings this year, with Anthropic filing a confidential S-1 and SpaceX targeting a valuation between $1.25 trillion and $1.75 trillion after…
AI industry leaders including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman signed an open letter urging US lawmakers to mandate screening of synthetic DNA and RNA or…
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and other tech leaders are urging the US government to legally require screening of synthetic DNA orders. The signatories warn that AI systems now outperform …
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said artificial general intelligence capable of performing cognitive tasks at or beyond human levels is likely to arrive by 2030, ushering in a "new human era." Hass…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI labs jointly urged Congress on June 3 to mandate screening and tracking of all synthetic DNA and RNA orders in the United States, warning that large language mo…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei signed an open letter urging policymakers to require synthetic nucleic acid providers to screen orders for dangerous sequences and verify customer …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told congressional leaders and White House officials on June 3 that the company has not engaged in a "massive lobbying campaign," despite OpenAI spending $1.02 million on federal…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is urging Congress to increase federal funding for AI testing at the Commerce Department while opposing any requirement for AI companies to obtain government approval before rele…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman offered Y Combinator's current batch of startup founders $2 million in API tokens in exchange for equity, announcing the pilot program for the spring and summer 2026 batches. The…
The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft AI signed a public letter urging Congress to mandate screening of synthetic DNA and RNA orders to prevent AI-enabled development of biolog…
Anthropic published a candid post-mortem on two years of deploying Claude as an autonomous agent, detailing security challenges and containment strategies, while also announcing a partnership with KPM…
Microsoft demonstrated its independence from OpenAI at its Build developer conference by launching a family of in-house AI models, including the reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1, trained from scratch wi…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has requested a meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders, who recently proposed legislation requiring the federal government to take a 50% ownership stake in frontier AI labs. Sanders…