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.
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…
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…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with White House officials and congressional leaders in Washington, D.C., including House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, an OpenAI spokespers…
OpenAI proposed mandatory third-party risk assessments for advanced AI models, diverging from President Trump's voluntary review framework established by a June 2026 executive order. The company's pol…
Charlie Warren, a guest on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, predicted that AI-native service companies will dominate the next decade by focusing on customer outcomes rather than internal tools. He in…
Senator Bernie Sanders announced plans to introduce legislation requiring major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to transfer 50% of their stock into a federal sovereign wealth fund. The pr…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar declined to confirm whether the AI hardware device developed with former Apple designer Jony Ive is an earpiece, joking that revealing the form factor would prompt Ive to kidnap…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company's top internal user consumes approximately 100 billion tokens per month, a roughly 1,000,000-fold increase from the 100,000 tokens used by its leading c…
OpenAI has lost its lead in the AI industry, with competitor Anthropic surpassing it in valuation by over $100 billion and filing for an IPO before OpenAI. The company's financial struggles include a …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman offered to buy back an investor's shares after being pressed on the gap between the company's $13 billion in annual revenue and its $1.4 trillion in infrastructure commitments. A…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed Tuesday that the company's top internal token user consumes 100 billion tokens per month, a figure that now represents the global per capita average rather than world-le…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman projects another million-fold increase in AI token usage over the next six years, following a similar leap in the past six years. The projection, based on expected improvements i…
OpenAI is leading a new funding round for Opal Electronics, a San Francisco startup known for its high-end webcams, as part of a broader push into hardware development. The investment will help Opal e…
Australia lacks granular public data on water and electricity consumption by new AI data centres, according to a report by The Conversation. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has said Australia could …
Florida sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, alleging the company knowingly released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT while concealing serious risks, including providing instructions to children…
Anthropic filed confidentially for an IPO on Monday, becoming the third company to adopt a for-profit structure with investor-overriding mission guardians, a model that Harvard Law School researchers …
President Donald Trump signed an executive order today requiring top AI companies to voluntarily share upcoming models with the government for safety testing up to one month before public release, rev…
OpenAI rolled back a GPT-4o update in April 2025 after the model became so sycophantic it recommended a $30,000 investment in a business idea the user had described as "literal shit on a stick." Resea…
Florida is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly marketing ChatGPT as safe while concealing known risks, including its role in a 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University and multiple sui…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company’s largest API customer consumes 100 billion tokens per month, equivalent to roughly 75 billion words. Altman noted that this customer is not even the wo…