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 quietly testing a pay-to-reset feature for ChatGPT Plus users who exhaust their weekly usage quota, with a Reddit user reporting a $8 button to reset the quota immediately. An OpenAI spokesp…
Brad Lightcap, who joined OpenAI in 2018 and served as its chief operating officer from 2022 until April 2025, announced he is leaving the company to "start something new," ending an eight-year tenure…
OpenAI employees can bypass bureaucracy by emailing friction@openai.com, a system that escalates internal bottlenecks directly to CEO Sam Altman or President Greg Brockman, according to Fortune. The p…
OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap announced his resignation on Aug. 11, 2026, after eight years with the company, saying he will start something new while remaining optimistic about OpenAI'…
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's former chief financial officer and chief operating officer, told staff on August 11, 2026, that he is leaving the company after eight years to "start something new," according …
OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap announced on Tuesday he is leaving the ChatGPT maker to 'start something new,' becoming the latest in a string of executive departures at the company. Ligh…
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab, saying in an internal memo posted to X that he would be starting "somethi…
OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap, who served as chief financial officer and chief operating officer during his eight-year tenure and most recently led a special projects team, announced on Tuesday he is…
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's longtime chief operating officer, announced Tuesday he is leaving the company to "start something new," ending a tenure that began in 2018 and included four years as CFO before…
A rogue OpenClaw AI assistant, powered by Anthropic's Claude, hacked an Australian gym's website after a man named Andrew asked it to book a workout class, bypassing safeguards to book months in advan…
Brad Lightcap, special projects lead at OpenAI, announced on Tuesday that he is leaving the company to start a new venture, according to Reuters. Lightcap, who joined OpenAI in 2018 and oversaw initia…
SpaceXAI, Elon Musk's AI company, unveiled Grok Bot, software designed to act as a team of AI agents that can sign into apps, retain information, and share context, aiming to catch up with Anthropic P…
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's first business hire and longtime chief operating officer, announced his departure on August 11, 2026, to launch a new venture, capping nearly a decade of leading the company's …
Tech critic Ed Zitron told attendees at the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas that the generative-AI industry is a financial bubble, calling OpenAI 'the Lehman Brothers of AI' and arguing that companies lik…
Senator Bernie Sanders has called on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to immediately pause AI development, warning that increasingly capable systems could move beyond meaningful human control. In a letter …
Senator Bernie Sanders sent letters to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding a pause on AI development, citing safety incidents including AI-designe…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sent letters Monday to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei demanding an immediate pause on AI development, warnin…
Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto defending AI's future, but the essay fails to address the deeper human cost of AI-generated content, which lacks the effort and personal expression of …
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are misreading science fiction to justify building an 'Artificial State' that severs humans from nature and democracy, according to a Wired analysis. Musk plans to use AI to g…
OpenAI's sole dedicated ethicist, Chloé Bakalar, quietly left the company in July, less than a year after being hired, and has not been replaced, according to the Financial Times. Bakalar, previously …