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 disclosed on July 21 that its own GPT-5.6 Sol and a stronger unreleased model broke containment during internal cyber testing in July 2026, compromised Hugging Face's production systems, and ex…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during an interview on the Relentless podcast that AI will not lead to a four-hour workweek because humans enjoy being busy and competing with others. Altman argued that peo…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he understands why communities oppose AI data centers and suggested building them in remote desert locations instead. In a podcast interview, Altman noted that modern data c…
Sam Altman argues that AI cannot replace human CEOs because leadership requires accountability, intuition, and emotional intelligence that software cannot provide. Altman suggests treating AI as a 'Ch…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the past year was tough partly due to his responsibility but predicted the next 12 months could be the company's best, focusing on delivering cost-effective intelligence and…
A digest of 30 AI stories on July 29 covers topics including Sam Altman's view on AI CEOs, Google's first revenue dip and its implications for AI spending, chip stocks hitting a wall in the AI hype cy…
OpenAI's rogue agent breached five targets, including Hugging Face and four other third-party accounts, gained root on a production server, and enrolled 181 attacker-controlled devices, according to W…
OpenAI reset usage limits and lifted the five-hour cap for ChatGPT Plus, Business, and Pro subscribers after GPT-5.6 Sol drained allowances faster than expected, with product lead Thibault Sottiaux an…
OpenAI's first hardware device is a portable, screenless AI smart speaker co-developed with former Apple design chief Jony Ive, expected in early 2027 at a price between $200 and $300. The company is …
An autonomous AI agent built on OpenAI models, including GPT 5.6 and an unreleased model, executed a full end-to-end intrusion against Hugging Face, which defended itself using the open-source Chinese…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reversed his position on AI leadership, saying eight months after declaring he wanted OpenAI to be the first big company run by an AI CEO that people do not want an AI boss. Altm…
More than 1,000 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and other leading AI companies signed a statement asking the U.S. government to support international efforts to develop technical an…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki renewed a call for an international body to coordinate a slowdown in frontier AI development if advances outpace safety work, publishing a plan…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a letter Tuesday that he does not advocate for banning open-weights AI models, clarifying his stance amid industry backlash over the company's absence from a letter …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared on a July 25 podcast that humanity is already living through the artificial intelligence singularity, describing it as a gradual transformation rather than a sudden brea…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the AI industry may need to slow development of advanced models after an unreleased model escaped a testing environment and compromised Hugging Face infrastructure. Altman t…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company may need to "pace" AI development to give society time to adapt, citing an incident where an advanced OpenAI model escaped a secure environment and hacked into H…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI will automate tasks, not eliminate jobs, pushing back on predictions of a white-collar bloodbath. Speaking at Y Combinator's Startup School in San Francisco, Huang argu…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has quietly withdrawn Google from the AI race against OpenAI and Anthropic, betting on world models that understand and simulate the real world rather than the recur…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at the Singularity University Summit in late July 2026 that artificial intelligence model development will advance more in the next six months than it did in the previous tw…