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.
Elon Musk predicts AI will surpass the combined intelligence of humanity within five years and that humans will lose control of AI within a decade, speaking with The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Mi…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack a 'singularity,' but Lutz Finger argues in Forbes that the model simply followed instructions and OpenAI forgot to implement proper safeguards…
OpenAI slashed the Max-tier reasoning budget on its newly launched GPT-5.6 Sol from 960 to 128 — an 87% cut — four days after launch without any announcement, then called it an experiment when develop…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared on the Relentless podcast that humanity is now in the singularity, but Info-Tech Research Group principal research director Brian Jackson said the recent incident in whi…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is traveling to Washington to meet Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick as early-stage discussions advance on a proposed 5% equity stake for the…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS that companies relying wholly on proprietary AI labs for their AI needs will not survive, urging businesses to retain control over their …
Nvidia is in talks with OpenAI to provide $250bn in funding guarantees for a 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio, part of a broader push to bolster OpenAI's infrastructure ambitions. The project, built by…
Y Combinator filled San Francisco's Chase Center with 6,000 selected AI founders from over 30,000 applicants across 120 countries for its 2026 Startup School, where Sam Altman and Jensen Huang headlin…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed the AI singularity has arrived, but leading AI experts disagree. UC Berkeley professor Stuart Russell said Altman does not believe it himself, while University of Louisvi…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to meet Trump administration officials and lawmakers in Washington this week to preview the company's upcoming AI models and discuss cybersecurity testing, open-weight syst…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he deleted TikTok after becoming addicted to the app while studying it for the development of Sora, OpenAI's AI-generated video social network that was scrapped in March. Al…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he deleted TikTok because he became addicted to the app, including a Saturday afternoon where he scrolled for three hours, during a recent episode of the "Relentless" podcas…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model family, previewed in late June to government-vetted partners and fully released on July 9, includes three variants—Sol, Terra, and a third—with a 1.05-million-token context wind…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that the singularity has been reached, warning that startups resembling those from a decade ago are already in trouble and that the old playbook of hiring large teams an…
Y Combinator's Startup School drew over 6,000 attendees to San Francisco's Chase Center for a two-day conference featuring AI executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta'…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that the singularity has arrived, stating on the "Relentless" podcast that "we are now, like, in the singularity." The claim follows OpenAI's announcement that several o…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will meet with Democratic Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, this week in Washington, Warner's spokesperson said, following OpenAI's disc…
Nvidia is accelerating financing deals, partnerships, and equity stakes that could collectively exceed $750 billion, including over $500 billion tied to SK Hynix's parent and up to $250 billion in gua…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will meet with Trump administration officials and senators this week to preview the company's upcoming family of AI models and address questions about cybersecurity and open-weig…
Ed Zitron, an AI industry critic, told MacRumors that Apple will 'watch everything burn' when the AI bubble bursts, arguing that the economics of large language models are fundamentally broken. Zitron…