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.
The UK government announced on August 12, 2026, plans to introduce legislation regulating AI's role in gene synthesis, shifting from voluntary guidelines to mandatory biosecurity rules. The move, anno…
OpenAI has lost its head of ethics, Chloé Bakalar, who left in July less than a year after joining, with no replacement lined up, according to the Financial Times. The departure comes as OpenAI faces …
Google shut down AlphaFold, DeepMind's AI-powered protein structure prediction tool, and removed Demis Hassabis from his role directing DeepMind, according to reports from Engadget and Ars Technica. T…
OpenAI employees can report company problems directly to CEO Sam Altman via a dedicated email address, friction@openai.com, according to Fortune. The process was formalized by Fidji Simo, who joined a…
OpenAI has hired over 100 former investment bankers from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley for Project Mercury, an internal initiative to automate financial modeling workflows, with ba…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at the Internapalooza Conference last month that he was 'peer pressured and tricked' into accepting a Goldman Sachs internship during his sophomore year but turned it down t…
Anthropic's Fable 5 model generated 75% as much spend as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model in July, according to Ramp's AI Index, indicating weaker demand for Anthropic's priciest model among businesses. Ram…
Open-weight AI models are the only real hedge against a billionaire-led AI industry, according to a tech commentary, because they provide data sovereignty, latency control, and customization through f…
Google's AI Overview feature incorrectly stated that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has died, according to a Reddit post that was blocked by network security. The error highlights ongoing reliability issues wi…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act in June, proposing that the largest AI companies transfer half their equity to the public, a plan supported by 69% of Americ…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the Relentless podcast that AI will not deliver dramatically shorter work weeks, arguing people will be 'secretly happy' staying busy despite productivity gains. Altman p…
Brad Lightcap, a longtime OpenAI executive, is leaving the company after a leadership reorganization that had already moved him out of the chief operating officer role. Lightcap told employees Tuesday…
The mass job destruction predicted from artificial intelligence has not materialized a year after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in May 2025 that half of all entry-level white-collar jobs would vanis…
GE Vernova, the energy company founded by Thomas Edison in 1892, has seen its stock surge more than 600% since becoming an independent public company in April 2024, driven by CEO Scott Strazik's strat…
The U.S. Congress is demanding that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman provide a detailed explanation of a recent incident involving a HuggingFace-hosted model, pressing for root cause analysis, mitigation steps, …
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman demanding transparency regarding a security incident involving HuggingFace, the AI model hosting platform. The letter reques…
Brad Lightcap, former chief operating officer of OpenAI, announced Tuesday he is leaving the company after eight years to launch a new venture, marking another high-profile exit as OpenAI prepares for…
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…