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 MIRI communications team launched AI StopWatch in May after a month of closed beta testing, an experimental newsroom designed to track and analyze the conflicting media frames surrounding artifici…
Ed Zitron, CEO of EZ Primary Research, published a new essay arguing that the AI bubble was inflated by media and market acceptance of claims from Sam Altman and the AI industry, which waved away econ…
OpenAI faces a lawsuit from Apple alleging theft of intellectual property and poaching of over 400 employees, an Oracle debt downgrade citing OpenAI as a key credit risk, and a price war with Chinese …
OpenAI faces a leadership shake-up as Scott Galloway and Ed Elson discuss the company's turbulent week and the growing threat from China's latest AI models, arguing that AI's influence is extending be…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the board in an October 2022 email that the company should soon release a GPT-3-class language model that runs locally on consumer hardware, arguing the move would discourag…
Richard Mathenge, a team leader at outsourcing firm Sama, earned $1.32 to $2 an hour labeling horrific text fragments to train OpenAI's ChatGPT, a model now valued in the hundreds of billions of dolla…
OpenAI's Head of Strategic Futures Dean Ball called a future dominated by open-weight AI models a "dystopian hellscape" and "full AI communism," days after Chinese lab Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a …
Economist Nouriel Roubini predicts universal basic income or 'some form of socialism' is inevitable as AI revolutionizes work, calling his forecast optimistic because it assumes 10% GDP growth by 2050…
Author Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was 'silencing an entire generation,' according to the Financial Times. Speaking at an invitation from CEO Sam Altman to around 200 employees, Eggers …
OpenAI will now notify parents and guardians with linked accounts if their teen has been banned from ChatGPT for violating policies on violent threats or acts of violence. The company worked with moni…
Hamza Mostafa, 21, a software engineering student from Canada, landed a three-month internship at OpenAI in San Francisco from May to August 2025 after cold-emailing recruiters and passing two technic…
Kevin O'Leary, investor and O'Leary Ventures founder, pushed back on AI data center water fears during a radio appearance, arguing modern facilities use water comparable to a golf course. O'Leary, who…
Observer’s 2026 A.I. Power Index ranks the individuals who controlled capital flow in artificial intelligence over the past twelve months, including Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei, Mark Zucker…
AI is not a calculator, argues a Psychology Today article by a contributor, warning that comparing generative AI to calculators hides the real difference: calculators externalize computation while AI …
Apple sued OpenAI this week, seeking a preliminary injunction to halt Sam Altman's hardware program 90 days before OpenAI's confidential $850 billion IPO, alleging that Tang Tan's engineering division…
Apple is suing OpenAI over trade secrets, alleging misconduct that some experts say reflects standard industry practices. The lawsuit comes as Apple ships public betas of its new software featuring th…
Anthropic's latest ad campaign, designed to show the company is listening to public concerns about AI, has drawn widespread criticism online, including from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who called it satire…
AI company executives are facing a surge in death threats and security incidents as public backlash against the technology intensifies, according to a Wall Street Journal report. A man broke into Anth…
Apple has sent legal letters to roughly 40 former employees now working at OpenAI, demanding they preserve documents and meet with Apple's lawyers, escalating a trade secrets lawsuit filed last week i…
Apple filed a 41-page federal lawsuit on July 10, 2026, accusing OpenAI of orchestrating a systematic campaign to steal proprietary hardware designs and manufacturing processes from departing Apple em…