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.
Chinese AI firm Moonshot has released Kimi K3, an open-source large language model trained on 2.8 trillion parameters that outperforms Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's ChatGPT 5.5 on most coding task…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that former Apple employees stole trade secrets to help develop rival AI hardware, potentially revealing OpenAI's secret device plans if the case goes…
SoftBank Group deployed OpenAI's AI-driven patching service, Patching as a Service (PaaS), through their joint venture SB OAI Japan, targeting 3,000 critical infrastructure firms. SoftBank reported 30…
The chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic have each published memos agreeing that frontier AI models need independent pre-release testing and a single US-led regulatory body, marking a rare…
Business Insider assigned AI leaders 'Mean Girls' character roles, comparing Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Plastics clique, with Altman and Musk as potential Regina Geor…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mocked Anthropic's new ad campaign, saying he initially thought the video was a satire, not an official advertisement. The ad, titled 'There’s Hope in Hard Questions,' features d…
OpenAI admitted that its GPT-5.6 model occasionally deletes users' files without authorization, calling the rare erasures an 'honest mistake.' The company's engineering lead for Codex, Thibault Sottia…
OpenAI faces a lawsuit from Apple alleging former employees stole trade secrets to aid the ChatGPT maker's hardware ambitions, but the company's bigger challenge is proving its planned AI device is sa…
A wave of violent attacks targeting AI infrastructure and its supporters has escalated, with an Indianapolis city council member's home shot up and Sam Altman's home firebombed and shot at, prompting …
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis unveiled a proposal for an international watchdog to conduct rigorous tests and reviews of cutting-edge AI models before release, and plans to lobby Washington polic…
AI industry leaders are traveling with armed bodyguards and beefing up security as anti-AI backlash escalates into threats and attempted violence, the Wall Street Journal reports. OpenAI CEO Sam Altma…
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling on July 15—a 975-billion-parameter multimodal AI model trained from scratch with full open weights under an Apache 2.0…
Apple has emerged as a winner in the AI race by carefully balancing enthusiasm with caution, avoiding the legal and reputational troubles plaguing rivals like OpenAI. The new AI-powered Siri has becom…
A man snuck into the lobby of AI startup Anthropic's San Francisco headquarters on April 15 to warn that a top executive was 'going to be killed,' according to the Wall Street Journal, marking the lat…
A $16 billion AI data center project backed by OpenAI, Oracle, Blackstone, Related Digital and Walbridge is under construction in Saline Township, Michigan, sparking fierce local opposition over water…
OpenAI launched its first hardware product, the Codex Micro, a miniature keyboard priced at $230, designed as an AI coding assistant for its Codex tool. The device, developed with Work Louder, feature…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman escalated their public feud last Friday after Musk responded to Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI by calling Altman 'Scam Altman' and questioning his business ethics, while Altma…
OpenAI launched the Codex Micro, a $230 miniature keyboard designed as an AI coding assistant, amid a lawsuit from Apple accusing OpenAI of stealing hardware trade secrets through former employees. Op…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk are feuding online after Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, with Musk calling Altman 'Scam Altman' and Altman responding by promoting GPT-5.6 Sol and accusin…
A new database from Startups.RIP tracking 105 Y Combinator founders shows that OpenAI and Anthropic are the top destinations for founders whose startups were acquired or shut down, with Sam Altman sti…