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.
AI companies are using fear-based marketing that positions AI as a replacement for human workers, but data shows no evidence of widespread job displacement. New York state layoff filings and Yale rese…
OpenAI unveiled its Jalapeño Intelligence Platform, a custom AI accelerator built with Broadcom, achieving tape-out in nine months. The chip, already running GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark in the lab, uses Broad…
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled 'Jalapeño,' a custom chip designed for large language model inference, claiming better performance per watt. Development took nine months with OpenAI's models aiding the p…
OpenAI and Broadcom announced a partnership to develop custom AI accelerators optimized for large language models, with a deployment target of 10 gigawatts across OpenAI's data centers from 2026 throu…
CNBC reports that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the White House are in ongoing talks about a possible U.S. government equity stake in the company, with discussions spanning over a year and Altman first ra…
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the seminal 'Attention Is All You Need' paper that introduced the transformer architecture, left Google for OpenAI just two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to bring him…
Polaroid unveiled a billboard at Coney Island Beach reading 'Go jump in some water before the data centers drink it all up,' as part of its anti-AI marketing campaign. The 89-year-old camera company t…
Amazon dropped Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman biopic 'Artificial' after striking a $15 billion partnership with OpenAI, Altman's company. The film, which portrays Altman unsympathetically, will be shopp…
Merge Labs (Merge.io), a San Francisco-based research lab developing non-invasive brain-computer interfaces using molecules and ultrasound, emerged from stealth on January 15, 2026, with $250-252 mill…
Multiple major studios, including Amazon, Netflix, A24, Focus Features, and Warner Bros.' Clockwork, have passed on distributing Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished biopic 'Artificial' about OpenAI CEO …
Republican lawmakers and state attorneys general are investigating OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over potential conflicts of interest related to his $3.5 billion personal investment portfolio, including a $37…
Multiple major Hollywood studios, including Netflix, A24, Focus Features, and Warner Bros., have declined to distribute Luca Guadagnino's biographical drama 'Artificial' about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, f…
MIT alumni and supporters are rallying to defend the institution's mission of advancing scientific research, merit-based admissions, and national prosperity amid perceived threats to academic freedom …
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son questioned the economic viability of Elon Musk's proposal to build AI data centers in space, arguing that lower electricity costs would not offset the high expenses of maint…
Amazon-owned MGM Studios dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly completed Sam Altman biopic "Artificial," which reportedly portrays the OpenAI CEO as a pathological liar. The decision follows Amazon's $50 b…
OpenAI plans to grow its advertising business to $100 billion by 2030, according to sources at the Cannes Lions festival. The company is revamping ChatGPT to win enterprise clients ahead of its IPO, c…
Executive coach Joe Hudson, who works with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and leaders at Apple, Google, and X, argues that emotional clarity—the ability to feel emotions without being controlled by them—is the…
Two top Google AI researchers, Noam Shazeer and John Jumper, left for OpenAI and Anthropic respectively within days, triggering a 5-6% drop in Alphabet shares amid concerns about talent retention and …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticized rival tech executives for being too honest about AI's potential to eliminate white-collar jobs, urging a focus on reorganizing jobs rather than announcing layoff…
Valve has announced the Steam Machine price starting at £879 for the 512GB model without a controller, reaching £1,208 for the 2TB version with a controller. The author expresses disappointment, notin…