Honestly, I was really bored." Did he think anyone could do what he did? "Yeah, I think anyone genuinely can." The article concludes Silicon Valley's investors are rewarding young people with "agency". Although "As far as I could tell, being a highly agentic individual had less to do with actually doing things to do with constantly chasing attention online." Like X.com user Donald Boat, who successfully baited Sam Altman into buying him a gaming PC in "a brutally simplified miniature of the entire VC economy." (After which "People were giving him stuff for no reason except that Altman had already done it, and they didn't want to be left out of the trend.") Shortly before I arrived at the Cheesecake Factory, [Donald Boat] texted to let me know that he'd been drinking all day, so when I met him I thought he was irretrievably wasted

Saturday afternoon Sam Altman announced he'd start answering questions on X.com about OpenAI's work with America's Department of War and all the developments over the past few days

Allowing current models to be used in this way would endanger America's warfighters and civilians. Second, we believe that mass domestic surveillance of Americans constitutes a violation of fundamental rights." Also Friday, OpenAI announced that "we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman emphasized that the agreement retains and confirms OpenAI's own prohibitions against using their products for domestic mass surveillance and requires "human responsibility" for the use of force including for autonomous weapon systems

OpenAI has reached an agreement with the Defense Department to deploy its models in the agencys network, company chief Sam Altman has revealed on X

Unusual Whales flagged 77 positions in 60 wallet addresses as suspected insider trades, looking at the age of the account, trading history, and significance of investment, among other factors. Suspicious trades hinged on the release dates of products like Sora, GPT-5, and the ChatGPT Browser, as well as CEO Sam Altman's employment status

Feb 27 (Reuters) - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Friday it has reached an agreement with the U.S

OTTAWA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Canada's minister in charge of artificial intelligence said on Fridayhe will meet with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman next week to discuss how the ChatGPT maker plans to boost safety protocols after a recent school shooting in British Columbia

On Friday, hundreds of Google and OpenAI employees signed an open letter urging their companies to stand in "solidarity" with the lab. According to an internal memo seen by Axios , OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the ChatGPT maker would draw the same red line as Anthropic

The letter argues the government is "trying to divide each company with fear that the other will give in. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told his employees on Friday that the ChatGPT maker will draw the same red lines as Anthropic, according to an internal memo seen by Axios

Altman said OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines when it comes to use of its models, according to a memo he shared with employees.

The investors feature many of the usual suspects, including Amazon with $50 billion, NVIDIA with $30 billion and SoftBank with $30 billion. This investment brings OpenAI to a $730 billion valuation "Were super excited about this deal," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC

An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a memo to staff that he will draw the same red lines that sparked a high-stakes fight between rival Anthropic and the Pentagon: no AI for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons

Sam Altman, CEO OpenAI, syarikat sebalik ChatGPT, hari ini mengumumkan mereka telah meraih suntikan dana berjumlah $110 bilion daripada tiga pihak, iaitu Amazon, NVIDIA dan juga SoftBank

The valuation is a sharp jump from the $500 billion OpenAI commanded in a secondary financing in October, and the round dwarfs recent raises by rivals Anthropic ($30 billion) and xAI ($20 billion). The company has been telling investors it is now targeting roughly $600 billion in total compute spend by 2030, a more measured figure than the $1.4 trillion in infrastructure commitments CEO Sam Altman had touted months earlier

If youll recall, Canadian politicians summoned the companys leaders after reports came out that it didnt notify authorities when it banned the account owned by the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia mass shooting suspect back in 2025. Some of OpenAIs leaders have already met with Candian officials, and British Columbia Premier David Eby said Sam Altman had also agreed to meet with him

Sam Altman dismisses current plans for orbital data centers, citing high launch costs, hardware fragility, and infrastructure limitations

The company's resource-conscious commitments come as communities nationwide are pushing back on data center construction, amid concerns that they are raising electric bills , worsening global greenhouse gas emissions and often using gargantuan amounts of fresh water. But don't worry, because OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the water concerns are "fake" and that "it also takes a lot of energy to train a human." A growing number of voices in tech, most notably Tesla CEO Elon Musk, have said that building data centers in space would address many of these concerns

Sam Altman dismisses viral claims about ChatGPTs water use but the bigger question of AIs growing energy and environmental impact remains unresolved

OpenAI CEO takes really, really long view on energy efficiency AI is being unfairly targeted over its energy use, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims, as the naysayers ignore the vast amount of resources humans have consumed over millennia not least to avoid being eating by predators

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defended the resource use of AI on Friday, arguing that water concerns were "fake" and comparing it to human energy use.

Sam Altman mengeluarkan kenyataan baharu yang kami yakin akan turut menyebabkan beliau dibidas

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has nowexpressed his suspicionsabout various companies that have recently been laying off workers , and said it was due to artificial intelligence

Contrary to what Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos say, orbital data centers will not make sense any time soon, believes Sam Altman

AI energy efficiency comparisons unfair bleats Sam Altman, citing amount of energy needed to evolve, then train a human

Peranti fizikal pertama yang akan dilancarkan oleh OpenAI dipercayai ialah sebuah loket kerana Sam Altman serta Jony Ive tidak berminat menghasilkan telefon pintar

Evans compares ChatGPT to Netscape -- an early leader in a category where the products were hard to tell apart, overtaken by a competitor that used distribution as a crowbar. On capex, Evans argues that Altman's ambitions -- claiming $1.4 trillion and 30 gigawatts of future compute -- amount to an attempt to will OpenAI into a seat at a table where annual infrastructure spending may need to reach hundreds of billions

In an interview at the India AI Impact Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned his belief that AI is being used by businesses to explain unrelated layoffs, but that the technology will cause an impact in the near future

The world urgently needs to regulate artificial intelligence, OpenAI head Sam Altman said Thursday at a summit in New Delhi to address the risks and opportunities posed by the fast-evolving technology

OpenAIs Sam Altman and Anthropics Dario Amodei had an awkward moment at a major AI summit, with the two CEOs of competing AI giants opting not to link hands

Top tech executives gathered in India this week for the AI summit in New Delhi.

OpenAI has hired the creator of popular agentic AI tool OpenClaw, but has decided to keep the project open source

OpenAI snaps up OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger OpenClaw will now go on to be an "open and independent" platform

Recently we were introduced to OpenClaw , an AI that allows users to create their own agents to control apps like email, Spotify and home controls. Now, Sam Altman has announced that OpenAI has absorbed OpenClaw by hiring developer Peter Steinberger "to drive the next generation of personal agents," he wrote on X

OpenAI has hired the Austrian creator of OpenClaw, an artificial intelligence tool able to execute real-world tasks, the US startup's head Sam Altman said on Sunday

Peter Steinberger yang mencipta pembantu peribadi kecerdasan buatan (AI) OpenClaw telah menyertai OpenAI. Ini diumumkan sendiri oleh Sam Altman awal tadi dengan beliau berkata Steinberger akan membantu membangunkan pembantu peribadi generasi seterusnya di OpenAI

Claude's user base is still much smaller than ChatGPT and Gemini... OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attacked Anthropic's Super Bowl ad campaign

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's Super Bowl ad campaign, which took a swipe at the ChatGPT maker's decision to bring ads to the platform.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that ChatGPT's monthly growth is back above 10%, as competition ramps up in generative AI

Currently the company also takes a cut of items bought through its chatbot via the shopping integration feature. Also according to CNBC , OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff on Friday that the company will deploy "an updated Chat model" this week

According to the report, the company decided to scale back on its hardware efforts for the time being, likely because of the rising hardware costs. At first, OpenAI was rumored to be working on a small pendant or a pen, which is in line with the CEO Sam Altman's remarks about the device being more "peaceful and calm" than a smartphone

Fortune reports on "a watershed moment" in American's nuclear power industry: In January, Meta partnered with Gates' TerraPower and Sam Altman-backed Oklo to develop about 4 gigawatts of combined SMR projects enough to power almost 3 million homes for "clean, reliable energy" both for Meta's planned Prometheus AI mega campus in Ohio and beyond

CEO Sam Altman and several OpenAI executives stepped into a "food fight" over Anthropic's Super Bowl ad and threw jabs at Elon Musk.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lashed out at Anthropic for dishonest Super Bowl ads that satirize AI ads

OpenAI recently announced plans to begintesting adswith some ChatGPT users.

Commenters said Altman's lengthy post shows "a nerve was well and truly hit" by Anthropic's advert.

Sam Altman is unloading on Elon Musk in latest X posts

Feb 3 (Reuters) - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday played down the viral AI social network Moltbook as a likely fad, but he said the technology that let bots act on their own offered a glimpse of the future

Cuts out the Azure middleman with multi-year deal for 'tighter alignment' Snowflake plans to spend as much as $200 million with OpenAI to bring its models and chatbot into the database vendor's sandbox and toolset. Features such as Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence will get a boost from the house of Altman.

OpenAI is laying the foundation to go public by the end of 2026, and has spent much of the past year racing to secure large amounts of computing capacity to help power OpenAI's future products and growth. The stalled Nvidia pact is a blow to this effort and shows how Chief Executive Sam Altman's penchant for announcing flashy big-ticket deals carries the potential to backfire if the terms have yet to be finalized

Jan 30 (Reuters) - A federal judge signaled on Friday she may dismiss a lawsuit by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI accusing Sam Altman's rival OpenAI of stealing trade secrets to gain an unfair advantage in developing AI technology

The ChatGPT maker is seeking up to $100 billion in new capital from investors, a round that could value it at as much as $830 billion, The Wall Street Journal previously reported. Andy Jassy, Amazon's chief executive, is leading the negotiations with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, according to some of the people