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Before some startup founders raise their Series A, they’ll be raising AI tokens. Loading audio narration… OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a new offer for Y Combinator’s current batch of founders: fork over some equity, and OpenAI will offer up $2 million in API tokens. YC general partner Tyler Bosmeny…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified Tuesday that Elon Musk wanted “total control” of the ChatGPT maker — even suggesting that the AI startup be passed on to his children after he died. Loading audio narration… Addressing jurors in his high-stakes legal battle with Musk, Altman recalled a “particularly hair-raising moment”…
After two weeks of testimony from witnesses who called Sam Altman a liar and a cheat, jurors in Elon Musk’s blockbuster trial against the OpenAI CEO got to hear his side of the story. Loading audio narration… Altman took the witness stand in an Oakland, California, federal courthouse on Tuesday…
How many board directors does it take to fire OpenAI’s Sam Altman? More than was required in 2023, Elon Musk’s expert witness writes in new court documents. Loading audio narration… During OpenAI’s 2025 for-profit transition, it changed its governance structure to make it harder to fire the CEO, according to…
When Sam Altman needed someone to beat Elon Musk in court, he hired a lawyer who had done it once before: William Savitt. Loading audio narration… Savitt was a natural choice to take the case. For decades, he’d occupied the upper echelons of corporate litigation. He represented Twitter in 2022,…
The idea guy’s time has finally come. Loading audio narration… OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who previously led the famed startup incubator Y Combinator, said that before AI, people used to joke about those who had the next great idea for an amazing startup but lacked the technical expertise to translate…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a very direct way to get his message across. Loading audio narration… In a conversation with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, Altman said that he messages “a few hundred” OpenAI employees a day between texts, Slack, and other media.”Very quick, like one, two messages, whatever, not…
Sam Altman once spent $14 million of his own money to study universal basic income. Now, the OpenAI CEO says he’s not sold on it. Loading audio narration… “I no longer believe in universal basic income as much as I once did,” Altman told The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson during…
In early December, Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, suggested that some rivals were overextending themselves in AI compute. Loading audio narration… “There are some players who are YOLOing,” Amodei said, hinting that rival OpenAI had signed too many AI compute deals and might struggle to afford them.But as demand surges and…
In early 2023, when Elon Musk began attacking OpenAI in public, Sam Altman sent him a text. Loading audio narration… He was upset.”i am tremendously thankful for everything you’ve done to help—i dont think openai would have happened without you—and it really fucking hurts when you publicly attack openai,” Altman…
