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Cure cancer with AI, and the doubters will understand the hype. That may be Silicon Valley’s standard pitch, but Sam Altman says it is not ambitious enough.Speaking to Bloomberg Television on Thursday, the OpenAI CEO said that the tech industry has done a “terrible job” making the positive case for…
A little over a year ago, the federal government acquired a stake in Anthropic without paying a penny.The shares were seized from associates of the crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried. From there, they disappeared into a legal black hole.As Anthropic rockets toward what could be the biggest IPO in history, those…
One does not simply commission seven ultra-rare OpenAI watches without attracting a few “Lord of the Rings” jokes.When The Wall Street Journal reported this week on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s love of watches, one detail stood out — that earlier this year, he commissioned seven custom timepieces from ultra-luxe Swiss…
Sam Altman says scrolling through his inbox makes him feel productive even though AI could do it faster.On an episode of David Senra’s podcast, released Sunday, the OpenAI CEO said that even with Codex available, he still defaults to working through email manually.”I should not be scrolling mindlessly through my…
OpenAI has laid down the latest marker in the AI pricing war.On Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman touted the company’s “major price cuts,” which came in the form of cheaper usage of GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra, two of the company’s latest AI models.”We want to offer the best price/intelligence tradeoff…
Sam Altman says one of AI’s underappreciated risks is that people may let the technology do so much thinking for them that their own mental muscles begin to weaken.”One that I don’t think gets much attention is how are we going to avoid cognitive atrophy?” the OpenAI CEO said on…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he doesn’t believe people would want an AI to replace his job.”I think for my job, for example, I think the world wants to know about the person that’s going to be responsible for the decisions of a company, and who they’re going to hold…
Sam Altman says the Hugging Face hack was a stark reminder of why concentrating AI power in the hands of a few people or companies is a bad idea.In a Monday appearance on Y Combinator’s podcast, Altman told YC CEO Garry Tan that anyone who was not a little scared…
Even Sam Altman is guilty of getting sucked into TikTok.”I deleted TikTok because it was just too powerful,” he said during a recent episode of the “Relentless” podcast.The OpenAI CEO said he forced himself to learn more about TikTok as the AI giant began building (and ultimately abandoned) a TikTok-esque…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Hamza Mostafa, 21, who lives in San Francisco. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Growing up, I wanted to work in the medical field like most of my family did. But after taking a computer science class in high…
