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Sam Altman laid out OpenAI’s three-step vision for business dominance.The CEO revealed a slew of updates to ChatGPT and related company products at its developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. He also outlined a three-part plan: provide the best AI models, make them the easiest for developers to build…
OpenAI has met with representatives of multiple top power companies to discuss methods of securing the electrical grid, the artificial intelligence firm told POLITICO — conversations that occurred amid a continuing series of revelations about its own products’ role in a sprawling cyberattack.CEO Sam Altman has also offered one possible…
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…
