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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…
Anthropic found itself in the thick of a Claude outrage last night. Meanwhile, Sam Altman seemed to enjoy the spectacle, sipping some drinks and doing some social media trolling at his rival’s expense. Loading audio narration… It started when eagle-eyed users on social media noticed that Claude Code was no…
Almost one year to the day before he traveled to California in what authorities said was a bid to kill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Daniel Moreno-Gama handed in an assignment for a college English class.”My most important belief can be described in one of my favorite proverbs: ‘A society grows…
The 20-year-old suspect arrested after the Molotov cocktail attack on Sam Altman’s $27 million home participated in a Discord server critical of AI development. Loading audio narration… PauseAI said the suspect, identified by several outlets as Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama, joined its server two years ago. The nonprofit organization is focused…
Sam Altman doesn’t want an iPad kid. Loading audio narration… The OpenAI CEO welcomed a baby in 2025. Since then, he’s shared tips and stories about raising his son, including how he uses AI in his parenting.That doesn’t mean he wants his son growing up with full tech access. On…
