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One of the OpenAI directors who ousted CEO Sam Altman is issuing some stark warnings about the future of unchecked artificial intelligence.

Former OpenAI Director Warns There Are Bad Things AI Can Do Besides Kill You

By Noor Al-Sibai

Fusion startup Helion is in talks for a deal with OpenAI to "buy vast quantities of electricity to provide power for data centers."

OpenAI Negotiating to Buy “Vast Quantities” of Fusion Power, Which Doesn’t Exist Yet

By Victor Tangermann

During a recent summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was stumped after being asked how his company's AIs actually work, pointing to a larger issue.

Sam Altman Admits That OpenAI Doesn’t Actually Understand How Its AI Works

By Victor Tangermann

Less than 10 days after dissolving its old safety team, OpenAI has announced a one — with CEO Sam Altman at its helm.

Sam Altman Replaces OpenAI’s Fired Safety Team With Himself and His Cronies

By Noor Al-Sibai

Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees

Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It sounds like Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, did something interesting last year: he asked Scarlett Johansson for consent.

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Sam Altman Ignoring Scarlett Johansson’s Lack of Consent Shows Us Exactly What Type of Person He Really Is

By Jon Christian

OpenAI allegedly asked Scarlett Johansson if it could use her voice for the latest ChatGPT update — and then pushed on without her consent.

Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Asked to Use Her Voice for ChatGPT, and When She Said No They Did It Anyway

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI got a lot of criticism this week for departures and a restrictive nondisclosure agreement. Sam Altman is clearly freaked.

Sam Altman Clearly Freaked Out by Reaction to News of OpenAI Silencing Former Employees

By Jon Christian

It might sound like a joke, but OpenAI has dissolved the team responsible for making sure advanced AI doesn't turn against humankind.

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Flames Company for Axing Team Working to Prevent Superintelligent AI From Turning Against Humankind

By Jon Christian

After chasing it for years, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is humblebragging that all his international fame is taking a toll.

After Spending Years Relentlessly Chasing Fame, Sam Altman Complains That He’s Getting Recognized in Public Too Much

By Jon Christian

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist, is leaving the company after moving to oust CEO Sam Altman in November.

Scientist Who Said Neural Networks May Already Be Conscious Leaves OpenAI After Leading Coup Against Sam Altman

By Noor Al-Sibai

An OpenAI safety worker quit his job, arguing in an online forum that he had lost confidence that the Sam Altman-led company will "behave responsibly around the time of [artificial general intelligence]," the theoretical point at which an AI can outperform a human.

OpenAI Safety Worker Quit Due to Losing Confidence Company “Would Behave Responsibly Around the Time of AGI”

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman let slip that he wants the company to be able to generate "NSFW stuff" like erotica and gore.

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Would Like to Enable Gore and Erotica for “Personal Use”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The AI of the future won't just be a chatbot — it will be, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the world's most knowledgeable assistant.

Sam Altman Says AI Will Be Like a Super Smart Person Who “Knows Absolutely Everything” About Your Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

Eyeball-scanning orbs are not a dime a dozen — and now, the Sam Altman-backed crypto startup Worldcoin is running out of them.

Sam Altman Is Running Out of Orbs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Venture capitalists are balking at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's sky-high aspirations and are seemingly starting to become disillusioned.

VC Slams Sam Altman as “Megalomaniac”

By Victor Tangermann

Mere days after Stability AI CEO and founder Emad Mostaque stepped down, he hopped on a video call with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

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Ousted Founder of Stability AI Seen Meeting With Microsoft CEO

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has apparently been demonstrating GPT-5, the next generation of its notorious large language model, to prospective buyers.

OpenAI Reportedly Looking to Release GPT-5 This Summer

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is remaining tight-lipped about its secretive Q* project — even after admitting that his company is a leaky ship.

Sam Altman Shuts Down Q* Questions

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a legal response, OpenAI has pushed back against Tesla CEO Elon Musk's lawsuit against it, accusing him of making "incoherent" claims.

OpenAI Ridicules Elon Musk’s “Incoherent” Lawsuit

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says many people are confused about whether AI is a "creature" or a "tool." Which is it?

Sam Altman Denies OpenAI Is Building AI “Creatures”

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk is officially suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company of hiding its AI models' secrets from the world.

Elon Musk Sues OpenAI for Doing For-Profit AI, Which He’s Also Doing

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI and its embattled CEO, Sam Altman, are apparently being investigated by the SEC about statements made to the company's investors.

Sam Altman Under SEC Investigation for Potentially Misleading Investors

By Noor Al-Sibai

To address those fears, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for the creation of an international body to regulate AI.

Sam Altman Worries AI Could Go “Horribly Wrong”

By Frank Landymore

Around 30 activists gathered near the entrance to OpenAI's San Francisco office earlier this week, calling for an AI boycott.

Protesters Swarm OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Altman Seeking Trillions of Dollars for New AI Venture

Sam Altman Seeking Trillions of Dollars for New AI Venture

By Victor Tangermann

Altman's answer to the question of what core competences humans have over AI is as unconvincing as it is befuddling.

Sam Altman Stumped When Asked What Humans Will Do Better Than AI

By Victor Tangermann

Human-tier AI will change the world and jobs "much less than we think," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said while attending the World Economic Forum.

Sam Altman Says Human-Tier AI Is Coming Soon

By Victor Tangermann

"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.

Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted that "Muslim and Arab (especially Palestinian) colleagues" are "uncomfortable" about speaking out.

Sam Altman Says Muslim Colleagues Are Afraid to Speak Up

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has invested a whopping $180 million in a startup that's looking for novel ways to extend human longevity.

Sam Altman’s Life Extension Guy Warns of Injections That Cause Wild Tumor Growth

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Altman is taking a victory lap after being unsuccessfully ousted as CEO of OpenAI — and he's saying weird stuff in public again.

Sam Altman Says He’s Fascinated With the Terminator

By Noor Al-Sibai

A giant group chat full of tech CEOs mobilized in the wake of Sam Altman's firing from OpenAI — and it may have gotten him rehired.

Tech CEOs Freaked Out About Sam Altman’s Firing in a Giant Group Chat

By Noor Al-Sibai

After moving to oust Sam Altman, OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever is in a sort of limbo, and nobody seems to know what will happen next.

OpenAI Cofounder Who Pushed Out Sam Altman Is In a Confusing Limbo

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an interview with CNBC, OpenAI COO and CEO Sam Altman's right-hand man Brad Lightcap said that certain aspects of AI are "overhyped."

Sam Altman’s Right-Hand Man Says AI Is Overhyped

By Victor Tangermann

The now-former OpenAI board member who was instrumental in the firing of Sam Altman has spoken — but she's still staying mum where it matters.

Ex-OpenAI Board Member Refuses to Say Why She Fired Sam Altman

By Noor Al-Sibai

"I got so many messages that iMessage broke on my phone," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recalled after being fired last month.

Sam Altman Got So Many Texts After Being Fired It Broke His Phone

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI signed a letter of intent to invest $51 million in AI chips for a startup called Rain AI, a company CEO Altman had already invested in.

OpenAI Agreed to Pay $51 Million to Company Linked to Sam Altman

By Victor Tangermann

The OpenAI CEO debacle was so dramatic that people at Microsoft developed a vulgar nickname to refer to it.

Microsoft Employees Gave OpenAI’s CEO Drama an Amazingly Vulgar Name

By Noor Al-Sibai

Following OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's firing and rehiring, there are now zero women on the company's non-profit board.

There Are Now Zero Women on OpenAI’s Board

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's on-again CEO Sam Altman is back with a vengeance — but not, apparently, when it comes to cofounder Ilya Sutskever.

Sam Altman Says He Has “Zero Ill Will” Toward Guy Who Shanked Him

By Noor Al-Sibai

We've known about OpenAi's secretive next-gen AI called Q* or six days now and the company has since refused to comment on the matter.

OpenAI Refuses to Comment on Secretive Q* AI

By Victor Tangermann

Some OpenAI leaders reportedly may have gotten spooked by a powerful new AI the company was working on called Q star.

OpenAI’s Chaos Linked to Super Powerful New AI It Secretly Built

By Victor Tangermann

As more details are revealed about the drama at OpenAI, insiders are coming forward with messy anecdotes from Sam Altman's past.

This Apparently Wasn’t the First Time Sam Altman Was Dramatically Fired

By Noor Al-Sibai

Though all appeared well from the outside, there was major beef between Sam Altman and OpenAI's board of directors behind the scenes.

OpenAI’s Board Was Apparently Seething With Rage Before Sacking Altman

By Noor Al-Sibai

After an extremely confusing five days, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has made his triumphant return to helm the ChatGPT maker once again.

In Stunning Reversal, OpenAI Rehires Sam Altman

By Victor Tangermann

We're still scrambling to find a plausible explanation as to why OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was suddenly fired from his position last Friday.

Is OpenAI Melting Down Because It Secretly Created Something Really Scary?

By Victor Tangermann

The guy currently tasked with running OpenAI after Sam Altman's ouster has some pretty bizarre ideas about AI.

OpenAI’s New CEO Said Something Terrifying a Few Months Ago

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI VP of global affairs Anna Makanju tried to calm angry staff in an internal memo, telling them they were in "intense discussions."

OpenAI Ponders How to Crush Staff Revolt

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever reportedly likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company.

OpenAI Employees Say Firm’s Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's staffers are pressuring the company to reinstate Sam Altman as its CEO — and say they'll walk if the board refuses.

700 OpenAI Staffers Demand Board Reinstate Sam Altman as CEO

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new report says that former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's high-dollar side projects might have been the reason for his firing.

This Might Be the Reason OpenAI Fired Sam Altman

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's interim CEO, announced after cofounder Sam Altman was fired, seems to have made some really weird posts.

OpenAI’s New CEO Posted Edgelord Tweets About Rape and Nazis

By Noor Al-Sibai

To cap off one of the most bizarre weekends in tech history, Microsoft has announced that it is hiring freshly-fired OpenAI chief Sam Altman.

Microsoft Immediately Hires Sam Altman After He’s Fired by OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

What's the deal with Mira Murati, OpenAI's interim CEO who's stepping in to lead following Sam Altman's ouster?

What Do We Know About OpenAI’s New CEO, Mira Murati?

By Jon Christian

Here's one we weren't expecting: OpenAI has unexpectedly announced that it's ditching its charismatic CEO Sam Altman, effective immediately.

OpenAI Just Fired Sam Altman, Its Charismatic CEO

By Jon Christian

OpenAI's CEO has announced that ChatGPT's paid service is pausing new signups because it's just that slammed.

ChatGPT Is So Slammed That It’s Closing Down to New Users

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a recent interview, Altman described AGI as a "magic intelligence in the sky," which sounds an awful lot like a God.

Sam Altman Seems to Imply That OpenAI Is Building God

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed in an interview with the Financial Times this week that the company is officially working on GPT-5.

GPT-5 Is Officially on the Way, OpenAI CEO Says

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's first DevDay was jam-packed with updates and announcements. But according to CEO Sam Altman, we've yet to scratch the AI surface.

Sam Altman Says What OpenAI’s Secretly Working on Will Make Today’s AI Seem “Quaint”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to AI OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, AI doesn't have to be AGI-level smart to take control of our feeble human minds.

Sam Altman Warns That AI Is Learning “Superhuman Persuasion”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI has created a new team whose whole job is heading off the "catastrophic risks" that could be brought on by artificial intelligence.

OpenAI Team Tasked With Stopping AI From Triggering Nuclear Armageddon

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hopes that artificial general intelligence will be able to replace the so-called "median human."

Sam Altman Says He Intends to Replace Normal People With AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This was yet another notable outage that ChatGPT has suffered in the past several weeks as user traffic falls.

ChatGPT Goes Down Right as Sam Altman Defends It in Washington

By Frank Landymore