• from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to ByteDance stakeholder Jeff Yass

    Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and ChatGPT-maker Sam Altman could team up. Kevin O'Leary and Trump cabinet official Mnuchin also want to buy TikTok. Don't expect Google or Meta, besieged with antitrust lawsuits, to join the fray

  • Sam Altman’s Worldcoin eyeing PayPal and OpenAI partnerships

    Worldcoin recently announced plans to launch its open-source blockchain, World Chain. Worldcoin has faced regulatory challenges around the world. Worldcoin’s collaboration with PayPal and OpenAI will be a major achievement for the company. Tools for Humanity, the company behind Sam Altman’s iris-scanning project Worldcoin, has hinted at potential partnerships with PayPal and OpenAI. According to […]

  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talks AI development and society

    Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, addressed an audience of over one thousand people about his vision for the future of AI and its implications on society.

  • Israeli cyber startup Apex gets initial investment from OpenAI's Sam Altman

    Israeli cyber security start-up Apex, which focuses on protecting the rapid use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, said on Thursday it received an undisclosed investment from OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman. In all, Apex raised $7 million in a seed funding round led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures, with participation from Altman and others, it said. Altman did not immediately comment. Apex said it had been running trials with a number of Fortune 500 companies and investment firms and...

  • OpenAI's Sam Altman and other tech leaders join the federal AI safety board

    Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai are joining the government's Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board, according to The Wall Street Journal. They're also joined by Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Northrop Grumman's Kathy Warden and Delta's Ed Bastian, along with other leaders in the tech and AI industry. The AI board will be working with and advising the Department of Homeland Security on how it can safely deploy AI within the country's...

  • Sam Altman just described the perfect AI experience I want from ChatGPT

    Sam Altman says he knows when the GPT-5 ChatGPT upgrade is set to arrive,

  • The Download: Sam Altman on AI’s killer function, and the problem with ethanol

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Sam Altman says helpful agents are poised to become AI’s killer function Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has a vision for how AI tools will become enmeshed in our daily lives.  During a…

  • Sam Altman says helpful agents are poised to become AI’s killer function

    A number of moments from my brief sit-down with Sam Altman brought the OpenAI CEO’s worldview into clearer focus. The first was when he pointed to my iPhone SE (the one with the home button that’s mostly hated) and said, “That’s the best iPhone.” More revealing, though, was the vision he sketched for how AI…

  • Sam Altman, Satya Nadella in US Homeland Security's AI security advisory board

    The U.S. Homeland Security Department (DHS) on Friday announced a blue-ribbon board that includes the CEOs of OpenAI, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet and Nvidia that will advise the government on the role of artificial intelligence on critical infrastructure. The board will develop recommendations for the transportation sector, pipeline and power grid operators, internet service providers and others to prevent and prepare for AI-related disruptions to critical services that impact national or...

  • How Real Estate Became Showbiz and Agents Became Stars

    The crowd began gathering at 5 p.m., into the movie-perfect backyard of a 1920s Spanish-style Los Angeles estate once owned by Madonna. The air was so soft and eucalyptus-scented you could wrap yourself in it. Glasses clinked. The pool glinted in the slinking sun. In the Santa Monica Mountains above, the Hollywood sign gleamed like a row of perfectly capped teeth. Into that golden light stepped Mauricio Umansky, fresh off his debut the night before on “Dancing With the Stars.” He made his way to...

  • Oligarchs and billionaires will always blame the poor but the real problem are the oligarchs and billionaires

    Mick Lynch, a name that reverberates with the fervour of social justice, the grit of labour activism, and the resilience of the working class. As a prominent figure in trade unionism, Lynch embodies the spirit of collective action and advocacy for workers’ rights. Through his unwavering commitment and strategic leadership, he has left an indelible […]

  • The Billionaire Police Commissioner

    Olusegun Adeniyi. Mr Aderemi Adeoye retired yesterday as the Commissioner