OpenAI Employees Don’t Get to Choose Wars

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees Tuesday they don't get to make "operational decisions" about how the military uses their AI technology: "Maybe you think the Iran strike was good and the Venezuela invasion was bad," Altman said in an all-hands meeting. "You don't get to weigh in on that." Continue Reading →

ScarJo Goes After OpenAI

Scarlett Johansson has accused OpenAI of stealing her voice for GPT-4o. Johansson claims that OpenAI's "Sky" voice is "eerily similar" to her own and that she was approached by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to voice the system, but declined. Continue Reading →

Is $7 Trillion an Absurd Raise?

CNBC is reporting that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seeking a massive investment – potentially up to $7 trillion – to fund a new project aimed at expanding the global semiconductor industry's capacity to produce AI chips. Continue Reading →

The Reboot of OpenAI

In a narrative that seems ripped from a tech support forum, OpenAI just unplugged Sam Altman, waited 10 seconds, then plugged him back in. It's the universal tech fix – and it looks like it worked. But since Sam is OpenAI's fourth CEO in as many days, let's not just assume the crazy is over. Continue Reading →

Sam-I-Am

Is Sam going back to OpenAI? It's anyone's guess. (I'm not sure Sam could even answer that question right now.) Continue Reading →

Where’s Sam?

You're the detective in a high-tech game of hide-and-seek, sifting through the digital landscape to find Sam Altman. Welcome to "Where's Sam?" The rules? Who knows? They're making them up as they go along. Continue Reading →

Mr. Altman Goes to Washington

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to testify before Congress today, marking a critical juncture in the regulation discourse of AI technology. Central to this conversation is OpenAI's generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, which has dramatically accelerated AI development, spurring giants like Microsoft and Google to hasten their AI-powered offerings. Continue Reading →