Sam Altman news and trends

Report: OpenAI Could Become a For-Profit Business
artificial intelligence // June 16, 2024

OpenAI’s days as a nonprofit company could be numbered. CEO Sam Altman has told some shareholders the artificial intelligence (AI) firm is weighing a change to its governance, making it a for-profit company that its nonprofit board has no control over, The Information reported Friday...

Former OpenAI Board Member Helen Toner Details Reasons for Sam Altman’s Firing
artificial intelligence // May 28, 2024

The OpenAI board members who fired Sam Altman in November 2023 reportedly did so because, “We just couldn’t believe things that Sam was telling us.” So said one of those people, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner, while speaking on a podcast called The TED...

OpenAI Inks Content Deal With News Corp
artificial intelligence // May 22, 2024

OpenAI has signed a deal with News Corp, a media conglomerate, that will give the artificial intelligence (AI) company access to content from many news organizations. The partnership enables OpenAI to use current and archived content from news publications including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch...

OpenAI Bosses: We Take Safety ‘Very Seriously’
artificial intelligence // May 19, 2024

OpenAI is trying to ease concerns following the departure of two safety executives. Last week saw the resignation of Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, and Jan Leike, both of whom headed the company’s “superalignment team,” which was focused on the safety of future advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems. With their...

Interviews & Exclusives
Altman-Backed Slope’s Bid to Create GPT Business Payments

October 10, 2023
The business-to-business (B2B) payments economy represents a $125 trillion opportunity for the right innovation to unlock. But those trillions of dollars being shuffled around between businesses don’t sit lightly — and their historic weight has served to entrench the way that organizations transact with and pay one another, leading to a host of ingrained habits and […]

Is a Gen AI-Powered Connected Device in the Cards?

September 27, 2023
A holistic user experience considers every aspect of a product. Think about Apple’s iPhone and computer products. By establishing them as hardware platforms running the company’s own proprietary iOS software,...

Is Going for Broke With ChatGPT Bankrupting Sam Altman’s OpenAI? 

August 16, 2023
A promise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is its potential to cut costs. Unfortunately, the realities of the unit economics inherent to building and running foundational AI models might result...

Quick Reads
Report: OpenAI Could Become a For-Profit Business

June 16, 2024
OpenAI’s days as a nonprofit company could be numbered. CEO Sam Altman has told some shareholders the artificial intelligence (AI) firm is weighing a change to its governance, making it a for-profit company that its nonprofit board has no control over, The Information reported Friday (June 14). The report — citing a person who heard […]

Former OpenAI Board Member Helen Toner Details Reasons for Sam Altman’s Firing

May 28, 2024
The OpenAI board members who fired Sam Altman in November 2023 reportedly did so because, “We just couldn’t believe things that Sam was telling us.” So said one of those...

OpenAI Inks Content Deal With News Corp

May 22, 2024
OpenAI has signed a deal with News Corp, a media conglomerate, that will give the artificial intelligence (AI) company access to content from many news organizations. The partnership enables OpenAI to...

OpenAI Bosses: We Take Safety ‘Very Seriously’

May 19, 2024
OpenAI is trying to ease concerns following the departure of two safety executives. Last week saw the resignation of Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, and Jan Leike, both of whom...