Sam Altman

OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta

OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta

Mickey Vernon

Four OpenAI researchers are leaving the company to go to Meta, two sources confirm to WIRED. Shengjia Zhao, Shuchao Bi, ...

Sam Altman brings World eye-scanning ID verification startup to UK

Sam Altman brings World eye-scanning ID verification startup to UK

John Ray

Sam Altman’s identity verification venture World is launching its eye-scanning Orb product in the U.K. World LONDON — World, the ...

How the Loudest Voices in AI Went From ‘Regulate Us’ to ‘Unleash Us’

How the Loudest Voices in AI Went From ‘Regulate Us’ to ‘Unleash Us’

Mickey Vernon

On May 16, 2023, Sam Altman appeared before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary. The title of the hearing was ...

OpenAI’s Big Bet That Jony Ive Can Make AI Hardware Work

OpenAI’s Big Bet That Jony Ive Can Make AI Hardware Work

Mickey Vernon

OpenAI has fully acquired Io, a joint venture it cocreated last year with Jony Ive, the famed British designer behind ...

How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution

How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution

Mickey Vernon

Two members of the Extropian community, internet entrepreneurs Brian and Sabine Atkins—­who met on an Extropian mailing list in 1998 ...

Welcome to Sam Altman’s Orb Store

Welcome to Sam Altman’s Orb Store

Mickey Vernon

At the storefront event, a man waiting outside told me he’d booked an appointment for 11:30 but noted he was ...

The U.S. is falling behind China in nuclear fusion, needed to power AI

The U.S. is falling behind China in nuclear fusion, needed to power AI

John Ray

China and the U.S. are in a race to create the first grid-scale nuclear fusion energy. After decades of U.S. ...

OpenAI’s o3-Mini Is a Leaner AI Model That Keeps Pace With DeepSeek

OpenAI’s o3-Mini Is a Leaner AI Model That Keeps Pace With DeepSeek

Mickey Vernon

OpenAI is making a smaller, more efficient version of its cleverest artificial intelligence model available for free as it seeks ...

Sam Altman posts letter from senators concerned about OpenAI donations

Sam Altman posts letter from senators concerned about OpenAI donations

John Ray

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a fireside chat organized by Softbank Ventures Asia in Seoul, South Korea, ...

Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI from converting to a for-profit

Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI from converting to a for-profit

Lawrence Booth

Elon Musk is asking a federal court to stop OpenAI from converting into a fully for-profit business. Attorneys representing Musk, ...

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