Sam Altman
Sam Altman brings World eye-scanning ID verification startup to UK
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’
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 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
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
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
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 is making a smaller, more efficient version of its cleverest artificial intelligence model available for free as it seeks ...