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The OpenAI board drama is reportedly turning into a movie | TechCrunch

The OpenAI board drama is reportedly turning into a movie | TechCrunch

A film that will portray the chaotic time at OpenAI, when co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was both fired and …

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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’

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

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

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 …

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OpenAI Backs Down on Restructuring Amid Pushback

OpenAI Backs Down on Restructuring Amid Pushback

The newly proposed structure keeps the nonprofit in control, though Monday’s blog post didn’t go into detail about what exactly …

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Elon Musk Gets His Wish: OpenAI Will Remain a Nonprofit

Elon Musk Gets His Wish: OpenAI Will Remain a Nonprofit

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been working on wriggling out from under the control of the company’s nonprofit board ever …

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Welcome to Sam Altman’s Orb Store

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 …

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Inside the Battle Over OpenAI’s Corporate Restructuring

Inside the Battle Over OpenAI’s Corporate Restructuring

Late last year, Bell, Blackwell, and Aguilar decided to dust off the old playbook. They commissioned a legal memo that …

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Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Is Now Coming to the US

Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Is Now Coming to the US

At a high-profile event in San Francisco, World announced it is launching a series of Apple-like stores, as well as …

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OpenAI’s New GPT 4.1 Models Excel at Coding

OpenAI’s New GPT 4.1 Models Excel at Coding

OpenAI announced today that it is releasing a new family of artificial intelligence models optimized to excel at coding, as …

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Scale AI’s 28-Year-Old Billionaire CEO Warns About This Scarily Good Chinese Startup

Scale AI’s 28-Year-Old Billionaire CEO Warns About This Scarily Good Chinese Startup

Alexandr Wang is one of the world’s youngest self-made billionaires. Drew Angerer/Getty Images For around a decade, the U.S. has …

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Trump’s 0B Stargate A.I. Project: What Will It Build and Does It Actually Have the Money?

Trump’s $500B Stargate A.I. Project: What Will It Build and Does It Actually Have the Money?

President Donald Trump, accompanied by (L-R) Oracle CTO Larry Ellison, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, at …

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