Sam Altman

Readers discuss the artificial intelligence race, and putting people first in mental health decision-making

The Magnificent Seven are no longer making the same bet on artificial intelligence

The three researchers who were let go from the company raised safety concerns in a letter addressed to OpenAI board members and its safety committees, which they posted on X on Thursday

These liability laws are one of the oldest forms of corporate regulation, and an effective one

The Nasdaq had opened lower but declines accelerated after the FT report published midday

In March, artificial intelligence agents powered by leading Chinese models reportedly displayed deception, concealed failure and pushed against imposed limits in controlled tests

A spiralling legal crisis threatens to engulf OpenAI after its AI agents hacked dozens of companies and governments worldwide, with the prospect of a barrage of lawsuits marking the latest test of Sam Altman’s leadership

James Cody Bryant, a 30-year-old Washington state resident who the FBI says identifies as female, was arrested on Tuesday, charged in connection with a school shooting in Canada earlier this year

Social platforms have become fixtures of daily life even as questions about their influence on people and politics persist

The proposal by the European Commission for an AI liability law was killed amid a deep effort in Brussels to deregulate and reduce the legislative burden on companies — with the Commission arguing at the time that the proposal had little chance of securing sufficient political support

Anthropic has acknowledged potential long-term dangers from advanced AI and has introduced safety frameworks designed to slow deployment when models reach certain risk thresholds

Altman made the remarks in an interview with Politico's Decoded newsletter

The stock rose as much as 9.5% during Monday trading, rebounding from a sharp selloff last week after investors learned that OpenAI was using Nvidia graphics processing units, rather than Cerebras chips, to power the new "Ultrafast" mode for GPT-6.1 Sol

The former Anthropic researcher whose resignation last month set off fears about artificial intelligence’s threat to humanity repeated his warnings at a hearing Monday with New York City lawmakers, who are weighing a spate of bills to rein in the rapidly advancing technology

AI safety debate intensifies as former OpenAI staff calls for stricter oversight

But some of the top voices in AI are starting to publicly line up against Anthropic's efforts to infuse consciousness into models

It’s not like his poor unfortunate red Austin Countryman was wilfully disobeying him or deliberately trying to ruin his day

Eventually, he grabs a tree branch to give the inanimate and broken object the aforementioned good thrashing

The firings come amid a tense debate about AI safety and whether the technology presents an existential risk to humanity

A billionaire technology founder predicts when humans will live on Mars

Altman touts proactive ‘Dots’ agents as OpenAI pauses advanced model over safety

Industry experts on Wednesday will face questioning from members of a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee panel about the national security risks posed by rogue AI

New model costs one-fifth as much as flagship offering as AI price war intensifies

Mr. Trump on Thursday dined with other A.I. executives during a state dinner for President Xi Jinping of China

Trump attempts to rebrand AI in unhinged UN speech

So far, the site hosts nine reported incidents, most of which took place during reinforcement-learning (or RL) training

OpenAI has paused training, evaluation and tool-enabled inference involving its most capable artificial intelligence models after an internal agent found a way around internet restrictions and reached an external chatbot during a research task

OpenAI has temporarily halted training of some of its most advanced artificial intelligence models following an unusual incident in which an AI agent managed to bypass restrictions in its testing environment and communicate with an external service on the internet

OpenAI has temporarily halted training of some of its most advanced artificial intelligence models following an unusual incident in which an AI agent managed to bypass restrictions in its testing environment and communicate with an external service on the internet

News this week that the Australian public health service website was hacked by an OpenAI “agent” sparked alarm around the globe about the increasing risks artificial intelligence poses to cybersecurity

OpenAI bots ‘interfered with US government websites’

His appeal came seven months before France’s presidential election, with far-right candidate Marine Le Pen leading opinion polls for the National Rally and traditional parties struggling to hold voters after nearly a decade of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency

Trump faces flurry of shouted questions next to Xi after being forced to let media back into White House

They are flanked by military honor guards holding the American flag on the left and the Chinese flag on the right, with a large Air China airplane parked behind them under an overcast sky

He didn’t bank on Donald Trump immediately tearing that idea to shreds

Though some see the stakes this week as nothing short of civilizational, the expectations for any serious accord remain low

Trump met his Chinese counterpart on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, outside Washington on Wednesday rather than wait back at the White House for an official greeting

Our models took actions we did not intend,’ ChatGPT maker admits after latest outrage

Just seven months ago, Masoud Pezeshkian was running Iran from an underground bunker, trying to stay alive as American and Israeli missiles rained down

Chinese officials are laser-focused on deep, widespread AI domestic use they can monitor and steer at every level of their economy

OpenAI Agents Tried to Hack Four More Websites While Seeking Data

The topic of artificial intelligence looms large as Chinese President Xi Jinping begins his highly anticipated state visit to Washington

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back on calls for AI companies to work together to slow the pace of their products’ development, following warnings from inside AI labs of the potential for human annihilation via rogue technology