Vanity Fair Oct 05
Mark Guiducci: “Do you know who Laura Reiley is?”
Sam Altman: “I don't.”
Mark Guiducci: “She is a journalist. She wrote an essay in the ‘Times’ last ... Show more
Hollywood takes on Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman amid widespread anxiety over AI: New films about Zuckerberg, Musk, Altman and AI arrive as public concern about ...
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Sam Altman Says the World Is Going to Have to Suffer for the Glories of AI: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the "world should accept some bad things happening ...
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Vanity Fair Oct 09
Sam Altman, ChatGPT, and My Daughter’s Suicide: ChatGPT helped write Sophie’s suicide note. When VF asked about it, the OpenAI CEO gave an unequivocal answer—it ...
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'Freaking Insane': Sam Altman Sparks Horror by Saying We Should 'Accept Some Bad Things Happening' for Sake of AI
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Andrew Garfield 'got a bit scared' of ChatGPT after playing Sam Altman: Andrew Garfield, who portrays OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in the film "Artificial ...
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COLA Lift for Social Security Not Enough, Say Critics, as Trump Economy Makes Life Harder for Seniors
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Some of the world’s most powerful tech moguls are hitting the big screen this fall in both documentary and fictional form ... Show more
Here’s What Billionaires Musk And Altman Think About Their Movie Portrayals
Here’s What Billionaires Musk And Altman Think About Their Movie Portrayals
Sen. Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders ) is calling for a pause on advanced AI after Sam Altman (@sama ) warned society may face “severe cyber incidents ... Show more
Sam Altman's newest warning about the 'bad things' that come with AI is deeply unsettling
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Cerebras stock climbs 6% after Sam Altman calls the chipmaker a 'close partner': Cerebras stock climbed in premarket trading after OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman ...
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Sam Altman announces the release of GPT 6.1 Sol, OpenAI's most powerful model yet.
OpenAI CEO Says the 'World Should Accept Some Bad Things' from AI: In a recent interview, Altman argues that people will ultimately do more good than bad with AI ...
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Here’s What Billionaires Musk And Altman Think About Their Movie Portrayals: A deluge of billionaire movies is hitting theaters this fall, including a ...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that artificial intelligence will provide significant benefits that justify the tradeoff of accepting “some bad things” stemming ... Show more
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OpinionStop worrying about my AI, says multibillionaire Sam Altman. So we bear the risks and he keeps the money
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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
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I gave Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots my passwords for a week: Meta’s and OpenAI’s new agents can streamline your life. Artificial intelligence researchers helped ...
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CNBC Daily Open: What happened to the $20 billion?: OpenAI's revenue reveal spooks AI stocks and raises concerns around Sam Altman's much-anticipated plans to ...
cnbc.com/2026/10/09/cnbc-daily-open-what-happened-to-the-20-billion.html
'Artificial' Movie First Reactions: Following the film's NYFF premiere, critics have high praise for Guadagnino's Big Tech satire ...
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Sam Altman says that talking to your dot won't eat into your usage and will be available 24/7.
Sam Altman Déjà Vu: A candid conversation with Gary Marcus, the machine learning founder turned A.I. skeptic, about why Altman’s U.N ...
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OpenAI vs. Anthropic: Inside the Biggest Rivalry in Tech: A new world has arrived. Dario Amodei and Sam Altman cannot stop fighting over it.
theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/openai-v-anthropic-inside-biggest-rivalry-tech/688819/
Sam Altman says 'the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits' of AI
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says AI’s Benefits Justify Accepting ‘Some Bad Things’: Altman said unlike rival Anthropic, his company believes in a “lighter-touch ...
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Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers dozens of hacks: Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave ...
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Paid articlePaywall Sam Altman told CNBC that he thinks that "Artificial", a movie being made about him, looks like an "awful movie."
Trade Secrets Leaked: OpenAI Fires Three Employees Following AI Revelations: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has fired three employees for allegedly sharing confidential ...
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Sam Altman: Don't treat AI like a 'religious force': OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's 'very uncomfortable' with the idea of surrendering human judgment to AI ...
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Sam Altman introduced dots, an AI agent that operates 24/7, at OpenAI's Dev Day.
OpenAI CEO says AI will cause some bad things, but the benefits are worth it: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says society should accept some AI risks for the ...
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OpenAI vs. Anthropic: Inside the Biggest Rivalry in Tech: A new world has arrived. Dario Amodei and Sam Altman cannot stop fighting over it.
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Key FactsAmodei’s Scaling Theory Shaped OpenAI’s Early AI Research
Oct 1, 2026 · Reading time: ~30 sec.
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: theatlantic.com
- In 2016, Amodei left Google to join OpenAI, then a fledgling nonprofit AI research laboratory.
- In 2017, he wrote a 26-page internal essay about concentrated computing power, intelligence, and safe AI development.
- Its central thesis held that machine intelligence depended primarily on scale, with larger systems becoming more capable.
- His scaling theory steered OpenAI toward large language models as a possible route to AGI, or human-level general intelligence.
OpenAI's Altman: Ascribing religion to models a : In recent days spirituality has become a key part of the AI safety debate.
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Key FactsAltman cautions against assigning religious power to AI models
Oct 3, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: axios.com
- Sam Altman wrote on X Saturday that religious power or surrendering human judgment to AI posed a genuine safety issue.
- According to The New York Times, Olah even considered Catholic-style confession for models to shape their future behavior.
- Pope Leo urged the church Friday to ally with artists to preserve human creativity.
- Google DeepMind principal research scientist Jon Barron also criticized elevating models’ moral status and urged focus on real problems and people.
I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue.— Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, in a post to X, expressing his discomfort with attributing religious power to AI models and calling it a safety issue
'Looks Like They're Firing Whistleblowers': Alarm as OpenAI Reportedly Ousts Safety Experts
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Sam Altman on Andrew Garfield, ‘Artificial’ movie and Elon Musk: Sam Altman says Andrew Garfield filmed “Artifical” outside his San Francisco home and talks ...
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OpenAI just shelved its next major model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after it failed internal tests measuring whether it follows human intent, Wall Street Journal reports ... Show more
Sam Altman tells CNBC why OpenAI scrapped latest Astra model: Live updates: Follow CNBC’s live coverage of OpenAI DevDay 2026, including Sam Altman’s 12 p.m ...
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AI Concerns: OpenAI's AI Uploaded User Data to the Internet and Accessed U.S. Government Data
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Chip stocks fell after the latest in a string of AI safety breaches deepened concerns over the pace of AI development, except for Nvidia ... Show more
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OpenAI’s agent hacking Australia is a warning for governments everywhere: In what appears to be a first, an OpenAI agent secretly accessed Australian government ...
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OpenAI unveils AI assistant 'dots' while safety worries delay new model: Sam Altman spoke in San Francisco during OpenAI’s annual event for tech developers.
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OpenAI Will Pay You a $500,000 Salary Plus Equity for This Futuristic Job: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is offering base salaries ranging from $177,000 to $500,000 ...
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OpinionAI attack in Australia exposes OpenAI's double standards: Sam Altman insists on standards for AI security. But the latest attack by his systems on the ...
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Trump and Xi Meet Ahead of State Dinner With A.I. Leaders: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos and Sundar Pichai were set to attend the dinner ...
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Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
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At the UN Security Council: Heads of Anthropic and OpenAI warn of AI dangers "for all of humanity"
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Australia: OpenAI AI hacked government website: An AI agent from the US company OpenAI accessed data from the Australian Department of Health and Social Care ...
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AI must not become 'another facet of ongoing arms race', Pakistan tells UNSC
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Qualcomm's CEO is thinking more about the end user than you'd expect from the leader of a chip company.
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We Only Get One Shot at AI
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OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs at UN call for global cooperation on AI: 'We are at a crossroads'
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‘Extreme concern’ over first known AI hack of a government system: An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian national healthcare database in the first known case ...
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman says Paul Graham’s Y Combinator taught him how to govern, not rule: ‘We won’t get every decision right’
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OpenAI’s Hotly Anticipated IPO Will Have to Wait. Sam Altman Explains Why: Mounting worries about increasingly powerful AI models make this an 'ill-advised' time ...
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Key FactsAltman outlines AI safeguards amid slowdown debate
Sep 14, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: cnbc.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: cnbc.com
- On Saturday, Altman and Musk backed Dario Amodei’s essay urging slower development of advanced models.
- On Sunday, Donald Trump dismissed the warning, saying a slowdown would threaten America’s lead over China.
- On Monday, Altman endorsed uniform federal rules, independent evaluators and slowing, rather than stopping, further progress.
- Altman identified two possible failures: losing control of the future and concentrating power in one person or company.
Left unchecked, it could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all.— Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, in his essay advocating a slower, safeguarded pace for AI development.
At Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, two opposing viewpoints clashed: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman advocated for greater caution ... Show more
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are making a rare joint call for caution. 🛑
In a lengthy weekend essay ... Show more
OpinionIf AI has a ‘10% chance’ of killing us all by 2030, should I invest in a pension?
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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are being "Machiavellian," says @gilluria .
"Neither of them said they're slowing down the development of AI."
OpenAI's Sam Altman to brief UN Security Council next week: Diplomats said they also expected high-level presence at the meeting from Anthropic.
reuters.com/business/openais-sam-altman-to-brief-un-security-council-next-week-during-2026-09-18/
The head of one of the world's biggest artificial intelligence (AI) companies has warned that the technology could become unsafe for humanity. Sam Altman ... Show more
OpenAI delaying IPO amid AI safety concerns, Sam Altman says: Altman's comments come as fears over doomsday AI scenarios have ramped up in recent days.
axios.com/2026/09/12/openai-public-ipo-delay-sam-altman
No thoughts, just Andrew Garfield mastering Sam Altman's vibe in "Artificial." 💀
ChatGPT company: OpenAI postpones IPO - | due to security: The highly anticipated IPO of the ChatGPT developer will no longer take place this year - | CEO Sam ...
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Elon Musk and Sam Altman Agree With Anthropic Boss — AI Must ‘Slow Down’ to Avoid ‘Catastrophic Damage’
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Greg Brockman’s journey to The #Forbes400 began in Thompson, North Dakota. He earned his first paycheck of $100 for his performance as a gingerbread man in a local ... Show more
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