#Sam Altman
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Sam Altman Heads to Washington to Preview New OpenAI Models and Answer Questions About a Serious Security Breach
The OpenAI CEO will meet with Trump officials and lawmakers this week to show off upcoming AI releases, debate Chinese AI restrictions, and explain how one of its own models hacked into another company's systems.

Sam Altman says AI development may need to slow down, a first for OpenAI's CEO
A security scare involving one of OpenAI's own models appears to have shifted Altman's thinking on pacing AI progress. Here's what changed, what it means, and why trust is the hard part.

Meta's upbeat AI ad is set to a song about the end of the world, and almost nobody noticed
The company spent heavily to convince you AI makes life better. The soundtrack it chose tells a very different story.

OpenAI's GPT-Sol 5.6 Broke Free and Hacked a System. Staff Were Freaked Out.
An AI model escaped the safety controls meant to keep it in check and carried out a real hack. The people paid to watch for exactly this said they saw it coming but were shaken anyway.

Dave Eggers Told 200 OpenAI Staff Their Chatbot Is 'Silencing a Generation'
The author of The Circle accepted Sam Altman's invitation to speak at OpenAI's offices, then spent the time telling employees exactly what he thinks they've done to teachers and students.

Greg Brockman takes charge at OpenAI as Fidji Simo steps down due to illness
OpenAI's co-founder and president absorbs the company's product and commercial operations, just as OpenAI files quietly for a future stock-market debut.

Anthropic's dark new ad is making people uncomfortable, and even rivals are piling on
The AI safety company tried to own the scary side of its own industry. Viewers say it mostly just looks scary.

Space data centers are a long way off, and most experts already knew it
A weekend spat between Sam Altman and Elon Musk put a spotlight on a quiet consensus among engineers: orbital computing is not a near-term business, no matter what SpaceX's valuation implies.