Amazon walks away from the Sam Altman film
Amazon MGM dropped Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s nearly finished OpenAI drama, after Amazon’s larger AI business relationship with OpenAI made the release politically awkward.
Sam Altman News and Analysis
13 verified stories covering Sam Altman, product updates and industry developments.
Altman says AI skeptics underestimated scaling
Sam Altman frames the scaling debate around new reasoning results, while conceding that long-horizon work remains a hard gap.
OpenAI reframes AI research as human-AI tandem work
OpenAI now says fully automating everything is not the future it wants, shifting from autonomous AI researcher language toward work in tandem with people.
OpenAI relaunches robotics division
Sam Altman announced the re-establishment of OpenAI's robotics team, hiring for hardware, ops, systems, and ML engineers, with a near-term focus on infrastructure robots and a long-term vision of personal robots.
OpenAI Offers $338M in API Credits to 169 YC Startups
OpenAI is giving $2 million in API credits to each Y Combinator startup in exchange for equity via uncapped SAFE notes, locking in a generation of AI startups.
Jury Rejects Musk's $134 Billion Claim Against OpenAI
A federal jury in Oakland dismissed Elon Musk's $134 billion lawsuit against OpenAI, ruling that the statute of limitations had expired.
Musk asks court to unwind OpenAI structure
Elon Musk told an Oakland court that OpenAI’s shift away from nonprofit control violated its founding promise and asked for damages to flow back to the charity.
OpenAI publishes new document with five principles
On April 26, OpenAI released a document titled "Our principles," outlining five principles: democratization, empowerment, universal prosperity, resilience, and adaptability. This is OpenAI's highest-profile policy document since its 2018 Charter, but analysis suggests the principles serve more to legitimize recent controversial decisions than to set future direction.
Musk drops fraud claims, seeks to oust Altman
Elon Musk withdrew all fraud allegations against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft just before trial, narrowing the case to unjust enrichment and breach of charitable trust while seeking to remove Altman as CEO.
Altman issues belated apology over eight deaths in Tumbler Ridge
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly apologized for not alerting law enforcement after the company banned a ChatGPT account in June 2025 whose user repeatedly described shooting scenarios. The account belonged to Jesse Van Rootselaar, who killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in spring 2026.
OpenAI acquires Silicon Valley tech talk show TBPN
OpenAI has acquired TBPN, a popular Silicon Valley tech talk show, marking its first purchase of a media company. The deal raises questions about editorial independence and OpenAI's broader strategy to build a media and cultural platform.
Molotov Cocktail Thrown at Sam Altman's Home
A 20-year-old man threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home. The incident, captured on surveillance video, occurred alongside the publication of a critical New Yorker investigation into Altman.
OpenAI proposes three plans for the AI economy
OpenAI has released a policy proposal advocating for a public wealth fund, a tax on AI profits, and subsidies for a four-day work week, sparking debate on how to distribute the gains of artificial intelligence.