Is OpenAI alright? How would we know and what would it look like?
OpenAI Is Transitioning to a For-Profit Business. The Stakes Are Enormous.
Former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati to raise capital for new AI startup, sources say
Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster: From crypto to AI, the tech sector is pouring millions into super PACS that intimidate politicians into supporting its agenda
What the Heck Is Going On At OpenAI? As executives flee with warnings of danger, the company says it will plow ahead.
OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Valuation to $150 Billion
Manifold #66 § Elon Musk, Simulationism, & Founding of OpenAI
Who Will Control the Future of AI? A Democratic Vision for Artificial Intelligence Must Prevail over an Authoritarian One
OpenAI Removes AI Safety Leader Aleksander Madry, a Onetime Ally of CEO Altman
Microsoft, Apple Drop OpenAI Board Plans as Scrutiny Grows; Apple is also not joining as expected after position scrapped
A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too: A security breach at the maker of ChatGPT last year revealed internal discussions among researchers and other employees, but not the code behind OpenAI’s systems
Ilya Sutskever Has a New Plan for Safe Superintelligence: OpenAI’s co-founder discloses his plans to continue his work at a new research lab focused on artificial general intelligence
OpenAI-Backed Nonprofits Have Gone Back on Their Transparency Pledges
Microsoft’s star AI chief peers into OpenAI’s code, highlighting an unusual rivalry
OpenAI expands lobbying team to influence regulation: ChatGPT maker beefs up global affairs unit as politicians push for new laws that could constrain powerful AI models
OpenAI’s Colin Jarvis predicts "exponential" advancements in large language model capabilities during AI Summit London keynote
Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash
The Opaque Investment Empire Making OpenAI’s Sam Altman Rich
Voice analysis shows striking similarity between Scarlett Johansson and ChatGPT
Report: Apple and OpenAI have signed a deal to partner on AI
Sam Altman was "outright lying to the board", says former board member: In an interview with TED, Helen Toner said that 4 OpenAI board members "couldn’t believe things that Sam was telling us"
OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee: This new committee is responsible for making recommendations on critical safety and security decisions for all OpenAI projects; recommendations in 90 days
OpenAI begins training next AI model as it battles safety concerns: Executive appears to backtrack on start-up’s vision of building ‘superintelligence’ after exits from ‘Superalignment’ team
I’m excited to join Anthropic to continue the Superalignment mission!
OpenAI promised 20% of its computing power to combat the most dangerous kind of AI—but never delivered, sources say
Scarlett Johansson says she is "shocked, angered" over new ChatGPT voice
Scarlett Johansson on suing OpenAI for personality/voice right infringement
ChatGPT will be able to talk to you like Scarlett Johansson in Her / Upgrades to ChatGPT’s voice mode bring it closer to the vision of a responsive AI assistant—and Sam Altman seems to know it
Leaked Deck Reveals How OpenAI Is Pitching Publisher Partnerships: OpenAI’s Preferred Publisher Program offers media companies licensing deals
OpenAI destroyed a trove of books used to train AI models. The employees who collected the data are gone.
Meet MAI-1: Microsoft Readies New AI Model to Compete With Google, OpenAI
Sam Altman Invests in Energy Startup Focused on AI Data Centers: Investment by OpenAI CEO highlights artificial intelligence’s electricity appetite
Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices: We’re sharing lessons from a small scale preview of Voice Engine, a model for creating custom voices.
Microsoft, OpenAI plan $100 billion data-center project, media report says
Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they’ve misbehaved: ‘An act of dishonesty against the company’ is among the violations cited
Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster: Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, brought questions about Mr. Altman’s management to the board last year before he was briefly ousted from the company
Sam Altman Is Worth $2 Billion—That Doesn’t Include OpenAI
Inquiry Into Ouster of OpenAI’s Chief Executive Nears End: WilmerHale, the law firm investigating Sam Altman, could present its findings to the company’s board as soon as next month
SEC Investigating Whether OpenAI Investors Were Misled: Regulator is examining internal communications of CEO Sam Altman
OpenAI Completes Deal That Values the Company at $80 Billion: The A.I. start-up’s valuation tripled in less than 10 months
Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them: Silicon Valley’s top pundit dishes on her memoir Burn Book, immature billionaires, and whether she’s actually mean
Over 3 Decades, Tech Obliterated Media: My Front-Row Seat to a Slow-Moving Catastrophe
Altman says ChatGPT will have to evolve in ‘uncomfortable’ ways
OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for ‘Military and Warfare’: The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use
Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends: The OpenAI CEO lost the confidence of top leaders in the three organizations he has directed, yet each time he’s rebounded to greater heights
How Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar alliance with OpenAI really works: ChatGPT maker quietly clarifies that tech giant has no equity despite $13bn investment—but is in line to make big profits
Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence: Split over the leadership of Sam Altman, board members and executives turned on one another. Their brawl exposed the cracks at the heart of the AI movement
Microsoft's OpenAI Investment Risks Scrutiny from US, UK Regulators
OpenAI’s Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions: While the company said little publicly, Altman and his board of directors jockeyed over how to frame the power struggle
OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever has become invisible at the company, with his future uncertain, insiders say
Warning from OpenAI leaders helped trigger Sam Altman’s ouster: The senior employees described Altman as psychologically abusive, creating delays at the artificial-intelligence start-up—complaints that were a major factor in the board’s abrupt decision to fire the CEO
The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side: In an interview, AI academic Helen Toner explains her posture in OpenAI’s power struggle
OpenAI employees really, really did not want to go work for Microsoft
OpenAI Cofounder Reid Hoffman Gives Sam Altman a Vote of Confidence
Ego, Fear and Money: How the AI Fuse Was Lit: The people who were most afraid of the risks of artificial intelligence decided they should be the ones to build it. Then distrust fueled a spiraling competition
OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman
Microsoft Is Happy Being the Co-Pilot on the OpenAI Rocket Ship: There are benefits and risks to outsourcing the development of a technology as crucial as AI
The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI: The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence ambitiously but safely. Then OpenAI’s board exploded all their carefully laid plans
When these transitional tasks have been completed, I intend to step away
OpenAI Gives Employees Extra Month to Opt Into Plan to Sell Shares
Sam Altman Won the War for OpenAI. Now Comes Winning the Peace: The company’s CEO is back with near-unanimous employee support—and with thorny governance issues to address
These Clues Hint at the True Nature of OpenAI’s Shadowy Q✱ Project
OpenAI not expected to offer Microsoft, other investors seats on new board: report
Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board: Mira Murati as CTO, Greg Brockman returns as President. Read messages from CEO Sam Altman and board chair Bret Taylor
Back at OpenAI, Sam Altman Outlines the Company’s Priorities: In a blog post, Mr. Altman said he would focus on improving products and building a new board, which added Microsoft as a nonvoting member
Interview: Sam Altman on being fired and rehired by OpenAI
OpenAI’s New Board Takes Over and Says Microsoft Will Have Observer Role: Group of directors will expand and strengthen governance structure following CEO Sam Altman’s surprise ouster and return
Why Won’t OpenAI Say What the Q✱ Algorithm Is? Supposed AI breakthroughs are frequently veiled in secrecy, hindering scientific consensus
Inside US Efforts to Untangle an AI Giant’s Ties to China: American spy agencies have warned about the Emirati firm G42 and its work with large Chinese companies that US officials consider security threats
OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say
Sam Altman is no different than most of the talented ones, which is to say, aggressive, sometimes imperious and yes, self-serving
Did I get Sam Altman fired from OpenAI?: Nathan’s red-teaming experience, noticing how the board was not aware of GPT-4 jailbreaks & had not even tried GPT-4 prior to its early release
OpenAI employees reportedly celebrated Sam Altman’s return with a smoke machine-filled party that triggered the fire alarm and 2 fire trucks
Altman’s polarizing past hints at OpenAI board’s reason for firing him: Before OpenAI, Altman was asked to leave by his mentor at the prominent start-up incubator Y Combinator, part of a pattern of clashes that some attribute to his self-serving approach
Behind the Scenes of Sam Altman’s Showdown at OpenAI: A fired CEO, middle-finger emojis and the battle royale over the future of artificial intelligence
How a Fervent Belief Split Silicon Valley—and Fueled the Blowup at OpenAI: Sam Altman’s firing showed the influence of effective altruism and its view that AI development must slow down; his return marked its limits
I feel safe expressing myself to leadership. I love this place
Sources said some key tension was between Sam Altman & Helen Toner, who might have been pressed to leave the board
Satya Nadella on Hiring the Most Powerful Man in AI: When OpenAI threw Sam Altman overboard, Microsoft’s CEO saw an opportunity
Sam Altman, OpenAI Board Open Talks to Negotiate His Possible Return
Inside OpenAI’s weird governance structure: Why investors had no say in Sam Altman’s sacking
Sam Altman confronted a member over a research paper that discussed the company, while directors disagreed for months about who should fill board vacancies
OpenAI investors considering suing the board after CEO's abrupt firing
Altman Agrees to Internal Investigation Upon Return to OpenAI
Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of OpenAI
We’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft
Microsoft Ends Weekend of OpenAI Drama With Coup of Its Own
OpenAI’s employees were given 2 explanations for why Sam Altman was fired. They’re unconvinced and furious
Microsoft Swallows OpenAI’s Core Team—GPU Capacity, Incentive Structure, Intellectual Property, OpenAI Rump State
OpenAI’s Board Set Back the Promise of Artificial Intelligence
Altman Sought Billions For Chip Venture Before OpenAI Ouster: Altman was fundraising in the Middle East for new chip venture; The project, code-named Tigris, is intended to rival Nvidia
Reid Hoffman was privately unhappy about leaving OpenAI’s board
Inside the Chaos at OpenAI: Sam Altman’s weekend of shock and drama began a year ago, with the release of ChatGPT
How OpenAI’s Bizarre Structure Gave 4 People the Power to Fire Sam Altman
No one in the world is better than Sam at dealing with this kind of situation.
Silicon Valley Boardroom Coup Leads to Ouster of an AI Champion
OpenAI Investors Plot Last-Minute Push With Microsoft To Reinstate Sam Altman As CEO: With the ousted OpenAI CEO actively discussing a new artificial intelligence venture, investors in his previous company are trying to bring him back using Microsoft and key employees as leverage
The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI: The departure of the high-profile boss of the San Francisco company drew attention to a philosophical rift among the people building new AI systems
OpenAI has received just a fraction of Microsoft’s $10 billion investment
OpenAI’s $86 Billion Share Sale in Jeopardy Following Altman Firing
Sam Altman Forced Out Of OpenAI § Some Tidbits to Highlight
Before OpenAI Ousted Altman, Employees Disagreed Over AI ‘Safety’
Early OpenAI Backer Khosla Defends Startup’s Complex Structure
OpenAI chief seeks new Microsoft funds to build ‘superintelligence’: Sam Altman expects Big Tech group will back start-up’s mission to create software as intelligent as humans
OpenAI’s New Weapon in Talent War With Google: $10 Million Pay Packages for Researchers
Microsoft’s Answer to OpenAI Inquiry: It Doesn’t Own a Stake: The two companies have sought to telegraph their independence, but it’s not clear regulators will buy the argument
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once said the only time he ever ‘froze’ was when he met his childhood idol Steve Jobs
G42 and OpenAI launch partnership to deploy advanced AI capabilities optimized for the UAE and broader region
Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age: OpenAI’s CEO thinks he knows our future. What do we know about him?
ChatGPT can talk now, threatening Alexa and Siri: OpenAI is rapidly pushing out updates to its products to make them more accessible to more people, as Amazon invests in a leading start-up § Sky voice
Does Sam Altman Know What He’s Creating? The OpenAI CEO’s ambitious, ingenious, terrifying quest to create a new form of intelligence
Our structure: We designed OpenAI’s structure—a partnership between our original Nonprofit and a new capped profit arm—as a chassis for OpenAI’s mission: to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) that is safe and benefits all of humanity
Sam Altman: You should not trust Sam Altman. The OpenAI CEO says large AI models are so powerful that control of them must be democratized to all people in the near future. (Good luck with that.)
Microsoft’s Sudden AI Dominance Is Scrambling Silicon Valley’s Power Structure: The company has quietly cornered the emerging software market, and it’s preparing to cash in
Microsoft and OpenAI Forge Awkward Partnership as Tech’s New Power Couple: As the companies lead the AI boom, their unconventional arrangement sometimes causes conflict
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake—and ‘it’s over’
Limited Liability Company Agreement of Aestas, LLC § 7.8 Status of Assignees
The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be: Sam Altman sees the pros and cons of totally changing the world as we know it. And if he does make human intelligence useless, he has a plan to fix it.
The Contradictions of Sam Altman, AI Crusader: The CEO behind ChatGPT navigates the line between developing artificial intelligence on the cutting edge & pushing technology to dystopia
The OpenAI CEO Disagrees With the Forecast That AI Will Kill Us All: An artificial intelligence Twitter beef, explained
Sam Altman invested $180 million into a company trying to delay death: Can anti-aging breakthroughs add 10 healthy years to the human life span? The CEO of OpenAI is paying to find out
Y Combinator = Growth: YC President Geoff Ralston says he isn’t worried about the competition
The Eternal Sunshine of Sam Altman: The most connected millennial in Silicon Valley is staking his fortune—and his reputation—on sci-fi moonshots in artificial intelligence, nuclear fusion and crypto. But can his optimism survive tech’s winter of discontent?
The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world: The AI moonshot was founded in the spirit of transparency. This is the inside story of how competitive pressure eroded that idealism
Sam Altman on Choosing Projects, Creating Value, and Finding Purpose
OpenAI Charter: Our Charter describes the principles we use to execute on OpenAI’s mission
Certificate of Incorporation of a Non-Stock Corporation OpenAI, Inc
Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny: Is the head of Y Combinator fixing the world, or trying to take over Silicon Valley?
Sam Altman on His Plan to Keep AI Out of the Hands of the ‘Bad Guys’
Ex-Reddit CEO Wanted To Move The Company To Daly City Instead Of SF
OpenAI CEO Says Company Could Become Benefit Corporation Akin to Rivals Anthropic, xAI
Y Combinator’s New Head Startup Whisperer Sam Altman Is Quite a Talker: Meet the guy taking the reins of the influential startup program Y Combinator from its longtime leader, Paul Graham
TikTok Owner ByteDance Quietly Launched 4 Generative AI Apps Powered By OpenAI’s GPT
Corporate Governance Without Shareholders: A Cautionary Lesson from Non-Profit Organizations
US Clears Way for Antitrust Inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI
He Got Facebook Hooked on AI. Now He Can’t Fix Its Misinformation Addiction
ChatGPT’s weekly users have doubled in less than a year: Now 200 million people use the AI chatbot each week
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Former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati to raise capital for new AI startup, sources say
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.reuters.com%252Ftechnology%252Fartificial-intelligence%252Fformer-openai-technology-chief-mira-murati-raise-capital-new-ai-startup-sources-2024-10-18%252F.html
Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster: From crypto to AI, the tech sector is pouring millions into super PACS that intimidate politicians into supporting its agenda
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.newyorker.com%252Fmagazine%252F2024%252F10%252F14%252Fsilicon-valley-the-new-lobbying-monster.html
What the Heck Is Going On At OpenAI? As executives flee with warnings of danger, the company says it will plow ahead.
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.hollywoodreporter.com%252Fbusiness%252Fbusiness-news%252Fsam-altman-openai-1236023979%252F.html
OpenAI Removes AI Safety Leader Aleksander Madry, a Onetime Ally of CEO Altman
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.theinformation.com%252Farticles%252Fopenai-removes-ai-safety-leader-m-dry-a-onetime-ally-of-ceo-altman.html
Microsoft, Apple Drop OpenAI Board Plans as Scrutiny Grows; Apple is also not joining as expected after position scrapped
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.bloomberg.com%252Fnews%252Farticles%252F2024-07-10%252Fmicrosoft-quits-openai-board-after-antitrust-scrutiny-grows.html
A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too: A security breach at the maker of ChatGPT last year revealed internal discussions among researchers and other employees, but not the code behind OpenAI’s systems
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2024%252F07%252F04%252Ftechnology%252Fopenai-hack.html.html
OpenAI-Backed Nonprofits Have Gone Back on Their Transparency Pledges
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wired.com%252Fstory%252Fopenai-backed-nonprofits-transparency-pledges%252F.html
Microsoft’s star AI chief peers into OpenAI’s code, highlighting an unusual rivalry
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.semafor.com%252Farticle%252F06%252F14%252F2024%252Fmicrosoft-ai-ceo-mustafa-suleyman-audits-openais-code.html
OpenAI expands lobbying team to influence regulation: ChatGPT maker beefs up global affairs unit as politicians push for new laws that could constrain powerful AI models
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.ft.com%252Fcontent%252F2bee634c-b8c4-459e-b80c-07a4e552322c.html
OpenAI’s Colin Jarvis predicts "exponential" advancements in large language model capabilities during AI Summit London keynote
https%253A%252F%252Faibusiness.com%252Fnlp%252Fopenai-chief-architect-predicts-huge-large-language-model-leaps.html
Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.bloomberg.com%252Fnews%252Farticles%252F2024-06-12%252Fapple-to-pay-openai-for-chatgpt-through-distribution-not-cash.html
The Opaque Investment Empire Making OpenAI’s Sam Altman Rich
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wsj.com%252Ftech%252Fai%252Fopenai-sam-altman-investments-004fc785.html
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Voice analysis shows striking similarity between Scarlett Johansson and ChatGPT
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wcsufm.org%252F2024-05-31%252Fvoice-analysis-shows-striking-similarity-between-scarlett-johansson-and-chatgpt.html
Sam Altman was "outright lying to the board", says former board member: In an interview with TED, Helen Toner said that 4 OpenAI board members "couldn’t believe things that Sam was telling us"
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.transformernews.ai%252Fp%252Fsam-altman-was-outright-lying-to.html
OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee: This new committee is responsible for making recommendations on critical safety and security decisions for all OpenAI projects; recommendations in 90 days
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OpenAI promised 20% of its computing power to combat the most dangerous kind of AI—but never delivered, sources say
https%253A%252F%252Ffortune.com%252F2024%252F05%252F21%252Fopenai-superalignment-20-compute-commitment-never-fulfilled-sutskever-leike-altman-brockman-murati%252F.html
Scarlett Johansson says she is "shocked, angered" over new ChatGPT voice
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.npr.org%252F2024%252F05%252F20%252F1252495087%252Fopenai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her.html
Scarlett Johansson on suing OpenAI for personality/voice right infringement
https%253A%252F%252Fx.com%252FBobbyAllyn%252Fstatus%252F1792679435701014908.html
ChatGPT will be able to talk to you like Scarlett Johansson in Her / Upgrades to ChatGPT’s voice mode bring it closer to the vision of a responsive AI assistant—and Sam Altman seems to know it
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.theverge.com%252F2024%252F5%252F13%252F24155652%252Fchatgpt-voice-mode-gpt4o-upgrades.html
OpenAI destroyed a trove of books used to train AI models. The employees who collected the data are gone.
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.businessinsider.com%252Fopenai-destroyed-ai-training-datasets-lawsuit-authors-books-copyright-2024-5.html
Sam Altman Invests in Energy Startup Focused on AI Data Centers: Investment by OpenAI CEO highlights artificial intelligence’s electricity appetite
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wsj.com%252Ftech%252Fai%252Fsam-altman-investment-exowatt-energy-startup-ai-data-centers-eeeca766.html
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.reuters.com%252Ftechnology%252Fopenai-removes-sam-altmans-ownership-its-startup-fund-2024-04-01%252F.html
Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster: Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, brought questions about Mr. Altman’s management to the board last year before he was briefly ousted from the company
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2024%252F03%252F07%252Ftechnology%252Fopenai-executives-role-in-sam-altman-ouster.html.html
Sam Altman Is Worth $2 Billion—That Doesn’t Include OpenAI
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.bloomberg.com%252Fnews%252Farticles%252F2024-03-01%252Fsam-altman-is-a-billionaire-thanks-to-vc-funds-startups.html
Inquiry Into Ouster of OpenAI’s Chief Executive Nears End: WilmerHale, the law firm investigating Sam Altman, could present its findings to the company’s board as soon as next month
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2024%252F02%252F28%252Ftechnology%252Fopen-ai-investigation.html.html
OpenAI Completes Deal That Values the Company at $80 Billion: The A.I. start-up’s valuation tripled in less than 10 months
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2024%252F02%252F16%252Ftechnology%252Fopenai-artificial-intelligence-deal-valuation.html.html
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.axios.com%252F2024%252F02%252F15%252Fsam-altman-openai-startup-fund.html
Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them: Silicon Valley’s top pundit dishes on her memoir Burn Book, immature billionaires, and whether she’s actually mean
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wired.com%252Fstory%252Fkara-swisher-burn-book%252F.html
OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for ‘Military and Warfare’: The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use
https%253A%252F%252Ftheintercept.com%252F2024%252F01%252F12%252Fopen-ai-military-ban-chatgpt%252F.html
Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends: The OpenAI CEO lost the confidence of top leaders in the three organizations he has directed, yet each time he’s rebounded to greater heights
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wsj.com%252Ftech%252Fai%252Fsam-altman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68.html
How Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar alliance with OpenAI really works: ChatGPT maker quietly clarifies that tech giant has no equity despite $13bn investment—but is in line to make big profits
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.ft.com%252Fcontent%252F458b162d-c97a-4464-8afc-72d65afb28ed.html
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Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence: Split over the leadership of Sam Altman, board members and executives turned on one another. Their brawl exposed the cracks at the heart of the AI movement
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2023%252F12%252F09%252Ftechnology%252Fopenai-altman-inside-crisis.html.html
OpenAI’s Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions: While the company said little publicly, Altman and his board of directors jockeyed over how to frame the power struggle
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.bloomberg.com%252Fnews%252Farticles%252F2023-12-09%252Fopenai-s-altman-ouster-was-result-of-drawn-out-tensions.html
OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever has become invisible at the company, with his future uncertain, insiders say
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.businessinsider.com%252Fopenai-cofounder-ilya-sutskever-invisible-future-uncertain-2023-12.html
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.reuters.com%252Fworld%252Fuk%252Fuk-antitrust-regulator-considering-microsoft-openai-partnership-2023-12-08%252F.html
Warning from OpenAI leaders helped trigger Sam Altman’s ouster: The senior employees described Altman as psychologically abusive, creating delays at the artificial-intelligence start-up—complaints that were a major factor in the board’s abrupt decision to fire the CEO
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.washingtonpost.com%252Ftechnology%252F2023%252F12%252F08%252Fopen-ai-sam-altman-complaints%252F.html
The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side: In an interview, AI academic Helen Toner explains her posture in OpenAI’s power struggle
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wsj.com%252Ftech%252Fai%252Fhelen-toner-openai-board-2e4031ef.html
https%253A%252F%252Ftime.com%252F6342827%252Fceo-of-the-year-2023-sam-altman%252F.html
OpenAI employees really, really did not want to go work for Microsoft
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.businessinsider.com%252Fopenai-employees-d-want-to-work-for-microsoft-2023-12.html
Ego, Fear and Money: How the AI Fuse Was Lit: The people who were most afraid of the risks of artificial intelligence decided they should be the ones to build it. Then distrust fueled a spiraling competition
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2023%252F12%252F03%252Ftechnology%252Fai-openai-musk-page-altman.html.html
OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wired.com%252Fstory%252Fopenai-buy-ai-chips-startup-sam-altman%252F.html
The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI: The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence ambitiously but safely. Then OpenAI’s board exploded all their carefully laid plans
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.newyorker.com%252Fmagazine%252F2023%252F12%252F11%252Fthe-inside-story-of-microsofts-partnership-with-openai.html
Sam Altman Won the War for OpenAI. Now Comes Winning the Peace: The company’s CEO is back with near-unanimous employee support—and with thorny governance issues to address
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.bloomberg.com%252Fnews%252Farticles%252F2023-11-30%252Fsam-altman-won-the-war-for-openai-now-comes-winning-the-peace.html
These Clues Hint at the True Nature of OpenAI’s Shadowy Q✱ Project
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wired.com%252Fstory%252Ffast-forward-clues-hint-openai-shadowy-q-project%252F.html
OpenAI not expected to offer Microsoft, other investors seats on new board: report
https%253A%252F%252Fnypost.com%252F2023%252F11%252F29%252Fbusiness%252Fopenai-not-expected-to-offer-microsoft-other-investors-seats-on-new-board-report%252F.html
Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board: Mira Murati as CTO, Greg Brockman returns as President. Read messages from CEO Sam Altman and board chair Bret Taylor
https%253A%252F%252Fopenai.com%252Fblog%252Fsam-altman-returns-as-ceo-openai-has-a-new-initial-board.html
Interview: Sam Altman on being fired and rehired by OpenAI
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.theverge.com%252F2023%252F11%252F29%252F23982046%252Fsam-altman-interview-openai-ceo-rehired.html
Inside US Efforts to Untangle an AI Giant’s Ties to China: American spy agencies have warned about the Emirati firm G42 and its work with large Chinese companies that US officials consider security threats
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2023%252F11%252F27%252Fus%252Fpolitics%252Fai-us-uae-china-security-g42.html.html
%252Fdoc%252Freinforcement-learning%252Fopenai%252F2023-11-24-joashuachiam-twitter-onsamaltman.html.html
OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.reuters.com%252Ftechnology%252Fsam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22%252F.html
Sam Altman is no different than most of the talented ones, which is to say, aggressive, sometimes imperious and yes, self-serving
%252Fdoc%252Freinforcement-learning%252Fopenai%252F2023-11-22-karaswisher-twitter-onsamaltman.html.html
Did I get Sam Altman fired from OpenAI?: Nathan’s red-teaming experience, noticing how the board was not aware of GPT-4 jailbreaks & had not even tried GPT-4 prior to its early release
https%253A%252F%252Fcognitiverevolution.substack.com%252Fp%252Fdid-i-get-sam-altman-fired-from-openai.html
OpenAI employees reportedly celebrated Sam Altman’s return with a smoke machine-filled party that triggered the fire alarm and 2 fire trucks
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.businessinsider.com%252Fopenai-staff-celebrate-sam-altman-return-party-fire-alarm-report-2023-11.html
Altman’s polarizing past hints at OpenAI board’s reason for firing him: Before OpenAI, Altman was asked to leave by his mentor at the prominent start-up incubator Y Combinator, part of a pattern of clashes that some attribute to his self-serving approach
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.washingtonpost.com%252Ftechnology%252F2023%252F11%252F22%252Fsam-altman-fired-y-combinator-paul-graham%252F.html
Behind the Scenes of Sam Altman’s Showdown at OpenAI: A fired CEO, middle-finger emojis and the battle royale over the future of artificial intelligence
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wsj.com%252Ftech%252Fai%252Faltman-firing-openai-520a3a8c.html
How a Fervent Belief Split Silicon Valley—and Fueled the Blowup at OpenAI: Sam Altman’s firing showed the influence of effective altruism and its view that AI development must slow down; his return marked its limits
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wsj.com%252Ftech%252Fai%252Fopenai-blowup-effective-altruism-disaster-f46a55e8.html
I feel safe expressing myself to leadership. I love this place
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Satya Nadella on Hiring the Most Powerful Man in AI: When OpenAI threw Sam Altman overboard, Microsoft’s CEO saw an opportunity
https%253A%252F%252Fnymag.com%252Fintelligencer%252F2023%252F11%252Fon-with-kara-swisher-satya-nadella-on-hiring-sam-altman.html.html
Sam Altman, OpenAI Board Open Talks to Negotiate His Possible Return
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.bloomberg.com%252Fnews%252Farticles%252F2023-11-21%252Faltman-openai-board-open-talks-to-negotiate-his-possible-return.html
Sam Altman confronted a member over a research paper that discussed the company, while directors disagreed for months about who should fill board vacancies
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2023%252F11%252F21%252Ftechnology%252Fopenai-altman-board-fight.html.html
Altman Agrees to Internal Investigation Upon Return to OpenAI
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.theinformation.com%252Farticles%252Fbreaking-sam-altman-to-return-as-openai-ceo.html
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wsj.com%252Ftech%252Fopenai-employees-threaten-to-quit-unless-board-resigns-bbd5cc86.html
https%253A%252F%252Fx.com%252Fmicsolana%252Fstatus%252F1727132931024728239.html
Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of OpenAI
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OpenAI’s employees were given 2 explanations for why Sam Altman was fired. They’re unconvinced and furious
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.businessinsider.com%252Fopenais-employees-given-explanations-why-sam-altman-out-2023-11.html
Microsoft Swallows OpenAI’s Core Team—GPU Capacity, Incentive Structure, Intellectual Property, OpenAI Rump State
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.semianalysis.com%252Fp%252Fmicrosoft-swallows-openais-core-team.html
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.semianalysis.com%252Fp%252Fmicrosoft-swallows-openais-core-team%2523%2525C2%2525A7compute-is-king.html
OpenAI’s Board Set Back the Promise of Artificial Intelligence
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.theinformation.com%252Farticles%252Fopenais-board-set-back-the-promise-of-artificial-intelligence.html
https%253A%252F%252Fx.com%252Fteddyschleifer%252Fstatus%252F1726644226006700522.html
https%253A%252F%252Ftime.com%252F6337437%252Fsam-altman-openai-fired-why-microsoft-musk%252F.html
Altman Sought Billions For Chip Venture Before OpenAI Ouster: Altman was fundraising in the Middle East for new chip venture; The project, code-named Tigris, is intended to rival Nvidia
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.bloomberg.com%252Fnews%252Farticles%252F2023-11-19%252Faltman-sought-billions-for-ai-chip-venture-before-openai-ouster.html
Reid Hoffman was privately unhappy about leaving OpenAI’s board
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.semafor.com%252Farticle%252F11%252F19%252F2023%252Freid-hoffman-was-privately-unhappy-about-leaving-openais-board.html
Inside the Chaos at OpenAI: Sam Altman’s weekend of shock and drama began a year ago, with the release of ChatGPT
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.theatlantic.com%252Ftechnology%252Farchive%252F2023%252F11%252Fsam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-chaos%252F676050%252F.html
How OpenAI’s Bizarre Structure Gave 4 People the Power to Fire Sam Altman
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wired.com%252Fstory%252Fopenai-bizarre-structure-4-people-the-power-to-fire-sam-altman%252F.html
Silicon Valley Boardroom Coup Leads to Ouster of an AI Champion
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.bloomberg.com%252Fnews%252Farticles%252F2023-11-18%252Fopenai-altman-ouster-followed-debates-between-altman-board.html
The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI: The departure of the high-profile boss of the San Francisco company drew attention to a philosophical rift among the people building new AI systems
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2023%252F11%252F18%252Ftechnology%252Fopen-ai-sam-altman-what-happened.html.html
Sam Altman Forced Out Of OpenAI § Some Tidbits to Highlight
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.newcomer.co%252Fp%252Fsam-altman-forced-out-of-openai-by%2523%2525C2%2525A7wanted-to-highlight-a-couple-tidbits-for-you-while-the-world-tries-to-figure-out-what-happened.html
Before OpenAI Ousted Altman, Employees Disagreed Over AI ‘Safety’
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.theinformation.com%252Farticles%252Fbefore-openai-ousted-altman-employees-disagreed-over-ai-safety.html
Early OpenAI Backer Khosla Defends Startup’s Complex Structure
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.theinformation.com%252Fbriefings%252Fearly-openai-backer-khosla-defends-startups-complex-structure.html
OpenAI chief seeks new Microsoft funds to build ‘superintelligence’: Sam Altman expects Big Tech group will back start-up’s mission to create software as intelligent as humans
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.ft.com%252Fcontent%252Fdd9ba2f6-f509-42f0-8e97-4271c7b84ded.html
Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age: OpenAI’s CEO thinks he knows our future. What do we know about him?
https%253A%252F%252Fnymag.com%252Fintelligencer%252Farticle%252Fsam-altman-artificial-intelligence-openai-profile.html.html
ChatGPT can talk now, threatening Alexa and Siri: OpenAI is rapidly pushing out updates to its products to make them more accessible to more people, as Amazon invests in a leading start-up § Sky voice
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.washingtonpost.com%252Ftechnology%252F2023%252F09%252F25%252Fchatgpt-voice-talk-assistant%252F.html
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wired.com%252Fstory%252Fwhat-openai-really-wants%252F.html
Does Sam Altman Know What He’s Creating? The OpenAI CEO’s ambitious, ingenious, terrifying quest to create a new form of intelligence
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.theatlantic.com%252Fmagazine%252Farchive%252F2023%252F09%252Fsam-altman-openai-chatgpt-gpt-4%252F674764%252F.html
https%253A%252F%252Fopenai.com%252Findex%252Fintroducing-superalignment%252F.html
Our structure: We designed OpenAI’s structure—a partnership between our original Nonprofit and a new capped profit arm—as a chassis for OpenAI’s mission: to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) that is safe and benefits all of humanity
Microsoft and OpenAI Forge Awkward Partnership as Tech’s New Power Couple: As the companies lead the AI boom, their unconventional arrangement sometimes causes conflict
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wsj.com%252Farticles%252Fmicrosoft-and-openai-forge-awkward-partnership-as-techs-new-power-couple-3092de51.html
Limited Liability Company Agreement of Aestas, LLC § 7.8 Status of Assignees
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The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be: Sam Altman sees the pros and cons of totally changing the world as we know it. And if he does make human intelligence useless, he has a plan to fix it.
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2023%252F03%252F31%252Ftechnology%252Fsam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt.html.html
The Contradictions of Sam Altman, AI Crusader: The CEO behind ChatGPT navigates the line between developing artificial intelligence on the cutting edge & pushing technology to dystopia
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wsj.com%252Ftech%252Fai%252Fchatgpt-sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-openai-b0e1c8c9.html
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.semafor.com%252Farticle%252F03%252F24%252F2023%252Fthe-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai.html
Sam Altman invested $180 million into a company trying to delay death: Can anti-aging breakthroughs add 10 healthy years to the human life span? The CEO of OpenAI is paying to find out
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.technologyreview.com%252F2023%252F03%252F08%252F1069523%252Fsam-altman-investment-180-million-retro-biosciences-longevity-death%252F.html
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2021%252F06%252F11%252Fpodcasts%252Ftranscript-ezra-klein-interviews-sam-altman.html.html
The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world: The AI moonshot was founded in the spirit of transparency. This is the inside story of how competitive pressure eroded that idealism
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.technologyreview.com%252F2020%252F02%252F17%252F844721%252Fai-openai-moonshot-elon-musk-sam-altman-greg-brockman-messy-secretive-reality%252F.html
https%253A%252F%252Ftechcrunch.com%252F2019%252F03%252F09%252Fdid-sam-altman-make-yc-better-or-worse%252F.html
https%253A%252F%252Fblog.samaltman.com%252Fhow-to-be-successful.html
Sam Altman on Choosing Projects, Creating Value, and Finding Purpose
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253DuEl2KUZ3JWA.html
OpenAI Charter: Our Charter describes the principles we use to execute on OpenAI’s mission
Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny: Is the head of Y Combinator fixing the world, or trying to take over Silicon Valley?
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.newyorker.com%252Fmagazine%252F2016%252F10%252F10%252Fsam-altmans-manifest-destiny.html
https%253A%252F%252Fblog.gregbrockman.com%252Fmy-path-to-openai.html
https%253A%252F%252Fold.reddit.com%252Fr%252FAskReddit%252Fcomments%252F3cs78i%252Fwhats_the_best_long_con_you_ever_pulled%252Fcszwpgq%252F%253Fcontext%253D99.html
https%253A%252F%252Fblog.samaltman.com%252Femployee-equity.html
Y Combinator’s New Head Startup Whisperer Sam Altman Is Quite a Talker: Meet the guy taking the reins of the influential startup program Y Combinator from its longtime leader, Paul Graham
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.vox.com%252F2014%252F3%252F18%252F11624658%252Fy-combinators-new-head-startup-whisperer-sam-altman-is-quite-a-talker.html
https%253A%252F%252Fnews.ycombinator.com%252Fitem%253Fid%253D3686090.html
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.ycombinator.com%252Fblog%252Fwelcome-sam-garry-emmett-and-justin.html
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%252Fpmc%252Farticles%252FPMC2821100%252F.html
ChatGPT’s weekly users have doubled in less than a year: Now 200 million people use the AI chatbot each week
https%253A%252F%252Fwww.theverge.com%252F2024%252F8%252F29%252F24231685%252Fopenai-chatgpt-200-million-weekly-users.html
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