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I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco

I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco

On Thursday, I had dinner with Sam Altman, a few other OpenAI executives, and a small group of reporters in San Francisco. Altman answered our questions for hours. No topic was off limits, and everything, with the exception of what was said over dessert, was on the record. It’s uncommon to have such an extended, wide-ranging interview with a major …

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Sam Altman finally stood up to Elon Musk after years of X trolling

Sam Altman finally stood up to Elon Musk after years of X trolling

Musk claimed the request was to “ensure OpenAI was not being taken advantage of or corrupted by Microsoft,” but two weeks later, he appeared on national TV, insinuating that OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft was “improper,” OpenAI alleged. Eventually, Musk announced xAI in July 2023, and that supposedly motivated Musk to deepen his harassment campaign, “this time using the courts and …

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Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

Sam Altman is in the process of co-founding a new brain-to-computer interface startup called Merge Labs and raising funds for it with the capital possibly coming largely from OpenAI’s ventures team, unnamed sources told the Financial Times.  The startup is expected to be valued at $850 million. A source familiar with the deal tells TechCrunch that talks are still early …

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Elon Musk Says Grok Will Be Fixed After Chatbot Sided With Sam Altman In Spat Over Potential OpenAI Lawsuit – Forbes

Elon Musk Says Grok Will Be Fixed After Chatbot Sided With Sam Altman In Spat Over Potential OpenAI Lawsuit – Forbes

Elon Musk Says Grok Will Be Fixed After Chatbot Sided With Sam Altman In Spat Over Potential OpenAI Lawsuit  Forbes Musk threatens ‘immediate’ legal action against Apple over alleged antitrust violations  CNBC Why Elon Musk is threatening to sue Apple over Grok’s App Store ranking  Yahoo Finance Musk-Altman rivalry devolves into lawsuit threats, insults in social media brawl  Axios Musk Takes Fight With OpenAI …

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Sam Altman is right and wrong about the future of photos

I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco

I’m annoyed, not for the first time, by something Sam Altman has said. But this time it’s because I’m annoyed at how much I agree with what he’s saying — even though I think his statement is kind of bullshit. In a recent interview, journalist Cleo Abram asked Altman how people will be able to tell what’s real and what’s …

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OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years time college graduates will be working 'some completely new, exciting, super well-paid' job in space – Fortune

Elon Musk Says Grok Will Be Fixed After Chatbot Sided With Sam Altman In Spat Over Potential OpenAI Lawsuit – Forbes

OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years time college graduates will be working ‘some completely new, exciting, super well-paid’ job in space  Fortune As AI Kills Jobs, Sam Altman Says Gen Z Are The ‘Luckiest’ Kids In History  NDTV Sam Altman says Gen Z are the ‘luckiest’ kids in history thanks to AI, despite mounting job displacement dread  yahoo.com ChatGPT CEO Sam …

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Sam Altman says the AI talent war is a bet that a ‘medium-sized handful of people’ will make superintelligence breakthroughs

Sam Altman says the AI talent war is a bet that a ‘medium-sized handful of people’ will make superintelligence breakthroughs

Amid the cutthroat war for AI talent, tech giants are offering astronomical sums to lure a tiny pool of top engineers from rivals. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expects the market for these geniuses to remain intense, but estimated there are “many thousands of people” capable of making key discoveries in superintelligence who could conceivably be found. The amounts of money …

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Sam Altman Explains Why Some Users Want ChatGPT’s ‘Yes Man’ Tone Back

Sam Altman Explains Why Some Users Want ChatGPT’s ‘Yes Man’ Tone Back

Some ChatGPT users were so attached to the chatbot’s “yes man” style that they asked OpenAI to bring it back, Sam Altman has said. The OpenAI CEO said there was a “heartbreaking” reason — because some users said they had never had anyone support them before. “Here is the heartbreaking thing. I think it is great that ChatGPT is less …

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