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US tech stocks slide after Altman warns on AI future and MIT study casts doubt on the hype

US tech stocks slide after Altman warns on AI future and MIT study casts doubt on the hype

Investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence wavered Tuesday as major tech stocks sold off. Nvidia dropped 3.5% and Palantir nearly 10% after an MIT study claimed 95% of companies see no returns from generative AI, while OpenAI’s Sam Altman warned of a potential bubble. Nasdaq futures were down this morning, premarket. Investors’ long-running enthusiasm for artificial intelligence showed signs of faltering …

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Sam Altman Says There’s an AI Bubble. What Wall Street Thinks. – Barron's

Sam Altman Says There’s an AI Bubble. What Wall Street Thinks.  Barron’s Analysts downplay AI bubble worries as Altman says some investors will be left ‘very burnt’  CNBC Things are so desperate at OpenAI that Sam Altman is starting to sound like Gary Marcus  Marcus on AI | Gary Marcus | Substack OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Believes We’re in an AI Bubble  CNET Citi’s …

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Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers

Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers

Sam Altman wants to rewire the internet, build brain-computer interfaces, and maybe even buy Google Chrome. He even sees a future where sustaining ChatGPT’s growth means building infrastructure so massive it rivals the world’s largest utilities. But first, he’s cleaning up a mess at the center of his empire: GPT-5. The OpenAI CEO told reporters last week—at a rare, hyper-candid …

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Sam Altman Is Going After Elon Musk’s Empire, One Company At A Time

Sam Altman Is Going After Elon Musk’s Empire, One Company At A Time

The OpenAI CEO is challenging his former friend, one company at a time. Twitter, Tesla and even Neuralink are in his sights. Over the last year, the feud between Silicon Valley heavyweights Sam Altman and Elon Musk has devolved into personal attacks, social media swipes, and lawsuits. Musk calls his foe Scam Altman and Swindly Sam. Altman has said that …

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Sam Altman, over bread rolls, explores life after GPT-5

Sam Altman, over bread rolls, explores life after GPT-5

I’m looking out at Alcatraz Island from a Mediterranean restaurant in San Francisco with hundred-dollar fish entrées on the menu. As I make small talk with other reporters, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman jumps through the door on my left. Altman’s looking down at his bare iPhone to show us all something, and an intrusive thought slips out of my mouth: …

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Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity

Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity

Never mind the GPT-5 complaints; Sam Altman says he believes ChatGPT is on track to have more conversations per day than all human beings combined. “If you project our growth forward, pretty soon billions of people a day will be talking to ChatGPT,” said the CEO of OpenAI during a dinner with journalists in San Francisco. “ChatGPT will be having …

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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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