@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-14 20:10:49
Sources: Trump met privately with Sam Altman backstage at the GOP midterm convention, where they discussed AI and its growing power, at Altman's request (MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-ai-altman-openai-dario-amodei-anthropic-regulations…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-17 01:22:38
Tech journalist Karen Hao has been covering OpenAI’s astounding rise for years
and is the author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
She says that while many in Silicon Valley warn of AI’s sci-fi-like threats, the real risks are already here.
“We are allowing the tech industry to consolidate this extraordinary degree of resources unlike anything ever before,” she tells More To The Story host Al Letson.
“We thought that they were already powe…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-09-12 21:46:04
Sam Altman: Börsengang von OpenAI verschoben
Der ChatGPT-Entwickler OpenAI ist das wohl bekannteste KI-Unternehmen und plant einen großen Börsengang. Doch Firmenchef Sam Altman findet den Moment ungünstig.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-17 04:51:03
@scott@carfree.city2026-09-13 08:24:12
This may be this year's second-best news for SF housing costs (passing Prop I will be the first).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/openai-delays-ipo-sam-altman-ai-safety-concerns
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-09-11 10:14:04
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-14 23:17:20
After reading Jill Lepore’s
"The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State", I have a new destination for a time machine, should I ever finally get my hands on one.
I’d set the dial to some night in the late 1970s or ’80s and visit the boyhood rooms of the Silicon Valley titans Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Sam Altman.
Then I’d confiscate all of their science fiction. Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein—all of it.
As young people, the future billionaire…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-14 04:41:26
Sam Altman says "we welcome a federal framework" but "do not believe we need to wait" for an antitrust exemption or a law to pace AI development responsibly (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2099348812305473766
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-16 13:31:36
Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic staff felt blindsided by Dario Amodei's and Sam Altman's calls to slow the frontier; some fear evaluators may compromise security (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d085adc5-977b-4c7e-9641-9824d1d345d3
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-08-14 11:58:03
OpenAI plant neues Büro in Berlin – KI-Ausbau in Deutschland
OpenAI möchte mit einem neuen Berliner Büro in Deutschland richtig durchstarten. Was Firmenchef Altman über deutsche KI-Pläne und Datenschutz sagt.
ht…
