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Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during Snowflake Summit 2025 at Moscone Center on June 02, 2025 in San Francisco, California.

OpenAI is phasing out Scale AI work following startup’s Meta deal

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Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., walks to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) near the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. US President Donald Trump has gravitated toward the reciprocal tariff plan as a key part of his push to raise US levies overall, stating it would apply to nations who generally have a higher average tariff rate than the US, which would raise its own tariff to match them. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images

‘OpenAI is not for sale’: Elon Musk’s $97.4 billion bid is unanimously rejected by board

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TOPSHOT – Elon Musk listens as US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with House Republicans at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Washington, DC on November 13, 2024. (Photo by Allison ROBBERT / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ALLISON ROBBERT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Altman says ‘no thank you’ to reported Musk bid for OpenAI

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 04: Sam Altman, co-founder and C.E.O. of OpenAI, speaks during the New York Times annual DealBook summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 04, 2024 in New York City. The NYT summit with Andrew Ross Sorkin returns with interviews on the main stage including Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon and owner of the Washinton Post, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, among others. The discussions will touch on topics such as business, politics and culture. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

OpenAI just added a new Pro subscription for ChatGPT that’s said to provide better and faster results

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OpenAI CEO received $76,001 in pay last year, filing shows

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the Microsoft Build conference at the Seattle Convention Center Summit Building in Seattle, Washington on May 21, 2024. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

OpenAI releases o1 model with human-like reasoning

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Hugging Face CEO says he hears from 10 AI founders a week who want to sell their startups

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Ilya Sutskever, Russian Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI, speaks at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Key player in on-again, off-again ouster of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is leaving the company

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DAVOS, SWITZERLAND – JANUARY 18: Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland on January 18, 2024. (Photo by Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images)

OpenAI debuts a speedier model for powering ChatGPT and more free features

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Dario Amodei

Amazon injects another $2.75 billion into startup founded by siblings who worked at OpenAI

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Emad Mostaque, founder and chief executive officer of Stability AI Ltd., during the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, June 22, 2023. The summit will focus on the rapidly changing social media landscape, the prospects for a continued regulatory crackdown on tech, and the future of cryptocurrencies. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque is out following an investor mutiny and staff exodus that left the one-time tech darling in turmoil

By Rachel Metz, Mark Bergen, and others

Illustration Musk suing OpenAI

OpenAI reveals emails showing Elon Musk backed its plans to become a for-profit business and insisted it raise billions: ‘We’re sad that it’s come to this’

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Open AI CEO Sam Altman

OpenAI pushes back on Musk after lawsuit: Tesla CEO ‘sued us when we started making meaningful progress’

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – OCTOBER 06: (L-R) Tesla Motors CEO and Product Architect Elon Musk, Y Combinator President Sam Altman and The New York Times Financial Columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin speak onstage during “What Will They Think of Next? Talking About Innovation” at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 6, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)

OpenAI ‘categorically disagrees’ with Elon Musk’s lawsuit against it, suggests Tesla CEO has ‘regrets’

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Toronto , Canada – 22 June 2022; Eric Schmidt, Founder, Schmidt Futures, on Centre Stage during day two of Collision 2022 at Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada. (Photo By Lukas Schulze/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images)

Microsoft, ex-Google CEO back startup that aims to make AI systems work as humans intended

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