Rachel Metz

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  • data centerEnvironment

    The rise of AI reasoning models comes with a big energy tradeoff

    By Rachel Metz, Dina Bass, and others
  • Larry SummersLaw

    Larry Summers steps down from OpenAI board over Epstein ties

    By Rachel Metz and Bloomberg
  • Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during Snowflake Summit 2025 at Moscone Center on June 02, 2025 in San Francisco, California.AI

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

    By Rachel Metz and Bloomberg
  • 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 ImagesTech

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

    By Shirin Ghaffary, Rachel Metz, and others
  • 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

    By Kate Clark, Rachel Metz, and others
  • 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)Tech

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

    By Rachel Metz and Bloomberg
  • Sam AltmanTech

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

    By Biz Carson, Rachel Metz, and others
  • 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)Tech

    OpenAI releases o1 model with human-like reasoning

    By Rachel Metz and Bloomberg
  • Clément DelangueTech

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

    By Rachel Metz and Bloomberg
  • 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)Tech

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

    By Rachel Metz and Bloomberg
  • 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)Tech

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

    By Rachel Metz, Shirin Ghaffary, and others
  • Dario AmodeiTech

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

    By Matt Day, Rachel Metz, and others
  • 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 ImagesTech

    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 OpenAITech

    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’

    By Rachel Metz, Shirin Ghaffary, and others
  • Open AI CEO Sam AltmanTech

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

    By Rachel Metz, Shirin Ghaffary, and others