Shirin Ghaffary

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  • Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Stargate is a collaboration of OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank, with promotional support from President Donald Trump, to build data centers and other infrastructure for artificial intelligence throughout the US. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAI

    OpenAI-Broadcom agreement sends shares of chipmaker soaring

    By Dina Bass, Shirin Ghaffary, and others
  • Sam Altman and Elon MuskStartups & Venture

    OpenAI valuation reaches $500 billion, topping Musk’s SpaceX

    By Shirin Ghaffary and Bloomberg
  • WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 18: CEO of Scale A.I. Alexandr Wang testifies during a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation hearing about artificial intelligence on Capitol Hill July 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on barriers that prevent the Department of Defense from adopting and deploying A.I. effectively and the risks from adversarial A.I. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)AI

    Meta in talks for Scale AI investment that could top $10 billion

    By David Carnevali, Shirin Ghaffary, and others
  • Sam Altman speaking onstageTech

    OpenAI finalizes $40 billion funding at $300 billion value

    By Shirin Ghaffary 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
  • Sarah Friar, chief financial officer of OpenAI Inc., at Bloomberg House during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. The annual Davos gathering of political leaders, top executives and celebrities runs from January 20 to 24. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    OpenAI CFO calls Musk legal challenge competitive ‘lawfare’

    By Shirin Ghaffary, Gian Volpicelli, and others
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 04: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visits “Making Money With Charles Payne” at Fox Business Network Studios on December 04, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)Tech

    OpenAI considers morphing into a for-profit business that risks triggering Elon Musk even more than he already is

    By Shirin Ghaffary and Bloomberg
  • A laptop keyboard and ChatGPT on App StoreTech

    OpenAI brings search features to ChatGPT in challenge to Google

    By Shirin Ghaffary and Bloomberg
  • State Senator Scott Wiener, a Democrat from California, during the Bloomberg BNEF Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. The summit provides the ideas, insights and connections to formulate successful strategies, capitalize on technological change and shape a cleaner, more competitive future. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Landmark bill aimed at stopping AI from causing ‘severe harm’ passes a critical hurdle in California

    By Shirin Ghaffary and Bloomberg
  • Sam AltmanTech

    Sam Altman, leader of OpenAI and one of Reddit’s largest investors, is further aligning his interests with an alliance between the two

    By Aisha Counts, Shirin Ghaffary, and others
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. The meeting includes over 5,200 delegates representing 40 countries aiming to reimagine the global economy so the benefits and opportunities of free enterprise are extended to everyone. Photographer: Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Sam Altman’s OpenAI to be second-most valuable U.S. startup behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX based on early-talks funding round

    By Gillian Tan, Edward Ludlow, and others