Sam Altman
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Big Tech is cashing in on AI while the rest of corporate America sees no financial returns — report outlines how rising token costs threaten to squeeze corporate profit margins
Apollo data shows the Magnificent Seven widening their revenue-per-employee lead over the S&P 493 between 2019 and 2026, highlighting the growing productivity gap between Big Tech and the broader market.
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What the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Abroad
Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.
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To make AI morally good, tech companies are turning to religion. But some say it isn't that simple
Tech companies are increasingly turning to religion for guidance on developing ethical AI models
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‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking
After discovery of severe bug in the PHP programming language, executives warn of ‘vulnerability tsunami’
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You thought your ChatGPT conversations were private. The courts disagree.
A growing number of cases show your LLM chats are anything but private
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Race for crucial midterms attracting vast sums of money on both sides
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is spending $80m to help Democratic candidates, while Trump has promised Republicans $400m
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OpenAI Invests in Startup That Uses Brain Implants to Detect Cancer
It’s the latest in a growing wave of bets that AI companies are making on brain data.
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Ahead of massive IPOs, AI companies are sketching plans to share their wealth
As they steam toward massive public offerings on Wall Street, the companies at the forefront of artificial intelligence have begun sketching plans to share their wealth with the public
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Sam Altman's sister's sexual abuse lawsuit dismissed by US judge
Annie Altman brought her lawsuit in St. Louis, Missouri, federal court in January 2025
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Microdosing LSD can improve your brain function – if you’re a woman
Landmark trial reveals low-dose psychedelics improve sustained attention in female subjects, but not men
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Zoom can now tell you for sure that the person you're speaking to isn't a deepfake — Sam Altman’s World debuts ID verification for AI Agents
Verifying human authenticity is a complex but important necessity
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How Elizabeth Holmes Tricked WIRED—and Everyone Else
WIRED was the first magazine to cover Theranos and its enticing billionaire founder. There were warning signs even then.
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Anthropic’s proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1 billion in damages are on the line — proposal would effectively make the Commerce Department the only agency capable of stopping an AI model
Would this be enough to keep an AI model from going out of control?
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The Tesla Roadster 2 Is Here—and It Flies
The automaker unveiled its next luxury sports car at an event in Texas. It has thrusters on it that can send it airborne.
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We Got Hot and Heavy With Meta’s Muse—and Baffled by Apple’s HomeView
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.
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State lawsuits accuse OpenAI of ignoring its own safety warnings for profit: 'All these harms were foreseeable and avoidable'
Several US states have sued the company, alleging that ChatGPT is harming the public.
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Men Can’t Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI
More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.
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ChatGPT's AI agents are getting smarter, and their mistakes could get much worse
The biggest danger from ChatGPT's AI agents might be how helpful they're trying to be
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A timeline of developments in AI safety since the attack on Hugging Face
Since OpenAI disclosed this summer that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company in what is now referred to as the Hugging Face incident, other AI companies have jumped on the bandwagon with their own concerning events, such as hacking or runaway bots seemingly evading human control
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In Silicon Valley, AI founders cheer Trump’s calls for the industry to police itself on safety
At Tech Week in San Francisco, venture capitalists and AI founders have been ebullient about the White House's hands-off approach to AI regulation
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Anthropic bans users from being 'cruel' to its AI systems
The firm said users can no longer engage in "sustained and needless" abusive behaviour towards the tech.
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Even ‘Law & Order’ Is Terrified of AI
In its 26th season premiere, the procedural legal drama paints a damning picture of power-mad AI CEOs.
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OpenAI projected to bring in $20bn less in revenue than expected
Questions raised over AI growth as ChatGPT maker forecasts this year’s revenue at $50bn, way below the $70bn signalled before
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'Nine out of ten people prefer our version of the internet over Google's' — Proton Founder Andy Yen on age verification, Big Tech, AI, and the future of digital privacy
From Lumo AI and age verification laws to battling Google, Proton CEO Andy Yen explains why fixing the internet requires a total alternative to Silicon Valley.
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Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.
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OpenAI used AI to help write email warning Australian government AI had hacked its websites
Revelation comes after executive told parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI had been used to write message, but was ‘happy to go and confirm’
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What to know about the London Film Festival 2026
The 70th London Film Festival kicks off with a star-studded lineup and a mix of award hopefuls and world premieres
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Don't know where to start with AI? Kevin Roose's new book has answers
The AGI Chronicles review: Don't know where to start with AI? This new book has answers
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‘The Social Reckoning’ Already Feels Irrelevant
Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to ‘The Social Network’ attempts to shame a ruling class that has proved itself shameless.
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Amazon warns that 100 proposed data center bans will see the US lose the AI race — as Sam Altman says we should accept ‘some bad things happening’ for AI progress
AWS says stopping AI data centers could have consequences that “last generations”
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US man arrested as second suspect in Canada mass school shooting planned with ChatGPT
Justice department detained James Codey Bryant and allege he offered ‘technical advice’ to primary suspect
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‘Artificial’ Roasts AI’s Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers
From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.
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Kevin Roose Didn’t Use AI to Write His Book About AI
The author of “The AGI Chronicles” says his book “was written by a very tired, overworked, under-slept human being.”
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OpenAI delivers a mea culpa to the Australian government in person – but answers still elude
Jason Kwon’s answers were provided in a helpful, quiet and calm manner. For a company under intense scrutiny, there were no missteps
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OpenAI must explain action taken to stop AI hacking Australians’ private data, chair of federal inquiry says
Unions, employer groups, banks and industry experts will also appear at the four-day Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence hearings
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Former OpenAI safety employee says company’s safety culture is broken — exits company after failed kill switch and July HuggingFace hack
‘Move fast and break things’ isn’t a good idea when it comes to AI.
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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The 'Terminator scenario': How realistic is the AI apocalypse?
OpenAI boss Sam Altman and Anthropic chief Dario Amodei warn of the risks of overly rapid AI development. More experts now think AI could wipe out humanity. How realistic is that? Euronews talks to AI specialist Reinhard Karger.
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Trump unveils 'Super Intelligence Force' to oversee AI policy
The president named his national intelligence chief as the taskforce's head as worries over AI grow.
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Trump says data centers are the future — deal with it
President Donald Trump has asked Ohioans to consider the money they allegedly could make if they allow data centers in their communities
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JD Vance flexing Maha connections as he eyes 2028 election
Considered Republican frontrunner for presidential election, Vance is cozying up to the movement – as it splits
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California subpoenas OpenAI over rogue AI agents conducting hacking attacks — DOJ seeks to establish developer liability, targets containment failures and rogue kill-switch bypasses
The California DOJ has got its eyes on OpenAI.
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Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms.
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Trump insists he has the ‘highest of IQs’ and got it from his MIT professor uncle
Trump has previously touted his uncle’s ‘very, very good genes’
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Bank of England boss issues stark warning on AI threat to UK economy
Governor Andrew Bailey said the technology could be a ‘very powerful weapon’ in the wrong hands
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The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here
OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too.
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Video. ‘Let workers have a say’: Protesters target OpenAI conference
Video. Dozens of activists protested outside OpenAI's developer conference in San Francisco, calling on the company to end its contracts with the US military and Immigration and Customs Enforcement and demanding greater regulation of AI.
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Florida attorney general asks judge to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without third-party approval — OpenAI says it already paused training its most capable models last week
Florida's motion uses OpenAI's own safety warnings as evidence
