Sam Altman news and trends

Report: OpenAI Plans to Restructure and Become For-Profit Benefit Corporation
artificial intelligence // September 25, 2024

OpenAI reportedly plans to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that won’t be controlled by its nonprofit board. Under this plan, the OpenAI nonprofit will own a minority stake in the for-profit company, Reuters reported Wednesday (Sept. 25), citing unnamed sources. The...

OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati to Leave Company
artificial intelligence // September 25, 2024

OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said Wednesday (Sept. 25) that she is leaving the company after 6½ years. “I’m stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration,” Murati said in a Wednesday post on X. “For...

T-Mobile and OpenAI Partner on AI-Powered Customer Service Platform
artificial intelligence // September 18, 2024

Wireless provider T-Mobile has partnered with OpenAI to create an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered customer service platform that will be used by T-Mobile and will create a blueprint that can be used by companies in other industries. This collaboration brings together T-Mobile’s customer relationship experience and...

Worldcoin’s Iris-Scanning Tech Faces Global Pushback
Biometrics // August 18, 2024

“Once somebody has your specific iris picture, you’ll never have the possibility to stay anonymous.” That’s Michael Will, head of Bavaria’s data regulator, speaking to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Sunday (Aug. 18) about concerns over Worldcoin’s iris-scanning technology.  As that report noted, Germany is...

Interviews & Exclusives
Altman-Backed Slope’s Bid to Create GPT Business Payments

October 10, 2023
The business-to-business (B2B) payments economy represents a $125 trillion opportunity for the right innovation to unlock. But those trillions of dollars being shuffled around between businesses don’t sit lightly — and their historic weight has served to entrench the way that organizations transact with and pay one another, leading to a host of ingrained habits and […]

Is a Gen AI-Powered Connected Device in the Cards?

September 27, 2023
A holistic user experience considers every aspect of a product. Think about Apple’s iPhone and computer products. By establishing them as hardware platforms running the company’s own proprietary iOS software,...

Is Going for Broke With ChatGPT Bankrupting Sam Altman’s OpenAI? 

August 16, 2023
A promise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is its potential to cut costs. Unfortunately, the realities of the unit economics inherent to building and running foundational AI models might result...

Quick Reads
OpenAI CEO: Computing Capacity Is Slowing Product Rollouts

November 03, 2024
OpenAI’s CEO says a dearth of computing capacity is hindering his company’s product rollouts. “All of these models have gotten quite complex,” Sam Altman wrote in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session when asked why OpenAI’s next artificial intelligence (AI) models were taking so long. “We also face a lot of limitations and hard […]

Report: OpenAI Plans to Restructure and Become For-Profit Benefit Corporation

September 25, 2024
OpenAI reportedly plans to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that won’t be controlled by its nonprofit board. Under this plan, the OpenAI nonprofit will own a...

OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati to Leave Company

September 25, 2024
OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said Wednesday (Sept. 25) that she is leaving the company after 6½ years. “I’m stepping away because I want to create the time and...

T-Mobile and OpenAI Partner on AI-Powered Customer Service Platform

September 18, 2024
Wireless provider T-Mobile has partnered with OpenAI to create an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered customer service platform that will be used by T-Mobile and will create a blueprint that can be...