Published on: 2025-06-05 04:43:54
In “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future,” Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey examines our AI-obsessed moment through one of its key figures — Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Hagey begins with Altman’s Midwest upbringing, then takes readers through his career at startup Loopt, accelerator Y Combinator, and now at OpenAI. She also sheds new light on the dramatic few days when Altman was fired, then quickly reinstated, as OpenAI’s CEO. Looking back
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 21:00:00
On May 16, 2023, Sam Altman appeared before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary. The title of the hearing was “Oversight of AI.” The session was a lovefest, with both Altman and the senators celebrating what Altman called AI’s “printing press moment”—and acknowledging that the US needed strong laws to avoid its pitfalls. “We think that regulatory intervention by governments will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful models,” he said. The legislators hung on Altman’s every
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It is, once again, a big moment for AI gadgets. This week, in the midst of a flood of news from Google’s I/O, Apple legend Jony Ive, who helped actualize a niche little gadget called the iPhone, announced he’s buddying up with AI boy genius Sam Altman, who—in case you’ve been living in a Ted Kaczynski-style cabin for the past few years—is the face of a similarly teensy little product called ChatGPT. In a reported $6.5 billion deal, OpenAI is planning to buy Ive and his team and put everyone unde
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AI is coming for your phones -- this you know by now and maybe you've already experienced it for yourself in the form of Apple Intelligence or Google's Gemini. But OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and perhaps the biggest name in AI software and services right now, is making a different bet. It's looking beyond the traditional smartphone and thinking about how AI might reinvent our devices altogether. On Wednesday, the company announced that it had bought Jony Ive's device startup IO for $6.5 billion.
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is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. The leaders of OpenAI and Google have been living rent-free in each other’s heads since ChatGPT caught the world by storm. Heading into this week’s I/O, Googlers were on edge about whether Sam Altman would try to upstage their show like last year, when OpenAI held an event the day before to showcase ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode. This time, OpenAI dropped its bombshell the day aft
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Have we learned nothing from "Black Mirror"? Marriage of Minds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is teaming up with a famous Apple designer to make wearables that can see your whole life — and he's instructed his staff to ship 100 million of them. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Altman recently told employees they'll soon be manufacturing the secretive new "AI companion" device with Jony Ive, the beknighted designer behind the iPhone. News of the device comes just after OpenAI revealed that it had p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 13:02:58
is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. The last 48 hours have been a wild rollercoaster ride for AI hardware. On Tuesday, Google ended its I/O keynote — a roughly two-hour event with copious references to AI — with its vision for Android XR glasses. That included flashy partnerships with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, as well as the first hands-on opportunity with its pr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 12:38:29
In Brief OpenAI pushed generative AI into the public consciousness. Now, it could be developing a very different kind of AI device. According to a WSJ report, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees Wednesday that the company’s next major product won’t be a wearable. Instead, it will be a compact, screenless device, fully aware of its user’s surroundings. Small enough to sit on a desk or fit in a pocket, Altman described it as both a “third core device” alongside a MacBook Pro and iPhone, and an
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AI gadgets are back, baby! Or that’s what Jony Ive and Sam Altman hope. Well, they may not really hope they’re back as much as they hope they’re not completely and utterly cooked. ICYMI, Ive and OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, announced in a post-Google I/O keynote bombshell that they are teaming up under a new company called, “io” to make, um… something? Whatever it is, it’s apparently worth $6.5 billion of OpenAI’s cold, hard AI revolution money. We truly, genuinely, do not know what the two are ma
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. More details are trickling out about Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s new AI device. In a post on Thursday, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says his research indicates that the device could be larger than Humane’s AI pin, but with a “form factor as compact and elegant as an iPod Shuffle.” Kuo adds that “one of the intended use cases” is wearing the device arou
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Jony Ive and Sam Altman yesterday released a strong candidate for most frustrating video of the year: promising a completely new concept in AI hardware, but giving very little clue as to what it might be. I transcribed the video to see whether I could spot any clues, in conjunction with other things the two have said. I think we can draw some pretty safe conclusions about what it’s not – and there are one or two clues about what it is … I argued a year ago that the AI hardware we’ve seen to da
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 17:00:24
The first device OpenAI is putting out with Jony Ive won't be a phone or a wearable and may not even have a screen at all, according to The Wall Street Journal. OpenAI chief Sam Altman reportedly talked about the company's plans to employees after announcing that it has purchased Ive's startup called io. The Journal said Altman told employees that they have "the chance to do the biggest thing [they've] ever done as a company." Altman and Ive gave out clues for what the company's first device co
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The mysterious device that OpenAI is cooking up with former Apple designer Jony Ive will be pocket-size, contextually aware, screen-free, and isn’t eyewear. Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed details about the project in an internal staff call reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, after announcing the $6.5 billion acquisition of Ive’s AI hardware startup, io. Altman suggested that the acquisition could increase OpenAI’s value by $1 trillion, and envisioned a “family of devices” being born fr
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In Brief OpenAI pushed generative AI into the public consciousness. Now, it could be developing a very different kind of AI device. According to a WSJ report, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees Wednesday that the company’s next major product won’t be a wearable. Instead, it will be a compact, screenless device, fully aware of its user’s surroundings. Small enough to sit on a desk or fit in a pocket, Altman described it as both a “third core device” alongside a MacBook Pro and iPhone, and an
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Dario Amodei’s AI safety contingent was growing disquieted with some of Sam Altman’s behaviors. Shortly after OpenAI’s Microsoft deal was inked in 2019, several of them were stunned to discover the extent of the promises that Altman had made to Microsoft for which technologies it would get access to in return for its investment. The terms of the deal didn’t align with what they had understood from Altman. If AI safety issues actually arose in OpenAI’s models, they worried, those commitments woul
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 13:12:39
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. OpenAI is buying io, a hardware company founded by former Apple design chief Jony Ive and several other former engineers from his time there, including Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan. Ive won’t be joining OpenAI, and his design firm, LoveFrom, will continue to be independent, but they will “take over design for all of OpenAI, including its software,” in a deal value
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oxygen/Getty Images OpenAI is officially getting into the hardware business. In a video posted to X on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple designer Jony Ive, who worked on flagship products like the iPhone, revealed a partnership to create the next generation of AI-enabled devices. Also: I tried Google's XR glasses and they already beat my Meta Ray-Bans in 3 ways The AI software company announced it is merging with io, an under-the-radar startup focused on AI devices that Ive f
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OpenAI declared it will put up an astronomical $6.5 billion to merge with Jony Ive and his secretive AI device design company. Ive, who helped bring us legendary products like the iMac and iPhone, will lead the makers of ChatGPT not just in making a better chatbot but in creating a product that “reimagines” a personal computer. Perhaps Ive and Silicon Valley darling OpenAI CEO Sam Altman may finally help us escape our screen addiction, or it could just be another Humane pin. Altman and Ive came
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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. OpenAI is buying io, a hardware company founded by former Apple design chief Jony Ive and several other former engineers from his time there, including Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan. Ive won’t be joining OpenAI, and his design firm, LoveFrom, will continue to be independent, but they will “take over design for all of OpenAI, including its software,” in a deal value
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 09:59:35
Famed Apple product designer Jony Ive will now lead creative and design work at OpenAI, the result on an usual deal announced on Wednesday. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Ive have been working on an AI device that will move consumers beyond screens for roughly two years, according to The Wall Street Journal. “Thrilled to be partnering with Jony, imo the greatest designer in the world,” said Altman in a post on X Wednesday. “Excited to try to create a new generation of AI-powered computers.” thrille
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It would be hard to overstate the impact that Peter Thiel has had on the career of Sam Altman. After Altman sold his first startup in 2012, Thiel bankrolled his first venture fund, Hydrazine Capital. Thiel saw Altman as an inveterate optimist who stood at “the absolute epicenter, maybe not of Silicon Valley, but of a Silicon Valley zeitgeist.” As Thiel put it, “If you had to look for the one person who represented a millennial tech person, it would be Altman.” Each year, Altman would point Thie
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As Brian Chesky tells it, the reinvention of Airbnb started with the coup at OpenAI. On November 17, 2023, the board of OpenAI fired company CEO Sam Altman. His friend Chesky leapt into action—publicly defending his pal on X, getting on the phone with Microsoft’s CEO, and throwing himself into the thick of Altman’s battle to retake OpenAI. Five days later Altman prevailed, and Chesky—“I was so jacked up,” he says—turned his buzzing mind to his own company, Airbnb. Thanksgiving weekend was begin
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As Brian Chesky tells it, the reinvention of Airbnb started with the coup at OpenAI. On November 17, 2023, the board of OpenAI fired company CEO Sam Altman. His friend Chesky leapt into action—publicly defending his pal on X, getting on the phone with Microsoft’s CEO, and throwing himself into the thick of Altman’s battle to retake OpenAI. Five days later Altman prevailed, and Chesky—“I was so jacked up,” he says—turned his buzzing mind to his own company, Airbnb. Thanksgiving weekend was begin
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is using his olive oil inefficiently in an “offense to horticulture,” the Financial Times humorously reports. For its “Lunch with the FT” series, the paper joined Altman in his kitchen. He prepared a garlicky pasta and salad, taking a rare break from his demanding job of advocating for the disruption of American copyright law. Altman uses Graza olive oil, which comes in beautifully-branded squeeze bottles that are popular on social media (he is a millennial, after all). B
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 14:02:24
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The Trump administration walked back an Executive Order from former President Joe Biden that created rules around the development and deployment of AI. Since then, the government has stepped back from regulating the technology. In a more than three-hour hearing at the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, executives like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, AMD C
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Jason Redmond / Getty Images In a somewhat unexpected move, OpenAI is evolving its company structure -- and not necessarily toward profit. OpenAI LLC is the for-profit arm of the organization that runs products like ChatGPT. OpenAI Inc is the nonprofit arm that owns OpenAI LLC. On Monday, the company announced that OpenAI LLC would transition to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), with OpenAI Inc maintaining control as its largest shareholder. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ZDNET's parent company,
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust What just happened? OpenAI and Sam Altman have decided that becoming a for-profit entity is more trouble than it's worth. The CEO has announced that the nonprofit arm will continue to control the company as it becomes a public benefit corporation. OpenAI made the decision for the nonprofit to stay in control after hearing from civic leaders and having discussions with the offices of the Attorneys G
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OpenAI says non-profit will remain in control after backlash 5 hours ago Share Save Natalie Sherman BBC News Share Save Getty Images OpenAI, the parent of artificial intelligence service ChatGPT, has announced a new governance plan after a bitter power struggle over the business. Boss Sam Altman said OpenAI would remain under the control of its for-profit board, while becoming what is known in the US as a public benefit corporation. Mr Altman had put forward a similar plan in December - but w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 01:21:12
On the evening of April 30th, the hottest ticket in San Francisco was a buzzy crypto startup’s coming-out party at a warehouse-like complex on the northern edge of the city. It had all the makings of an event you’d only find near Silicon Valley: Anderson Paak, champagne, and a bunch of eye-scanning orbs. Onstage, Sam Altman and co-founder Alex Blania announced that the cryptocurrency Worldcoin is coming to the US for the first time, along with a bevy of orbs. The idea is straight out of science
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-24 17:00:32
Tools for Humanity, a startup co-founded by Sam Altman, has launched its its World eyeball-scanning identity verification system in the US. During an event in San Francisco, Altman reportedly said that World's technology provides "a way to make sure humans remained central and special in a world where the internet had a lot of AI-driven content." Altman is also one of the founders and is currently the CEO of OpenAI, which is perhaps the most prominent artificial intelligence company today. Worl
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