A slightly built, earnest talker who was little known outside Silicon Valley, Altman had soaked up the lessons from an earlier generation of tech luminaries. The tour was a brilliant pre-emptive strike suggested by his friend Brian Chesky, head of Airbnb, whose own company had failed to win over politicians early enough.

The C.E.O. of OpenAI helped usher artificial intelligence into public life. Now, as fears and fortunes mount, his own transformation is just beginning.

The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other's monsters. An excerpt from "The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future."

Sam Altman and OpenAI announced a $6.4 billion deal on Wednesday to buy io, the AI hardware startup of Apple's former chief design officer Jony Ive.

Keach Hagey’s “The Optimist” is what could be called the authorised version. She had access to Mr Altman and many of the main characters in his story, including his family and friends. His personality is vivid and complicated enough that her story never flags. It is no hagiography.

The book shows that the move to oust Altman was instigated not by the independent board members, as commonly assumed, but by Mira Murati and Ilya Sutskever. Murati, we’re told, complained in great detail about Altman’s “toxic” management style,

Sam Altman is a beguiling character. The first things you notice about him are his slight stature and the intensity of his gaze.

Two journalists explore the artificial intelligence company OpenAI and present complementary portraits of its notorious co-founder.

Their latest public exchange unfolded on Saturday on X, sparked by a political flashpoint involving U.S. President Donald Trump. The conversation began when Musk posted a thinking emoji, quoting Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham’s 2016 post, which read, “Few have done more than Sam Altman to defeat Trump.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reached out to Elon Musk, suggesting they put aside their differences for the sake of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) development. This comes after Musk reacted to Altman's old anti-Trump posts on X.