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Sam Altman

The latest news on Sam Altman, American entrepreneur, investor and CEO of OpenAI, including celebrity news and updates.

Born

22 Apr 1985

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Technology, Business

Job Title

CEO of OpenAI

The Pentagon on Thursday slapped a formal supply-chain risk designation on Anthropic, limiting use of a technology that a source said was being used for military operations in Iran. Photo illustration: TNS

United States

Anthropic sues Trump administration as row over AI use by military deepens

The Pentagon blacklisted the start-up after it refused to let its technology be used for fully autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance.

10 Mar 2026 - 1:13PM

United States

US Treasury to stop using Anthropic AI tech, including Claude platform

3 Mar 2026 - 2:34AM

India

India’s AI superpower dream: flush with cash, short on capacity

28 Feb 2026 - 2:00PM

United States

Anthropic vows to sue US after Trump tells government to stop using firm’s AI

The start-up has refused to let its models be used for the mass surveillance of US citizens or deployed in fully autonomous weapons systems.

28 Feb 2026 - 2:16PM

Anthropic has rejected the Pentagon’s demand that it agree to unconditional military use of its Claude models. Photo illustration: Reuters

Bank of America

Geopolitics takes back seat to ‘No 1 investor risk’ for creditors: survey

The survey showed that only 10 per cent of credit investors consider AI-driven corporate obsolescence a big concern.

25 Feb 2026 - 4:49PM

India

OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs refuse to hold hands during India AI summit photo op

The incident in New Delhi highlights the frosty relationship between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei.

20 Feb 2026 - 12:16PM

India

India AI summit aims to shift focus from model races to scaled reality

The event offers emerging economies a chance to reframe AI as public infrastructure and work together to put it into public services.

17 Feb 2026 - 7:00PM

Delegates at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo: AP

Donald Trump

Trump vs BBC: US$10 billion defamation suit headed for 2027 trial

Florida judge sets a February trial date over claims the broadcaster ‘deceptively’ edited the US president’s January 6 speech.

13 Feb 2026 - 8:36AM

Science

Frost in 20 seconds: can this supercooling tech give China an edge in AI race?

Liquid cooling system powered by science could fuel critical infrastructure, offsetting soaring energy consumption and cooling demands.

1 Feb 2026 - 12:00PMvideocam

United States

As ICE cracks down, some of America’s biggest names are speaking out

The US president is facing a growing cultural revolt that threatens to undermine his signature domestic priority.

29 Jan 2026 - 4:33PM

ICE agents guard outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo: Reuters

China economy

China’s AI and EV boom drives record power demand, widening energy gap with US

The main drivers of the growth are the tertiary sector – covering services including AI cloud services – and residential use.

17 Jan 2026 - 8:11PM

A drone photo taken on December 16, 2025 shows workers on a power transmission line in east China’s Anhui Province. Photo: Xinhua

Artificial intelligence

Apple, Google strike Gemini deal for revamped Siri in major win for Alphabet

Alphabet has been jostling with OpenAI for the Apple deal, the financial details of which were not disclosed.

13 Jan 2026 - 10:53AM

United States

‘Architects of AI’ named Time’s 2025 Person of the Year

Time’s Person of the Year highlights how AI reshaped our world. Donald Trump was named 2024 honoree, succeeding 2023 winner Taylor Swift.

11 Dec 2025 - 11:14PM

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI names first chief of revenue as ChatGPT maker aims to make a profit

OpenAI is facing increased competition from rivals, including Google, which last month unleashed the latest version of its own AI assistant.

10 Dec 2025 - 10:45AM

Artificial intelligence

How China’s solopreneurs are using AI to crack a tough job market

Armed with a variety of AI tools, a new breed of young entrepreneurs forges a path in a challenging economy.

16 Dec 2025 - 9:06AM

AI is helping China’s solopreneurs pursue business dreams without the necessity of deep pockets and large teams. Photo: Xinhua

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI CEO declares ‘code red’ to improve ChatGPT as rivals move in

The call comes after Google released its Gemini 3 AI model last month that gained praise for its capacity to reason and code.

3 Dec 2025 - 10:07AM

Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek releases first open AI model with gold-level scores at maths olympiad

‘Imagine owning the brain of one of the best mathematicians in the world for free,’ Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue says in a post on X.

29 Nov 2025 - 9:00AM

Foxconn

Taiwan’s Foxconn expands AI hardware push with OpenAI deal

Foxconn sees profits soar after shifting its focus from low-margin iPhone assembly to AI servers that are now in huge demand.

21 Nov 2025 - 2:52PM

Foxconn Technology Group has been expanding capacity in the US, as a major supplier of AI servers and related networking gear. Photo: Shutterstock

Artificial intelligence

Google’s new Gemini model puts China’s AI start-ups on the defensive

It highlights the daunting challenge faced by Chinese AI start-ups to compete against firms like Google with massive resources.

20 Nov 2025 - 9:00AM

Artificial intelligence

Microsoft, Nvidia to invest up to US$15 billion in Anthropic in AI deal

The announcement underscores the AI industry’s insatiable appetite for computing power.

19 Nov 2025 - 10:45AM

Artificial intelligence

China’s Moonshot claims to build models with fewer AI chips than US rivals

In a Reddit forum, a Moonshot AI executive says start-up is ‘outnumbered’ by US rivals in terms of ‘high-end GPUs’ used for training models.

14 Nov 2025 - 8:31AM

Kimi K2 Thinking was trained on Nvidia’s older H800 graphics processing units, according to a Moonshot AI executive. Photo: Shutterstock

Artificial intelligence

Sam Altman says OpenAI does not want a government bailout for AI

The CEO says OpenAI only had discussions about ‘loan guarantees’ for building chip fabrication plants in the US.

7 Nov 2025 - 10:00AMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI to pay Amazon US$38 billion in 7-year cloud services deal

The deal underscores the AI industry’s insatiable appetite for computing power, pushing Amazon shares to an all-time high.

4 Nov 2025 - 9:47AM

ChatGPT and other generative AIs

How OpenAI’s Sora app ‘erodes confidence’ in what we see online

The videos on Sora are mesmerising – think Queen Elizabeth at a pub, an alien at McDonald’s – but they are leading to an erosion of trust.

2 Nov 2025 - 5:15PM

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI lays groundwork for juggernaut IPO at up to US$1 trillion valuation

With an annualised revenue run rate expected to reach about US$20 billion by year-end, losses are also mounting inside the company.

30 Oct 2025 - 12:25PM

Artificial intelligence

Microsoft holds 27% of OpenAI in revamped partnership

In the deal, Microsoft’s intellectual rights for both OpenAI’s models and products are extended through 2032.

29 Oct 2025 - 11:50AM

Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the Snowflake Summit in San Francisco, on June 2, 2025. Photo: Getty Images/TNS

Artificial intelligence

Clippy 2.0? Microsoft unveils Mico, an AI character for Copilot users

Copilot users on laptops and smartphones can speak to Mico, available in the US.

24 Oct 2025 - 10:29AM

Artificial intelligence

Airbnb chooses Alibaba’s open-source AI over ‘not ready’ ChatGPT

Airbnb ‘relies heavily’ on Alibaba’s Qwen models to power its AI customer service agent, CEO Brian Chesky says.

22 Oct 2025 - 5:00PM

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