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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says society should accept some AI harm to preserve the benefits and broad accessibility of artificial intelligence.
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Amid escalating AI security incidents causing OpenAI to halt training and pause releases, Donald Trump continues to advocate for the AI industry to regulate itself as the best path to combat emerging risks when developing frontier AI.
In an agreement Tuesday, two dozen tech firms voluntarily committed to implementing controls recommended by the White House, including undergoing independent safety audits that will test whether firms’ internal controls, monitoring, and detecting are actually working. Key focuses for external reviews included “risks related to cybersecurity, biosecurity, chemical threats, and unintended actions by AI models.”
Firms also agreed to regularly meet to discuss best practices and set common AI safety standards and benchmarks. Among signers were leaders like Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Alphabet/Google’s Sundar Pichai.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in active talks with the Trump administration about the US potentially acquiring a 5 percent stake in the leading AI firm.
Insider sources told the Financial Times that these talks are in “early stages,” but Altman “has argued that giving the public a financial stake in the company is the best way to share the upside of AI.”
Donald Trump favors the idea, and his administration has reportedly been talking to several AI firms about the possibility. According to FT’s sources, other companies approached to share similar stakes include Google and Meta.
Bernie Sanders has unveiled an aggressive plan to transfer trillions from leading AI firms to the public, and, to the likely horror of AI firms, it goes even further than expected to give Americans more control over the AI industry.
Sanders shared a summary of his legislation with AP News. If passed, the law would create a sovereign wealth fund “financed through a one-time 50 percent tax on the stock of the largest AI companies,” AP News reported. Any AI firm that does $200 million in annual AI sales would be subject to the tax, as would any new firm once it reaches that revenue level.
In total, Sanders estimated the fund could be worth $7 trillion, generating “hundreds of billions of dollars annually in direct payments to Americans and programs such as health care, education and housing,” AP News reported. Each American would likely receive more than $1,000 annually in 5 percent annual dividends, Sanders estimated.
Le PDG d’OpenAI, Sam Altman, estime s’être trompé sur la rapidité avec laquelle l’intelligence artificielle provoquerait des suppressions massives d’emplois, notamment parmi les travailleurs cols blancs. Un réajustement notable, alors que le débat sur l’impact de l’IA sur le marché du travail reste particulièrement tendu.
OpenAI s’apprêterait à déposer confidentiellement son dossier d’introduction en Bourse aux États-Unis, avec une IPO potentiellement prévue dès septembre 2026, rapporte Reuters le 20 mai 2026. Une opération historique qui pourrait raviver la rivalité entre Sam Altman et Elon Musk, alors que SpaceX prépare elle aussi son arrivée sur les marchés.
Coup de théâtre dans le duel judiciaire de l'année. Le jury a balayé la plainte du milliardaire contre Sam Altman pour une simple question de prescription légale. Elon Musk s'est réveillé beaucoup trop tard, mais il annonce déjà sa riposte en appel.
Elon Musk took too long to file his lawsuit that accused OpenAI of stealing a charity, a nine-person jury unanimously decided Monday.
Musk sued OpenAI in 2024 for making a "fool" out of him after Musk donated $38 million to kick-start OpenAI as a nonprofit, only to later be blindsided when OpenAI created a for-profit arm that he felt gutted funding for the charity while enriching executives like Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.
But the jury found that Musk was aware of OpenAI's restructuring plans as early as 2021 and therefore missed the statute of limitations requiring him to bring the lawsuit within three years, The New York Times reported. Because Musk took too long to file the litigation, the jury deemed Altman and Brockman not liable for any of the claims that Musk brought against OpenAI, the NYT reported. The jury also let Microsoft off the hook, finding no liability for the OpenAI investor after Musk alleged they aided OpenAI's get-rich scheme.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman had very different experiences while testifying at a trial that will determine OpenAI's future, including who runs it, where its research funding comes from, and who can profit from its boldest new technologies.
Musk—who filed the lawsuit alleging that OpenAI under its current leadership has abandoned its nonprofit mission to build AI that benefits humanity and instead serves to enrich people like Altman—spent three grueling days on the stand. At times, he lost his temper, as OpenAI's lawyer, William Savitt, tried to poke holes in Musk's claims that OpenAI executives teamed up with Microsoft to "steal a charity" after duping Musk into donating $38 million in early funding.
On Tuesday, Altman did not face such a grilling from Musk's lawyer, Steven Molo. Instead, Altman appeared jittery at first but steeled his nerves rather quickly. He hopped off the stand after about four hours of rather calmly discussing evidence that he's hoping shows that Musk's claims about OpenAI's for-profit restructuring are disingenuous. Since Musk filed the lawsuit, Altman has insisted that Musk is only after revenge, supposedly stemming from his jealousy that he was not picked as OpenAI's CEO and that his rival company, xAI, now lags behind.
Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI’s founding team, including Sam Altman, to lead a new AI lab within Tesla in 2018, as the AI start-up’s leaders grappled over who should control the company and its direction.
Musk, a co-founder of the AI group, proposed bringing Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever to his carmaker, appointing Altman to the board or making OpenAI a Tesla subsidiary, according to evidence in a high-stakes trial between the billionaire and the ChatGPT maker on Wednesday.
The disclosures shed light on a crucial issue in the case, in which Musk has claimed that Altman “stole a charity” by converting the company into a for-profit. OpenAI’s lawyers have argued the Tesla chief executive was happy to commercialize the lab, provided that he remained in charge.
Just days before the trial started, Elon Musk tried to settle his lawsuit, which alleges that under Sam Altman's direction, OpenAI abandoned its mission to serve as a nonprofit making AI to benefit humanity.
According to a Sunday court filing from OpenAI, Musk messaged OpenAI President Greg Brockman two days ahead of the trial to "gauge interest" in a possible settlement. Brockman promptly responded, suggesting that "both sides" drop their claims. But Musk refused, then appeared to grow threatening enough that the court may allow Brockman to testify on the message as evidence supposedly revealing Musk's true motives for pursuing the litigation.
"By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America," Musk responded to Brockman's suggestion that all claims be dropped. "If you insist, so it will be."
Le procès entre Elon Musk et Sam Altman, qui pourrait bouleverser l'avenir d'OpenAI, va être diffusé en direct à partir de sa seconde semaine. Problème : le tribunal n'autorise qu'un flux audio. Il sera impossible de le regarder en vidéo.
Elon Musk seems tired and cranky. On Thursday, he took the stand for the third day in a four-week trial stemming from his lawsuit alleging that OpenAI abandoned its mission and should be blocked from taking the company public later this year. If Musk plays his cards right, Sam Altman could be ousted and OpenAI would remain a nonprofit forever.
But Musk stumbled at least seven times in ways that possibly put his chances at winning in jeopardy. Most notable, 1) OpenAI's lawyer managed to get him to make several concessions over his own lawyer's objections. 2) He also lost a fight to keep xAI's safety record off the table, calling his reputation as a supposed AI savior defending OpenAI's mission into question. 3) He repeatedly appeared dishonest, as OpenAI's lawyer showed documents contradicting his testimony. And he twice appeared disingenuous, 4) first when confronted with calling OpenAI's safety team "jackasses," 5) and then again when admitting that he didn't know what "safety cards" are, even though his own AI firm issues them. Perhaps most embarrassing, 6) he testified that he never loses his temper before raising his voice at OpenAI's lawyer. And finally, 7) his lawyers failed to keep his ties to Donald Trump off the record, with the judge agreeing to hear discussions that might further discredit Musk's testimony.
Since he was called as the trial's first witness, Musk has spent more than seven hours over the past two days testifying that OpenAI made a "fool" out of him. He repeatedly claimed that OpenAI executives "stole a charity" after accepting $38 million in donations. Musk insists he was conned into giving "free funding" to start a nonprofit that Altman supposedly always intended to turn into an $800 billion company—not for the benefit of humanity, but to enrich Altman and his co-conspirators.
Dans les instructions internes de Codex CLI, l’agent de programmation d’OpenAI, une consigne inattendue revient à plusieurs reprises : ne jamais mentionner de gobelins, gremlins, ratons laveurs, trolls, ogres ou pigeons. Cette interdiction, devenue virale, alimente débats et théories en ligne.
A hotly anticipated trial starts this week, where Elon Musk will attempt to prove that OpenAI, under Sam Altman, has abandoned its mission to remain a nonprofit in order to ensure that artificial intelligence serves humanity, and not just billionaires.
Many view the lawsuit as a grudge match between Musk—who left OpenAI after serving as an early major donor and advisor—and Altman—who currently runs OpenAI, despite insiders' allegedly growing distrust in his commitment to the dominant AI firm's mission. But the lawsuit is about much more than a couple billionaires' big egos. The outcome could radically change the AI landscape, impacting how OpenAI runs and what resources the firm will have to uphold its mission.
If Musk wins, OpenAI's hopes of growing a for-profit arm that can fund the nonprofit could be dashed. Additionally, Brockman and Altman could be dropped as officers, and Altman risks losing his seat on OpenAI's board.
Le procès très médiatisé entre Elon Musk et Sam Altman débute le 27 avril 2026 aux États-Unis. Elon Musk reproche à OpenAI, qu'il a cofondée, d'avoir trahi sa mission originelle en devenant une entreprise obsédée par les profits et un partenaire de Microsoft. Le milliardaire a abandonné ses accusations de fraude, mais espère toujours faire dérailler l'entreprise derrière ChatGPT.
Après une attaque au cocktail Molotov, la résidence de Sam Altman a de nouveau été visée, cette fois par des tirs, dans la nuit du 11 au 12 avril 2026 à San Francisco. Ces faits, qui ont conduit à plusieurs arrestations, interviennent dans un climat de forte polarisation autour du développement de l’IA.
Sam Altman, l’un des visages les plus influents de l’intelligence artificielle, fait l’objet d’un portrait particulièrement critique dans une enquête du New Yorker. Le magazine y relaie des accusations de manipulation, des doutes sur sa maîtrise technique et une affaire familiale grave, contestée par l’intéressé.
I don't—thankfully—have to follow every statement that Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, makes about the world. Many of these statements seem more like "hustles" or "pitches" than attempts to speak thoughtfully about the future. Even if they are genuine statements of belief, they often read like a teenager's first sci-fi novel, written under the influence of weed and way too much Star Trek.
Consider, for instance, Altman's blog post "A Gentle Singularity," published last year and read by nearly 600,000 people. Its central thesis seems to be that AI is all upside; everything has been great so far, and everything will be even greater in the future! I mean, just wait until we build robots that we can shove these AIs into—then tell those robots to go make more robots.
If we have to make the first million humanoid robots the old-fashioned way, but then they can operate the entire supply chain—digging and refining minerals, driving trucks, running factories, etc.—to build more robots, which can build more chip fabrication facilities, data centers, etc, then the rate of progress will obviously be quite different.
Everything is getting better; indeed, it's getting better faster thanks to "self-reinforcing loops" like this. Downsides? Trick question! There aren't any real downsides because people get used to things. Quickly. Just listen to how great it's gonna be:
On the same day that OpenAI released policy recommendations to ensure that AI benefits humanity if superintelligence is ever achieved, The New Yorker dropped a massive investigation into whether CEO Sam Altman can be trusted to actually follow through on OpenAI's biggest promises.
Parsing the publications side by side can be disorienting.
On the one hand, OpenAI said it plans to push for policies to "keep people first" as AI starts "outperforming the smartest humans even when they are assisted by AI." To achieve this, the company vows to remain "clear-eyed" and transparent about risks, which it acknowledged includes monitoring for extreme scenarios like AI systems evading human control or governments deploying AI to undermine democracy. Without proper mitigation of such risks, "people will be harmed," OpenAI warned, before describing how the company could be trusted to advocate for a future where achieving superintelligence means a "higher quality of life for all."
En pleine restructuration pour se concentrer sur ChatGPT, OpenAI a laissé tomber plusieurs projets annexes comme la génération de vidéos Sora ou la création de hardware. Pourtant, et à la surprise générale, le groupe de Sam Altman a annoncé le rachat de TPBN, le talk show tech le plus populaire du moment aux États-Unis.
Un peu plus d'un an après avoir lancé Sora, son modèle pour générer des vidéos intégré à une application dédiée, OpenAI annonce renoncer à la technologie, qui va même perdre son API. L'entreprise semble vouloir se reconcentrer sur ChatGPT et réduire ses coûts d'exploitation.
Le PDG d'OpenAI a publié un message de « gratitude » envers les développeurs qui ont écrit du code « caractère par caractère ». Un tweet qui a déclenché une vague de colère, dans un secteur de la tech en pleine tourmente sociale.
OpenAI a confirmé au média « Axios » un nouveau report du mode adulte de ChatGPT, sans donner de nouvelle échéance de lancement.
Quelques jours après avoir annoncé un contrat avec le département américain de la Défense, OpenAI évoque désormais un possible accord avec l’OTAN. L’entreprise avance en terrain miné, profitant d'une ouverture inédite de l'Alliance politico-militaire aux technologies grand public.
Lors du sommet sur l’impact de l’intelligence artificielle organisé en Inde du 16 au 20 février 2026, Sam Altman et Dario Amodei ont refusé de se serrer la main pendant un salut collectif. Une interaction qui relance l’attention autour de la rivalité entre OpenAI et Anthropic.
Attaqué de toutes parts par Google et xAI (Elon Musk), OpenAI n'avait pas vu venir la nouvelle campagne publicitaire d'Anthropic. Le créateur de Claude AI va diffuser au Super Bowl quatre courts spots qui se moquent de l'arrivée de la publicité dans ChatGPT. Sam Altman, le patron d'OpenAI, n'apprécie pas du tout cette attaque et a publié un long message sur les réseaux sociaux.
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