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Sam Altman-led OpenAI is facing a backlash after agreeing to let the US Department of Defense use its AI models on a classified government network. According to a website tracking boycott pledges (first reported by Forbes), more than 1.5 million users have left ChatGPT in less than 48 hours following the announcement. The reported exodus…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asserted employees have no say in US military operations, even after a Pentagon deal for classified AI deployment. The move followed rival Anthropic’s blacklisting, sparking internal and external criticism over timing and optics. Altman emphasized the Pentagon respects OpenAI’s safety measures but retains operational control, while also acknowledging competitors might offer…
OpenAI is amending its Pentagon deal after critics said the original contract didn’t actually ban AI-powered mass surveillance of Americans. CEO Sam Altman added explicit language prohibiting domestic surveillance—including through commercially purchased data—and confirmed NSA use is off the table for now. He also said he’d “rather go to jail” than follow an unconstitutional order,…
OpenAI has alleged that the Chinese government has been using ChatGPT in its cyber operations. The company says that this highlights the dangers of AI misuse. According to a report by Business Insider, OpenAI’s new report, ‘Disrupting Malicious Uses of AI’, which documents how Beijing’s operatives leveraged the chatbot to polish internal status reports tied…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes Anthropic’s stricter contract demands led to their Pentagon deal falling apart. While OpenAI secured a contract, Anthropic was labeled a national security risk. Altman highlighted OpenAI’s reliance on technical safeguards over contractual prohibitions for safety in government AI use, aiming to de-escalate industry tensions. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has offered…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman earlier this year pledged to ‘dramatically slow down’ hiring. Despite the pledge, OpenAI continues to expand its workforce, including recruiting talent from abroad. As reported by Business Insider, the newly released H-1B visa filings offer a rare glimpse into the base salaries the AI lab pays to its researchers, engineers, data…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Less than six months after announcing a $100 billion commitment to OpenAI, Nvidia seems to have walked back that pledge. OpenAI has announce a new $110 billion funding round that values the company at $840 billion or $730 billion on a pre-money basis. The round includes…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly told his employees that rival Anthropic was ‘overreacting’ in its dispute with the US Department of War. A report cited an internal memo sent by Altman to his employees to make this claim. The memo was reportedly sent just hours before OpenAI finalised a deal with the Pentagon to deploy…
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman on Saturday announced that the company has reached an agreement with the US Department of War to deploy its AI models within the authority’s classified network. The development comes at a time when US President Donald Trump has banned every federal agency from using Anthropic.In a post on X, Altman…
Microsoft and OpenAI have released a joint statement saying that new funding and expanded partnerships with Amazon, Nvidia and Softbank have no impact on their relationship and remain exactly as outlined in our October 2025 update. Both the companies listed addressed all the core pillars of their partnership, saying that the two companies intentionally designed…
