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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…
OpenAI has secured a massive $110 billion funding round, valuing the ChatGPT maker at $730 billion, as the artificial intelligence company accelerates investments to meet rapidly expanding global demand for AI services.The investment — among the largest fundraising rounds in Silicon Valley history – includes $30 billion each from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and chipmaker Nvidia,…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (Image source: Wikipedia) Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said that differences over the vision and approach to artificial intelligence were the primary reasons he left OpenAI, the AI company he joined in 2016. Speaking at Nikhil Kamath’s podcast, Amodei said that after joining the company, he and a few other colleagues…
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is now telling investors that it expects to spend around $600 million on compute infrastructure by 2030. This new spending target is a sharp reduction from the $1.4 trillion figure which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman touted last year. According to a report by CNBC, the company is now offering a more defined timeline…
A massive $500 billion AI data center project, Stargate, announced with fanfare at the White House, has stalled. Internal disagreements between partners OpenAI and SoftBank, coupled with funding challenges, have halted construction and leadership development. This setback has significantly impacted Oracle’s stock and OpenAI’s compute capacity targets, highlighting the difficulties of large-scale infrastructure development. On…
Sam Altman’s OpenAI reviewed and debated whether to alert Canadian police about troubling ChatGPT conversations months before an 18-year-old was identified as the suspect in a deadly school shooting in British Columbia, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The discussions took place after the user’s interactions with the chatbot were flagged by OpenAI’s internal…
