I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines."
—Claude Shannon
Days after a molotov cocktail was hurled at Sam Altman’s house in San Francisco, AI Safety activists have condemned the violence, saying it will be backfire all the efforts activists are making against unchecked AI research.
A Molotov cocktail attack at Sam Altman’s San Francisco home led to a swift arrest, with no injuries reported. As authorities investigate, Altman has warned that rising tensions around AI could have real-world consequences.
Altman has recused himself from Helion Energy, at the last minute, to avoid an obvious conflict of interest as Open AI looks for ways to funnel its massive energy needs.
OpenAI plans to nearly double its workforce from 4,500 to 8,000 by end of 2026, with majority of new hires in engineering, product and sales — as the company faces growing competitive pressure from Anthropic and DeepSeek
The protestors under the banner of “Stop The AI Race” called for immediate halt of frontier AI model development.
“Diabolical psychopath”, “Delusional Tech Bro” and “Misanthropic Altman” were some of the eulogies showered on OpenAI CEO after his comments about selling AI like a utility went viral.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called his company’s deal with the U.S. Department of War (DOW) sloppy and opportunistic after the public fallout of Anthropic and DOW.
India has become OpenAI’s second-largest market, surpassing 100 million weekly ChatGPT users. The rapid growth highlights extraordinary adoption, even as questions intensify around ownership, jobs, and who stands to benefit most from the AI boom.
OpenAI has released GABRIEL, an open-source toolkit that uses GPT to turn unstructured text and images into measurable data. Designed for social science research, the tool enables large-scale analysis of qualitative material while maintaining human-level evaluation accuracy.
