Rain AI, a San Francisco-based chip startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is exploring a sale after its ambitious $150 million Series B funding round failed to secure investors. Despite early backing from Altman in a $25 million seed round in 2022,

I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong,” said Sam Altman, testifying before a Senate committee in 2023 in talking about the potential danger of artificial intelligence. With his position as CEO of OpenAI,

When Sam Altman first told ABC News in March 2023 that he and his OpenAI colleagues were “a little bit scared” of just how good the artificial intelligence (AI) systems they were unleashing are, it sounded like a cautious scientist’s plea for sober guardrails.

When OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT on the world in November 2022, it lit the fuse that ignited the generative AI era.But Karen Hao, author of the new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI,

Another sci-fi plotline we might get to experience is the existence of humanoid robots. This is a tech breakthrough that the CEO of OpenAI believes the world isn't ready for. In an interview with Bloomberg,

AI gadgets are back, baby! Or that’s what Jony Ive and Sam Altman hope. Well, they may not really hope they’re back as much as they hope they’re not completely and utterly cooked. ICYMI, Ive and OpenAI’s CEO,

We find out from Ive that Altman is a “rare visionary.” We hear from Altman that Ive is “the deepest thinker over anyone [he’s] ever met.” We’re told by Altman that Ive’s design firm is the “densest collection of talent that I’ve ever heard of in one place and probably has ever existed in the world.

Jony Ive, the former Apple design head, is now associated with OpenAI. Ive's company, IO, will merge with OpenAI. Sam Altman and Jony Ive made a joint announcement. Ive will lead design at OpenAI after the acquisition of IO.