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OpenAI’s Sam Altman says his highly disciplined daily routine has ‘fallen to crap’—and now unwinds on weekends at a ranch with no cell phone service

The new father is working out how to balance business and the “significantly underhyped” experience of raising a child.

Fortune

Trump: U.S. stake in AI giants "could be a beautiful thing"

"There's something very interesting about it, where it almost becomes a partnership with the American public."

Axios

‘A driver of political violence’: how the breakneck AI boom is fueling anti-tech extremism

Backlash against AI is taking an extremist turn, following in the footsteps of earlier techno-pessimist militants

The Guardian - US

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Former AI czar calls Sanders' proposal for government equity a 'stupidity tax' and warns against nationalization as Trump mulls public stakes

"Dario and Sam have begun to walk back their claims of massive job loss, but the damage to public trust is done, and now the chickens are coming home to roost."

Fortune

‘We crossed that about 3 months ago': A16z's Marc Andreessen drops huge bombshell about AGI on Joe Rogan's podcast

Marc Andreessen says the latest frontier models have realized AGI – tech leaders believe the boundaries are shifting.

TechRadar

When good money goes bad: the question SpaceX and OpenAI investors aren’t asking

As OpenAI and Anthropic race to go public at $1 trillion valuations, a foundational business theory warns that money impatient for growth is dangerous.

Fortune

Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Sam Altman are all talking about public ownership in AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with Sen. Bernie Sanders to discuss public ownership in AI companies — a meeting that highlighted the tension between AI powerhouses and policymakers

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Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over ChatGPT

It's part a string of lawsuits the state has filed against Big Tech companies.

Axios

MAGA hates AI, but Trump agrees with Bernie it might be time for partial government ownership

"You make them a partnership in this revolution," Trump told reporters Friday. "It would be a beautiful thing."

Fortune

Trump Admin Reportedly Discussing Government Stake In OpenAI

The Trump administration is discussing a government stake in OpenAI, according to a new report.

International Business Times

Founders Fund launches Mafia, a game show starring Silicon Valley Dons

The debut episode features 13 players well-known in the tech space, such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, fitness personality Bryan Johnson, messaging service Signal’s founder Moxie Marlinespike, and virtual reality headset Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey, among others.

The Economic Times

Sam Altman, Mark Cuban and Elizabeth Warren are wrong: the tax code doesn't need an apocalypse clause

AI-specific taxes on tokens and compute — and billionaire-backed worker displacement funds — would break the resilience of the tax code through history.

Fortune

Thinking Machines’ Mira Murati bats for responsible innovation, human connect

In an interview with Bloomberg, Murati said the decision to start the company stemmed from a desire to build a frontier AI lab focused on human-AI collaboration. Thinking Machines is building AI interaction models that make human-AI conversations rich and nuanced in real time instead of “turn-based”.

The Economic Times

US officials eye government stakes in AI companies, NOTUS reports

While the planning is ongoing and details are in flux, discussions have centered on having the firms voluntarily cede the shares ‌to the ⁠government, the ⁠report said.

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Quote of the day by Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine having gone through figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT" — opening up on how reliant we are on chatbots

The OpenAI CEO recently became a parent and has been relying on a chatbot for parenting tips, as many others are increasingly doing

The Independent UK

Sam Altman joins rivals in call to prevent AI-developed bioweapons

Tech leaders sign public letter in ‘rare moment of agreement across stakeholders that are often at odds’

Fortune

Suno is now worth $5.4 billion. But is AI music really becoming a mass-market behavior?

From birthday songs to hospice tributes, Suno is finding real-world uses for AI-generated music. Whether that translates into a sustainable multibillion-dollar business is less clear.

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'No action is too extreme when the fate of humanity is at stake!' — Anthropic CEO and others are pushing for safety measures against their own technology

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and other major figures in the AI space are aware of the dangers of the evolving technology, judging by their quotes.

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International Business Times

OpenAI's Sam Altman Says AI Costs Have Become a 'Huge Issue' For Companies

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI spending has become a "huge issue" for companies.

The Conversation

From oversight to coercion: How authoritarian governments are twisting AI safety to get tech companies to fall in line

When researchers founded Anthropic in 2021, they said the race to build powerful AI was moving too recklessly. They inserted detailed safety measures into their products and marketed their commitment to safety as the corporate quality that distinguished them from competitors – notably OpenAI, the rival company they had left.…

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits AI token costs are becoming 'a huge issue' — company seeks improved value as overspending becomes a meme

OpenAI's clients are complaining about out-of-control AI spending, and they're asking Sam Altman to make it more efficient so they don't blow their annual AI budgets in just one quarter.

The Economic Times

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will attend G7 in France

OpenAI chief Sam Altman will join leaders at the G7 summit in France this month. Artificial intelligence will be a major focus for discussions. G7 ministers recently met to address AI's impact on child protection and energy grids. The growing demand for computing power is straining electricity supplies and requiring…

TechRadar

New Trump executive order requests AI companies 'voluntarily' allow the White House to test the "advanced cyber capabilities of AI models”

AI companies seem to be on board with the idea, with some calling it "an important step forward".

The Conversation

How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”.

The Economic Times

Trump signs AI order giving government access to powerful models

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order creating a voluntary framework under which AI developers will share advanced models with the government before public release. "Voluntary frameworks are not enough, however" and the government must be empowered "to block the release of systems that pose an unacceptable…

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