Today on the Big Take: Josh Tyrangiel unpacks his wide-ranging interview with Sam Altman about OpenAI’s future. After CEO Sam Altman was dramatically fired and rehired in November 2023, he got right back to work building up OpenAI, best known for ChatGPT.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has shared his support for President-elect Donald Trump. Altman, a previous critic of Trump, donated $1 million to his inauguration. The

OpenAI launched a for-profit subsidiary a year later in order to raise outside capital, including more than $13 billion so far from its biggest backer, Microsoft. However, the non-profit entity, along with employees and investors, currently owns that for-profit subsidiary.

Musk dropped the lawsuit but filed another one against Altman and OpenAI, this time elevating his accusations to claim OpenAI worked with Microsoft, an investor, to create a monopoly. The billionaire also alleged the company violated its founding claim as a nonprofit by pursuing profit. OpenAI has denied the allegations.

A lawyer for billionaire Elon Musk has asked attorney generals in the states of California and Delaware to push OpenAI to auction a major stake in its business to decide fair value of its charitable asset during its corporate restructuring,

OpenAI says it has cut off API access to an engineer whose video of a motorized sentry gun controlled by ChatGPT-powered commands has set off a viral firestorm of concerns about AI-powered weapons. An engineer going by the handle sts_3d started posting videos of a motorized,

An engineer who goes by the online handle STS 3D, created an ungodly robot that can respond to ChatGPT queries to aim a rifle at terrifying speeds and accuracy. The contraption, as seen in a video that's been making its rounds on social media,