April 28, 2026, 10:01 a.m. ET The OpenAI offices in San Francisco.Credit…Jason Henry for The New York Times On May 25, 2015, Sam Altman sent an email to Elon Musk proposing a “Manhattan Project for A.I.” He envisioned a Silicon Valley research lab that would build enormously powerful artificial intelligence and share it with the…
On the first day of testimony in a landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, two notably different tales were offered of how OpenAI evolved from a nonprofit artificial intelligence lab into one of the most influential tech companies in the world. In Mr. Musk’s telling, OpenAI’s shift was one of the greatest…
April 28, 2026, 10:01 a.m. ET The OpenAI offices in San Francisco.Credit…Jason Henry for The New York Times On May 25, 2015, Sam Altman sent an email to Elon Musk proposing a “Manhattan Project for A.I.” He envisioned a Silicon Valley research lab that would build enormously powerful artificial intelligence and share it with the…
Over the next month or so, a who’s who of the technology industry is expected to appear in the Ronald V. Dellums U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, Calif., for a legal showdown between Elon Musk and the artificial intelligence company OpenAI. Mr. Musk, the richest man in the world, should spend quality time on a witness…
Microsoft and OpenAI have amended their partnership to reduce their dependence on each other amid an escalating global artificial intelligence race, the companies said on Monday. Microsoft, which is OpenAI’s biggest financial partner, will continue to license OpenAI’s A.I. technology through 2032. But the tech giant, whose stake in OpenAI is valued at more than…
Earlier this year, a group of OpenAI employees convened in a private chat to discuss the latest thing Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, had posted to social media. It was not the first time they had done so. The chat, which two people said they jokingly referred to as “Making Sam’s Tweets Reality,” nodded to…
The artificial intelligence company Anthropic said this month that it would share its latest A.I. technology with only a small number of partners because of cybersecurity concerns. On Thursday, Anthropic’s chief rival, OpenAI, took a different approach. The company unveiled a new flagship A.I. model, GPT-5.5, and began sharing the technology with the hundreds of…
