Sam Neill was the leading man’s leading man who achieved something no other actor could: he was charismatic and self-effacing at the same time. He could play handsome and good-humoured or devilishly sinister, often the husband and paterfamilias, perennially in some unspecified state of early middle age, sometimes in a period colonial setting, but the…
Sam Fender and Olivia Dean have broken Wet Wet Wet’s 32-year record for a British act’s run at No 1 in the UK singles chart. Fender and Dean’s duet Rein Me In has racked up its 16th week at No 1, beating Wet Wet Wet’s Love is All Around, which spent 15 weeks at No…
Mick Jagger has revealed that he is a fan of Sam Fender, hailing his album ‘People Watching’ as “excellent”. The Rolling Stones frontman was speaking to NME ahead of the release of the band’s new album ‘Foreign Tongues’, which is set to arrive on July 10 – pre-order it here. Asked about younger artists he has been listening to recently, Jagger said: “I’ve had…
Have you ever had the desire to see Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey square off over a moderately suspenseful card game? If so, you are in luck. Silicon Valley’s leaders are rushing to embrace the power of media for the purposes of marketing and political capital. Now, in a sign of the times, Founders Fund,…
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…
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…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are still taking swipes at each other on Musk’s social media platform X. While both men were founders at OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, they have subsequently sparred across social media, court filings, and corporate blog posts. The latest exchange began when Altman posted what he called “a tale in…
At nearly the same moment as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was expressing surprise over OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar deal with competitor AMD — shortly after his company agreed to invest up to $100 billion into the AI model maker — Sam Altman was saying that more such deals are in the works. Huang appeared on CNBC’s Squawk…
During a Reddit ask-me-anything session on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and key members of the GPT-5 team were peppered with questions about the new model and requests to bring back its previous model, GPT-4o. They also asked Altman about the most embarrassing — and perhaps funniest — snafu in the presentation, the “chart crime.”…
In brief: As political dynamics shift in Washington, a new alliance is taking shape. Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, has quickly become a key adviser on artificial intelligence policy for President Trump, stepping into the role recently left vacant by Elon Musk. Less than a month after Musk – formerly a fixture in Trump’s…
