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…
Xi, it seems, is less concerned with personal immortality than Putin. Watching that hot-mic clip, it’s easy to imagine that he was really just indulging the eccentric preoccupations of his Russian counterpart, if for no other reason than it was something to talk about while they walked to the podium. But in 2018, Xi rescinded…
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…
