Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla

A few months before Elon Musk left OpenAI’s board of directors in February 2018, he tried to recruit Sam Altman to join a “world-class AI…

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT |

10:00 AM PDT · May 5, 2026 On Tuesday, OpenAI released a new foundation model called GPT-5.5 Instant, which will replace GPT-5.3 Instant as the…

Greg Brockman Defends $30B OpenAI Stake: ‘Blood, Sweat, and Tears’

Two days before the Musk v. Altman trial began, Elon Musk asked OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman about reaching a settlement. When Brockman suggested…

How Shivon Zilis Operated as Elon Musk’s OpenAI Insider

As the first week of trial in Musk v. Altman comes to a close, one person has emerged as a critical behind-the-scenes manager of communications…

OpenAI Rolls Out ‘Advanced’ Security Mode for At-Risk Accounts

For anyone who fears their ChatGPT and Codex accounts might be targeted by attackers, OpenAI announced on Thursday that it is adding an optional new…

How Elon Musk Squeezed OpenAI: They 'Are Gonna Want to Kill Me’

Elon Musk returned to the witness stand on Wednesday to continue telling his side of the story in his legal battle against OpenAI and its…

At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship |

In Brief Posted: 5:40 PM PDT · April 28, 2026 Among the most interesting parts of Elon Musk’s testimony Tuesday in his lawsuit against OpenAI…

OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins

OpenAI has a goblin problem. Instructions designed to guide the behavior of the company’s latest model as it writes code have been revealed to include…

Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a ‘Terminator Outcome’

Elon Musk and Sam Altman appeared in a federal courtroom together for the first time on Tuesday as they fight over OpenAI’s decade-long evolution and…

Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS |

In Brief Posted: 12:48 PM PDT · April 28, 2026 Almost as soon as OpenAI announced that its major investor and cloud partner, Microsoft, no…