SF News Day Around the Bay: Protesters Gather Outside Sam Altman's House Protesters showed up at Sam Altman's SF home on Sunday; a 37-year-old Oakland man was shot at his own Fourth of July party; and parts of Golden Gate Park will start to be closed off starting July 23 as Dead & Co. and Outside Lands setups begin.
Arts & Entertainment Hollywood Making a Movie About That OpenAI Sam Altman Firing Drama, and It Will Be Partially Shot In SF The movie industry trade publications are buzzing that SF will be the backdrop of a forthcoming movie about Sam Altman getting fired and rehired at OpenAI, and it’s likely going to be a comedy starring Andrew Garfield.
Business & Tech Former Apple Designer Jony Ive's Secretive Startup Working on AI Hardware of Some Kind, OpenAI Acquiring It A big deal in the local tech world was announced Wednesday, as OpenAI is reportedly acquiring Johnny Ive's secretive hardware startup io for $6.5 billion.
Business & Tech Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Other Silicon Valley Titans Join Trump In Seeking Money at Saudi Luncheon President Trump and some of his top aides were joined at a lunch Tuesday in Riyadh by a couple dozen representatives from Fortune 500 companies in the US, including a group from Silicon Valley.
Business & Tech Sam Altman's World Networks Wants Union Square Shoppers to Come Get 'Scanned' and Prove They're Human A decidedly creepy but maybe ahead-of-the-curve business opened next to Macy's on Geary Street Thursday, across from Union Square Park, where a set of high-tech orb devices scan your iris and let you prove your own humanity.
Business & Tech OpenAI's Feud With Musk Escalates With New Court Filing OpenAI has asked a federal court to get estranged billionaire co-founder Elon Musk to stop publicly bad-mouthing the company — which, they say, is unlawful and is doing harm to the company.
Business & Tech Sam Altman’s Other Startup Reportedly Looking to Lease 60,000 Square Feet In Mission Rock OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has another startup you may not have heard about called World that controversially collects biometric data, and it’s in talks to scoop up a reported two floors of a newly opened office building in Mission Rock.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Bids to Buy OpenAI for $97.4 Billion, Sam Altman Laughs It Off A team of investors led by Elon Musk put in a bid to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion, a fraction of the company’s value. OpenAI founder Sam Altman merely responded, “No thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”
Business & Tech Elon Musk Fumes as $500 Billion AI Data Center Investment Comes From Sam Altman and Not Him The completely unproven and unreliable AI sector says it’s going to build $500 billion worth of data centers with Trump’s blessing, and with AI safeguards now repealed, that’s a lot of deepfake porn to produce. But Elon Musk is mad that he’s not in on the action.
Business & Tech OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Sucks Up to Trump With $1 Million Inauguration Donation It’s a little awkward for incoming mayor Daniel Lurie that his top transition adviser is now a Donald Trump donor, as AI titan Sam Altman has donated $1 million to the Donald Trump inauguration, obviously hoping to curry favor.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Names OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to His Mayoral Transition Team San Francisco Mayor-Elect Daniel Lurie named some heavy hitters to his transition team in a Monday morning announcement, and the heaviest of these hitters is none other than OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Business & Tech OpenAI Raises All-Time Record Largest VC Round Ever, But Still Hemorrhaging Money Like Mad Is it a “success” when your company rakes in an all-time record $6.6 billion venture capital round, but expects to lose nearly that same amount of money this year? Welcome to SF’s new AI economy, where OpenAI just raised the largest VC round of all time.
Business & Tech Some Upheaval at OpenAI as Company Announces Plan to Become a For-Profit Enterprise OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made some public comments at a conference in Italy on Thursday indicating that the company intends to restructure and let go of its nonprofit structure, but he said the departures of several key executives a day earlier were unrelated.
Arts & Entertainment Oprah Winfrey Hosting Prime Time Special on AI Featuring Sam Altman, Bill Gates Oprah is taking on the topic of artificial intelligence, and she'll be airing a prime-time special on ABC in September to ask the question "AI: What is it?" and other things your parents and grandparents have been asking.
SF News Spec House In Russian Hill, Bought By Sam Altman For $27 Million, Declared a 'Lemon' In New Lawsuit A house that notably sold well below a sky-high asking price in 2020, designed by a renowned SF architect but heavily renovated to the point that the developer was fined by preservationists, is now the subject of a new lawsuit because of its many reported defects.
Business & Tech Can We Talk About How Creepy and Meta It Is That OpenAI Made a Voice Assistant That Sounds a Lot Like Scarlett Johansson? Did OpenAI think it was cool to try to turn 'Her' into reality with the help of voice actor Scarlett Johansson?
Business & Tech Elon Musk's Falling Out With Sam Altman Turns Into Lawsuit Against OpenAI Elon Musk, who helped to co-found OpenAI nine years ago, is now suing the company and its CEO Sam Altman, arguing that it has abandoned its professed mission to develop AI "for the benefit of humanity broadly."
Business & Tech Sam Altman Just Got Married on a Beach... Somewhere OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the It Boy of the tech world last year and one of the most visible figures in the artificial intelligence space, just married his partner Oliver Mulherin in a small ceremony on an undisclosed tropical beach.
Business & Tech OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Has Coyote Trouble at His $27 Million Russian Hill Mansion Even buying a $27 million home in a tony SF neighborhood will not keep the coyotes off your property, as artificial intelligence mogul Sam Altman admits in an interview with Time magazine that he’s got a coyote that refuses to leave his San Francisco yard.
Business & Tech Sam Altman Back at OpenAI as CEO, Most of Board Gets Replaced A little over four days after being ousted as one of the most highly visible CEOs in the Bay Area tech scene, Sam Altman has been reinstated as the top exec at OpenAI. And the board that ousted him has mostly resigned.
Business & Tech Sam Altman Appears to Be Engineering His Reinstatement at OpenAI Can you undo a coup? Freshly fired OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in talks to return to the company that canned him just five days ago, as the corporate infighting continues at the chaotic but red-hot AI startup.
Business & Tech Sam Altman and Other Key Players at OpenAI Head to Microsoft as OpenAI Hires Former Twitch Guy Whatever professional or interpersonal drama is underpinning the chaotic last few days at OpenAI, it sounds like the company's board might regret the mess they created by abruptly firing CEO Sam Altman on Friday, and an employee revolt at the company is ongoing.
Business & Tech OpenAI Board Fires Sam Altman For Reasons Unclear The board of OpenAI, one of the leading players in the currently booming artificial intelligence sector, just fired its celebrity CEO, Sam Altman, and we may not know the complete story behind this for some time.
SF News Venture Capitalist Sam Altman Is Thinking About Running For CA Governor Against Gavin Newsom Willie Brown offered up some rare, not-rumor-based political intel in his Sunday Chronicle column this week, announcing that 32-year-old Y Combinator president Sam Altman approached him for advice on possibly running for governor
SF News ACLU Joins Incubator Y Combinator To Help Manage Its New Influx Of Wealth Y Combinator president Sam Altman's heart grew three sizes today as he announced the American Civil Liberties Union would join his startup incubator in order to manage its massive influx of funding. The
