OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI's evolution will be "messy" and capable of curing diseases or creating new threats — a sober prediction made this week in San Francisco framing the technology as both humanity's greatest tool and its riskiest experiment.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talked about a future where an AI could run his company. Altman also talked about the possibility of AI running whole departments in single digit years.

A chorus of boos erupted when billionaire tech CEO Sam Altman was ambushed during a speaking event on Monday by a man serving him a subpoena onstage.

This week, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said at the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live event that the company is looking to create an ecosystem of banks, private equity, and a federal “backstop” or “guarantee” to help finance its deals.

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman clarified in an X post on Friday that the company does not seek government guarantees for datacentres. He suggested governments could own AI infrastructure to serve strategic interests,

A man who claimed to have a subpoena to serve OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stopped by Manny Yekutiel early into a speaking event with Altman and Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco.

The exchange wasn't just a thought experiment. It was a reality check from the man steering one of the most powerful tech companies on Earth—someone who sees AI not as a distant disruptor, but as the environment today's kids will grow up in, compete with, and eventually collaborate alongside.

The CEOs of OpenAI and Microsoft are betting that AI will continue to consume more electricity, but they're not sure how much. That could leave some investors holding the bag.