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Four-day week and robot tax: How tech giant plans to survive AI apocalypse

A blueprint released by OpenAI boss Sam Altman includes ideas to socialise the monetary gains from AI by giving people “a stake in AI driven economic growth”.

  • Elizabeth Knight

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Sam Altman’s OpenAI has said the company will not interfere with the editorial direction of TBPN post-aquisition.
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Why billionaire tech bros are buying up media companies

It’s not unusual for ChatGPT maker OpenAI to go on spending sprees. But its latest acquisition is raising some eyebrows

  • Tim Biggs
OpenAIs CEO Sam Altman speaks at the AI Summit in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. (AP Photo)
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‘Money down a black hole’: The alarm bells are ringing at $1.2 trillion giant

OpenAI has had a meteoric rise but questions are being asked as it burns through cash at a frantic rate.

  • James Titcomb
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s boss, has already warned investors to expect years of heavy losses.

A smackdown for the ages at the Oscars after-party, and AI was the spark

A successful playwright chose the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party to accuse OpenAI chief Sam Altman of wilfully allowing his technology to be an agent in global violences.

  • Maureen Dowd

AI is great, except when it gets everything wrong all the time

The head of Open AI said he wants AI to be a “utility”, like electricity or water. With a meter.

  • Sean Kelly
Google’s rise in AI is rocking its rivals.

It’s a Code Red moment for the dominant AI players

Google’s latest chatbot and AI chip are a threat to Nvidia and OpenAI’s dominance.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Andrew Tulloch has left the AI start-up he co-founded to join Meta.
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An offer he couldn’t refuse: The young Aussie who couldn’t say no to Zuckerberg

Australians are plentiful in Silicon Valley, building the future of artificial intelligence. And they’re earning pay packets that defy belief.

  • David Swan
OpenAI’s Sam Altman has spent the best part of 18 months working on a restructuring that would help pave the way for the company to achieve its lofty ambitions.

A $760 billion monster has just been unleashed

The maker of ChatGPT has an insatiable appetite, and need, for cash. A major move, long in the making, has just opened up its options.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
OpenAI is taking on Google with its Atlas browser.
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This ChatGPT browser is genuinely impressive. Will anyone actually use it?

OpenAI’s AI-powered browser can book holidays and build shopping lists while you browse. But it’s competing against the most stubborn force in tech: user habits.

  • David Swan
ChatGPT is  about to start allow users to generate porn on its AI engine.

ChatGPT to allow users to generate AI porn in race with Musk’s ‘Spicy Mode’

ChatGPT plans to start allowing erotica for adult users as it seeks to compete with a more explicit chatbot built by Elon Musk

  • Pui-Guan Man