New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI. Yet most of the people we spoke to shared the judgment of Sutskever and Amodei: Altman has a relentless will to power that, even among industrialists who put their names on spaceships, sets him apart. “He’s unconstrained by truth,” the board member told us. “He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.” The board member was not the only person who, unprompted, used the word “sociopathic.” One of Altman’s batch mates in the first Y Combinator cohort was Aaron Swartz, a brilliant but troubled coder who died by suicide in 2013 and is now remembered in many tech circles as something of a sage. Not long before his death, Swartz expressed concerns about Altman to several friends. “You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.” Multiple senior executives at Microsoft said that, despite Nadella’s long-standing loyalty, the company’s relationship with Altman has become fraught. “He has misrepresented, distorted, renegotiated, reneged on agreements,” one said. Earlier this year, OpenAI reaffirmed Microsoft as the exclusive cloud provider for its “stateless”—or memoryless—models. That day, it announced a fifty-billion-dollar deal making Amazon the exclusive reseller of its enterprise platform for A.I. agents. While reselling is permitted, Microsoft executives argue OpenAI’s plan could collide with Microsoft’s exclusivity. (OpenAI maintains that the Amazon deal will not violate the earlier contract; a Microsoft representative said the company is “confident that OpenAI understands and respects” its legal obligations.) The senior executive at Microsoft said, of Altman, “I think there’s a small but real chance he’s eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer.”

A 26-year-old dental student in Connecticut died in an intensive care unit that was overseen by a remote "tele-health" doctor who pronounced him dead on a video screen, a lawsuit says.

President Donald Trump has said the United States supplied weapons to anti-regime protesters in Iran during the unrest. His remarks came as fighting and tensions continue in the Middle East region amid the broader war involving Tehran. Speaking to Fox News correspondent Try Yingst, the US President described how the weapons were sent through Kurdish channels and suggested they may not have reached the protesters.

Three Democratic senators on Friday urged President Donald Trump to bar Chinese automakers from building vehicles in the United States and to prevent Chinese cars assembled in Mexico or Canada from entering the United States.

Iran has accused the U.S. of planning to commit war crimes. Also Trump shat himself again.

Prediction market platform Polymarket issued an apology for allowing users to place bets on the fate of American pilots aboard a U.S. fighter jet downed over Iran. A two-seater F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down on Friday, according to a U.S. official. One crew member was rescued, but the other remains missing. In a since-deleted market, users were able to wager on when the pilots might be rescued, with the majority predicting a Saturday rescue. “US confirms pilots rescued by...?” the market read. Rep. Seth Moulton, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq, slammed the market in a post on X, noting that bets were being placed as a dangerous search and rescue operation was ongoing in Iran. "They could be your neighbor, a friend, a family member," the Democrat from Massachusetts wrote. "And people are betting on whether or not they’ll be saved." "This is DISGUSTING," he added. In a reply to Moulton's X post, Polymarket apologized and said it took the market down.

Details about the safety concerns that led to the strike on the set of Jonathan Majors' Daily Wire action film have emerged.

The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution.

News outlets in Iran share photos of wreckage and what appears to be an ejection seat with an attached parachute.

The "cicada" COVID variant may evade immunity and spread faster, the CDC warned. Here are the symptoms to watch for. (Adobe Photo)

The PrSM detonates just before contact with its target, exploding into a spray of tungsten pellets.

The president announced Bondi’s exit in a post Thursday on Truth Social.

A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history.

Fake X account posing as his vet sparked global false reports of Jonathan’s death while soliciting crypto donations

With militaries increasingly relying on artificial intelligence, data centers have emerged as new targets for strikes.

There’s no “Cutest Critter in Florida” contest but, if there were, I can name a few contestants. The diminutive Key deer, for one. The seagrass-munching manatee for another. And, of course, the friendly Florida scrub jay. You may not be familiar with the scrub jay. Contrary to what The Trashmen used to sing, not everybody’s heard about the bird. They’re classified as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, which means they’re not fluttering all over the state. If you’re lucky enough to spot one, though, you’ll find it quite charming. I once visited Oscar Scherer State Park in Osprey accompanied by a ranger who knew how to summon scrub jays. One swooped in and landed right on my photographer’s head. It stood there as the photographer handed me her camera and I took the bird’s picture. Not everyone is a fan of these little birds, though. While I was in Charlotte County recently, I heard about a lawsuit aimed at robbing scrub jays of their federal protection. Michael Colosi is an Ave Maria resident who’s been described as “a young tech entrepreneur.” He recently moved to Florida from New Jersey. In 2024, he bought a 5-acre parcel in Punta Gorda and planned to build a house there. But because the parcel is in scrub jay habitat, he’s required to pay Charlotte County a hefty fee.

“You’re holding the guitar wrong.” I’m sitting across from Fabián Carrera, guitar professor at Whitworth University. It’s our first lesson. He has just strummed “Happy Birthday” and asked me to play it back to him. I’ve not yet played a note and he has already offered a correction. “When we get into more technical material, you’ll want the guitar up like this,” Carrera says. He shifts his guitar so that the neck is no longer parallel to the floor but running diagonal to it. “And your wrist, flat. That will make it easier to play quick.” He gives me a footstool. I put my left foot on it, and as my guitar raises into classical posture, my clawed wrist straightens into an easy, natural, comfortable position. I strum “Happy Birthday.” “Good. Can you play it like this?” Carrera asks, fingerpicking the chords as he sings along. This, too, I do. We go back and forth, each rendition of “Happy Birthday” a little more difficult than the previous. “And this? Can you do it like this?” Carrera now plucks the melody in single notes. I stumble a bit finding the melody but after two tries get it. “Now, listen to this,” he says, and here, Carrera plays the song with jazz chords—a major chord to begin, then some major and minor seventh chords, a ninth, and a diminished too, as he ascends the fretboard. The song is over before I can process what I’ve heard. I strum the first chord, stumble into the second, and then my fingers fail. “Okay then,” Carrera says. “This is where we begin.”

Documents obtained by KMVT revealed the sheriff was under investigation leading up to his announcement.

Video posted on social media depicts a rendering of the proposed 50-storey gargantuan structure decked in gold