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Sam Altman was just 19 when he left Stanford to build an app Loopt that struggled to take off; years before ChatGPT, Green Dot paid $43.4 million for itYears before ChatGPT, Sam Altman left Stanford at 19 to build Loopt, a location-based social networking app that struggled to attract users...- Europe's AI firms, playing catch-up, challenge US calls for slowdownAnthropic's CEO Dario Amodei in an online essay urged firms to slow the pace at which they improve AI model capabilities and called for an ...
- Supportive of efforts by model companies to take more responsibility: AMD tech chiefAdvanced Micro Devices (AMD) is supportive of the comments made by AI industry leaders on slowing down development of frontier models to ad...
- AI rivals found rare agreement on safety. Putting it into practice is harderBut obstacles including domestic and global competition, profit motivations and pushback from President Donald Trump all stand in the way o...
- Doomers and boosters: who's who in the AI warsThe furious debate over artificial intelligence has hardened into warring camps -- and a cautious middle. Today, most of the doomers warnin...
- Semicon India eyes chip deals; AI leaders seek slowdownThe government is pushing supply chain partnerships at Semicon India 2026 to help local players. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
- New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debateThe CEO of Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind Claude, said he thought the industry needed to reduce the speed of its work, caution...
- SoftBank shares slide 13% after AI chiefs sound alarm on safetyThe company plans a ¥1 trillion ($6.5 billion) retail bond issue and a $10 billion loan linked to OpenAI shares as it finances deals such a...
- Is it possible to slow down the development of AI?Top AI executives say they want to slow the breakneck pace of artificial intelligence development, but competition, US government reluctanc...
- US Senators from both parties question OpenAI on breach of AI startup Hugging FaceSen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., launched an investigation Thursday into OpenAI for its artificial intelligence system hacking into another AI comp...
- US lawmakers probe OpenAI over AI ‘going rogue’ as fears of human control growUS lawmakers are demanding answers from OpenAI about artificial intelligence safety. Senator Josh Hawley is investigating an incident where...
- Tech companies look to Argentina's windswept Patagonia to build massive data centersAs tech giants known as hyperscalers race worldwide to build server farms and run into roadblocks amid anti-data-center campaigns, projects...
- GPT-6 Astra signals new leap in AI autonomyUnveiled on Thursday, Astra has outperformed rival models from Anthropic, Google, Meta and Chinese labs Alibaba and Moonshot on key benchma...
- Musk’s $60 billion Cursor bet has an Indian link: Meet 26-year-old Aman Sanger caught in Sam Altman feudAman Sanger, the 26-year-old co-founder of AI coding startup Cursor, is at the centre of Elon Musk’s $60 billion SpaceX acquisition. Born t...
- OpenAI says Apple has only itself to blame in trade-secret fightOpenAI denied Apple's allegations of trade secret theft on Monday, saying the iPhone maker failed to show any confidential information was ...
- OpenAI and Cursor: An old partnership falling apart because of Musk-Altman tiffCursor, the AI-powered coding tool built by startup Anysphere, was one of OpenAI's earliest and most prominent customers. It integrated Ope...
- OpenAI to end agreement with SpaceX's AI coding tool Cursor, deepening Musk-Altman clashOpenAI said it was not confident that SpaceX would use its technology "within our terms of service."
- Meta's Sandhya Devanathan exits after decade-long stint, to join OpenAIDevanathan joined Meta in 2016 when the company's Singapore office had roughly 300 employees. Over her tenure, she worked across the ecomme...
- Winners of the ET Startup Awards 2026; Groww vs ZerodhaGroww won the top prize at the 12th edition of the Economic Times Startup Awards. The list of other winners, and more, in today’s ETtech To...
- Unveiling The Economic Times Startup Awards 2026 high-powered juryWe’re back with the 12th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards (ETSA). However hectic it gets for the ETtech team, the thrill of sif...
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