A federal judge dismissed Ann Altman's lawsuit against her brother, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, on Tuesday. Instead, he wrote that Ann refused to appear for an independent medical examination, despite being warned that skipping it would lead to the case's dismissal. Ann Altman filed the lawsuit in January 2025, accusing Sam of sexually abusing her when she was a child. She alleged that the abuse took place at the family's Missouri home between 1997 and 2006, beginning when she was three and he was 12. She said the last instance of alleged abuse took place when her brother was an adult.

Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, speaks at the UN headquarters in New York on 23 September 2026. Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, speaks at the UN headquarters in New York on 23 September 2026. US judge dismisses sexual abuse lawsuit from Sam Altman's sister Ann Altman, the Open AI CEO's sister, accused her brother of repeatedly sexually abusing her over two decades ago A judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Sam Altman's sister against him on Tuesday. Ann Altman accused the OpenAI CEO of repeatedly sexually abusing her more than two decades ago, which he has denied. In dismissing Ann Altman's lawsuit, the US district judge Zachary Bluestone wrote that she had refused to appear for an independent medical examination despite warnings that failure to do so would result in the case's dismissal.

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The documentary chronicles how's positions on everything from race to AI were way ahead of their time. William Shatner wasn't sure if the audience would approve of his new documentary or not. When the 95-year-old star took the stage at the Regal Times Square theater for the New York premiere of he said "maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't." But, the Captain Kirk actor declared, "you're going to see a lovely film made by people who cared." Focusing on the original series, which ran from 1966 to 1969, is written and directed by Mark A. Altman, creator of the podcast.

Longtime fans of the NBC procedural know that storylines often center around hot-button issues in the news cycle, often to absurdist effect (see: the episode brave enough to ask: "What if Paula Deen shot Trayvon Martin?"). It was inevitable, then, that the franchise would dip a toe into the wacky world of artificial intelligence . With its mercenary culture, power-hungry CEOs, and massive ethical and philosophical implications, the rapidly evolving AI industry is ideal fodder for the series. But while this week's season opener is entertaining, the show's foray into the AI space doesn't say anything new or interesting about the technology. Instead it largely rehashes the dangers the public is already acutely aware of, until the very end when the stakes become startlingly clear.

When OpenAI released ChatGPT for Teens this past August, child safety experts Engadget spoke to at the time expressed skepticism that the new mode would adequately protect young people from harm. Now, one of those groups, Common Sense Media, has published a formal risk assessment of the software, and deemed it an "unacceptable risk" for all children under the age of 18. "Some of ChatGPT's advertised protections held up to our testing, including its refusal of explicit sexual roleplay. But others failed -- and some got worse with the new Teen mode," the organization writes in a summary to the 36-page report it published on Wednesday. "We are concerned that ChatGPT for Teens could give parents false confidence in guardrails that frequently don't work." Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute, which is funded in part by the OpenAI Foundation, identified five key areas where ChatGPT for Teens either did not work as advertised or in a way a parent would reasonably expect.

'Why were we never consulted about any of this in the first place?' 'Why were we never consulted about any of this in the first place?' Sam Altman says AI will make'bad things' happen. AI is already implicated in violent deaths and nearly started world war three. Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, has some words for you about his company and the future of artificial intelligence. "One of the differences between us and some of the stricter AI safety people is that we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency [to use it]," Altman told Politico's new technology podcast and newsletter Decoded .

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That OpenAI may have brooked issues with makes sense. The film is almost completely unflattering, depicting Altman and other OpenAI stakeholders--as well as all the major drivers of the AI boom--as vain, reckless, and insufferably boring. Where 2010's succeeded in making Silicon Valley computer savants look like robust titans of industry and architects of the future, works to opposing ends. It depicts its tech titans as self-regarding dweebs. Comparisons to David Fincher's Facebook drama are inevitable.

Is Hollywood Finally Turning Against Tech Oligarchs? A new wave of films by directors like Aaron Sorkin and Luca Guadagnino takes on Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Elizabeth Holmes, and "shapeshifter" Sam Altman. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Big Tech is back on the big screen--but its bosses might not be thrilled. This fall, Hollywood will release four movies on tech executives: Luca Guadagnino's, on CEO Sam Altman's tumultuous time as the head of OpenAI; Aaron Sorkin's, on the investigation into Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissing its platforms' negative impacts on young users and inciting violence and hate speech; the all-encompassing, by documentarian Alex Gibney, on the Tesla and SpaceX CEO's family life, corporate controversies, and engagement in right-wing politics; and You Can See Everything, an unsettling documentary in which directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim follow Elizabeth Holmes, who invited them to film her in the weeks before she began serving her federal prison sentence for defrauding investors at the now-defunct health tech company Theranos.