Elon Musk Had'Hair-Raising' Idea of Passing OpenAI Onto His Kids, Sam Altman Says Musk's lawyers questioned Altman over allegations of deception and his network of financial investments, but the OpenAI CEO painted a picture of Musk as obsessed with controlling the company. Sam Altman took to the witness stand to defend his reputation in the trial on Tuesday, as Elon Musk's lawyers peppered the OpenAI CEO with hours of questions regarding his alleged history of deceptive behavior . The cross examination was a much needed win for Musk, who has so far struggled to make a convincing case. Tuesday's testimony included several heated exchanges in which the OpenAI CEO had to respond to allegations from former colleagues suggesting he's untrustworthy . Highlighting this evidence is not only important for Musk winning over a jury, but also for beating OpenAI in the court of public opinion.

The director of created a "Sam Bot" when he couldn't get an interview with the OpenAI CEO. Watch an exclusive trailer for the documentary, which comes out in January. Director Adam Bhala Lough didn't set out to make a documentary about a digital simulacrum of Sam Altman . But after about 100 days of texting and emailing the OpenAI CEO for an interview--with no response, he claims, and with financiers hounding him to make good on his original pitch--Lough was at his wit's end. He'd exhausted just about every angle.

Annie Altman, the sister of OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman, has sued her brother accusing him of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor. In a complaint filed this week with a Missouri federal court, Annie Altman alleges her older brother committed "numerous acts of rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse, molestation, sodomy, and battery" from 1997 to 2006, with the abuse starting when she was only three years old. In a joint statement he made alongside his mother and two younger brothers, Sam Altman said "all of [Annie's] claims are utterly untrue." The Altmans say they've tried to support Annie in "many ways" over the years, including by offering direct financial assistance. My sister has filed a lawsuit against me.

Sam Altman was reinstated soon after being fired as OpenAI CEO last month, but still stood to gain had the company continued to develop ChatGPT without him. During Altman's tenure as CEO, OpenAI signed a letter of intent to spend $51 million on AI chips from a startup called Rain AI into which he has also invested personally. Rain is based less than a mile from OpenAI's headquarters in San Francisco and is working on a chip it calls a neuromorphic processing unit, or NPU, designed to replicate features of the human brain. OpenAI in 2019 signed a nonbinding agreement to spend $51 million on the chips when they became available, according to a copy of the deal and Rain disclosures to investors this year seen by WIRED. Rain told investors Altman had personally invested more than $1 million into the company.

Over five chaotic days that transfixed Silicon Valley and beyond, the world's leading artificial intelligence company, OpenAI, appeared to be on the verge of imploding in a power struggle. The maker of ChatGPT, the sensational chatbot, had a mission to safely develop smarter-than-human AI. But that mission looked in jeopardy on Friday when OpenAI's non-profit board of directors fired Altman, suggesting he had been dishonest in his communications with them. To many spectators, the future of not just AI but also humanity hung in the balance. Finally late on Tuesday night, after three CEO changes and a full-court press by Microsoft, the board gave Altman his old job back.

The drama around Altman's sudden ouster at OpenAI has exposed the deep rift inside the company over who should control its future. OpenAI began in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab, but in recent years under Altman's leadership, it took on billions of dollars in investment from the likes of tech giant Microsoft and venture capitalists, and began developing consumer products. Outside critics and some employees worried the company had abandoned its mission and was behaving more like a Big Tech company. It originally was meant to provide a more transparent, democratic alternative to Big Tech.

OpenAI's board of directors announced Friday it had fired CEO Sam Altman. By Monday morning, he had joined Microsoft "to lead a new advanced AI research team," according to the company. Altman cofounded OpenAI with Elon Musk in 2015 as a nonprofit and served as the CEO for the for-profit arm since 2019. He was originally fired from OpenAI over "a breakdown in communication between Sam and the board," according to an internal staff memo. Several key members also resigned, including co-founder Greg Brockman (who will now also join Microsoft) along with a few senior researchers.

Sam Altman will reportedly not be returning as chief executive of ChatGPT developer OpenAI after talks to reinstate him failed. The non-profit board of the San Francisco-based company has instead installed Emmett Shear, co-founder of video streaming site Twitch, as OpenAI's third CEO in three days, according to multiple reports. Altman was fired on Friday after being accused of not being "consistently candid in communications" with the board in a move that sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley. OpenAI's investors, led by Microsoft, then led an attempt to reinstate Altman and talks over an about-turn took place at the weekend – with Altman tweeting a picture of himself wearing a guest pass outside OpenAI's offices. However, the talks failed and OpenAI's board has appointed Shear as interim CEO, replacing Altman's short-lived temporary successor Mira Murati.

The Biden administration is increasingly calling AI an important priority, and there are growing efforts on Capitol Hill to draft legislation addressing the technology. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) has been developing a new AI framework, which would "deliver transparent, responsible AI while not stifling critical and cutting edge innovation."

Now, Altman will answer questions from a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, acting as a quasi-industry spokesman for companies racing ahead to deploy chatbots and other tools to the public, including Google and Microsoft. Topics are likely to include the risks of AI, competition in the industry and how government should handle it -- and maybe even whether robots are going to kill us all.