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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'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 .

Artificial Goes After Our Silicon Valley Overlords. The film's goofy caricatures of Sam Altman and Elon Musk do little to convey how--or why--they're so dangerous. Open AI CEO Sam Altman before delivering the keynote address at the OpenAI developers conference in San Francisco on September 29, 2026, where he announced new artificial intelligence personal assistant agents named dots to rival Meta's Muse. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The world premiere of, the new movie centered around the rise of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as he led an unstable company down a dangerous path, was packed.

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.

The origin story of Sam Altman's company is reimagined as a campy comedy starring Andrew Garfield O n the day that Luca Guadagnino's film about Sam Altman and OpenAI premiered, Vanity Fair released a cover story on Altman. Alongside glossy portraits from Annie Leibovitz, the world's pre-eminent portrait photographer, the story describes him as the Oppenheimer of his day, evoking the image of a man leading humanity towards its own inevitable demise at the hands of sentient robots. Altman doesn't seem to be grappling with much existential angst about the whole thing though: in an interview also released this week, he said that we should be prepared to accept "bad things" in return for the benefits of AI. Club Kid review - Jordan Firstman's heartfelt comedy is irresistible How much worse can things get? AI agents have already gone rogue, hacking into government systems and "bruteforcing" UN databases.

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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.

Sam Altman of OpenAI says there is'a lot of daylight' between his approach to AI safety rules and those of rival firms. Sam Altman of OpenAI says there is'a lot of daylight' between his approach to AI safety rules and those of rival firms. Accept'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the'good stuff' the technology can deliver Mon 5 Oct 2026 09.27 EDTFirst published on Mon 5 Oct 2026 08.13 EDT Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept "bad things" happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology. The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and "other bad things that will happen" in an interview that sparked an instant backlash from critics of the big AI companies. His comments came after one of his company's safety experts resigned, saying at the weekend that its "culture is broken".