OpenAI boss Sam Altman will receive the Axel Springer Award in recognition of his "contribution to digital transformation and his belief that technology should serve humans, not the other way around," the Axel Springer media group announced on Monday.

Altman said many people use ChatGPT "as a sort of therapist or life coach, even if they wouldn't describe it that way."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently revealed that users are attached to GPT-5's predecessors for emotional support, further claiming that they've perhaps never experienced that before.

Overview Sam Altman and Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but split in 2018 over control and vision, sparking a decade-long feud.  Musk’s xAI (Grok)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently attended a dinner with a small group of reporters, and apparently had a lot to say about the company, the future of AI, and some of its potential applications (via The Verge).

It's not hard to imagine OpenAI CEO Sam Altman uses his company's own product, ChatGPT, instead of Google Search.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has secured a new partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration that will give federal agencies access to the company's leading frontier models through ChatGPT Enterprise for $1 per agency for the next year, according to an OpenAI announcement.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged mistakes during the GPT-5 rollout, admitting the decision to discontinue previous models led to user backlash. The company is reinstating GPT-4o for ChatGPT Plus users and promises improvements to the new model after receiving criticism for its responses.