The founders of a new joint venture called the RGV Desal project are hoping their plans for a billion-dollar desalination plant will prevent the Rio Grande Valley from experiencing the same kind of ...

Neon, the independent studio behind “Parasite” and “Anora,” has enlisted Sam Evenson to adapt his viral short film “Mora” into a full-length feature. The film, which Evenson will write and direct, ...

At a trendy venue near the San Francisco pier, Sam Altman’s verification project World celebrated its next evolution and rapid expansion of its ambitions. And it’s starting with Tinder. Tools for ...

Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event in San Francisco on Friday that Tinder users around the globe can now put a digital badge on their profiles signaling ...

World, the Sam Altman-backed digital identity project, has unveiled on Friday what it calls its most significant upgrade yet to World ID, positioning the system as “full-stack proof of human” ...

A person was taken into custody after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman’s home and making threats at the company’s San Francisco headquarters, a spokeswoman ...

You’re reading The New Yorker’s daily newsletter, a guide to our top stories, featuring exclusive insights from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. In the fall of 2023, Ilya ...

In the fall of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, sent secret memos to three fellow-members of the organization’s board of directors. For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions ...

The pathway to building a career in the United States for many highly educated and skilled foreign workers was once clear: Earn a degree from an American university or college, and then be recruited ...

Altman talked to Laurie Segall, CEO of Mostly Human, about his takeaways from the Pentagon deal. Altman said he had "miscalibrated" the mood of distrust toward AI and the government. Altman said that ...