OpenAI's newest team is proof that there's a key shift happening in the AI talent wars

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Sam Altman

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I spent 2 days at a tech summit in Berlin. Here's what I learned about Germany's AI ambitions.

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Sam Altman and Mathias Döpfner talk on a brightly lit stage surrounded by professionals.
Sam Altman and Mathias Döpfner.

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Sam Altman predicts AI will surpass human intelligence by 2030

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Sam Altman, in an interview with Welt Editor-in-Chief Jan Philipp Burgard
Sam Altman, in an interview with Welt Editor-in-Chief Jan Philipp Burgard

Welt

Business leaders, including Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, and Jamie Dimon, react to Trump's H-1B visa fee

Tech Insider : Politics, Business, Environment
Jensen Huang is wearing a black leather jacket, Sam Altman is holding a microphone and speaking, and Kevin O'Leary is looking toward his left and smiling.
Business leaders such as Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, and Kevin O'Leary have weighed in on President Donald Trump's $100,000 fee for H-1B visas.

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Sam Altman explains why AI will replace 40% of your work

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman explains how AI is evolving, why regulation and safety matter, and what superintelligence could mean for the future of work and discovery.

The head of Germany's answer to DOGE wants to scale back regulation and 'open up the gates'

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Federal Minister Karsten Wildberger points a finger as he talks.
Federal Minister Karsten Wildberger addresses the room at the Welt AI Summit in Berlin on September 25, 2025.

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OpenAI's Sam Altman and the father of quantum computing just agreed on a Turing Test 2.0

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Mathias Döpfner and Sam Altman talk onstage as David Deutch is patched in live from Oxford.
Mathias Döpfner and Sam Altman talk onstage as David Deutch is patched in live from Oxford.

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Sam Altman wants to build 'the coolest and most important infrastructure project ever'

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Sam Altman talks during an appearance at the Federal Reserve
Sam Altman says in a decade, college graduates could be doing almost unthinkable things like exploring the solar system

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The big challenge to OpenAI's $100 billion deal with Nvidia: Access to power

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Sam Altman and Jensen Huang
Sam Altman and Jensen Huang

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Sam Altman says OpenAI is testing new features by throwing 'a lot of compute' at them

Tech Insider : Business
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

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