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This week, in Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, the jury saw video of a sworn deposition from Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO. Elaborating on her comments in our latest @newyorkermag story, she alleged that Altman was not always truthful, gave different executives conflicting information, and pitted them against each other.

Over the course of an 18-month investigation, we traced the yearslong history of these claims from Altman's colleagues, and looked at what this tells us about integrity in AI leadership, and how it affects all of us.

Link in bio to read the full investigation.

#ai #samaltman #openai #elonmusk #news

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After the release of one ChatGPT model, an OpenAI researcher e-mailed members of the board: “OpenAI has been going off the rails on its mission,” he wrote. “We are prioritizing the product and revenue above all else, followed by AI capabilities, research and scaling, with alignment and safety coming third.”

He continued, “Other companies like Google are learning that they should deploy faster and ignore safety problems.”

Many researchers fear that powerful A.I. could fall out of “alignment” with human values, with catastrophic results: say, following an instruction to clean up the environment by eliminating its greatest polluter, the human race.

But our recent @newyorkermag investigation documents how some researchers at the company have raised concerns about safety being sidelined.

Link to read the full story in bio.

#OpenAI #SamAltman #AI #News #Tech

🎬 Join us at Tribeca for a DOUBLE FEATURE sneak peek of two upcoming HBO documentary crime series from award-winning filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato of World of Wonder, and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Ronan Farrow.

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Not A Very Good Murderer 👑 Ronan Farrow explores the life of a former beauty queen, uncovering a story stranger than fiction: a bombshell political allegation, jewelry heists, kidnapping, arson, and more than one murder attempt. But how much of it is true? This genre-bending documentary series delves into what it takes to uncover the truth, and the cost of keeping it hidden.

The Palladino Files 📁 When legendary private eye Jack Palladino is murdered, one of his old targets, Ronan Farrow, takes up the case. Over the course of the series, Farrow dives into Palladino's celebrity-ladened case files, uncovering secrets that may reveal who killed the private eye and why.

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🎬 Join us at Tribeca for a DOUBLE FEATURE sneak peek of two upcoming HBO documentary crime series from award-winning filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato of World of Wonder, and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Ronan Farrow.

🎟️ tribecafilm.com/festival/tickets

Not A Very Good Murderer 👑 Ronan Farrow explores the life of a former beauty queen, uncovering a story stranger than fiction: a bombshell political allegation, jewelry heists, kidnapping, arson, and more than one murder attempt. But how much of it is true? This genre-bending documentary series delves into what it takes to uncover the truth, and the cost of keeping it hidden.

The Palladino Files 📁 When legendary private eye Jack Palladino is murdered, one of his old targets, Ronan Farrow, takes up the case. Over the course of the series, Farrow dives into Palladino's celebrity-ladened case files, uncovering secrets that may reveal who killed the private eye and why.

@randybarbato @fentonjbailey @ronanfarrow @hbo @hbodocs

When Sam Altman was reinstated at OpenAI after an outside law firm investigation, no report about what was found was ever released. That’s because none was written.

After OpenAI’s board fired Altman in 2023 for an alleged pattern of deception and manipulation, he fought his way back—and eventually agreed to a review supervised by two new board members selected in close consultation with him.

Those board members enlisted WilmerHale to conduct it. But six people close to the inquiry alleged that it seemed designed to limit transparency. Some said investigators initially didn’t contact important sources, others felt there wasn’t sufficient effort to ensure anonymity. One employee said: “Everything pointed to the fact that they wanted to find the outcome, which is to acquit him.”

The findings were limited to oral briefings, which were not necessarily exonerating on the matters that got Altman fired. One person close to the inquiry said: “The review did not conclude that Sam was a George Washington cherry tree of integrity.”

When Altman said he believed all new board members received those oral briefings, a person with direct knowledge called that “an absolute, outright lie.”

Full story in my latest New Yorker investigation. Link in bio.

#OpenAI #SamAltman #AI #News #Tech

@ronanfarrow says Sam Altman and others have been able to weaken AI safety mechanisms because so many in the industry don’t have the moral courage to stand up for what they think is right in the face of pressure and profits: “This industry is truly full of people who just do not stand by their convictions.” #ai #openai #tech #business #samaltman

During the Biden administration, Sam Altman withdrew from a process in which he had been exploring getting a security clearance to join classified AI policy discussions. Staffers at the RAND Corporation, which helped coordinate the process, were skeptical he could get a clearance due to his extensiveforeign entanglements—one noted that he’d been raising “hundreds of billions of dollars” from foreign governments.

Why? To build AI at the scale and speed he wanted, Altman needed money that few entities on earth possess—and the company considered extraordinary plans to achieve this.

According to internal documents, OpenAI once considered auctioning off access to advanced AI models to governments, deliberately playing world powers against each other. A junior researcher recalled thinking: “This is completely fucking insane.”

Watch to learn more about how AI companies are shaping the balance of power in the world.

And read the full story now in The New Yorker—link in bio.

#openai #samaltman #middleeast #geopolítics #artificialintelligence

Everyone is talking about @newyorker journalist @ronanfarrow's in-depth report about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — and why he was fired in 2023 before returning to his position only days later.

Ronan spent 18 months working on the story (which he co-authored with Andrew Marantz), including reading hundreds of pages of documents and conducting more than a dozen interviews with the CEO himself, plus many more with his current and former employees, OpenAI board members, and other friends and enemies of Altman's.

Needless to say, there's a lot to unpack, so I spoke one-on-one with Ronan about what he learned and why it matters. Watch the full interview on my Substack channel, or at the link in my bio.

"I interviewed, at the time, every living Sec. of State about the decline of diplomacy and militarism taking over American foreign policymaking. This is a nadir of that, that I think none of them could have expected at the time."

@ronanfarrow on Trump's threat against Iran.

Watch and listen to the full episode of the Bulwark Podcast at TheBulwark.com and YouTube, or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Click the link in bio for more.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper speaks with journalist Ronan Farrow about his piece in The New Yorker that looks at accusations that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has exhibited a pattern of manipulation and lack of transparency during his time in charge of the company.

We spent 18 months investigating Sam Altman and OpenAI for @newyorkermag. We reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos and documents. More than 100 people talked.

What we found: allegations of repeated deception to board members and executives. Safety commitments that were made publicly and abandoned internally. A web of financial entanglements stretching from Silicon Valley to Gulf autocracies. And the story of how people who tried to stop him were outmaneuvered.

The full investigation is out now. Link in bio.

#samaltman #openai #ai #investigation #newyorker

When your county loses one of its last local newspaper, your taxes go up $85 per person.

When your federal judicial district loses a major newspaper, corruption cases there spike 7%.

Voter turnout drops.

Pollution increases.

The Washington Post just cut more than 300 jobs. Chicago lost four newsrooms in one year. The newspaper industry lost nearly 7,000 jobs in 2025 alone.

When local news dies, we don't go uninformed—we go national. And national means partisan.

Democracy doesn't die in darkness all at once. It goes town by town.

#LocalNews #DemocracyMatters #MediaLiteracy #DidYouKnow #TheMoreYouKnow

The Washington Post just cut 350 journalists. Chicago lost four newsrooms in one year. The newspaper industry lost nearly 7,000 jobs in 2025 alone.
When local news dies, we don't go uninformed — we go national. And national means partisan. Democracy doesn't die in darkness all at once. It goes town by town.

#LocalNews #DemocracyMatters #MediaLiteracy #DidYouKnow #TheMoreYouKnow