OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed the company's explosive growth, with 800 million weekly active users, and its significant infrastructure challenges during a tense TED 2025 interview. He addressed ethical issues, such as compensating artists for AI-generated art, and safety concerns regarding autonomous AI agents. Altman also

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‘Our GPUs are melting’: OpenAI struggles to scale amid unprecedented demandFrom non-profit to $300 billion giant: Altman responds to ‘Ring of Power’ accusations‘Divvying up revenue’: OpenAI plans to pay artists whose styles are used by AIAutonomous AI agents: The ‘most consequential safety challenge’ OpenAI has faced’14 definitions from 10 researchers’: Inside OpenAI’s struggle to define AGILoosening the guardrails: OpenAI’s new approach to content moderation‘My kid will never be smarter than AI’: Altman’s vision of an AI-powered futureThe billion-user balancing act: How OpenAI navigates power, profit, and purpose

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