#Sam Altman

Author: Khari Johnson / Source: VentureBeat Sam Altman is planning to step down from his role as president of Y Combinator, one of the best-known startup accelerators in Silicon Valley. He’s leaving the position to focus on his work as cochair of prominent nonprofit research organization OpenAI,

Author: Sam Shead / Source: Forbes Machines have scored another victory over humans in the ongoing man vs machine saga after a team of AIs working together successfully beat five semi-professional humans at the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game of Dota 2. ‘Silicon beat meat’ (as

Silicon Valley billionaire Sam Altman, 32, has paid a company, Nectome, $10K to kill him then have his brain uploaded to a cloud. No, this is not the next episode of Black Mirror. This really happened. Altman, the president of Y Combinator, an American seed accelerator, is one of 25 people on a

Author: Alexander Gamanyuk / Source: VentureBeat Recently Sam Altman from Y Combinator announced a new online Startup School. It’s a 10-week massively open online course (MOOC). The idea is to teach everyone how to start a startup and help them along the way with guidance from people who’ve

The world’s biggest technology companies are handing over the keys to their success, making their artificial intelligence systems open-source. Traditionally, computer users could see the end product of what a piece of software did by, for instance, writing a document in Microsoft Word or playing a