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The parents of Adam Raine, the 16-year-old who hanged himself after months of talking about suicide to ChatGPT, have filed an amended complaint that alleges OpenAI twice loosened its rules for discussing suicide before his death. Scoop w/ the great Sam Schechner www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
October 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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1. Great story by my former colleagues
2. I don't think copyright law works like that

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
Exclusive | OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the company notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
www.wsj.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Excited that Amazon has named THE OPTIMIST the #3 best business and leadership book of 2025 so far:
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June 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Fun talking to @jimsciutto.bsky.social about Sam Altman, Jony Ive, OpenAI and THE OPTIMIST video.snapstream.net/Play/9Ip3w8n...
The Brief with Jim Sciutto - Keach Hagey joins The Brief
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May 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Thanks, @richardwaters.bsky.social for the great review of THE OPTIMIST in the Financial Times!

“Timely and myth-busting” — Richard Waters, Financial Times

www.ft.com/content/1721...
May 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The quasi-religious cult in Silicon Valley attempting to produce a super intelligent AI of course has ties to the techno-fascist billionaire Peter Thiel.

This article shares a must read excerpt from The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future, by @keachhagey.bsky.social.
How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution
The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other's monsters. An excerpt from "The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future."
www.wired.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I highly recommend @keachhagey.bsky.social’s new book, THE OPTIMIST, about Sam Altman. Fascinating, beautifully written and (at least to me) deeply unnerving. wwnorton.com/books/978132...
May 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
May 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thanks, @caseynewton.bsky.social and @kevinroose.bsky.social, for a great conversation about the real reasons behind OpenAI’s blip and my new book about Sam Altman: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/p...
April 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
In its starred review, Publishers Weekly calls The OPTIMIST a “fleet-footed biography” full of “crackerjack reporting.”

“The first major biography of tech’s newest titan, this sets a high bar for those to follow.”

www.publishersweekly.com/9781324075967
April 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Had a great time talking to @leolaporte.me, @jeffjarvis.bsky.social, @richcampbell.bsky.social on the Intelligent Machines podcast @twit.tv about why Sam Altman got fired (briefly) and my new biography of him, THE OPTIMIST wwnorton.com/books/978132...
April 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Great fun to chat with @ajkeen.bsky.social about Sam Altman, OpenAI, and my forthcoming book, THE OPTIMIST, which comes out in May. Preorder now: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
April 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“Hagey's account suggests that [the old OpenAI board’s] reasons were much better than we knew at the time. And the world today might look very different had someone said so when it mattered.” — @caseynewton.bsky.social
on the excerpt from my Sam Altman biography, THE OPTIMIST bit.ly/4l9FISm
April 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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An excerpt from @keachhagey.bsky.social's new book on Sam Altman explains in the greatest detail yet why the board fired him in 2023 — and raises the question of what would have happened if the board had told us all this at the time www.platformer.news/we-finally-k...
April 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Great chatting with @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social @beckyquick.bsky.social at @squawkboxx.bsky.social this morning about my biography of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, THE OPTIMIST, coming May 20 from Norton. bit.ly/4hRzhR1
March 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM