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Altman Testifies About ‘Hair-Raising’ AI Safety Chat With Musk

Bloomberg Tech · May 12, 2026, 5:35 PM · Also reported by 4 other sources

OpenAI’s Sam Altman testified that he was “extremely uncomfortable” with Elon Musk’s insistence that he have complete control over a proposed for-profit subsidiary of OpenAI back in 2017.

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