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[cheef] / tʃif /




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A report in the Wall Street Journal late Wednesday said OpenAI’s chief executive officer Sam Altman is urgently exploring options to lure corporate customers away from its main competitor Anthropic.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

The platform's chief administrative officer Harold Rogers was appointed interim CEO.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Yet Anthropic has touted safety since its founding and its chief executive, Dario Amodei, has long expressed concern about risks its tools could create, from AI-enabled cyberattacks and bioweapons to machines that escape human control.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

“At this point our assumption is this is still a positioning unwind, not a regime change, but we don’t think it has fully run its course,” writes Jonathan Krinsky, BTIG’s chief market technician.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Sometimes I was the commander in chief in my daydreams, and sometimes I was just imagining what it would be like to live in a place like this.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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