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OpenAI allowed employees to sell up to $30 million worth of shares each in a recent financing, making them some of the earliest financial winners of the AI boom.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

"The company continues to assess the earliest appropriate market window," Alary said in a statement to AFP.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

One of Sarah Lilly's earliest memories is pushing her younger sister Vicky's wheelchair aged four.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

As many critics have explained about Jackson, few performers have been present in the lives of most Americans from their earliest days on Earth.

From Salon • May 14, 2026

One of its earliest battles took place in 1925, with what became known as the Scopes Trial.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler