OpenAI CEO Sam Altman advocated for more artificial intelligence "freedom" and less regulation while speaking to U.S. lawmakers in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. "We need to give adult users a lot of freedom to use AI in the way that they want to use it,

In the OpenAI CEO's first congressional hearing in two years, Altman faced few hostile questions or pushback, as lawmakers' attention focuses on competition with China rather than safety and regulation that was at the center of the previous hearing.

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, said he hired Instacart’s Fidji Simo to join in a new role as chief executive of applications.

The artificial general intelligence research company OpenAI announced Wednesday it has hired current Instacart CEO Fidji Simo as its head of Applications.

OpenAI said Instacart’s chief executive is joining the company to lead its applications business as the ChatGPT maker looks to scale its operations and drive growth.