With speculation online about OpenAI having reached the AGI stage of ChatGPT development, Sam Altman says that's not what's happening.

President Donald Trump spoke with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by phone on Friday, ahead of the AI infrastructure announcement, CNBC has learned.

The tech leader and his family denied Ann Altman's accusations in a statement that was posted online just as the lawsuit went public.

On his X account, Sam Altman posted a letter signed by Democratic senators concerned about the ways tech companies appear to be bending to Trump’s wishes.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Stargate, “the most important project for this era” and promised that all of the new investment his company was making would help cure diseases. Altman was actually prompted by Trump to talk about the medical advances that AI would supposedly figure out.

President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington, as Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, Oracle chief technology officer Larry Ellison and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, listen. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Ark Invest CEO and CIO Cathie Wood says they have a nice exposure to OpenAI following Trump's AI announcement which included SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, Oracle's Larry Ellison and OpenAI's Sam Altman. She says there are some "very innovative companies who are going to accelerate this AI age.

Larry, let’s negotiate in front of the media,” Trump said at a press conference with the Oracle co-founder, SoftBank CEO Masa Son, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to announce a $500 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure investment.

President Donald Trump is announcing investments worth up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.

Donald Trump’s return to office has brought a whirlwind of implications for the technology industry, as the 47th president announces billions of dollars in private sector artificial intelligence investment, rolls back AI safety measures, rescinds critical goals for electric vehicles, and backs the notion of an Elon Musk-owned TikTok.

US President Donald Trump has announced a $500 billion private-led artificial intelligence infrastructure investment called “Stargate,” which aims to build AI data centers across the country. Trump said in a Jan.

Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate, the infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI in the U.S.