News Summary

• Sam Altman gave Axios two interviews four days apart.
• In the first he said the next generation of AI models would be ‘sobering for everybody’ In the second he said this is the best time in the world to start a company.
• Both were with the same reporter, Mike Allen.
• Both happened around the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
• Neither statement contradicts the other exactly.
• Read together, though, they describe the position OpenAI now has to hold.