OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was dragged through the mud in a new in-depth report that features former colleagues and current board members referring to him as sociopath and a liar.

Altman, 40, has yet to respond to claims made in a recent report, some of which were uncovered in secret memos to OpenAI’s board members.

‘He is a sociopath. He would do anything.’

According to the New Yorker, OpenAI’s chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, sent the memos to three other board members in 2023. One of the memos about Altman began with a list titled “Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of.” The first item on the list was “lying.”

The memos also alleged that Altman misrepresented facts to executives and board members while deceiving them about safety protocols. Unfortunately for Altman, the claims did not stop there.

“He’s unconstrained by truth,” a board member told the New Yorker. “He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.”

The outlet said that the unnamed board member was not the only person to describe Altman as “sociopathic” without being prompted. Not long before his 2013 suicide, according to the New Yorker, coder Aaron Swartz warned at least one friend about Altman, whom Swartz had known from their time together at Y Combinator. His warning: “You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted. He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”

Sutskever additionally implied that he did not think Altman should have power over others, saying, “I don’t think Sam is the guy who should have his finger on the button.”

Others described him as more ambitious than anything else.

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Former OpenAI board member Sue Yoon said Altman was “not this Machiavellian villain” but was able to convince himself of his own sales pitches.

“He’s too caught up in his own self-belief,” she reportedly said. “So he does things that, if you live in the real world, make no sense. But he doesn’t live in the real world.”

Other anonymous colleagues cited by the New Yorker said that Sutskever and similar detractors were simply aspiring to take Altman’s throne. Still, even many neutral comments did not help Altman’s portrayal in the report.

“He’s unbelievably persuasive. Like, Jedi mind tricks,” a tech executive colleague of Altman’s reportedly said. “He’s just next-level.”

At the same time, OpenAI is allegedly in the midst of unleashing superintelligence that Altman himself says will be so disruptive that it will require a new social contract.

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Altman told Axios that there would be widespread job loss and a threat of cyberattacks coupled with social unrest.

“I suspect in the next year,” he said, “we will see significant threats we have to mitigate from cyber.”

Altman proposed a new deal with citizens that includes a public wealth fund, taxes on “automated labor,” a 32-hour workweek, and the “right to AI.”

That confirms previous reports that Altman wanted to put AI on a meter like electricity or water, to both democratize its usage and limit the possibility of overburdening the electrical grid.

OpenAI did not respond to Return’s request for comment about the claims made about Altman and who they were coming from.

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The Artemis II crew made history on Monday, putting more distance — 252,756 miles — between themselves and Earth than any previous human spaceflight. The previous record, 248,655 miles, was set by Apollo 13 in 1970.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen looped around the moon in their Orion spacecraft, flying as close as 4,070 miles on one approach and losing signal for roughly 40 minutes while passing behind the celestial body.

‘We’ll establish a permanent presence.’

In addition to breaking the distance record for human spaceflight and making “impactful science observations” of the far side of the moon, NASA said the crew also took a moment to “provisionally name” a couple of lunar craters.

As the Artemis II crew began their voyage back to Earth, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman notified them that they had a call waiting.

“A very special hello to Artemis II,” said President Donald Trump. “Today, you’ve made history and made all America really proud, incredibly proud. We have a lot of things to be proud of lately, but this is — there’s nothing like what you’re doing, circling around the moon for the first time in more than a half a century and breaking the all-time record for the farthest distance from Planet Earth.”

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Trump also informed Hansen that his countrymen are proud of him, stating, “I spoke to your prime minister and many other friends I have in Canada. They are so proud of you.”

Emphasizing that America is a “frontier nation” and that the Artemis II crew are “modern-day pioneers,” the president noted that while such journeys are rare, “It’s going to be more and more prevalent because we’re going to be doing a lot of … traveling, and then you’re going to ultimately do the whole big trip to Mars.”

Trump said that the Artemis II mission sets the stage for a return to the lunar surface “very soon,” adding that “this time, we won’t just leave footprints; we’ll establish a permanent presence on the moon.”

Commander Reid Wiseman, a Baltimore native, told Trump that his call was “certainly special to all of us.”

Wiseman noted that two unforgettable parts of their journey were watching a solar eclipse and glimpsing Mars: “All of us commented how excited we are to watch this nation and this planet become a two-planet species.”

Koch said her top highlight was seeing Earth again after passing around the far side of the moon.

“It really just reminds you what a special place we have and how important it is for our nation … to lead and not follow in exploring deep space,” said Koch.

The president said he plans to invite the astronauts to the White House after their return and to ask them for their autographs.

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Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made good on his promise to inject even more racially based policies into the city with his “racial equity plan.”

Mamdani had a special media briefing on Monday to announce the plan to benefit “black and brown New Yorkers,” especially as it is relates to the “cost-of-living crisis.”

The white paper for the program said there were over 800 racial equity ‘strategies’ in the plan and 600 ‘indicators to track and report progress.’

“This is not a crisis affecting a small minority of New Yorkers. It is a crisis touching the vast majority of our city, in every borough and every neighborhood,” Mamdani said.

“But we know this crisis is not felt equally. Black and Latino New Yorkers — who have been pushed out of this city for decades — are bearing the brunt,” he added. “These reports make one thing clear: We cannot tackle systemic racial inequity without confronting the affordability crisis head-on, and we cannot solve the cost-of-living crisis without dismantling systemic racial inequity.”

Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, responded simply, “Sounds fishy/illegal. Will review!”

Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su added that the administration aimed to dismantle “structural racism and inequity” in order to establish “true economic justice.”

“Inequity has been embedded in the foundation of our city and nation since their inception; dismantling it requires a collective effort,” said NYC Chief Equity Officer and NYC Mayor’s Office of Equity & Racial Justice Commissioner Afua Atta-Mensah.

Atta-Mensah went on to say every government agency will implement the new policies to “advance racial equity, promote justice, and create lasting change.”

The white paper for the program said there were over 800 racial equity “strategies” in the plan and 600 “indicators to track and report progress.”

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Some of the goals include expanding access to capital for underserved businesses, applying a “racial equity framework” to all new housing proposals, and reducing “truck-related pollutants” in “communities of color.”

The plan also involves a new “true cost of living” measure meant to supplant traditional measures of poverty. According to Mamdani’s administration, 62% of New Yorkers don’t meet “their true cost of living,” while 18% to 20% were “identified as poor” under traditional measures.

They reported that Hispanics had the highest percentage that fell under the TCOL standard, with black residents coming in second.

A Blaze News request for comment from the mayor’s office was not returned by time of publishing.

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The announcement of Terafab was made at a decommissioned power plant, reflecting Elon Musk’s understanding of stagecraft: The ruined infrastructure of one era makes a convenient altar for the next. On March 21 and 22, 2026, at the Seaholm Power Plant in Austin, Musk presented Terafab. It is either the most ambitious semiconductor manufacturing project in history or a very expensive project that may not come to be.

Terafab is a plan to build vertically integrated chip-manufacturing capacity in Austin, combining under one roof the design, fabrication, packaging, and testing of advanced semiconductors. Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI are the collaborating entities. The announced investment figure is $20 billion. The stated long-run target is one terawatt of compute capacity per year, a number that converts the language of performance into the language of power.

Terafab is a cultural event as much as a technical announcement.

Measuring compute in watts means that the limiting factor is energy throughput. The International Energy Agency has described data centers as a fast-growing fraction of global electricity demand; by 2030, in its base case, that demand could roughly double.

The technical core of Terafab is its most defensible part. The pitch is about iteration speed: If you can design a chip, fabricate it, package it, test it, and revise the mask, all inside one building, without shipping components between specialized facilities in different countries, you can improve faster than anyone who does not. In conventional semiconductor manufacturing, these functions are geographically and organizationally scattered. A mask set travels; a wafer ships; a packaged part crosses an ocean. Each journey is a delay, and delay is the enemy of the feedback loop. Terafab is a wager that learning velocity beats static node leadership.

A factory within a factory

Advanced fabs are among the most expensive and complex structures human beings have ever built, typically $10 billion and several years for a single facility, dependent on supply chains for equipment that cannot be wished into existence by ambition or capital alone. Extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, to name one critical dependency, cost hundreds of millions of dollars apiece and are manufactured by a single Dutch company. The closed loop is a compelling engineering idea. The project will involve equipment lead times, utility provisioning, the yielding of learning curves, and the peculiar physics of building things in the real world.

There is a second Terafab nested inside the first. The announcement includes chips, named D3, designed for space environments, paired with a vision of solar-powered orbital compute satellites, initially around 100 kilowatts and scaling toward the megawatt range. Terrestrial compute is constrained by land, power, cooling, and local political opposition to enormous data centers. Space has sunlight and no neighbors to complain about the noise.

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Of course, space also has no air. In vacuum, heat cannot leave a system by convection, only by radiation, which requires very large radiator surfaces at high power levels. The International Space Station’s thermal control system requires radiators the size of tennis courts to reject the heat generated by its systems. Radiation poses its own complications: The energetic particles of the space environment induce bit flips and long-term degradation in electronics not specifically hardened against them. The orbital vision is not impossible. It is simply a different problem than the earthbound one, even when presented in the same breath, as though the same momentum carries the project from Austin to low Earth orbit without friction.

The future needs power

Terafab’s “everything under one roof” approach has an ancestor in the great vertical integration projects of industrial capitalism, such as Ford’s River Rouge complex, which turned raw materials into finished automobiles inside a single, vast geography, its own power plant humming at the center.

The global semiconductor supply chain is highly concentrated: Roughly 92% of the world’s most advanced chip manufacturing capacity sits in Taiwan. To build end-to-end domestic capability is simultaneously a resilience project and a power project, a bid to internalize a strategic resource inside one corporate constellation rather than depend on the broader market of specialized suppliers.

Terafab is a cultural event as much as a technical announcement, and its cultural work is to naturalize a particular diagnosis: that intelligence is infrastructure, infrastructure is energy, and energy is the horizon of meaning for civilizational progress. Whether or not the fab gets built on schedule, whether or not the orbital satellites ever achieve megawatt-scale compute, the frame has been installed. The factory is where the future lives, and the future needs power.

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A 12-year-old was found dead under very disturbing circumstances at her stepfather’s home, and Connecticut police believe he sexually assaulted her before her death.

The Enfield Police Department said in a post on Facebook that officers responded to a report of an unresponsive female at a home on Elm St. on March 18 at about 10:25 a.m.

‘It’s terrifying still to this day. I’m glad he’s gone and won’t be driving kids anymore.’

Police said the girl, identified as Eve Rogers, was declared dead.

The girl’s mother said she went to wake up her daughter and found her dead, according to a WFSB-TV report.

The girl was being homeschooled and was not enrolled in any public school. She was withdrawn from school in 2022 in the fourth grade.

Police said they obtained a search warrant and conducted an investigation at the home for many hours.

Anthony Federline was arrested on Thursday and charged with sexual assault in the first degree as well as risk of injury to a child.

WVIT-TV reported that the arrest warrant said pills were found in the room where Rogers was found dead and that she was found naked from the waist down with a blanket over her bottom half.

DNA testing led to Federline’s arrest, but authorities said the DNA of an unknown person was also found.

The family initially began a GoFundMe donation page, but it was later deleted.

Parents in the school district are outraged because Federline was allowed to continue driving a school bus after the death of his stepdaughter. He was fired by the district after he was charged and arrested.

“We just wanted answers. We wanted accountability. We wanted some sort of transparency. We wanted answers from somebody,” said Malcolm Maxwell-Frechette, a parent of a student who rode on Federline’s bus.

Enfield superintendent Steven Moccio addressed the criticism in a statement to parents.

“Mr. Federline was removed from his position upon the district’s notification of arrest. Prior to that time, the district was unaware that he was a person of interest,” he said.

“It’s terrifying still to this day. I’m glad he’s gone and won’t be driving kids anymore, but it doesn’t make me feel any better about the situation,” Maxwell-Frechette added.

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Connecticut state rep. John Santanella (D) released a statement urging the amendment of a bill that would place restrictions on homeschooling based on the incident.

“What we do know is heartbreaking,” he wrote. “A young life, a life that never had the chance to be fully lived, has been lost, and our community is left to grapple with that loss. In moments like this, we are reminded that the policies we debate in Hartford are not abstract. They have real consequences for real people, especially the most vulnerable among us.”

Federline was held on a $1 million bond.

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