OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a “fraud crisis” because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people.

“A thing that terrifies me is apparently there are still some financial institutions that will accept a voice print as authentication for you to move a lot of money or do something else — you say a challenge phrase, and they just do it,” Altman said. “That is a crazy thing to still be doing… AI has fully defeated most of the ways that people authenticate currently, other than passwords.”

The comments were part of his wide-ranging interview about the economic and societal impacts of AI at the Federal Reserve on Tuesday. He also told the audience, which included, representatives of large US financial institutions, about the role he expects AI to play in the economy.

Preparation for the first EXPLORE analog mission planned for June is running on schedule in Austria.

Enthusiasm for our EXPLORE project is contagious, as students and staff at the Amadeus International School in Vienna, Austria will be happy to tell you!

This month teachers in selected schools in Austria, Greece and Portugal received EXPLORE’s physical mission toolkits.

WASHINGTON — The Exploration Company said it achieved “partial success” on a test flight of a reentry capsule but lost the spacecraft before it splashed down.

The company launched Mission Possible, a 1.6-ton reentry capsule, on SpaceX’s Transporter-14 rideshare mission. The Falcon 9 carrying Mission Possible and the other rideshare payloads lifted off at 5:25 p.m. Eastern June 23 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Mission Possible was the last payload scheduled to be deployed on Transporter-14, about two hours and 45 minutes after liftoff. The capsule would then perform a controlled reentry and splashdown in the north Pacific Ocean and then be recovered by a ship.

Tech leaders from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI have joined the Army Reserve, bypassing traditional training to chase transformation.

Artificial intelligence chatbots are now in every public school in the state. It’s saving teachers time and giving students a 24/7 on-call educator.

A fireside with Sam Altman on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.

Sam Altman grew up obsessed with technology, broke into the Stanford mainframe as a kid, and dropped out to start his first company before turning 20.

In this conversation, he traces the path from early startup struggles to building OpenAI—sharing what he’s learned about ambition, the weight of responsibility, and how to keep building when the whole world is watching. He opens up about the hardest moments of his career, the limits of personal productivity, and why, in the end, it’s all still about finding people you like working with and doing something that matters.

Chapters (Powered by https://ChapterMe.co)
00:00 – We’re going for AGI
01:25 – Founding OpenAI Against the Odds.
05:00 – GPT-4o & the Future of Reasoning Models.
07:00 – ChatGPT Memory & the ‘Her’ Vision.
10:00 – GPT-5 & the Vision of a Multimodal Supermodel.
11:00 – Robots at Scale.
15:00 – Don’t Build ChatGPT — Build What’s Missing.
17:00 – Elon’s Harsh Email & Building Conviction.
26:00 – One Person’s Leverage in the Next Decade.
32:00 – AI for Science: Sam’s Personal Bet.

A fireside with Elon Musk at AI Startup School in San Francisco.

Before rockets and robots, Elon Musk was drilling holes through his office floor to borrow internet. In this candid talk, he walks through the early days of Zip2, the Falcon 1 launches that nearly ended SpaceX, and the “miracle” of Tesla surviving 2008.

He shares the thinking that guided him—building from first principles, doing useful things, and the belief that we’re in the middle of an intelligence big bang.

Chapters:

00:00 — Intro.
01:25 — His origin story.
02:00 — Dream to help build the internet.
04:40 — Zip2 and lessons learned.
08:00 — PayPal.
14:30 — Origin of SpaceX
18:30 — Building rockets from first principles.
23:50 — Lessons in leadership.
27:10 — Building up xAI
39:00 — Super intelligence and synthetic data.
39:30 — Multi-planetary future.
43:00 — Nueralink, AI safety and the singularity.

I honestly don’t know how I should be educating my kids. A.I. has raised a lot of questions for schools. Teachers have had to adapt to the most ingenious cheating technology ever devised. But for me, the deeper question is: What should schools be teaching at all? A.I. is going to make the future look very different. How do you prepare kids for a world you can’t predict?

And if we can offload more and more tasks to generative A.I., what’s left for the human mind to do?

Rebecca Winthrop is the director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. She is also an author, with Jenny Anderson, of “The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better.” We discuss how A.I. is transforming what it means to work and be educated, and how our use of A.I. could revive — or undermine — American schools.

00:00 Intro.
03:03 The future of education?
11:20 Modes of engagement.
17:27 Personalizing education.
26:25 The case for A.I. in schools.
35:09 Who gets left behind?
46:07 How A.I. can increase equity.
49:35 Becoming more human.
55:54 Willpower, literacy, and regulation.
01:01:10 Advice for parents.
01:05:20 Book recommendations.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Thursday touted the use of robotics in his pitch for an American “manufacturing renaissance.”

The big picture: While President Trump’s tariffs are meant to boost American manufacturing and jobs, U.S. manufacturers will likely hurt from these tariffs, at least in the short run. Whether they lead to more jobs in the long term remains an open question.

What he’s saying: Lutnick made the case in several TV interviews this week that tariffs will bring jobs and factories back to the U.S., saying they’ll utilize robotics to make American workers “more efficient.”

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