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Wall Street ended the week on a high, with tech-driven indices hitting fresh records as strong corporate earnings, robust economic data, and breakthrough trade deals lifted investor sentiment.

"Success is not guaranteed," Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey told TechCrunch in an interview last month. Her recently released biography, "The Optimist," tracks Sam Altman from St. Louis coder to OpenAI CEO. 

The artificial intelligence maker OpenAI may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded to $157 billion

Nvidia is among the best AI stocks, while software companies lag. Software makers hope to monetize AI agents after failing with copilots.

Altman has denied rumors that he will get a 7% equity stake in the company that could be worth nearly $10 billion.

Altman said there are “no current plans” to give him equity in the company.

Anthropic's stance on AI safety is helping it lure AI researchers away from OpenAI, whose trust and safety credentials taken a battering in recent weeks.

Altman ‘pleased’ investigation over, saying he could have handled dispute with former board member ‘with more grace and care’

CEO Sam Altman will return to the board of OpenAI, the company said on Friday, just months after a boardroom dustup that saw him fired and rehired by the company behind ChatGPT. Altman was also found to have been wrongly fired in an internal investigation that was launched in the…