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Sam Altman, center, and OpenAI president Greg Brockman, right, arrive at the U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Oversight chair seeks information from OpenAI’s Sam Altman about potential financial conflicts

The letter comes amid a high-stakes legal battle between onetime partners Sam Altman and Elon Musk, who in 2015 co-founded the AI company behind ChatGPT.

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The United States of California, a series exploring the state’s vast impact on the nation

Electric cars, climate credit schemes, diverse boardrooms and legal weed: How California exports its ideas and policies across the U.S.

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FILE - Helicopters fly over with Taiwan national flag during an inauguration celebration of Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 20, 2024. China's military held exercises surrounding Taiwan on Thursday, May 23, 2024, in what it called punishment for separatist forces seeking independence on the self-governed island where a new president took office this week. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

Taiwan fears Trump will speak off-script on its fate in Beijing

Taiwanese officials fear even the most subtle rhetorical change in policy from Trump could imperil a delicate status quo that has held for decades.

Los Angeles, CA - MAY 06, 2026: Chad Bianco is interviewed after the California Gubernatorial debate at Skirball Cultural Center on Wednesday, May 6, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

How MAGA Sheriff Chad Bianco is shaking up the 2026 California gubernatorial primary

FILE - Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 16, 2022. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Sunday, April 9, 2023, stressed that women for now continue to have access to the abortion medication mifepristone after the Texas judge stayed his ruling for a week so federal authorities could file a challenge. The drug was approved by the FDA in 2000. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Louisiana urges Supreme Court to block abortion pills sent by mail

FILE - Members of the California state Assembly meet at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, June 20, 2022. California, which already has some of the strongest digital privacy laws in the U.S., is on the verge of handing consumers a major new tool to combat the sale and secret use of personal information they may never have agreed to share. Both houses of the state legislature have passed the Delete Act, which would establish a “one stop shop” where individuals could order hundreds of often shadowy data brokers to delete information such as their location history and financial details. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California under pressure — again — as partisan redistricting wars escalate

A document that was included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, photographed Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, shows a photo of Epstein on a inmate report from the Federal Bureau of Prisons . (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Purported Jeffrey Epstein suicide note had echoes of messages he had sent earlier

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