MATT O’BRIEN

Technology reporter

O’Brien covers the business of technology and artificial intelligence for The Associated Press.
This undated photo provided by Dawn Graves shows Richard Sutton. (Dawn Graves via AP)
AI pioneers who channeled ‘hedonistic’ machines win computer science’s top prize
 
Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Judge denies Elon Musk’s request to block OpenAI for-profit conversion but welcomes trial
 
This photo shows the icon for Microsoft's Skype app on a smartphone in New York, April 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)
Microsoft shutting down Skype in May
 
AI nonprofit CEO says ‘closed nature’ of most artificial intelligence research hinders innovation
 
The logo for Amazon.com Inc. is displayed on a screen at the Nasdaq MarketSite, July 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Amazon workers in North Carolina vote against joining union
 
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at Station F, during an event on the sidelines of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, Pool)
How Elon Musk $97.4 billion bid complicates matters for OpenAI
 
Elon Musk arrives before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Elon Musk-led group proposes buying OpenAI for $97.4 billion. OpenAI CEO says ‘no thank you’
 
Elon Musk speaks at a presidential inauguration event on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
How the tactics Musk brought to Washington backfired at Twitter
 
President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington, as Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, Oracle chief technology officer Larry Ellison and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, listen. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
OpenAI looks across US for sites to build its Trump-backed Stargate AI data centers
 
Elon Musk arrives before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)
Judge says Elon Musk’s claims of harm from OpenAI are a ‘stretch’ but welcomes possible trial
 
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the Microsoft Ignite conference, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
Microsoft reports 10% quarterly profit growth as it works to show AI investments paying off
 
The Library of Congress stands on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
AI-assisted works can get copyright with enough human creativity, says US copyright office
 
The Icons for the smartphone apps DeepSeek and ChatGPT are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Did DeepSeek copy ChatGPT to make new AI chatbot? Trump adviser thinks so
 
The page for the smartphone app DeepSeek is seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
DeepSeek says it built its chatbot cheap. What does that mean for AI’s energy needs and the climate?
 
People reflected in a window with a slogan about AI at a representation of a company ahead of the World Economy Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company upending the stock market?
 
President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Trump signs executive order on developing artificial intelligence ‘free from ideological bias’
 
Elon Musk arrives before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)
Musk clashes with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over Trump-supported Stargate AI data center project
 
President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump rescinds Biden’s executive order on AI safety in attempt to diverge from his predecessor
 
In this Oct. 17, 2012 file photo, a Google logo is shown at Google offices in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot
 
President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Biden’s administration proposes new rules on exporting AI chips, provoking an industry pushback
 
(AP Illustration/Jenni Sohn)
In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work
 
An endangered Geoffrey's spider monkey that had been rescued and living in the care of the Alturas Wildlife Sanctuary in Dominical, Costa Rica, on March 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt O'Brien, File)
AI will eavesdrop on world’s wildest places to track and help protect endangered wildlife
 
Suchir Balaji poses for a photo in Hawaii in 2018. Balaji was a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who died in November 2024. (Balaji Ramamurthy via AP)
Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died
 
People walk the streets in Dublin, Ireland, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
Ireland embraced data centers that the AI boom needs. Now they’re consuming too much of its energy
 
The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cell phone in front of an image generated by ChatGPT's Dall-E text-to-image model, Dec. 8, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
OpenAI’s legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI ‘dictatorship’
 
FILE - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends an Apple event announcing new products in Cupertino, Calif., June 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
OpenAI’s Sam Altman ‘not that worried’ about rival Elon Musk’s influence in the Trump administration
 
FILE - This April 12, 2016 file photo shows the Microsoft logo in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
FTC opens Microsoft antitrust investigation that Trump administration must carry on or drop
 
Attendees listen during a panel discussion with Ambassador Philip Thigo, Special Envoy on Technology for the Office of the President of Kenya, from top left, Hong Yuen Poon, Deputy Secretary of Singapore's Ministry of Digital Development and Information, Lucilla Sioli, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Office for the European Commission, and Dr. Seth Center, Acting Special Envoy Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology, at the convening of the International Network of AI Safety Institutes at the Golden Gate Club at the Presidio in San Francisco, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
US ahead in AI innovation, easily surpassing China in Stanford’s new ranking
 
Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo speaks at the convening of the International Network of AI Safety Institutes at the Golden Gate Club at the Presidio in San Francisco, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
US gathers allies to talk AI safety as Trump’s vow to undo Biden’s AI policy overshadows their work
 
Employees work behind an evaluation board, foreground, in a lab at the d-Matrix office in Santa Clara, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Nvidia rivals focus on building a different kind of chip to power AI products
 
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