OpenAI chief seeks to calm European Union tension

The boss of OpenAI, the firm behind the massively popular ChatGPT bot, said Friday his company had no plans to leave the European Union — a day after he hinted at a possible exit.

Sam Altman is on a global tour to charm leaders and powerbrokers and calm fears over artificial intelligence (AI), including that it could decimate industries, flood the web with misinformation and copyright infringements, and entrench racism.

But on the London leg of his voyage he irritated EU officials after he told reporters OpenAI might have to “cease operating” in the bloc if any future regulations were too strict.