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It’s the most Sam Altman story ever – and a perfect vignette on the artificial intelligence boom.

Late last week, the co-founder and chief executive of OpenAI, the private technology giant behind ChatGPT, sat down for dinner with a group of journalists. The rules of engagement for the meal appear to have been vague, to say the least, but from cross-referencing the various accounts, we can establish a few things.

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