Sam Altman pitches US utilities on OpenAI’s Daybreak programme for grid defence
11-09-2026 09:45 via thenextweb.com

Sam Altman pitches US utilities on OpenAI’s Daybreak programme for grid defence

Sam Altman has been pitching American electric utilities on using OpenAI’s models to defend the power grid against autonomous cyberattacks, in meetings that began in July and continued at the industry’s annual gathering in Colorado Springs, Politico reported Thursday. Altman and John McCarrick, OpenAI’s head of global energy policy, have met with executives from Duke […]
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