Pentagon is angry with Dean W Ball, top executive of Sam Altman’s OpenAI, calls him ‘supreme village idiot’ and reminds him that US government passed a law in 2026 that restricts …
A feud has erupted between senior Trump administration officials and a top executive at Sam Altman’s OpenAI. In a series of public attacks, Under Secretary of Defense Emil Michael slammed OpenAI’s Head of Strategic Futures Dean W. Ball, calling him the industry’s “supreme village idiot”. The exchange was triggered by comments Ball made regarding how the US government should handle the rising threat of open-source Chinese AI models, following the launch of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3.
What caused the feud
