Protesters gather at OpenAI’s DevDay

<figure> <img alt="Protesters holding signs with messages like “People over AI” congregating outside an event venue." data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Photo by Hayden Field / The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/IMG_3019.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">On Tuesday, OpenAI's annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers and chants. "Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit," said a group of protesters marching in a circle in front of a series of signs that spelled out "PEOPLE OVER PROFIT." </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">More than a dozen organizations came together to sponsor a rally outside the entrance to the event venue at San Francisco's Fort Mason, including Bay Resistance, Tech Workers Coalition, Service Employees International Union, San Francisco Rising, and the San Francisco Labor Council. A large orange sign read "Drop the ICE contract." Multiple people dressed in cardboard robot costumes waved cardboa …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1002201/openai-sam-altman-openai-devday-protests-ice-data-centers">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>