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OpenAI allowed employees to sell up to $30 million worth of shares each in a recent financing, making them some of the earliest financial winners of the AI boom.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

"The company continues to assess the earliest appropriate market window," Alary said in a statement to AFP.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

One of Sarah Lilly's earliest memories is pushing her younger sister Vicky's wheelchair aged four.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

As many critics have explained about Jackson, few performers have been present in the lives of most Americans from their earliest days on Earth.

From Salon • May 14, 2026

Two of the episodes in this story are taken from the earliest poets.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton