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Updates on Sam Altman

Every AI story we track on Sam Altman — 130 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked back to the publisher that reported it.

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This week

Machine Learning13 min read

Last Week in AI #343 - GPT-6, OpenAI’s agents chatted on a wiki, Fable 5.1

Covered by 7 sources
Dev3 min read

OpenAI reveals how much its researchers are spending on AI coding

Business Insider
Society & Culture21 min read

Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know

TechCrunch

Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight

Ars Technica

Sam Altman apologizes for ‘messy’ GPT-6 Astra rollout that’s locked out paying users

The Verge
Society & Culture3 min read

Sam Altman says AI needs to do more than cure cancer to win over skeptics

Business Insider

Sam Altman says AI developers have fumbled at communicating the technology’s benefits

The Next Web

This month

Chips & Compute3 min read

Sam Altman says he doesn’t like smart glasses: 'I find it very uncomfortable talking to people with a camera and a light’

Covered by 2 sources

Altman raises stakes on government scrutiny as AI advances

Axios
Politics2 min read

G20 ministers caution against "inflexible" regulation on emerging tech

Kyodo News
Cybersecurity5 min read

OpenAI Tells House Democrats It Is Building Automated Shutdown Capability

Covered by 2 sources
Public Sector5 min read

At G20, Big Tech and Global Leaders Can’t Escape AI’s Data Center Problem

CNET

OpenAI says its ads business is booming as it marches toward an IPO

Covered by 4 sources
Agents3 min read

Mom Who Travels For Work Builds AI Clone of Herself to Keep Her Teenage Son Company

Futurism

Think people hate AI now? Wait until it takes their jobs

Transformer News
AI Research6 min read

OpenAI Says AGI Is Coming By Year-End. It Also Just Had The Worst Safety Crisis In Its History.

Forbes
AI Research7 min read

[AINews] OpenAI to reach AGI bar by end-2026

Latent.Space
AI Research6 min read

OpenAI’s training pause is convenient. That doesn't make it meaningless.

Covered by 2 sources
AI Research3 min read

Sam Altman says he's worried about AI being controlled by a few powerful players

Business Insider

Source: Greg Brockman is "in founder mode" and getting more involved across every level of OpenAI to build out a leadership team ahead of an expected IPO (Madison Mills/Axios)

Techmeme

OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap leaves as shakeup at AI lab continues

Covered by 5 sources

Google falsely said Sam Altman was dead — and suggested vandalized public sources could be to blame

Business Insider
AI Research4 min read

OpenAI’s Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month. She Wasn’t Replaced

Gizmodo

OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer

TechCrunch
Cybersecurity3 min read

15 attorneys general have instructed OpenAI to preserve all materials related to the Hugging Face hack

Business Insider
Cybersecurity5 min read

House Homeland Security Panel Calls Altman In Over OpenAI Breach

Unite.AI
Agents3 min read

Sam Altman’s Parenting Strategy Sounds Low Key Horrifying

Futurism
AI Research6 min read

Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate

TechCrunch
AI Research6 min read

AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

Hacker News

Sam Altman says Paul Graham and Peter Thiel taught him a key lesson about investing

Business Insider
AI Research3 min read

OpenAI Smuggled the Announcement of Astra, Its Next AI Model, Into a Blog Post About Math

Gizmodo
Agents2 min read

Sam Altman suggests parents generate AI podcasts about their kids

Covered by 3 sources
Dev8 min read

I tried the same ChatGPT prompt Sam Altman used to build a website. It helped me finally learn how to vibe code.

Business Insider
Public Sector58 min read

AI #179 Part 2: Hearing The Fire Alarm

Don't Worry About the Vase
Cybersecurity5 min read

Altman Meets the Officials Designing Washington’s AI Cyber Tests

Unite.AI
AI Research4 min read

Sam Altman says cognitive atrophy is one of the most overlooked risks of the AI era

Covered by 2 sources
AI Research3 min read

Trump considering AI controls after OpenAI hacking incidents

BBC

Feeling stressed and overworked? Don't worry - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks that we just love to work, and that's why AI won't result in a four-day working week

TechRadar
Agents3 min read

Eight months ago Altman wanted an AI CEO. Now he says nobody does.

The Next Web
AI Research4 min read

Sam Altman is ready to decelerate

TechCrunch
AI Research4 min read

Sam Altman on model distillation: “This is not in my top ten list of worries”

The New Stack (AI)

Sam Altman Says Even the Power of AI Will Never Lead to a Shorter Work Week

Futurism
Cybersecurity4 min read

Sam Altman and Jensen Huang to meet Senate Intelligence’s top Democrat after OpenAI’s rogue-agent breach

The Next Web
Video Generation3 min read

Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop scrolling. OpenAI killed Sora for the same reason.

The Next Web
AI Research3 min read

Sam Altman Announces That the Singularity Has Arrived

Futurism
AI Research5 min read

Altman Takes OpenAI’s Next Model Family to Washington

Unite.AI
AI Research4 min read

Sam Altman renews his ‘democratic AI’ pitch as Anthropic holds a harder line

The Next Web
AI Research3 min read

What OpenAI will show the White House this week

The Next Web

The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon

The Guardian
Society & Culture3 min read

Public Horrified as OpenAI Pushes “Child After Child Into the Grave”

Futurism
Machine Learning4 min read

It’s Official: AI Execs Are Quaking in Their Boots

Futurism
Society & Culture4 min read

Author Invited to Give Speech at OpenAI Headquarters, Uses Opportunity to Trash AI to Their Faces

Futurism
Chips & Compute6 min read

Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?

TechCrunch
Society & Culture2 min read

Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’

The Verge
Chips & Compute4 min read

Apple Is Coming for the People Building OpenAI’s Future

Gizmodo
Society & Culture4 min read

Body Bags Found Outside OpenAI HQ as Execs Increasingly Fear for Their Lives

Gizmodo
Society & Culture3 min read

Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as AI Backlash Grows

Futurism
AI Research4 min read

New Anthropic Ad Implies AI Could Kill Us All

Futurism
Marketing & Sales4 min read

Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out

TechCrunch

Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe

TechCrunch
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