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Sam Altman

American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)

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Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American businessman and entrepreneur who has served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI since 2019. Having overseen the successful launch of ChatGPT in 2022, he is widely considered to be one of the leading figures of the AI boom. Altman attended Stanford University for two years before dropping out and co-founding Loopt, a smartphone geosocial networking service, which raised more than US$30 million in venture capital.

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🇺🇸 The new show making fun of tech bros (2026-04-11)
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🇺🇸 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home targeted in Molotov cocktail attack (2026-04-10)
Police said the suspect targeted Altman's San Francisco residence before dawn and fled the scene on foot....
🇺🇸 Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam Altman's house (2026-04-10)
Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam Altman's house...
🇺🇸 Sam Altman Confirms Molotov Cocktail Incident and Responds to “Incendiary” New Yorker Investigation (2026-04-11)
The OpenAI CEO covers a lot of ground in the personal blog post, shared Friday afternoon, by opening up on Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz’s investiga...
🇺🇸 Suspect arrested after Molotov cocktail attack at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home (2026-04-11)
🇺🇸 20-year-old man arrested for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s house (2026-04-10)
San Francisco police have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Russian Hill house early Frid...
🇺🇸 Molotov cocktail thrown at home of OpenAI chief Sam Altman (2026-04-10)
Suspect arrested outside AI start-up’s San Francisco headquarters after threatening to burn it down...
🇺🇸 Sam Altman's San Francisco home targeted with Molotov cocktail, OpenAI says (2026-04-10)
The San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was targeted with a Molotov cocktail Friday morning, a company spokesperson said....
🇺🇸 Suspect arrested after OpenAI CEO Altman's home targeted with Molotov cocktail (2026-04-10)
A 20-year-old suspect was taken into custody on Friday morning after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail toward OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home in San ...
🇺🇸 Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman (2026-04-10)
The device burned an exterior gate of the house in San Francisco, the police said, and it was unclear whether the artificial intelligence executive wa...
🇺🇸 OpenAI says CEO Sam Altman's house was targeted with a Molotov cocktail (2026-04-10)
San Francisco police early Friday arrested a person who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman's home and made threat...
🇺🇸 Suspect Arrested For Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Sam Altman's Home (2026-04-10)
An attacker allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at the OpenAI CEO's residence before making threats outside of the startup's headquarters....
🇺🇸 Fear and loathing at OpenAI (2026-04-10)
Sam Altman's tenure at OpenAI has been… messy. Messy to the point where Altman was briefly fired from his role as CEO, only to be reinstated days late...
🇺🇸 The Cinema-ification of Sam Altman (2026-04-09)
The OpenAI chief has moved beyond tech titan, beyond even villain, to become something entirely uncategorizable....
🇺🇸 Sam Altman’s Open AI “Working Hard With Disney To Find A World Where They Can Still Do Something Amazing” After Sora Shuttered (2026-04-02)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company abruptly shuttered its Sora video platform to focus on its “compute and our product capacity,” acknowledging th...
🇺🇸 Sam Altman Felt ‘Terrible’ Telling Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro About OpenAI’s Decision to Kill Off Sora, Says Companies Still Looking to Collaborate (2026-04-02)
Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman broke the news to newly installed Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro that the AI giant was killing off the Sora video-gen platfo...
🇺🇸 Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Still in Talks With Disney After Sora Shutdown (2026-04-02)
Altman says he spoke to both Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro and former Disney CEO Bob Iger to give them a heads up about the decision. Altman says D'Amaro to...
🇺🇸 In ‘The AI Doc,’ Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Go on the Record (2026-03-26)
“The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” tries to cover so much that it ends up being more confusing than clarifying, but parts are fascinating...
🇺🇸 OpenAI just gave up on Sora and its billion-dollar Disney deal (2026-03-24)
On Tuesday afternoon, OpenAI announced "We're saying goodbye to Sora," the video generation tool that it launched at the end of 2024, and centered in ...
🇺🇸 Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion in talks to sell power to OpenAI (2026-03-23)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stepping down as board chair of Helion. His departure comes as reports that the two companies are negotiating a deal that wou...
🇺🇸 Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion in talks with OpenAI (2026-03-23)
Helion is reportedly negotiating a deal that would see it sell 12.5% of its power output to OpenAI....
🇺🇸 Sam Altman’s thank-you to coders draws the memes (2026-03-18)
Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes....
🇺🇸 Sam Altman faced 'serious questions' in meeting with lawmakers about OpenAI's defense work (2026-03-12)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with a handful of lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to discuss the company's work with the Defense Department....
🇺🇸 Dueling documentaries illuminate the promise and perils of artificial intelligence (2026-03-04)
Artificial intelligence’s dystopian specter has spawned a pair of documentaries dissecting a technology that’s depicted as ravenous parasi...
🇺🇸 Sam Altman tells OpenAI staffers that military's 'operational decisions' are up to the government (2026-03-03)
In an all-hands meetings with OpenAI employees on Tuesday, CEO Sam Altman said his company doesn't get to choose how the military uses its technology....
🇺🇸 OpenAI adds protections to Pentagon deal (2026-03-03)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that the company has added further protections to its agreement with the Pentagon to bring its AI models to the mili...
🇺🇸 OpenAI's Sam Altman admits ‘rushed’ deal with Defense Department after backlash (2026-03-03)
Sam Altman says that OpenAI "shouldn't have rushed" its deal with the Defense Department and was making "some additions."...
🇺🇸 OpenAI shares more details about its agreement with the Pentagon (2026-03-01)
By CEO Sam Altman’s own admission, OpenAI’s deal with the Department of Defense was “definitely rushed,” and “the optics don’t look good.”...
🇺🇸 OpenAI’s Sam Altman announces Pentagon deal with ‘technical safeguards’ (2026-02-28)
OpenAI's CEO claims its new defense contract includes protections addressing the same issues that became a flashpoint for Anthropic....
🇺🇸 OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon, hours after rival Anthropic was blacklisted by Trump (2026-02-28)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X that his company has come to terms with the Defense Department for use of its models....
🇬🇧 Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’ (2026-02-23)
<p>OpenAI CEO also downplayed concerns about how much water datacenters require at AI summit in India</p><p>The OpenAI boss, <a href="https://www.theg...
🇺🇸 Sam Altman defends AI resource usage: Water concerns 'fake,' and 'humans use energy too' (2026-02-23)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defended the resource use of AI on Friday, arguing that water concerns were "fake" and comparing it to human energy use....
🇺🇸 Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too (2026-02-21)
"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."...
🇺🇸 Chaos, confusion and $200 billion dreams: What I saw at India’s AI summit (2026-02-21)
India hosted one of the world's biggest AI events this week, but it was marred by impossible traffic and a lack of organization....
🇺🇸 Chinese tech companies progress 'remarkable,' OpenAI's Altman tells CNBC (2026-02-19)
Top tech executives gathered in India this week for the AI summit in New Delhi....
🇺🇸 OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joining OpenAI, Altman Says (2026-02-15)
OpenClaw, the open source AI agent that's surged in popularity in recent weeks, will live within OpenAI, according to a post on X from Sam Altman....