Sam Altman

Latest: Altman Tells OpenAI Staff He's Open to Slowing Frontier AI, Asks Congress if Coordination Is Antitrust-Safe · bloomberg.com, Sep 11, 2026

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12 AI Weekly issues and 77 live stories from the last 30 days mention Sam Altman.

35 total mentions 4/20 recent issues -100% vs. baseline peak 3/issue tracked since 2025-08-23

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Live Stories (77)

Altman Tells OpenAI Staff He's Open to Slowing Frontier AI, Asks Congress if Coordination Is Antitrust-Safe

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-11 · Score: 23

Sam Altman Tells Axios Coding Agents Are Powering the 'Revenge of the Idea Guys' Now Funded at YC

axios.com · 2026-09-07 · Score: 17

Jensen Huang Declares 'AGI Has Arrived' on X, Credits OpenAI GPT-6 Astra Trained on 100K Grace Blackwell Systems

businessinsider.com · 2026-09-06 · Score: 22

OpenAI's Altman Warns of 'Unsustainable Silliness' in AI Compute Buildout, Flags Neocloud Bubble

the-decoder.com · 2026-09-03 · Score: 23

Sam Altman Says AI Could End Up Controlled by a Few Powerful Players as People Trade Liberty for Safety

businessinsider.com · 2026-08-23 · Score: 18

Verge: Greg Brockman's Role Balloons at OpenAI, Now Controls Product and Scaling After Exec Exodus

theverge.com · 2026-08-21 · Score: 22

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar Tells Staff Company Will Be Public 'in 2027, or Sooner' if Business Continues to Inflect

cnbc.com · 2026-08-19 · Score: 23

CNBC/Generation Labs Poll: 81% of Young Americans Don't Trust Palantir's Karp on AI, 70% Distrust Musk

futurism.com · 2026-08-16 · Score: 19

FT: OpenAI Disbanded 'Preparedness' Team in July Amid Exec Reshuffles Ahead of IPO

ft.com · 2026-08-14 · Score: 23

Brad Lightcap Departs OpenAI to 'Start Something New' After Being Sidelined From COO Role

theinformation.com · 2026-08-11 · Score: 23

OpenAI Buys Back $7B in Employee Shares at Unchanged $852B Valuation

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-10 · Score: 23

ALERT Gurman: OpenAI's First Device Is a $300+ Doughnut-Shaped Smart Speaker With Moving Parts

appleinsider.com · 2026-08-06 · Score: 30

OpenAI Rebuts Apple Trade-Secrets Suit With iMessages, Says Apple's Lawyers Emailed the Wrong Person

9to5mac.com · 2026-08-03 · Score: 27

15 GOP Attorneys General Demand OpenAI Preserve All Records From Hugging Face Agent Breach

thehill.com · 2026-08-03 · Score: 23

Sam Altman's ChatGPT Parenting Pitch Backfires as 'Just Talk to Your Children' Reply Racks Up 13x His Engagement

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-01 · Score: 15

WSJ: OpenAI Lost Revenue Crown to Anthropic After Betting on Consumer Chatbots Over Coding Tools

wsj.com · 2026-07-31 · Score: 22

OpenAI Previews 'Astra' Multi-Agent Model Family to US Senators and Regulators

theinformation.com · 2026-07-31 · Score: 21

OpenAI Says Its Models Now Reach 1B+ Active Users and 2M+ Businesses After GPT-5.6 Price Cuts

wsj.com · 2026-07-31 · Score: 23

Altman Says OpenAI 'May Have to Pace' AI After Hugging Face Breach, Cites First Viscerally Real Incident

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-28 · Score: 26

OpenAI and Anthropic Staff Circulate Petition Urging US to Help Deliberately Pace Frontier AI

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-28 · Score: 23

Axios: Altman to Pitch White House on GPT-5.6 Sol Model That Solved Erdős and Hacked Hugging Face

axios.com · 2026-07-26 · Score: 21

NYT: OpenAI and Anthropic Quietly Lobby Washington to Restrict Open-Source AI as Altman Publicly Backs It

nytimes.com · 2026-07-25 · Score: 23

Sam Altman's World Foundation Raises $52.5M in Pantera-Led WLD Sale to Scale Proof-of-Human ID

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-24 · Score: 23

OpenAI Commits $30B+ to New 3.2 GW Georgia Data Center as Cloud Spending Plan Balloons to ~$750B Through 2030

axios.com · 2026-07-22 · Score: 23

OpenAI's Chris Lehane Says Altman Will Brief Trump Admin and US Lawmakers on Next Wave of Models

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-21 · Score: 22

WSJ: AI Executives Bolster Personal Security as Backlash Intensifies — Liferaft Says Digital Threats Against Execs and Data Centers Grew 7x From Late February to May 2026, With Molotov Attack on Altman's SF Home in April and 127 Local Data-Center Bans Now on the Books

wsj.com · 2026-07-15 · Score: 23

OpenAI Files Motion Seeking $1M+ in Legal Fees From xAI Under Defend Trade Secrets Act's Bad-Faith Provision — Comes Same Day xAI Notices Appeal After Judge Rita Lin Twice Dismissed Its Case (Feb With Leave, June 15 Without) Alleging OpenAI Poached Engineer Xuechen Li for Trade Secret Theft

thenextweb.com · 2026-07-14 · Score: 25

OpenAI Employees Have Donated a Combined $215K+ to 'Guardrails Alliance' Super PAC That Directly Opposes President Greg Brockman's $100M+ 'Leading the Future' PAC — Internal Meetings Since May Pressed Executives on Brockman-Family $25M Contribution to Anti-Regulation Group

wired.com · 2026-07-15 · Score: 23

NBC: OpenAI Did Respond to Apple's Trade-Secret Concerns — Outside Apple Lawyer Mixed Up Names and Email Addresses of OpenAI Staffers Wang and Chang, Souring Pre-Suit Talks Before Apple Filed in Northern California

nbcnews.com · 2026-07-14 · Score: 22

Anthropic Ad 'There's Hope in Hard Questions' Draws Mockery for Burning Houses, Surveillance Crowds and Cemetery Imagery — Sam Altman Says It 'Looked Like Satire'

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-14 · Score: 22

Bloomberg/Gurman: OpenAI's First Device Will Be Moveable, Screen-Free Smart Speaker With Camera and Sensors, Positioned as 'Humanlike AI Companion'

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-14 · Score: 23

Bloomberg/Gurman: OpenAI Still Believes Its Jony Ive-Designed Device Ships in 2027 Despite Apple Lawsuit — Suit Threatens Hardware Hiring and Supplier Access

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-13 · Score: 21

Sam Altman Publicly Accuses Musk of 'Selling Public Market Investors on Short-Term Space Data Centers' Amid $2T SpaceX Valuation Push

datacenterdynamics.com · 2026-07-11 · Score: 22

OpenAI Consolidates Power Under Greg Brockman Ahead of IPO — President Absorbs ChatGPT Product, GTM, Enterprise and Compute Portfolios, No Replacement Planned for Fidji Simo

cnbc.com · 2026-07-10 · Score: 22

OpenAI Posts PDF Claiming GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra Produced a Machine-Verified Proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture — Long-Open Graph-Theory Problem Hits HN Front Page

cdn.openai.com · 2026-07-10 · Score: 23

ALERT Fidji Simo Steps Down From OpenAI No. 2 Role to Focus on Health, Becomes Part-Time Advisor — Leaves CEO of Applications Vacancy With Lightcap, Friar, Weil Reports Unassigned

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-09 · Score: 30

US Commerce Department Clears OpenAI's GPT-5.6 for Broad Public Launch This Thursday — Sol, Terra, and Luna All Approved After CAISI Testing

axios.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 23

WSJ: Big Tech Has Suddenly Flipped on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario — Altman, Amodei, and Bezos Walk Back a Year of Displacement Warnings

wsj.com · 2026-07-06 · Score: 23

ALERT OpenAI Proposes Giving US Government a 5% Stake — Would Be Worth ~$42.6B at $852B Valuation, Altman Reportedly Pitched Trump, Lutnick, and Bessent

Financial Times · 2026-07-02 · Score: 34

SoftBank Reopens Talks for $10B Loan Backed by OpenAI Stake — Offers to Personally Guarantee Repayment If Collateral Falls Short

reuters.com · 2026-07-01 · Score: 23

SoftBank Shares Fall 13% After Report That OpenAI May Delay IPO to 2027

bloomberg.com · 2026-06-26 · Score: 23

OpenAI Leans Toward Delaying IPO to 2027 After Warnings That Sam Altman's $1 Trillion Valuation Target May Not Be Met in Current Market Conditions

nytimes.com · 2026-06-25 · Score: 23

ALERT Trump Administration Asks OpenAI to Stagger Release of GPT-5.6 Over Security Concerns, Government Approving Access Customer by Customer

theinformation.com · 2026-06-25 · Score: 32

Reid Hoffman Calls xAI 'a Complete Train Wreck,' Dismisses SpaceX as 'Premium-Priced CoreWeave,' and Calls US Government Anthropic Ban 'Autocratic Willy-Nilly'

fortune.com · 2026-06-24 · Score: 24

WSJ Investigation: Sam Altman's 80+ Personal Investments Benefit From Ties to OpenAI — 10+ Portfolio Companies Discussed Business Deals With the Lab He Leads

wsj.com · 2026-06-23 · Score: 23

Dario Amodei: 'Why Argue With Someone You Don't Trust' — Anthropic CEO Explains Why He Left Sam Altman and OpenAI

businessinsider.com · 2026-06-17 · Score: 19

OpenAI Q1 2026: $3.7B Cash Burned Against $5.7B Revenue as Non-GAAP Operating Margin Hits Negative 122%

thenextweb.com · 2026-06-17 · Score: 24

HSBC: OpenAI Must Grow $13B Revenue to $200B+ and Raise Another $200B by 2030 Just to Stay Afloat

ft.com · 2026-06-16 · Score: 23

Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis All Attending G7 Summit in France June 15–17 — First Time All Three Rival AI Lab CEOs Appear Before World Leaders Together

thenextweb.com · 2026-06-12 · Score: 26

42-State Coalition of Attorneys General Serves OpenAI Subpoena Over ChatGPT Safety, Consumer Data, and Advertising Practices

bloomberg.com · 2026-06-13 · Score: 23

ALERT Reuters: OpenAI Tells Investors Anthropic Overstates Revenue by Billions in Gross-vs-Net Accounting Dispute as Both Race to IPO

bnnbloomberg.ca · 2026-06-11 · Score: 28

The Information Exclusive: OpenAI Is Preparing a New AI Model and Sam Altman Expects the Company to Go Public Within the Next Year

theinformation.com · 2026-06-10 · Score: 23

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki Publish 'Built to Benefit Everyone: Our Plan' — Three-Goal AGI Roadmap Including Automated AI Researcher and Personal AGI for Every Person

openai.com · 2026-06-08 · Score: 22

Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity Laying Off Staff as World Iris-Scanning Business Struggles to Generate Revenue

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-08 · Score: 20

ALERT OpenAI Files Confidential S-1 With SEC at $852 Billion Valuation, Joining Anthropic and SpaceX in Historic AI IPO Wave

cbsnews.com · 2026-06-08 · Score: 34

Trump Endorses Government Equity Stakes in OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI — Converges With Sanders as Altman Privately Negotiates

AP News · 2026-06-06 · Score: 23

Sam Altman Is Quietly Backing Stealth Startup Alfred, Which Is Building Software for Robots and Autonomous Vehicles

businessinsider.com · 2026-06-01 · Score: 23

Florida Sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman Over AI Harms, Seeks Personal Liability in 10-Count Civil Suit

nbcnews.com · 2026-06-01 · Score: 23

The Guardian: Silicon Valley Tech Billionaires Are Explicitly Building Toward Conscious AI and Cosmic Human Expansion, Long-Form Interactive Investigation Finds

theguardian.com · 2026-05-31 · Score: 15

Sam Altman Offers Every Current YC Batch Startup $2 Million in OpenAI Tokens in Exchange for Equity

theinformation.com · 2026-05-20 · Score: 22

ALERT OpenAI to Confidentially File for IPO as Soon as This Week, Working With Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley

cnbc.com · 2026-05-20 · Score: 36

OpenAI Launches Guaranteed Capacity, Letting Enterprises Lock In Long-Term Compute at Discounted Rates

cnbc.com · 2026-05-19 · Score: 24

OpenAI Commits $234 Million to Establish First Applied AI Lab Outside the US in Singapore, Announces 200-Person Technical Team

cnbc.com · 2026-05-20 · Score: 21

ALERT Jury Rules Against Elon Musk in OpenAI Trial — All Claims Dismissed on Statute-of-Limitations Grounds

cnbc.com · 2026-05-18 · Score: 36

Musk v. OpenAI Jury Begins Deliberating — Statute-of-Limitations Hurdle Could End Case Before Altman Removal and $134B Disgorgement Claims

npr.org · 2026-05-18 · Score: 25

AP News: AGI Safety Advocates Warn Musk v. Altman Trial Could Undermine Legal Basis for AI Oversight Constraints

apnews.com · 2026-05-15 · Score: 20

Musk v. Altman: Closing Arguments Conclude May 14, Jury to Deliberate Monday on $134B Disgorgement Claim

cnbc.com · 2026-05-14 · Score: 24

ALERT OpenAI Considers Legal Action Against Apple Over Flopped Siri-ChatGPT Integration, Partnership 'Strained'

nytimes.com · 2026-05-14 · Score: 32

Musk's Lawyer Apologizes to Jury for His Absence — Elon Attending Trump-Xi Beijing Summit During Closing Arguments in His Own Trial

cnbc.com · 2026-05-14 · Score: 23

Musk Attorney Asks Altman 'Are You Completely Trustworthy?' in Cross-Examination; Altman Discloses ~$1.65B Helion Stake, Claims Musk 'Tried to Kill' OpenAI Twice — Closing Arguments Set for Thursday

nbcnews.com · 2026-05-13 · Score: 24

ALERT WSJ: Six Republican State AGs Urge SEC to Scrutinize Sam Altman's Conflicts of Interest; House Oversight Demands OpenAI Documents Ahead of IPO

wsj.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 28

Sam Altman Takes Stand in Musk v. OpenAI Trial, Says Musk's Exit Was a 'Morale Boost' and That He 'Didn't Understand How to Run a Research Lab'

cnbc.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 26

ALERT Bloomberg: Court Documents Reveal Microsoft Projected $92B Return on $13B OpenAI Investment; Nadella Testified He Feared Being 'Next IBM'

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 29

Ilya Sutskever Discloses ~$7B OpenAI Stake Under Oath, Testifies He Planned Sam Altman's Removal for Over a Year Before 2023 Board Vote

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 27

ALERT OpenAI Launches $4B 'Deployment Company' With 19 PE and Consulting Backers, Acquires Tomoro to Staff 150 Forward-Deployed Engineers

openai.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 31

Nadella Testifies Musk Had His Personal Number but Never Raised Concerns About Microsoft's OpenAI Investment Over Five Years

cnbc.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 24

Axios: AI Chatbot Conversations Are Now Admissible Court Evidence — Federal Ruling on Claude Logs Signals New Legal Frontier for All AI Users

axios.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 25

Newsletter Issues (12)

#523 AI ethics is nobody's job now. The labs prefer it that way.

2026-08-17 · 2 mentions

#513 Treasury analysts called AI a systemic risk. Treasury disowned it.

2026-07-13 · 2 mentions

#499 Microsoft proves it doesn't need OpenAI; Alphabet raises $85B

2026-06-04 · 3 mentions

#498 Anthropic files for an IPO. NVIDIA ships its stack.

2026-06-01 · 1 mentions

#496 Anthropic's Pentagon model is now everyone's model

2026-05-27 · 7 mentions

#494 SpaceX wants $80 billion. OpenAI wants a trillion.

2026-05-21 · 1 mentions

#481 Musk wants Altman fired, Anthropic passes OpenAI, Meta goes closed

2026-04-09 · 3 mentions

#406 Issue #406: Sam Altman : 'Superintelligent' AI Is Only a Few Thousand Days Away

2024-10-03 · 5 mentions

#414 Issue #414: Inside Elon Musk’s messy breakup with OpenAI

2024-11-22 · 2 mentions

#437 Issue #437: Sam Altman and Elon Musk are racing to build an ‘everything app’

2025-05-04 · 6 mentions

#438 Issue #438: OpenAI’s new for-profit plan leaves many unanswered questions

2025-05-08 · 1 mentions

#452 Issue #452: The power shift inside OpenAI

2025-08-23 · 2 mentions