Sam Altman

Latest: OpenAI Closes $11B First Tranche of Round at $1.25T, Below Earlier $1.5T Target · bloomberg.com, Nov 6, 2026

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15 AI Weekly issues and 72 live stories from the last 30 days mention Sam Altman.

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

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Live Stories (72)

OpenAI Closes $11B First Tranche of Round at $1.25T, Below Earlier $1.5T Target

bloomberg.com · 2026-11-06 · Score: 23

North Carolina Man Sues OpenAI and Altman After Wife Allegedly Used ChatGPT to Plan His Poisoning

arstechnica.com · 2026-11-05 · Score: 22

WSJ: OpenAI Discusses Resetting 2027 Capacity Plans Morning After Midterm Data-Center Rout

wsj.com · 2026-11-05 · Score: 23

NYT Profile: Amodei's Rationalist Roots and 200-Page Private Dossier on Altman and Brockman

nytimes.com · 2026-11-05 · Score: 22

OpenAI's Brockman calls H1 2026 'pretty rough' before Q3 revenue inflection as business sales overtake consumer

wsj.com · 2026-11-05 · Score: 23

OpenAI Hires Uber President Jill Hazelbaker as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Reporting to Brockman

bloomberg.com · 2026-11-03 · Score: 21

NYMag Casts OpenAI's Charles Porch as the Instagram Vet Rehabilitating AI's Hollywood Image

nymag.com · 2026-11-02 · Score: 15

ALERT Abu Dhabi Signs Four OpenAI Deals at ADIPEC to Push 'AI-Native Government' Across Oil, State and Education

thenationalnews.com · 2026-11-02 · Score: 28

OpenAI Plans Post-Midterms Washington Blitz Pushing Mandatory 'Speed Limits' for Most Powerful AI

axios.com · 2026-11-01 · Score: 23

Sam Altman Calls Local Inference 'Quite Terrible,' Says Global DRAM Should Live in Data Centers Not PCs

tomshardware.com · 2026-10-30 · Score: 19

SpaceX Filing Pegs Anthropic as 'Customer B' at 34.5% of Q3 Revenue, Topping US Government

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-29 · Score: 23

TechCrunch Argues AI Execs Are Too Out of Touch to Build Personal AI for the General Public

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-28 · Score: 17

ALERT Microsoft 10-Q Reveals $10B in OpenAI Revenue Last Quarter, 11% of Total, With $7.2B Receivables

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-28 · Score: 28

ALERT Suit Says ChatGPT Coached 31-Year-Old Bowen Wan Off Lamotrigine in 25-Day Taper That Killed Her

bloomberglaw.com · 2026-10-27 · Score: 31

Lawmakers From Both Parties Tell Axios AI CEOs Have Become a Political Liability in Washington

axios.com · 2026-10-24 · Score: 21

ALERT OpenAI Nears $30B UAE and Coatue Round at $1.25T Valuation, Down From $1.4T Pitch

cnbc.com · 2026-10-22 · Score: 30

OpenAI Puts Frontier Models on Google Cloud Model Garden and Antigravity Coding Tool

cnbc.com · 2026-10-21 · Score: 23

The Information: Altman Tells OpenAI Staff AI Has Three Endgames — IAEA, Lab Merger, or 'GPU Melt'

theinformation.com · 2026-10-19 · Score: 23

OpenAI Races to Lock $30B Round at $1.4T+ Valuation Before Anthropic's Mid-November IPO

reuters.com · 2026-10-19 · Score: 23

ALERT Sam Altman Confirms OpenAI Will Build Humanoid Robot and Targets a 2027 Demo

engadget.com · 2026-10-17 · Score: 28

Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Urge Board to Halt Development of Hard-to-Monitor AI

wsj.com · 2026-10-07 · Score: 23

FT: Insurers Brace for Multimillion-Dollar Rogue-AI Claims, D&O Policies Could Cover Altman and Amodei Suits

ft.com · 2026-10-06 · Score: 22

Altman Says 'Lot of Daylight' Between OpenAI and Anthropic on AI Risk in Politico Interview

politico.com · 2026-10-04 · Score: 23

Kevin Roose Atlantic Excerpt Details Altman-Amodei Feud and 2017 Plan to Auction OpenAI's AGI Rights

theatlantic.com · 2026-09-30 · Score: 23

OpenAI in talks to raise $30B at $1.4T valuation as it defers IPO to 2027

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-29 · Score: 26

OpenAI Apologizes for Australian Medicare Breach, Pledges Cyber-Defense Funding and Independent Taskforce

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-29 · Score: 23

ALERT Australia's Albanese Says OpenAI Agent Breached Medicare Portal in June, Company Waited Three Months to Disclose

abc.net.au · 2026-09-23 · Score: 34

Patreon Co-Founder Sam Yam Joins OpenAI to Lead Creator Product Alongside Two Patreon Deputies

techmeme.com · 2026-09-23 · Score: 19

OpenAI Publishes RSI Safety-Standards Essay, Names Math Advisory Group Ahead of Altman UN Briefing

openai.com · 2026-09-21 · Score: 23

Bessent Blames OpenAI Management, Not 'A Bunch of Agents,' for July Hugging Face Hack

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-21 · Score: 22

Altman, Huang and Cook to Attend Trump White House State Dinner for Xi Jinping Next Week

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-16 · Score: 21

FT: OpenAI and Anthropic Staff Felt Blindsided by Amodei and Altman's Frontier-Pacing Calls, Fear Evaluators Weaken Security

ft.com · 2026-09-16 · Score: 23

NBC News: Cybersecurity Community Says AI Labs Left Them Out of the Safety Planning Behind Apocalyptic Hacking Warnings

nbcnews.com · 2026-09-15 · Score: 27

OpenAI in Early Talks With Investors on Private Round at $1.2T Valuation Before IPO

ft.com · 2026-09-15 · Score: 23

Anthropic, OpenAI and Google Have Been Meeting Since July to Build Industry-Led AI Standards Body

theinformation.com · 2026-09-13 · Score: 23

ALERT Altman Confirms OpenAI Won't IPO in 2026, Calls Timing 'Ill-Advised' Amid Safety Concerns

fortune.com · 2026-09-12 · Score: 29

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

Newsletter Issues (15)

#542 AI week ahead: data center pause backers could win 15 governor races

2026-11-02 · 2 mentions

Altman sold a $500B AI race. Now he wants the brakes.

2026-10-02 · 4 mentions

Why AI’s leaders are asking to slow down

2026-09-14 · 2 mentions

#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