Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI
Sam Altman
Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. He previously served as president of startup accelerator Y Combinator.
About Sam Altman
Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research and deployment company whose products include ChatGPT and DALL·E. He helped establish OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit research laboratory.
Before focusing on OpenAI, Altman served as president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. His public work includes discussions of AI deployment, governance, safety, and the economic effects of increasingly capable AI systems.
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- AI Agent Privacy Promises: Meta Muse vs OpenAI Dots, and What Holds Up →
Meta pitched Muse as a safer OpenClaw; OpenAI pitched Dots as a safer Muse. The Verge compares the privacy promises with the record so far. We lay out the claims, the evidence, and a checklist for choosing an agent you will trust with personal data.
- Only 3.6% of 857 Chinese AI Model Releases Came With a Safety Result, SemiAnalysis Finds →
SemiAnalysis published a release census of nine Chinese AI labs: of 857 model releases from 2021 to September 15, 2026, only 31 ever had a developer-published safety result and 9 had one at launch. This post walks through the method, the lab-by-lab picture, the argument about Beijing and the pacing debate, and the limits of the data.
- Senate Investigation: Big Tech Misled Public on AI Data Center Costs →
A yearlong Senate investigation by Senators Warren, Van Hollen and Blumenthal argues that Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, CoreWeave, Digital Realty and Equinix are misleading the public about what AI data centers cost and deliver. explainx.ai walks through the findings, the numbers and the caveats.
- AI Labs Wargame the "Day After" a Catastrophe: What Axios Reported vs What Is Verified →
An October 9, 2026 Axios scoop says executives at OpenAI, Anthropic and other labs are gaming out the aftermath of a catastrophic AI event, most likely a cyberattack. OpenAI confirmed it runs preparedness drills; Anthropic declined to comment. Here is what is claimed, what is verified, and why it matters.
- Anthropic Launches a Presidential Engagement Program to Brief 2028 Candidates on AI →
Anthropic is hiring a Political Programs lead at $295,000 to $345,000 to build an in-house team that will offer AI policy education to 2028 presidential candidates in both parties and run the company political giving. Here is what the posting says, who is pushing back, and why it matters.