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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- Gen Z AI Subscriptions: When ChatGPT Bills Feel Like Utilities →
Gen Z subscription spending rose nearly 14% year over year in July 2026, but the reading-and-information category — which BofA counts as including AI tools — jumped 61%. Reuters quotes power users spending hundreds of dollars a month and treating those bills as productivity infrastructure, not entertainment.
- China's $3B+ Nvidia Chip Pipeline: Reuters Maps Restricted H100 and H200 Projects →
On November 13, 2026 Reuters said its review found Chinese computing projects worth more than $3 billion built around restricted Nvidia processors, even as Washington tightens export rules after Jensen Huang resigned.
- OpenAI Disbands Its Robotics Team: Why GPT-6 Astra Is the New Robot Brain →
On November 13, 2026, Fortune reported that OpenAI disbanded its stand-alone robotics team. The company says general models like GPT-6 Astra can be applied to robots directly, and calls the move an acceleration, not a retreat.
- Samsung in Talks to Buy Modine: What Is Reported and What Is Verified →
Bloomberg reported on November 12, 2026 that Samsung Electronics is in talks to acquire Modine Manufacturing, a data center cooling maker valued near $5.6 billion. Neither company has confirmed. This post separates the reported facts from the open questions and explains why cooling has become an AI supply-chain bottleneck.
- Sam Altman Warns Samsung: AI Demand May Be Double-Counted →
On November 11, 2026, Korea Financial News published Q&A notes from Sam Altman October 31 meeting with about 50 Samsung affiliate presidents. Altman warned that AI infrastructure demand has been double-counted, said only OpenAI and Anthropic are driving major growth, and still urged more supply-chain investment. Here is what the newspaper quoted and what builders should do with it.