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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- OpenAI Confirms Astra Is Critical-Tier for Cybersecurity — Path to Release →
On September 1-2, 2026, OpenAI published "Path to Astra," moving from "cannot rule out" to a confirmed Critical cybersecurity classification for its upcoming model — the first time any OpenAI model has hit that tier. The post details concrete safeguard upgrades, an 91.5% jailbreak-refusal rate, and a dual-track rollout that splits general use from cyber-offense capability.
- ChatGPT Work Went Down for 5+ Hours on August 31 →
ChatGPT Work experienced a partial outage August 31, 2026 lasting roughly five hours and twenty-four minutes. Plus subscribers lost Work mode entirely for a stretch; OpenAI applied a mitigation at 4:01 PM ET and declared full recovery at 4:28 PM ET. Microsoft Exchange Online reported separate issues the same afternoon.
- OpenAI Is Cutting Off Cursor: What to Do Before the November 12 Shutoff →
OpenAI set a November 12, 2026 shutoff for its models in Cursor after the SpaceX acquisition. Cursor CEO Michael Truell responded that OpenAI is only ~5% of traffic and that Cursor is negotiating. Anthropic, meanwhile, said it will increase compute for Claude in Cursor — the opposite move. This guide covers what GPT-5.x and Codex users should do now, and what the split response means for multi-model routing.
- OpenAI's Collective Cyberdefense Letter: 130+ Companies Sign On →
OpenAI's "Collective Cyberdefense" open letter, published August 28, 2026, calls for a global surge in AI-enabled cyber defense and carries 130+ signatures — Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and more. It lays out four principles and four audience-specific asks, and critics on X were quick to note the same firms shipping the AI that enables sharper attacks are now leading the coalition against them.
- TIME100 AI 2026: the omissions are the editorial thesis →
TIME published the 2026 TIME100 AI on August 27 and the replies filled with the same complaint: no Jensen Huang, no Demis Hassabis, no Karpathy, but Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck made it. Read the list carefully and the pattern is deliberate — Nvidia's seat went to its head of sustainability. explainx.ai breaks down what TIME actually measured and which of your daily tools have their makers on the list.