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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- What is the real environmental impact of AI data centers? Water, power, and why local fights are not about percentages →
Global stats say data centers are a few percent of electricity and a fraction of water withdrawals. Residents fighting new builds care about noise, aquifers, and jobs—not IEA tables. Both truths matter.
- GPT-5.6 Government Approval: Lutnick Warns Altman, Case-by-Case Access (June 2026) →
Fable 5 restored July 1 — GPT-5.6 next on same export timeline. Permissioned preview now, broad access around the corner.
- LoginWithChatGPT: Codex Subscription OAuth for Your App →
A 19-year-old CTO shipped LoginWithChatGPT — a web OAuth wrapper around Codex CLI device codes so indie apps can run prompts on the user's ChatGPT subscription instead of the developer's API key. Here is what it does, whether it violates OpenAI terms, and how it compares to OpenClaw and usemysub.com.
- When Will GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna Be Available to Everyone? →
@OpenAI July 9: Sol, Terra, Luna rolling out now in ChatGPT, Codex, and API. Tier-by-tier access guide and what to do if you don't see them yet.
- AI and Climate Change: The Paradox of a Tool That Causes and Fights the Crisis →
Every ChatGPT query consumes roughly 10x the energy of a Google search. Training GPT-4 emitted an estimated 500 tonnes of CO2. Yet the same technology is slashing weather-forecast times from 12 hours to 1 minute, discovering millions of new battery materials, and cutting data-center cooling energy by 40%. Both things are true — and the tension between them defines the most important technology debate of 2026.
- Will GPT-5.6 Only Be Available in the USA? International Access Explained →
Fable 5 restored July 1 — GPT-5.6 next. Same export-control framework: permissioned preview now, broad access around the corner.