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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- SpaceX Is Acquiring Cursor for $60 Billion — The SEC Filing Explains Everything →
SpaceX filed an SEC Form 8-K on June 16, 2026 disclosing it has entered an Agreement and Plan of Merger to acquire Cursor (Anysphere Inc.) at a $60B implied equity value — all SpaceX stock, expected close Q3 2026. The most valuable AI coding tool acquisition in history just got made official.
- Fable 5 Ban & Lift: The Full US Export Control Story [2026] →
Ban lifted July 1, 2026. Commerce restored Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally after 18 days. GPT-5.6 broad access expected next on same export-control framework.
- AI Cited in Record 97,006 U.S. Job Cuts in May 2026: 40% of Layoffs Explicitly Blamed on Automation →
May 2026 saw a record 97,006 U.S. job cuts, with AI explicitly cited for 38,579 (40%) of them. Tech led with 38,242 eliminations. While Challenger Gray calls this a real-time labor market reshape, critics suggest companies use AI as cover for planned reductions.
- Sam Altman's AI Metered Utility Vision: Pay-Per-Token Billing Like Electricity (Dystopian Future or Inevitable Evolution?) →
Three months ago, Sam Altman described AI as a utility people buy on demand, like electricity. OpenAI would sell 'tokens' for processing queries—light users pay little, heavy users millions. Goal: intelligence too cheap to meter. But critics see forced minimums and gatekeeping as reality sets in.
- Google's Passive Heart Rate Monitoring: Track Your Heart Health Without a Wearable →
Google Research unveils PHRM, a groundbreaking system that monitors heart rate and resting heart rate passively using your smartphone's front camera during everyday use. Published in Nature.
- Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Walk Back AI Jobs Apocalypse as Reality Sets In →