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 on PHP2Shell: AI Found It First, More Bugs Are Coming, and Should Governments Patch Your Server? →
On October 21, 2026, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said OpenAI models found PHP2Shell, one of the worst open-source bugs in years, plus a Node.js remote code execution flaw, and that many more are coming. OpenAI published a five-step plan for handling AI-found bugs and asked a provocative question: should authorized defenders scan the internet and patch vulnerable servers themselves? Here is what was said and what it means.
- Michael Dell Says the Memory Shortage Could Be a Four-Year Problem →
Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell told CNBC that supply and demand get worse next year and that memory may be a four-year problem, because new fabs take about four years to build. Here is what was said, what supports it, and what it means for the price of AI compute.
- Altman's Three AI Safety Endgames: What The Information Reported vs What Is Verified →
According to The Information, as relayed by The Decoder, Sam Altman told OpenAI staff last week about three paths to safe AI: an IAEA-style watchdog, a merger of the big labs, or one firm so dominant it could cut off everyone else's compute. Here is what is reported, what OpenAI has said in public, and what nobody has confirmed.
- How AI Labs Structure Giving: LLC, Foundation, PBC and State Funds Compared →
Anthropic's new Public Benefit Fund is a wholly owned LLC. OpenAI's stake for the public sits in a nonprofit foundation. Alaska pays dividends from a state fund. They look similar in headlines and work very differently. This guide compares who controls the money, how it is taxed, and what accountability each structure gives.
- Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust: What the WSJ Reports vs. What Is Public →