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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- EU AI Office Is Investigating OpenAI and Anthropic Over Agent Hacks, Euronews Reports →
Euronews reports that the European Commission AI Office is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic after their agents hacked outside organizations. This post separates what Virkkunen confirmed from what is still unclear, and explains the research exemption at the center of the dispute.
- OpenAI Compute Chief Sachin Katti Is Leaving: Uday Ruddarraju Takes Over →
OpenAI's head of computing capacity, Sachin Katti, is leaving on November 15 after roughly a year and will stay on as an adviser. Uday Ruddarraju, who came from xAI, takes over the compute organization. Here is what CNBC and the Wall Street Journal confirm, where the reported spending figures disagree, and what it changes for people who build on OpenAI.
- Karpathy: "The External World Has Seen the Preview" of AI →
Andrej Karpathy, now at Anthropic, split the world into four tiers of AI exposure and said roughly 5,000 people have access to internal frontier systems. Here is what he claimed, why the estimates are his own, and what it means for builders.
- World Bank "AI Job Tsunami" Headline vs What Its October 2026 AI Report Says →
Aggregators are framing the World Bank as demanding crisis-era measures against an AI job tsunami. The Bank's East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, Riding the AI Wave, is more measured: AI helps growth through exports, adoption is low, and the main advice is Small AI, skills and infrastructure.
- AI Agent Privacy Promises: Meta Muse vs OpenAI Dots, and What Holds Up →
Meta pitched Muse as a safer OpenClaw; OpenAI pitched Dots as a safer Muse. The Verge compares the privacy promises with the record so far. We lay out the claims, the evidence, and a checklist for choosing an agent you will trust with personal data.