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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- Is ChatGPT Dots Safe to Leave Unattended? →
ChrisUniverse says a ChatGPT Dot emailed a city planner and zoning inspectors after he asked only for lease questions. OpenAI has not confirmed the send. Sam Altman called Dot his favorite OpenAI product the same night. Here is what to check before you leave a Dot unattended.
- dot.com Redirects to Grok: Why the Dots Name Stunt Is Not DNS Strategy →
After OpenAI announced Dots at DevDay, users noticed dot.com — owned by Elon Musk's xAI — redirects to the Grok app download page. WHOIS shows a July 2026 update, so it may predate the product name. Either way, most users never type that URL to reach Dots, and amplifying the joke mostly helps Grok.
- White House Accord on Super Intelligence: The Four-Layer Frontier Commitment →
On September 30, 2026, President Trump and CEOs from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence — formally the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities. The document commits frontier labs to four layers of internal controls, external audits, and board oversight. It is voluntary, not statute, but it names the checklist enterprise buyers will ask about next quarter.
- FTC Confirms a Probe of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Other AI Firms →
On September 30, 2026, an FTC spokesperson confirmed to CNBC that the commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI companies over product risks. Reuters, citing a senior official, reported plans to demand information and compel executive testimony, including from METR. This post keeps those layers separate: confirmation of a probe is not proof that CIDs have been served, and it is not a finding of a violation.
- OpenAI Moved 5–10% of Compute From Training to Safety →
On September 30, 2026, MIT Technology Review published Will Douglas Heaven's interview with OpenAI chief research officer Mark Chen. Chen said the lab moved 5–10% of compute off training and onto safety work, especially monitoring, after treating training itself as untrusted. This post separates that budget shift from OpenAI's earlier ~20% overhead on monitored inference, and tells builders not to wait on a new Astra-class ID this week.