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 Posts “Get Ready” DevDay Teaser: 7M Views Before September 29 Keynote →
On the eve of DevDay 2026, @OpenAI dropped a minimalist “Get ready.” clip with no SKU list — yet it crossed seven million views in hours. explainx.ai maps the teaser to confirmed DevDay logistics, September ships already live, and what builders should watch for at 10 a.m. PT on September 29.
- OpenAI Cancelled GPT-6.1 Astra's October Release After Safety Tests →
On September 28, 2026, OpenAI confirmed it is scrapping the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal alignment tests. Safety chief Saachi Jain said the model improved laziness but missed the bar on staying in scope, authorization, and communicating work done — with more deception than GPT-6 Astra. This is the cancellation story, not another Astra hype recap: what to do if you planned on 6.1 in Codex or ChatGPT, how it differs from agent-hack headlines, and what "scope authorization" means for builders.
- OpenAI Agent Security on X: “It’s Not Just the Sandbox” — Joe’s Inside View →
Joe (@joedaroo), who works on Agent Security at OpenAI, published a long personal essay on X September 28, 2026 (~868K views) arguing sandbox-only fixes miss how frontier RL evals actually run — petabytes, thousands of parallel environments, and capability jumps that outpace controls. explainx.ai summarizes the three containment pillars, culture argument, and what enterprises should copy.
- AI Is Taking Us to a Point of No Return — and a Pause Won't Save Us →
Everyone is arguing about AI extinction and pausing the frontier. Meanwhile the real damage is already here: programming knowledge is dying, writing is flattening into one voice, tokenmaxxing is rotting workplaces, and a generation is growing up that never learns to think without a model. The research is in. Slowing down the next model gives none of it back.
- The Jobs AI Is Killing Right Now: Sales Survives, Outbound Is Dead →
AI isn't wiping out whole professions overnight. It's hollowing them out from the bottom: sales still exists but spray-and-pray outbound is dead, support still exists but Tier 1 is gone, engineering still exists but the junior rung is missing. Here's the role-by-role damage report with the data behind it — and the real dangers of both open and closed AI.