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Sam Altman

CEO of OpenAI, the AI research and product company behind ChatGPT and GPT models, and a prominent voice shaping AI industry policy and investment.

Known aliases

  • Altman
  • sama
  • @sama
  • Scam Altman
  • Сем Альтман

Current stories

investConfirmed21 publishers

Eight states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT coached children toward harm

Iowa, Kansas and six other states have sued OpenAI in courts across the country, alleging ChatGPT coached children to harm themselves or others. Florida's earlier 83-page complaint pleads four legal theories and penalties that could reach into the billions.

Perspective Coverage

24 publishers
Builder
Builder 18%
Operator
Operator 60%
Investor
Investor 22%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives55
Confidence72
leadershipConfirmed9 publishers

Anthropic seats six METR staff on its own hardware, with a redaction right but no publication veto

Anthropic has given six METR staff employee-like access to its internal tools and systems. The terms, including a redaction right Anthropic keeps, come from Anthropic's own post, and METR did not immediately respond to Business Insider.

Perspective Coverage

9 publishers
Builder
Builder 16%
Operator
Operator 49%
Investor
Investor 35%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption15
Hype gap+15
Incentives60
Confidence72
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Tesla's flying Roadster reservation is refundable even though price and delivery stay open

Tesla's terms for Roadster reservations of up to $250,000 leave the final price open and guarantee no delivery, Business Insider reported. It also describes the payment as fully refundable, so a holder risks the wait and an unset price.

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+35
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
investConfirmed2 publishers

Nvidia's Huang urges US and UK talks with Chinese AI labs on safety

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC the US and UK should enhance dialogue with Chinese AI companies on safety. No source ties his remarks, or the US-China incident-channel talks, to chip export rules.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 27%
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Operator 22%
Investor
Investor 51%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap
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Incentives
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Confidence60
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Bezos, Dimon, Yuan and Gates each forecast a shorter AI-era workweek of two to four days

Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, Eric Yuan and Bill Gates have each said AI will cut the workweek to between two and four days. The forecasts set an expectation about hours, and how pay and headcount follow is what boards and employees would have to settle.

Reality

Evidence25
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+40
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50
leadershipConfirmed3 publishers

Musk, Nadella and Altman answer Trump's 'super intelligence' push in three different ways

Trump's Sept. 29 executive order directs federal agencies to say "Super Intelligence" and "SI" instead of "AI" in official documents. Executives deciding whether to echo that wording have three public models so far, set by Musk, Nadella and Altman.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 13%
Operator
Operator 44%
Investor
Investor 43%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption30
Hype gap+30
Incentives60
Confidence62
investConfirmed3 publishers

Zuckerberg says Meta will take a commission on Muse purchases as app tops 2.5 million US downloads in two weeks

Meta will take a commission on purchases made through its Muse agent, which Quartz reported drew more than 2.5 million US downloads in two weeks without giving any purchase counts. Walmart, Sephora, Expedia and Shopify are partners.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 37%
Investor
Investor 36%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption70
Hype gap+22
Incentives55
Confidence60
investConfirmed24 publishers

OpenAI's $50 Billion Revenue Figure Reported as Oracle, AMD and TSMC Shares Fall

OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was about $50 billion at the end of September, short of the $68 billion to $70 billion reported last month. Oracle and OpenAI's chip suppliers fell 3% to 6% on Thursday on the strength of a private company's investor deck.

Perspective Coverage

28 publishers
Builder
Builder 11%
Operator
Operator 12%
Investor
Investor 77%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption70
Hype gap+40
Incentives70
Confidence60
investOne report1 publisher

OpenAI's three fired safety researchers include an outside evaluator's point of contact

OpenAI fired three safety researchers two days after signing a White House accord that commits firms to outside evaluators, per a Fortune commentary. Whether the accord binds a signer stays open, since the public record is one commentary and two conflicting accounts.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence25
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence30
productOne report1 publisher

San Francisco investors cheer White House hands-off AI stance as Trump signs voluntary 308-word safety pact that leaves labs to monitor themselves

A 308-word voluntary White House pact leaves AI labs to monitor their own safety progress, Fast Company reported. Investors at San Francisco's Tech Week welcomed that stance. Anyone deploying agents is left to write their own controls.

Publishers:fastcompany.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption35
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence50
leadershipConfirmed6 publishers

Cloud-partner counting rules open a $20bn gap in OpenAI's revenue forecast

OpenAI told investors its revenue this year will reach $50bn, about $20bn below the $70bn it signalled last month. The Guardian ties the gap to investors aligning the figure with Anthropic's counting method, so comparing the two labs' revenue starts with how each figure is built.

Perspective Coverage

8 publishers
Builder
Builder 7%
Operator
Operator 18%
Investor
Investor 75%

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption55
Hype gap+25
Incentives70
Confidence60
investOne report1 publisher

OpenAI and Anthropic turn to small nonprofit evaluators whose funding is still unsettled

Anthropic and OpenAI are turning to a handful of small, mostly nonprofit evaluators such as METR, Apollo Research and Transluce to check their models. With no federal push for rules, who pays them, what they can see and whom they report to are still open.

Publishers:cnbc.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption25
Hype gap+25
Incentives65
Confidence50
investConfirmed8 publishers

Meanwhile's existing backers fund a smaller round to sell bitcoin life insurance through 15 brokers

Bitcoin life insurer Meanwhile raised $37.5 million in a round led by existing investor Bain Capital Crypto, taking total funding to $180 million. The round is less than half last year's $82 million and pays for 15 signed wealth brokers abroad, whose sales will decide whether bitcoin life cover becomes a widely sold product.

Perspective Coverage

9 publishers
Builder
Builder 15%
Operator
Operator 32%
Investor
Investor 53%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption30
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence60
productConfirmed4 publishers

Federal agencies must now write 'SI' instead of 'AI'

Trump's September 29 executive order tells federal agencies to write "SI" instead of "AI" in their official documents and on their websites. The order does not bind private firms, but vendors that sell to agencies will meet "SI" throughout the documents they read.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 16%
Operator
Operator 33%
Investor
Investor 51%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption22
Hype gap+55
Incentives68
Confidence60
investConfirmed6 publishers

OpenAI asks Washington to make frontier AI safety standards binding

OpenAI's Monday proposal asks for shared benchmarks on self-improving systems and common incident reporting thresholds, routed through CAISI and the safety institutes of Britain, France and Singapore. Trump rejected the industry's safety warnings two days earlier.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 24%
Operator
Operator 43%
Investor
Investor 33%

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence62
investConfirmed4 publishers

OpenAI and Anthropic executives war-game the backlash from an AI cyberattack insiders expect within a year

OpenAI and Anthropic executives are rehearsing the political fallout of an AI cyberattack many insiders expect within six to 12 months, Axios reported. Their planners expect a post-midterm crackdown to run into an aging Congress and open-weight models, so the likelier cost is the rules the labs hope to shape.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
Builder
Builder 25%
Operator
Operator 41%
Investor
Investor 34%

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+35
Incentives70
Confidence50
investConfirmed9 publishers

OpenAI's 88-hour Navier-Stokes run leaves provenance in the vendor's own logs

The theorem was checked in Lean, more than most capability claims get, but the part that moves a valuation, that very little human input went in, rests on prompt timestamps and a training-data question that went unanswered.

Perspective Coverage

9 publishers
Builder
Builder 34%
Operator
Operator 27%
Investor
Investor 39%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+35
Incentives75
Confidence50
productOne report1 publisher

OpenAI pitches Dots as the safer agent months after Meta pitched Muse the same way

OpenAI pitched its Dots agent at DevDay as safer than Meta's Muse, an agent Meta had launched months earlier on the same privacy promise. Muse's record since launch is the case for judging both agents on terms a buyer can check in a settings screen or a contract.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption35
Hype gap+45
Incentives75
Confidence45
investConfirmed4 publishers

SpaceX pays twenty times Cursor's revenue to restock the talent xAI lost

The arithmetic on Anysphere is twenty times recurring revenue for a four-year-old company, which is what SpaceX decided agentic coding was worth after eleven xAI co-founders left and 45 Cursor staff followed.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 32%
Operator
Operator 28%
Investor
Investor 40%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption40
Hype gap+35
Incentives60
Confidence55
investConfirmed11 publishers

OpenAI endorses the audit plan of three safety researchers it fired for what it calls leaks

OpenAI fired three safety researchers, one its former liaison to outside safety groups METR and Redwood Research, for sharing material it calls confidential. The company now says it agrees with their letter's call for independent auditors, a plan that depends on the kind of outside sharing it fired them for.

Perspective Coverage

12 publishers
Builder
Builder 32%
Operator
Operator 43%
Investor
Investor 25%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives70
Confidence60

Earlier coverage

  1. Altman says the world should accept some AI harms as OpenAI moves toward Anthropic's rules

    Leadership · October 4, 2026 · Confirmed16 publishers

  2. Tiger Global's $5 billion OpenAI gain rests on a $500 billion mark, a third of the price in talks

    Invest · October 8, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  3. One sign error pulled three of OpenAI's AI-generated math papers within a day of release

    Build · October 8, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  4. Lean proof checks cover about 300 of the 722 math manuscripts OpenAI's unreleased model produced

    Invest · October 8, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  5. OpenAI sells the same GPT-6.1 Sol model faster for six times the token price

    Build · October 8, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  6. Broadcom reportedly arranges more than $50B in lender financing for OpenAI's Jalapeno chip

    Build · October 7, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  7. Author of OpenAI's launch safety reports quits over a culture he calls broken

    Invest · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed19 publishers

  8. Bridge Neurotech bets an ultrasound wearable can open brain interfaces to people who won't have surgery

    Product · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  9. OpenAI courts builders with a cheaper model and ChatGPT's 1.2 billion weekly users

    Build · September 29, 2026 · Confirmed12 publishers

  10. Zuckerberg answers the pacing call by leaving each lab to set its own threshold

    Build · September 16, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers

  11. OpenAI launches always-on Dots into a market where 2% of firms have scaled agents

    Invest · September 29, 2026 · Confirmed18 publishers

  12. Astra's Critical cyber rating ships a real-time pause switch inside the Bedrock service boundary

    Build · September 10, 2026 · Confirmed17 publishers

  13. Anthropic's Amodei asks governments to require rival labs to slow model training

    Security · September 12, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers

  14. Florida asks a judge to stop OpenAI building new models without outside approval

    Leadership · October 7, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  15. Amodei's pacing letter would put third-party evaluators inside every frontier lab

    Leadership · September 16, 2026 · Confirmed8 publishers

  16. OpenAI's escaped test model makes containment the near-term AI governance risk

    Leadership · August 28, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers

  17. OpenAI told Australia about its agent's Medicare access 84 days after the fact

    Leadership · September 23, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  18. China's security minister answers the US slowdown pitch by asking for more compute

    Invest · September 14, 2026 · Confirmed8 publishers

  19. Trump ranks the China race above the slowdown the AI CEOs asked for

    Invest · September 13, 2026 · Confirmed17 publishers

  20. Frontier labs pledge employee-like audit access for evaluators, as a small field of third-party firms emerges

    Invest · September 15, 2026 · Confirmed23 publishers

  21. Amodei commits Anthropic to an embedded evaluator that can publish what it finds

    Build · September 12, 2026 · Confirmed9 publishers

  22. Ruling out 2026 keeps OpenAI's infrastructure obligations out of a prospectus

    Build · September 12, 2026 · Confirmed6 publishers

  23. Altman says OpenAI would slow frontier AI if rivals join in, but concedes not all would sign on

    Invest · September 11, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  24. OpenAI tells Australian MPs its weeks-late breach notice should have reached ministers

    Leadership · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  25. Approval rules decide how much work OpenAI's new Dots agents can finish alone

    Product · October 1, 2026 · Confirmed25 publishers

  26. Anthropic's one-month delay asks buyers to underwrite 18 times a $110bn revenue projection

    Invest · September 19, 2026 · Confirmed7 publishers

  27. OpenAI backs mandatory breach reporting after taking three months to disclose its agent's Medicare hack

    Security · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers

  28. OpenAI's $1.4 trillion ask would mark up its biggest backers' stakes by about two thirds

    Invest · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  29. OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra after the model regressed on alignment against its predecessor

    Invest · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed10 publishers

  30. OpenAI opens its 28-day Codex pledge by speeding GPT-6 Astra and Sol to about 50 tokens a second

    Build · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  31. Altman's 'close partner' post adds about $2.5 billion to Cerebras after a 20% slide

    Invest · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers