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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- Stop the AI Race Protest — Hundreds March on OpenAI, Anthropic & DeepMind SF →
Stop the AI Race led the largest US anti-frontier-AI march through Mission Bay and SoMa. CEOs asked to pause if China and rivals do too. Polymarket says ~16% on federal safety law — explainx.ai ties protest demands to Trump EO and GPT-5.6 week.
- OpenAI Bio Bug Bounty: $50K for Universal GPT-5.6 Biosafety Jailbreak (July 2026) →
@OpenAI evolves GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty into the ongoing OpenAI Bio Bounty Program at $50K for universal biology jailbreaks — GPT-5.6 in scope from day one.
- GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna vs Claude Fable 5: Complete Frontier Comparison →
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 publicly July 9; Fable 5 live globally since July 1. Sol Ultra leads Terminal-Bench at 91.9%; Fable leads SWE-Bench Pro at 80.3%. Terra matches Fable on terminal work at half the price — tier-by-tier guide.
- Grok 4.5 in Cursor: SpaceXAI MoE Model — Benchmarks, Pricing, Cyber Guards →
Cursor's July 8 blog confirms Grok 4.5 live in the IDE — joint SpaceXAI training, broad STEM mix beyond Composer 2.5's coding focus, double usage week one. Benchmarks vs Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Fable 5 — plus CursorBench contamination note.
- AI and Homework: House Rules That Actually Work →
"Everyone uses it anyway" is true, which is exactly why your family needs rules that are better than "don't." The tutor-not-ghostwriter line, the explain-it-back test, and a homework framework kids actually accept as fair.
- Why Did Tesla Cap AI Spending at $200 Per Week? Cost Math and the End of Unchecked Token Burn →
Starting July 6, Tesla limits each employee to $200 per week on AI coding tools — with manager sign-off for more. It is the latest enterprise pullback after unchecked usage spiked bills. Is $200/week generous or a verdict on LLM ROI?