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's Collective Cyberdefense Letter: 130+ Companies Sign On →
OpenAI's "Collective Cyberdefense" open letter, published August 28, 2026, calls for a global surge in AI-enabled cyber defense and carries 130+ signatures — Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and more. It lays out four principles and four audience-specific asks, and critics on X were quick to note the same firms shipping the AI that enables sharper attacks are now leading the coalition against them.
- TIME100 AI 2026: the omissions are the editorial thesis →
TIME published the 2026 TIME100 AI on August 27 and the replies filled with the same complaint: no Jensen Huang, no Demis Hassabis, no Karpathy, but Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck made it. Read the list carefully and the pattern is deliberate — Nvidia's seat went to its head of sustainability. explainx.ai breaks down what TIME actually measured and which of your daily tools have their makers on the list.
- ChatGPT Temporary Chat Can Now Save and Personalize →
ChatGPT Temporary Chat used to be all-or-nothing disposable. As of August 27, 2026, you can opt into existing memories, custom instructions, and plugins without creating new memories — then save the thread to history only when it becomes worth keeping.
- OpenAI's $400M Startup Fund: What Platform Money Actually Changes for Builders →
A Polymarket post claiming OpenAI launched a $400 million venture fund spread on August 27, 2026 — but no OpenAI announcement or reputable outlet confirms a new vehicle at that size. The number closely tracks the existing OpenAI Startup Fund's cumulative commitments. Either way, the builder question is the same: what does it mean when your API provider is also your investor and your competitor?
- OpenAI's Hugging Face Postmortem: Why the Agents Did It →
OpenAI published its official postmortem, a full technical report, and a Black Hat talk on August 26, 2026, with an independent METR + Redwood assessment the same day. The prior coverage explained what the agents did. This one explains why they did it — and it is an alignment document, not a security one.