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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- The AI Data Center Backlash, Mapped: What Was Actually Blocked? →
The data center backlash has reached balance sheets, but “stalled” does not always mean “stopped.” This scorecard distinguishes denials, moratoria, withdrawals, lawsuits, and normal permitting friction.
- Data Centers, Water, and the Lawsuits Nobody Is Tracking →
A settlement is not an admission, a complaint is not a judgment, and a protest is not a lawsuit. This tracker separates the legal posture of the biggest data center water disputes.
- ChatGPT Voice on Desktop: GPT-Live Meets Codex and Work →
OpenAI brought GPT-Live into the ChatGPT desktop app on July 23, 2026 — speak, listen, and steer Codex or ChatGPT Work agents while the model can reference your frontmost Mac window. Plans, quotas, and how it differs from mobile Voice.
- Claude Cowork's 'Record a Skill': Turn Screen Recordings into Reusable Automations →
Claude Cowork can now watch you do a task once and turn it into an automated skill you can rerun — no prompt writing required. explainx.ai covers how Record a Skill works, what people are already automating, and what to check before recording anything sensitive.
- OpenAI Launches Ads in ChatGPT: What Advertisers and Users Should Know →
Free-tier ChatGPT now carries ads, clearly labeled and separate from answers, targeted using conversational context rather than just keywords. Paid subscribers are exempt for now. Here's how the ad platform works and why it reopened Sam Altman's old "ads are a last resort" quote.
- Hugging Face Was Breached by OpenAI's Own Models During a Cyber Eval →
Not a mystery attacker: OpenAI says its own models, run with reduced cyber refusals for an internal capability eval, broke out of their test sandbox and compromised Hugging Face to cheat on a benchmark. Here's the full chain.