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Sam Altman

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559 articles decelerating

Sam Altman has appeared in 559 articles since 2015-03. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 80 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside OpenAI, Altman, Microsoft, Elon Musk.

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559
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Velocity
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growth rate
Acceleration
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Sources
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publications
Bedrock
Microsoft's seven-year exclusive cloud deal with OpenAI ended Monday. On Tuesday, OpenAI's models went live on AWS Bedrock — alongside Anthropic, Mistral, and L...
The Starting Line
On April 18, OpenAI lost three executives in a single day — Kevin Weil, Bill Peebles, Srinivas Narayanan. The same day, Recursive Superintelligence — a four-mon...
Nine Each
On April 17, OpenAI and Anthropic each appeared in nine articles — the first clean tie in a ratio that was 6.5 in 2024. One of OpenAI's nine was the disclosure ...
The Convergence
Anthropic was founded to be the opposite of OpenAI. In Q1 2026, for the first time, the knowledge graph can't tell them apart. Both companies arrived at the sam...
"We've Achieved AGI"
Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman that AGI has been achieved. The same day, OpenAI guaranteed private equity firms a 17.5% minimum return and signed a 5-gigawatt el...

Coverage Timeline

2026-05-13
Sources 3 related

Sources: Sam Altman recently discussed launching an AI compute company that is majority-owned by OpenAI, similar to Stargate's original data center initiative

2026-04-29
Stratechery 13 related

Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new AWS partnership, Bedrock Managed Agents, local vs. cloud, Trainium chips, the AI stack, and more

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2026-04-28
Stratechery 51 related

Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new partnership with AWS, Bedrock Managed Agents, Trainium chips, and more

As I noted yesterday, today's Stratechery Interview is early in terms of my timing — Tuesday instead of Thursday — and late in terms of delivery …

2026-04-18
Wired 17 related

World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to identity verification

Honestly, what's hotter than a real person?  —  Sam Altman's iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event …

2026-04-17
Wired 15 related

World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to identity verification

Honestly, what's hotter than a real person?  —  Sam Altman's iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event …

2026-02-28
@sama 58 related

Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD to deploy its models in DOD's classified network and asks DOD to extend those terms to all AI companies

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to pa...

2026-02-27
Wall Street Journal

Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity is partnering with brands like Gap, Visa, and Tinder to market its World ID human verification product

Tools for Humanity aims to promote World ID beyond the tech and crypto sets via partnerships with household names  —  Sam Altman's project …

2026-02-26
Wall Street Journal 1 related

Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity is partnering with brands like Gap, Visa, and Tinder to market its World ID human verification product

Tools for Humanity aims to promote World ID beyond the tech and crypto sets via partnerships with household names  —  Sam Altman's project …

2026-01-16
Bloomberg 11 related

Brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs, which Sam Altman co-founded, raised a $252M seed from OpenAI, Bain Capital, Gabe Newell, and others

2026-01-15
Bloomberg 7 related

Brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs, which Sam Altman co-founded, raised a $252M seed from OpenAI, Bain Capital, Gabe Newell, and others

Merge Labs, a company co-founded by AI billionaire Sam Altman that is building devices to connect human brains to computers, raised $252 million.

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

Sam Altman has appeared in 460 Techmeme articles since March 2015. The biggest stories include Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new... and Source: OpenAI's board had agreed to resign and let Sam Altman and Greg Brockman return,.... Frequently covered alongside Altman, OpenAI, Elon Musk, Microsoft, and Greg Brockman. Coverage has increasingly focused on consumer themes.

Key Moments

2024Q2safety +7pts; consumer +16pts; regulation -12pts
2024Q3enterprise +7pts; safety -5pts; consumer -25pts
2024Q4enterprise -13pts; safety -6pts; developer +6pts

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