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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, Microsoft, Altman, Elon Musk.

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559
mentions
Velocity
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growth rate
Acceleration
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velocity change
Sources
89
publications
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...
The Backers
A leaked memo shows Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal "safety theater." The same day, some of Anthropic's own investors pushed the company to back down. Six...
The Red Lines
On the day OpenAI closed $110 billion at a $730 billion valuation, Sam Altman told staff the company shares Anthropic's "red lines" on military AI — while pursu...
Thirteen Percent
IBM lost 13.15% of its market value because Anthropic published a blog post about COBOL. On the same day, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan reported that AI contribute...

Coverage Timeline

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.

2026-01-03
The Circuit on YouTube

An interview with analyst Benedict Evans on the role of productization in AI adoption, an AI bubble, OpenAI, comparing Nvidia and Sun Microsystems, and more

The Circuit on YouTube : X: @hobie_tweets , @howardlindzon , @buccocapital , and @benbajarin X: Hobie / @hobie_tweets : This is correct. Them not winning Apple, and they getting out-executed by Anthr...

2026-01-02
The Circuit on YouTube

An interview with analyst Benedict Evans on the role of productization in AI adoption, AI bubble, OpenAI, comparing Nvidia to Sun Microsystems, and more

In this conversation, Ben Bajarin and Jay Goldberg engage with Benedict Evans to explore the current state of AI development, its historical context, and future predictions. X: @hobie_tweets , @howard...

2025-11-02
@bg2pod 3 related

Q&A with Sam Altman and Satya Nadella about the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership, OpenAI's restructuring and $100B revenue target for 2027, $3T AI buildout, more

BG2. All things AI w @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥@bg2pod @altcap — (00:00) Intro (02:28) Microsoft's Investment in OpenAI (03:19) The Nonprofit Structure and Its Impact (05:46) Healt...

2025-10-04
Sam Altman 39 related

Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning two Sora changes for rightsholders: granular controls over generation of their characters and a revenue sharing system

We have been learning quickly from how people are using Sora and taking feedback from users, rightsholders, and other interested groups.

2025-10-01
Bloomberg 15 related

Sam Altman signs a letter of intent with Samsung and SK Hynix to supply Stargate; Samsung and SK Hynix say demand from OpenAI could hit 900K wafers per month

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Co. have forged initial agreements to supply chips and other gear to OpenAI's Stargate project …

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

Sam Altman has appeared in 429 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, Microsoft, OpenAI, Elon Musk, and Sam. Coverage has shifted toward consumer, developer themes and away from competition.

Key Moments

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

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