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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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Acceleration
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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

2026-04-06
The Information 18 related

Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo, instead of Altman, in August 2025

Sam Altman has committed OpenAI to spend $600 billion in the next five years and privately said he wants to go public as soon …

2026-04-03
Bloomberg 15 related

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role as part of an executive shuffle; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks

OpenAI's chief operating officer is shifting into a new role and two other top executives are going on leave due to health reasons …

2026-03-30
Wall Street Journal 24 related

Inside the rise and fall of OpenAI's Sora, which worked apart from OpenAI's research team, as the company shuts down Sora and redirects compute to other tasks

When Sam Altman arrived in Los Angeles to attend Vanity Fair's Oscar afterparty earlier this month, his company was just weeks away …

2026-03-29
Wall Street Journal 2 related

A look at the decadelong feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei; sources say Amodei likened Altman's legal fight with Musk to Hitler's fight with Stalin

Personal wounds and power struggles between the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic are defining how the world encounters the technology

2026-03-28
Wall Street Journal 1 related

A look at the decadelong feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei; sources say Amodei likened Altman's legal fight with Musk to Hitler's fight with Stalin

Personal wounds and power struggles between the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic are defining how the world encounters the technology

2026-03-25
The Information 6 related

Sam Altman told staff he has ceded oversight of OpenAI's safety and security teams to focus on fundraising, supply chains, and building data centers at scale

OpenAI believes its next model could meaningfully accelerate the economy. …

Sources 16 related

Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of “AGI Deployment”

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2026-03-24
The Information 4 related

Sam Altman told staff he has ceded oversight of OpenAI's safety and security teams to focus on fundraising, supply chains, and building data centers at scale

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has relinquished direct oversight of the company's safety and security teams so he can focus on raising capital …

2026-03-11
Wired 3 related

Inside OpenAI's race to catch up with Claude Code, based on interviews with 30+ sources; a source says Codex had $1B+ in annualized revenue by January's end

Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution?  —  Sam Altman sits with his legs pretzeled in an office chair, staring deeply into the ceiling.

Bloomberg 1 related

A profile of Sachin Katti, who joined OpenAI from Intel in November 2025 as its head of industrial compute and now helps guide OpenAI's infrastructure efforts

For months, OpenAI's Sam Altman has been talking up plans to spend trillions of dollars on an unprecedented buildout of data centers stocked with advanced chips to power AI.

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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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