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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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Acceleration
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89
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

2026-05-14
Core Memory 5 related

Q&A with Alexandr Wang on rebuilding Meta's AI stack, Muse Spark, personal superintelligence, Meta acquiring Assured Robot Intelligence, Sam Altman, and more

Reuters 11 related

Musk v. Altman filing: Sam Altman holds $2B+ in stakes in companies that have done business with OpenAI, including a $1.7B stake in fusion startup Helion Energy

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman holds more than $2 billion in companies that have done business with the artificial intelligence company …

2026-05-13
Bloomberg 26 related

Musk v. Altman: Sam Altman testified that in 2017, Musk insisted on complete control of a proposed OpenAI for-profit arm, saying he might pass it to his kids

OpenAI's Sam Altman testified that he was “extremely uncomfortable” with Elon Musk's insistence that he have complete control …

2026-05-05
Wall Street Journal 1 related

Sources: Sam Altman discussed spinning out OpenAI's robotics and consumer hardware divisions in late 2025 to give them more room to grow; the plan was rejected

Company is considering an Alphabet-like structure for its portfolio of products, though no discussions are currently active

2026-05-03
Wall Street Journal 5 related

A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO

The chief financial officer is managing Sam Altman—and ambitions for one of the biggest IPOs ever.  She has pulled off impossible ones before.

2026-05-02
Wall Street Journal 5 related

A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO

The chief financial officer is managing Sam Altman—and ambitions for one of the biggest IPOs ever.  She has pulled off impossible ones before.

2026-04-29
Financial Times 2 related

Sources: OpenAI has, in practice, abandoned its Stargate JV in favor of large bilateral deals; execs say its guiding principle remains to “build more compute”

Chief executive Sam Altman's flexible approach to infrastructure projects is unsettling partners but boosting computing lead

2026-04-27
Wired 1 related

San Francisco public records: in 2024, Salesforce and Airbnb were among the top tech spenders in the city's 10B program, which lets them hire police officers

A recent attack on Sam Altman's home and OpenAI offices has put corporate security under renewed scrutiny.

2026-04-22
Core Memory 3 related

An interview with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on OpenAI's restructuring, cutting Sora, “personal AGI”, Anthropic's “fear-based marketing” for Mythos, and more

The last two standing - on everything  —  Sam Altman and Greg Brockman came on Core Memory together for a ten-year look back at OpenAI.

2026-04-21
Core Memory 2 related

An interview with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on OpenAI's restructuring, cutting Sora, “personal AGI”, Anthropic's “fear-based marketing” for Mythos, and more

The last two standing - on everything  —  Sam Altman and Greg Brockman came on Core Memory together for a ten-year look back at OpenAI.

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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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