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Sam

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100 articles stable

Sam has appeared in 100 articles since 2016-06. Coverage peaked in 2023Q4 with 14 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside FTX, Alameda, Sam Altman, SBF.

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Acceleration
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Sources
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publications

Coverage Timeline

2026-04-07
New Yorker 23 related

Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of consistent lying and more: some defend him as others call him a sociopath

Slack messages and H.R. documents, some photographed on a cellphone to avoid detection on company devices.  One memo begins with a list: “Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of...” The first item is “Ly...

2025-11-16
TechCrunch 12 related

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now avoid em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI

Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules The Economic Times : OpenAI fixes ChatGPT's em dash problem; ‘small-but-happy-win’ says Sam Altman Kahekashan / The Hans India ...

2025-11-07
Bloomberg 23 related

Sam Altman says OpenAI doesn't want government guarantees for data centers and expects to fund investments with revenues hitting “hundreds of billions by 2030”

company continues to lobby for financial support from the industry Victor Tangermann / Futurism : Trump Admin Says It's Not Bailing Out the AI Industry Regardless of How Hard It Crashes Arsheeya Bajwa...

2025-11-03
Business Insider 13 related

After Elon Musk said on X that Sam Altman “stole a nonprofit”, Altman replied he turned what Musk “left for dead into what should be the largest nonprofit ever”

this time over a tesla refund 😬 r/ChatGPT : Sam and Elon beefing again. Elon started it. r/EnoughMuskSpam : Sam Altman digs up some old email. r/OpenAI : the billionaires' feud continues.. but sam is ...

2025-07-05
CNBC 5 related

Sam Altman says he believes in “techno-capitalism” and is “politically homeless” as Democrats no longer encourage a “culture of innovation and entrepreneurship”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's ‘politically homeless’ in July 4 post bashing Democrats  —  cnbc.com/2025/07/04/o... Sacha Ramtohul / @poticha : Not to anyone's surprise but Altman's as much a real-li...

2025-01-26
Financial Times 20 related

Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits

China is pulling the same trick.  —  www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, given OpenAI's found...

2024-12-21
Fortune 5 related

Sam Altman says Elon Musk is “clearly a bully” who is suing OpenAI because the startup is doing really well and calls the lawsuits “a little bit of a sideshow”

and the Battle for AI's Future Danny D'Cruze / Business Today : OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calls Elon Musk a ‘bully,’ discusses ‘complicated’ relationship Will McCurdy / PCMag : OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Calls...

2024-11-17
Transformer 26 related

Emails from Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI show Brockman and Sutskever had concerns about Altman as early as 2017, Sam Altman considered an ICO, and more

Brockman and Sutsekever worried about Musk becoming a dictator, which feels ... relevant.  [image] X: @techemails : Elon Musk emails OpenAI cofounders September 20, 2017 [image] @techemails : Sam Altm...

2023-04-15
The Verge 17 related

Sam Altman says OpenAI won't train GPT-5 for “some time” and the letter to pause AI development missed “most technical nuance about where we need the pause”

This is in line with my current belief that GPT-4 is pretty close to where LLMs will peak. … Tweets: Brij Singh / @brij : Capabilities over versions! Moving forward, @OpenAI may shift focus away from ...

2022-11-13
CoinDesk 71 related

FTX claims the company was hacked, telling users to delete FTX apps, not install app updates, and not to visit FTX.com, after $600M+ in crypto left its wallets

trustless, permissionless, uncensorable crypto—is the only path forward for the future. This week, we grieved. Next week, we build. @cz_binance : What a sh!t show... And it's going to be crypto's faul...

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Quarterly Coverage

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Sam has appeared in 599 Techmeme articles since March 2015, making it one of the most-covered entities in the archive. 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 Sam Altman, Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX, Altman, and Microsoft. Coverage has shifted toward developer, consumer themes and away from regulation.

Key Moments

2024Q2safety +7pts; consumer +10pts; regulation -21pts
2024Q3enterprise +8pts; safety -6pts; consumer -15pts
2024Q4research +10pts; competition +24pts

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