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A Reporter at Large — Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
📰 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-al…

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI, Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz write.

Sam Altman says OpenAI is resetting Codex usage limits "to celebrate 3M weekly codex users" and will reset them for every 1M new users until it reaches 10M (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2041658719839383945

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
To celebrate 3 million weekly codex users, we are resetting usage limits. We will do this every million users up to 10 million. Happy building!

Sam Darnold marries fiancée Katie Hoofangle with Josh Allen, Christian McCaffery on hand https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48423360/seattle-seahawks-sam-darnold-wedding-married-katie-hoofangle

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sam & Dave:
🎵 Soul Man
#NowPlaying #Sam #Dave
https://djeddyredrums.bandcamp.com/track/sam-dave-soul-man-dj-eddy-souldrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/4eGHlplaq1ME8oetnTuFFf

Sam Altman May Control Our Future--Can He Be Trusted? (New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted?currentPage=all
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p85#a260406p85

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Elliott Smith:
🎵 Son of Sam
#ElliottSmith
https://cantautorepsicopatico.bandcamp.com/track/elliott-smith-son-of-sam-oncoming-martian-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/6tPiCU4LFsXUQPRIykOAnl

Ronan Farrow hat für den NewYorker Sam Altmann porträtiert.
(Paywall)
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-tru…

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI, Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz write.

Didn't hear Sam Keith passed last month. He was a master. Loved his Maxx and Pitt stuff, and he did some Hulk and others too. RIP to a serious talent.
#comics #ComicArt #SamKeith

Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/925338/openai-mu…

Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn’t trust Sam Altman’s words
Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model.

Super Bowl 2026 QB tale of the tape: Who has the edge between Drake Maye and Sam Darnold?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-2026-qb-breakdown-drake-maye-sam-darn…

Der Tesla-Chef war einst Mitgründer, kritisiert die Entwicklung des Unternehmens aber scharf. Er behauptet, Sam Altman und Brockman hätten aus der ursprünglich gemeinnützigen Organisation eine Profitmaschine gemacht und damit "eine wohltätige Organisation gestohlen". 🤨
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11284078…

Chef Sam Kass recounts planning a meal consisting of food waste for heads of state like Xi Jingping and Angela Merkel.
Author of "The Last Supper,"
he provides his plan for making the food system more sustainable.
Watch this Sunday at 1 PM ET
on C-SPAN 2's Book TV.
https://

Musk v. Altman docs: Microsoft execs had reservations about funding OpenAI in 2018 but worried that withholding support could push OpenAI into Amazon's arms (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-executives-discuss-openai-sam-altman-2018/

Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI
Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAI—but wary of pushing it into the arms of Amazon, according to emails dating back to 2018.

Is Sam relying on AI to craft business strategies and contract docs? Inquiring minds etc
OpenAI amends Pentagon deal as Sam Altman admits it looks ‘sloppy’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/openai-pent…

Is Sam relying on AI to craft business strategies and contract docs? Inquiring minds etc
OpenAI amends Pentagon deal as Sam Altman admits it looks ‘sloppy’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/openai-pent…

Super Bowl MVP picks, odds, props: Expert backing Sam Darnold in Seahawks vs. Patriots best bets

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/super-bowl-mvp-…

Apple unveils Formula 1 coverage plans ahead of the season's first race, the Australian Grand Prix, and details new distribution deals with Tubi and others (Sam Neumann/Awful Announcing)
https://awfulannouncing.com/apple/formula-1-tv-melbourne-grand-prix…

Apple unveils F1 coverage plans ahead of Melbourne Grand Prix launch
Apple detailed its Formula 1 coverage plans during a press briefing on Thursday ahead of next month's Melbourne Grand Prix.

Wow. Ep 5 of Starfleet Academy is by far my favorite. Should I be shocked it was the first with Tawny Newsome on the written by?
The characters feel more grounded. Dialog is funny, revealing, and urgent. SAM is not my fav character but this is the first time a focus on a single character works for me.
This ep seems to have twice as much character development as other episodes.
More of this!

Interviews with Sam Altman and 100 people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of persistent lying and more: some defend him, others call him a sociopath (New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altm…

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI, Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz write.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 8th 2026 (Hard), in less than 16 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

Brass Solidarity band, covering Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” at the Abolish ICE Festival in Minneapolis, MN, across the street from where Alex Pretti was murdered.
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1rncrvb

Once again, the Supreme Court’s conservatives put their thumbs on the scale for Republicans.
And once again, they’re very mad that people noticed.
Not content to undo civil rights and destroy the Court’s credibility,
they’re racing to ensure that Republicans can redraw House districts even as voting is already underway.
And if anyone points out their flagrant partisanship and clanging hypocrisy, they scream bloody murder,
even — especially! — if the person p…

How dare you point out that Sam Alito is a partisan hack!
A hit dog will holler.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sam Cooke:
🎵 A Change Is Gonna Come
#SamCooke
https://hypeuk.bandcamp.com/track/sam-cooke-a-change-is-gonna-come-hypemix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0YfOnJWqmAKaUvEL1QcNop

Just looked up a single 2400mhz 8gb SODIMM stick that I could maybe use to breathe some life into my ThinkPad T480, $190 AUD.... free shipping though...
I hope Sam Altman, Elon Musk and every last pusher of cloud-based AI have incurable scrotum pains for the rest of their fucking lives https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/355672618289

Crucial DDR4 8GB 1 x 8GB 2400 MHz PC4-19200 260-Pin SODIMM Notebook Memory RAM | eBay Australia
Frequency: 2400Mhz. Before you order, make sure the RAM is compatible with your motherboard/CPU. Free user support. CAS Latency17.

Australia's opposition coalition reunites after split over hate laws (Sam McKeith/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-opposition-coalition-reunites-after-split-over-hate-laws-2026-02-08/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260207/p75#a260207p75

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 6th 2026 (Medium), in 04:55
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https://cluesbysam.com
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

Polacy: Ale zimno w tej zimie! Minusowe temperatury, trza się ubrać grubo, fuj!
Inni Polacy: Ale gorąco w tym lecie! Pięćset stopni w cieniu, ubranie się klei do ciała, fuj!
Ja, człowiek kultury i niuansu: Ale porąbana ta wiosna! Kilkanaście stopni na termometrze i ja nie wiem czy brać kurtkę czy sam T-shirt i krótkie spodenki, fuj!

In an all-hands meeting, Sam Altman said OpenAI does not "get to make operational decisions" regarding how its technology is used by the Department of Defense (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/sam-altman-t…

Sam Altman tells OpenAI staffers that military's 'operational decisions' are up to the government
In an all-hands meetings with OpenAI employees on Tuesday, CEO Sam Altman said his company doesn't get to choose how the military uses its technology.

Oh, that one hits hard: 👐
Tech Won’t Save Us: Why #Iran is Attacking #DataCenters w/ Sam Biddle
https://bs…

Tech Won’t Save Us (@techwontsave.us)
In the US-Iran war, data centers are a target. Iran has struck several Amazon facilities, including another one just this week in Bahrain. This week @sambiddle.com joins @parismarx.com to dig into why data centers are a target and how the military uses AI. Full ep: https://techwontsave.us/episode/322_why_iran_is_attacking_data_centers_w_sam_biddle

RE: https://mitchellaneous.net/2026/04/03/143054.html
Psst - nobody tell him about *1969*, when seven bucks was an expensive concert. And folk were buying albums (AKA "vinyl") for $3.50 at Sam the Record Man or A&As.
Oh, and in his 1993 VH…

Well this is some nice news.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/29/sam-neill-cancer-free-clinical-trial

Sam Neill announces he is cancer-free after taking part in Australian clinical trial: ‘I’m very, very excited’
Jurassic Park actor is advocating for CAR T-cell therapy, which he underwent as part of a clinical trial, to be rolled out for blood cancer patients across Australia

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Edmund Dumas, Sam Carter & Sam Carter:
🎵 Long Time Travelling
#EdmundDumas #SamCarter
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Z40XzsNq5iQXkhmzGkYOi

The Onion's Exclusive Interview With Sam Altman - The Onion
https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-sam-altman/

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Sam Altman
https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-sam-altman/

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Sam Altman
While leading OpenAI, Sam Altman has weathered leaked internal memos, an attempt to oust him as CEO, and widespread skepticism about artificial intelligence’s role in society. The Onion sat down with the entrepreneur to hear his vision for the technology’s future. The Onion: Good morning, Sam. How are you doing today?Altman: Certainly! Here are some […]

Sam Altman tries to win the most evil entrepreneur title (Musk is in the lead). He thought let's just do this...🙄 Also not surprising because he desperately needs the money/cashflow.
#ai #openai #evil

I am pretty new to Lino printing. Here is my rendition of Sam Slade, robohunter, from the cover of 2000AD monthly, Jan 1990. Would love feedback from any printing buffs on here!
#mastoart

Sam Altman: „Rechenzentren im All sind lächerlich“
Auf dem KI-Gipfel in Indien hat der OpenAI-Chef Rechenzentren im All eine Absage erteilt. Er verglich auch die Kosten eines Menschen gegenüber einer KI.
https://www.

OpenAI is amending its hastily arranged deal to supply artificial intelligence to the US Department of War (DoW) after the ChatGPT owner’s chief executive admitted it looked 🔸“opportunistic and sloppy”.
The contract prompted fears the San Francisco startup’s AI could be used for ♦️domestic mass surveillance but its boss, Sam Altman, said on Monday night the startup would explicitly bar its technology from being used for that purpose
or being deployed by defence department intelli…

Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo instead of the CEO in August 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-cfo-diverge-ipo-timing

OpenAI CEO and CFO Diverge on IPO Timing
Sam Altman has committed OpenAI to spend $600 billion in the next five years and privately said he wants to go public as soon as the fourth quarter despite expectations his company will burn more than $200 billion before it starts generating cash. Behind the scenes, Sarah Friar, his chief ...

A profile of William Savitt, Sam Altman's lead lawyer against Elon Musk, who represented Twitter against Musk in 2022 and helped OpenAI's for-profit transition (Jacob Shamsian/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/william-sa

He beat Elon Musk in court once. Sam Altman hired him to do it again.
A former cab driver and rock band singer, William Savitt is now at the top of an elite law firm with experience defeating Elon Musk in court.

Ranking NFL free agent quarterbacks: Kyler Murray, Malik Willis among top names as Geno Smith looms

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking-2026-nfl-free-agent-quarterbacks/…

Sam Altman says the DOD affirmed that OpenAI's tools wouldn't be used by agencies like the NSA, and services to them would need a further contract modification (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/openai-sam-altman-pentag…

OpenAI's Altman admits defense deal 'looked opportunistic and sloppy' amid backlash
Sam Altman says that OpenAI "shouldn't have rushed" its deal with the Defense Department and was making "some additions."

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a security-focused variant of the model, in a limited preview capacity to vetted cybersecurity teams (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/07/openai-gpt-55-cybersecurity-model

OpenAI makes its Mythos rival more widely available to cyber defenders
Recent security testing suggests that GPT-5.5. model is nearly as good at finding and exploiting software bugs as Anthropic's Mythos Preview.

Krypto-Betrüger Sam Bankman-Fried strebt offenbar zu einer Trump-Begnadigung
Der zu 25 Jahren Gefängnis verurteilte FTX-Gründer setzte aus der Haft einige Trump-unterstützende Tweets ab. Damit könnte er auf eine Begnadigung hinarbeiten.

Barnwell’s annual Super Bowl opus: We size up every facet of Seahawks-Patriots and pick the winner https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47808453/super-bowl-lx-2026-seahawks-patriots-preview-prediction-maye-darnold-barnwell…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Sam Kowalski:
🎵 Gaca
#SamKowalski
https://open.spotify.com/track/4pDgRlLdn2h6UtQiFwYrZT

Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-challenges-uk-med…

OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved from its research project Aardvark to automate vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/06/openai-codex-security-ai-cyber

OpenAI unveils Codex Security to automate code security reviews
Frontier AI labs are increasingly rolling out new ways to help defenders beef up their own security.

Maersk says ship passed through Strait of Hormuz under U.S. military protection (Sam Meredith/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/05/maersk-ship-strait-of-hormuz-iran-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p65#a260505p65

Angriff auf Sam Altmans Wohnhaus: OpenAI-Chef kann Angst vor KI verstehen
Nachdem jemand am Freitag versucht haben soll, Sam Altmans Wohnhaus in Brand zu setzen, wurden dort jetzt Schüsse abgegeben. Die Hintergründe sind noch unklar.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sam Evian:
🎵 Right Down the Line
#SamEvian
https://samevian.bandcamp.com/track/right-down-the-line
https://open.spotify.com/track/7sJ5JL0c0cba0tJBmy3tw7

OpenAI said it had struck a deal with the Pentagon to supply AI to classified US military networks,
hours after Donald Trump ordered the government to stop using the services of one of the company’s main competitors.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, announced the move on Friday night.
It came after an agreement between Anthropic, a rival AI company that runs the Claude system, and the Trump administration broke down after Anthropic sought assurances its technology would not be use…

Sam Altman says "the democratic process must stay in control, and we must democratize AI" and no private company should decide the fate of the world (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2028642231138353299

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
(I also would like to share this, which I wrote after thinking a little more.) There is a lot we will talk about in the coming days, but since this is one of the first "real deal" decisions we have faced, I wanted to share a few things that have been heavily on my mind the past

NFL schedule release: Top 10 games of 2026 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-schedule-release-top-10-games-of-2026

Sam Altman says rushing the DOD deal was wrong as "the issues are super complex, and demand clear communication" but we were "trying to de-escalate things" (Katherine Li/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-ame

Sam Altman says OpenAI will tweak its Pentagon deal after surveillance backlash
Sam Altman posted an internal memo that OpenAI is working with the Pentagon to "make some additions" to their agreement.

OpenAI beschreibt seine Mission neu: Weniger AGI, mehr Machtfrage
OpenAI-Chef Sam Altman schreibt die Grundsätze seines Unternehmens neu auf. Es geht nicht mehr nur um die Zukunft, sondern immer stärker auch um das Jetzt.

OpenAI beschreibt seine Mission neu: Weniger AGI, mehr Machtfrage
OpenAI-Chef Sam Altman schreibt die Grundsätze seines Unternehmens neu auf. Es geht nicht mehr nur um die Zukunft, sondern immer stärker auch um das Jetzt.

North Carolina: It ain't over yet...
In unofficial results, with all precincts reporting,
⭐️just two votes ⭐️separate
♦️the leader of the North Carolina Senate, Phil #Berger,
♦️and his challenger in the Republican primary election, Rockingham County Sheriff Sam #Page.

Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new partnership with AWS, Bedrock Managed Agents, Trainium chips, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-o…

An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents
An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about their new partnership, plus my thoughts on OpenAI and Microsoft’s new deal.

Elon Musk boosts an X post by Ronan Farrow promoting his New Yorker article on Sam Altman's alleged deceptions, as Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI heads to trial (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-boost-new-yorker-article-sam-altman-x/…

Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker’s Sam Altman Exposé on X as Trial Begins
The move comes as the trial for Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI kicks off in federal court in Oakland.

Dario Amodei says Anthropic has been "having productive conversations" with the DOD and apologizes for a leaked memo that criticized Trump and Sam Altman (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war

Where things stand with the Department of War
A statement from Dario Amodei

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance
Amidst fallout from a dramatic standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a new contract with the Pentagon. But everything wasn’t what it seemed.

[Thread] In an AMA, Sam Altman says DOD blacklisting Anthropic sets an "extremely scary precedent", OpenAI rushed its deal to "de-escalate things", and more (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2027900042720498089

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA.

Sam Altman says currently "the idea of putting data centers in space is ridiculous" and that it is "not something that's going to matter at scale this decade" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman

Sam Altman says Elon Musk's idea of putting data centers in space is 'ridiculous'
While in New Delhi on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said "there will come a time" for orbital data centers, but it won't be anytime soon.

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 (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2027578580159631610

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
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 partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of

Sam Altman takes subtle swipes at Anthropic, saying "government is supposed to be more powerful than private companies" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/open-ai-altman-anthropic-pentagon-war.html

OpenAI's Altman takes jabs at Anthropic, says government should be more powerful than companies
The startup landed a deal with the Department of Defense hours after Anthropic was blacklisted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

Sam Altman says there is some "AI washing", where companies blame AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, alongside "real displacement by AI" of some jobs (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-companies-are-ai-wash…

Sam Altman Says Companies Are 'AI Washing' Layoffs
Hold up, let him cook.

Canada says Sam Altman agreed to take immediate steps to strengthen OpenAI's safety protocols about notifying police over potentially suspicious ChatGPT use (Paul Vieira/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/…

Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are "unfair", as it takes "20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time" to train a human (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-

Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunch
"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."

Musk v. Altman: internal 2017 emails show Musk sought majority voting control over OpenAI co-founders, withheld promised funding, and tried to poach researchers (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/model-behavior-elon-musk-cross-examined-sam-altman/

How Elon Musk Squeezed OpenAI: They 'Are Gonna Want to Kill Me’
Tensions flared on the third day of trial in Musk v. Altman as OpenAI’s lawyers cross-examined Musk.

Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity is partnering with brands like Gap, Visa, and Tinder to market its World ID human verification product (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/sam-altmans-human-verification-startup-le…

Interviews with Cluely's Roy Lee, Donald Boat, and other highly "agentic" young men, as agency becomes more valuable than technical skills in Silicon Valley (Sam Kriss/Harper's)
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai-start…

Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

EU legislation allowing voluntary CSAM scanning by tech and social media companies expired April 3 after lawmakers failed to agree on the terms of an extension (Sam Clark/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/tech-firms-enter-legal-limbo-over-child…

Tech firms enter legal limbo over child abuse scanning
Scanning private online spaces for child abuse material becomes illegal in Europe on Saturday.

Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current $852B valuation, the stake is worth $5B (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/y_combinators_stake_in_openai

Y Combinator’s Stake in OpenAI
The fact that Paul Graham personally has billions of dollars at stake with OpenAI doesn’t mean that his public opinion on Sam Altman’s trustworthiness and leadership is invalid. But it certainly seems like the sort of thing that ought to be disclosed when quoting Graham as an Altman character reference.

Leaked Friday memo: Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal "safety theater", said DOD dislikes Anthropic in part for not giving "dictator-style praise to Trump" (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an

Anthropic CEO Memo: Trump Disliked Company For Not Giving ‘Dictator-Style Praise’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck to provide AI to the Department of Defense was “safety theater,” adding that the Trump Administration didn’t like Anthropic in part because the company hadn’t “given dictator-style praise to ...

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 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/openai-sam-al

All-hands: Sam Altman defended OpenAI's DOD deal, saying it was the right decision with "extremely difficult brand consequences and very negative" short-term PR (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

An OpenAI spokesperson says Sam Altman misspoke in saying OpenAI was looking to deploy on NATO classified networks, and that it was for "unclassified networks" (Hyunsu Yim/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-looking-contra…

Source: Sam Altman told employees the DOD is willing to let OpenAI build its own "safety stack" and won't force OpenAI to comply if its model refuses a task (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/27/openai-in-talks-with-pentago…

Sam Altman tells staff at an all-hands that OpenAI is negotiating a deal with the Pentagon, after Trump orders the end of Anthropic contracts
The negotiations come as rival Anthropic is locked in a more contentious standoff with U.S. defense officials.

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 (Core Memory)
https://www.corememory.com/p/the-great-reset-at-open…

The Great Reset At OpenAI — EP 67 Sam Altman And Greg Brockman
The last two standing - on everything

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role reporting to Sam Altman; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-03/open…

Sam Altman says that India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, the app's second-largest userbase after the US, ahead of the AI Impact Summit (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/india-has-100m-weekly-active-chatgpt-u…

India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, Sam Altman says | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has the largest number of student users of ChatGPT worldwide.

Musk v. Altman: when asked whether xAI has ever distilled tech from OpenAI, Elon Musk says the claim is "partly" true (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/30/technology/openai-…

Elon Musk Faces Contentious Questions at OpenAI Trial
On his third day of testimony, Elon Musk is being cross-examined by lawyers from OpenAI and Microsoft. His answers on the stand grew testy on Wednesday.

Daniel Moreno-Gama, a 20-year-old Texas man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home, is charged with attempted murder and attempted arson (Hadas Gold/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/04/13/tech/sam-altman-openai-arrest-charges

Suspect in attack at Sam Altman’s house charged with attempted murder and attempted arson
The man who allegedly threw an incendiary device at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is facing attempted murder and attempted arson charges, authorities said Monday.

Security researchers successfully prompted the AI behind a Utah prescription renewal pilot to reclassify meth as an "unrestricted therapeutic", and more (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/04/doctronic-utah-prescriptions-ai-jailbreak

Exclusive: Researchers trick a bot that prescribes meds
The state of Utah is running a pilot with Doctronic's AI system to refill some prescriptions.

Polymarket removes long-running markets letting users bet on the chances of a nuclear weapon detonating amid the Iran strikes; a 2025 market had $1.7M in volume (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/04/polymark…

Polymarket shelves nuclear detonation markets after outcry
Nuclear weapon-themed markets aren’t new on the prediction market platform, but public outcry about the contracts has apparently forced the platform to delete them.

Q&A: Ronan Farrow on his Sam Altman profile in The New Yorker, how Altman changed in 18 months of reporting, OpenAI's board drama and enterprise shift, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/911753/sa

Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s ‘unconstrained’ relationship with the truth
Is Sam Altman a liar? The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow joins Decoder to discuss his and Andrew Marantz’s massive feature in The New Yorker digging into this question.

Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines with respect to AI use by the military, which are "an issue for the whole industry" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/altman-openai-anthropic-pentagon

Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon fight
But he still wants a Pentagon deal.

Filing: Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman about settling days before trial; after being denied, he said Brockman and Altman "will be the most hated men in America" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/04/musk-altman-open-ai-settlement-tr…

Musk texted OpenAI's Brockman about settlement two days before trial began
Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and sued the company, President Greg Brockman and CEO Sam Altman in 2024.

Note to staff: Sam Altman says OpenAI seeks a DOD deal with exemptions for cases like domestic surveillance and wants to "help de-escalate" DOD-Anthropic fight (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)
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A US judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial based on what SBF called new evidence; SBF tried to withdraw his request, but the judge refused (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sam Altman says OpenAI is amending its DOD contract to ensure AI isn't used for domestic surveillance of US persons, the NSA is excluded from the deal for now (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/653fabd7-03da-467a-b2bf-03f226fe2a29
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Internal memo: Sam Altman tells staff that ChatGPT is "back to exceeding 10% monthly growth", and OpenAI plans to release "an updated Chat model" this week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/09/sam-altman-touts-cha…

Sam Altman touts ChatGPT's reaccelerating growth to employees as OpenAI closes in on $100 billion funding
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that ChatGPT's monthly growth is back above 10%, as competition ramps up in generative AI.

Seven families of victims in the Tumbler Ridge shooting in Canada sue OpenAI, accusing it of failing to warn authorities about the suspect's ChatGPT activity (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/tech/openai-tumbler-ridge-canada-shooting-lawsuit…

Families of Tumbler Ridge shooting victims sue OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman
Seven families of victims in a February school shooting sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday, alleging the company and its ChatGPT chatbot were complicit in the injuries or deaths of their children.

Sam Bankman-Fried withdraws his request for a new trial, saying he doubts he would receive a fair hearing; his broader appeal remains pending (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/04/23/sa…

SBF withdraws motion for retrial but leaves option open for after appeal ruling
The convicted former founder of the collapsed FTX crypto exchange withdrew, for now, his motion for retrial, saying he believes he would not face a fair trial.

Police report: Sam Altman's home appears to have been targeted in a second attack after a gun appeared to have been fired at his home from a car early Sunday (Jonah Owen Lamb/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/12/sam-altman-s-home-targe…

Sam Altman’s home targeted in second attack
Early Sunday morning, a car stopped and appears to have fired a gun at the Russian Hill home of OpenAI’s CEO, according to a newly-obtained police report.

Sources: OpenAI and the DOD have agreed to add more surveillance protections to a recent AI deal; Sam Altman approached DOD's Emil Michael to rework the deal (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/03/openai-pentagon-ai-surveillance

Scoop: OpenAI, Pentagon add more surveillance protections to AI deal
It follows widespread backlash that domestic mass surveillance was still a real risk under the old terms.