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Benchmark hires Jack Altman, the founder of Alt Capital and Lattice, as its fifth general partner; three Alt Capital team members will join him at Benchmark (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/benchmark-hires-jack-altman-newe…

Benchmark Hires Jack Altman as Newest General Partner
Benchmark on Tuesday said it had hired Jack Altman , the founder of early-stage firm Alt Capital and HR software company Lattice, as its fifth general partner. Benchmark—known for backing Uber and Snap in its early years—has kept its fund sizes relatively small and continued to operate as an equal partnership , even as its Silicon Valley competitors have raised multi-billion dollar funds and

If you need a cathartic release from the news that
Amazon laid off 16,000 workers,
Block chopped nearly half its workforce,
Atlassian pared back 10% of staffers,
and Meta is reportedly considering another massive round of layoffs
-- all in the name of AI,
then we invite you to browse the responses to a recent
Sam Altman post on X.
Altman, the CEO of OpenAI,
shared this on Tuesday:
“I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extrem…

Sam Altman's thank-you to coders draws the memes | TechCrunch
Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.

WIRED: Sam Altman’s new brain venture, Merge Labs, will spin out of a nonprofit, Forest Neurotech https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interface-merge-labs-spin-out-nonprofit-forest-neurotech/ Focus on usin…

Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.

Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's "code red" call, enterprise strategy, product ambitions, IPO plans, ChatGPT's personalization plans, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/sam-altman-on-openais-plan-to-win<…

Sam Altman on OpenAI’s Plan to Win, AI Personalization, Infrastructure Math, and The Inevitable IPO
OpenAI's CEO joins Big Technology for a candid discussion covering OpenAI's strategy, its product ambitions, its ability to pay for $1 trillion+ in infrastructure, going public, and much more.

OpenAI-Chef: KI braucht dringend Regulierung
OpenAI-CEO Sam Altman sieht die Superintelligenz als Gefahr und schlägt internationale Überwachung vor. Das ist auch Marketing.
https://www.heise.de/new…

Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interf…

Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.

India's AI Summit: Modi orchestrated a photo op with tech and business leaders holding hands in a line, but Sam Altman and Dario Amodei awkwardly refused (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27, show Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a "side show", more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/863319/highlights-musk-v-altman-open…

‘Sideshow’ concerns and billionaire dreams: What I learned from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI
Highlights from Musk v. Altman.

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.

Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI "to drive the next generation of personal agents"; OpenClaw will remain open source (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2023150230905159801

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our