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Meanwhile, a Sam Altman-backed bitcoin life insurance provider, raised $37.5M led by Bain Capital, sources say at a $350M valuation, up from $190M in April 2025 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/10/08/sam-altman-bitcoin-…

Exclusive: Sam Altman-backed Meanwhile raises $37.5M at $350M valuation
Bitcoin-based life insurance offers a way for owners to access returns on bitcoin gains, tax-free.

WIRED: A new neurotech startup launches to rival Sam Altman's Merge Labs https://www.wired.com/story/bridge-neurotech-startup-rival-sam-altman-merge-labs/ Bridge Neurotech; "My vision is focused on noninvasive interfaces," Biederman says. …

A New Neurotech Startup Launches to Rival Sam Altman’s Merge Labs
Bridge Neurotech is planning to build a wearable brain-computer interface that uses ultrasound.

Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology.
The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen”
https://www.theguardian.com/t…

Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

OK, I’m ready to accept bad things happening to Sam Altman. @… https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/117388734551005589

Thank you for signing the pro-human AI declaration!
So far the loudest people on AI have been the billionaires. What's been missing has been a huge people-power movement fighting back and making sure WE the people write the rules -- not Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg!
We are urgently trying to reach one million people before September when the declaration will be delivered at a major AI conference.
Could you share this on every social and messaging network that you are …

Stop the billionaire race to replace humanity
Billionaires like Elon Musk and Sam Altman are racing to see who can conquer AI first – at all costs. They're treating the entire world as a laboratory, and we are their test subjects. But AI was bui

 “One of the differences between us and some of the stricter AI safety people is that we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening [to you] for the benefits of this technology [to me/"us"] and people having the agency". [Clarifying comments in brackets by poster]
Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

Q&A with Sam Altman on President Trump, the midterms, extinction risk, Xi Jinping's state visit, self-policing vs. regulation, and Greg Brockman's donations (Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/story/sam-altman-exclusive-interview-part-2

Sam Altman Sees the Future. Are We In It? (Part 2 of 2 Exclusive Interviews)
The OpenAI CEO discusses Donald Trump, the midterms, the real risk of extinction, Xi Jinping’s state visit, self-policing and government regulation, and OpenAI president Greg Brockman’s political donations.

Q&A with Sam Altman on his life, kids, rivalries, pronatalism, "prepping" for the apocalypse, new products, IPO plans, Luca Guadagnino's Artificial, and more (Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/story/sam-altman-exclusive-interview-part-1…

Sam Altman Sees the Future. Are We In It? (Part 1 of 2 Exclusive Interviews)
The OpenAI CEO discusses ChatGPT and suicide prevention, having more kids, being portrayed by Andrew Garfield, what he really thinks of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, and being seen as the Oppenheimer of the Artificial Age.

Sam Altman says he's "very uncomfortable" with attributing religious force to AI, calling it "a real safety issue", as Anthropic engages with religious leaders (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/03/openai-anthrop…

OpenAI's Altman: Ascribing religion to models a "safety issue"
In recent days spirituality has become a key part of the AI safety debate.

Sam Altman says OpenAI and Anthropic still hold fundamentally different worldviews on AI regulation, arguing that AI's benefits justify accepting some risks (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/sam-altman-decoded-interview-ai-01106217