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Sam Altman said in a memo to staff, "missionaries will beat mercenaries" and "I believe there is much, much more upside to OpenAI stock than Meta stock" (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-meta-ai-ta…

Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching Spree: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'
“What Meta is doing will, in my opinion, lead to very deep cultural problems,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a leaked memo sent to OpenAI researchers.

In May 2025, a high-profile lunch in Riyadh brought together Donald Trump,
the Crown Prince,
and a group of Silicon Valley billionaires and executives.
The guest list assembled by Elon Musk (Tesla, xAI, SpaceX) and arriving by their own jets:
Sam Altman (OpenAI), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Alex Karp (Palantir), Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber), Ruth Porat (Alphabet/Google), Alexandr Wang (Scale AI), Travis Kalanick (Cloud Kitchens, former Uber CEO), Stephen Schwarzman (Blackstone…

Mad Kings and Saudi Princes
Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.

Very high on the list of “people who some/a lot of people think are the incredibly smart who are really incredibly stupid”: Sam Altman. #SamAltman

Make Fun Of Them
Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?  Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long podcast conversation with his brother Jack Altman from last week: “I think there will

«But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost. If you’re some assclown like Sam Altman, whose graph-go-up depends on convincing you to replace all your employees with ChatGPT, you have to destroy that idea.»
https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/
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Vendor of AI tech comes to Australia and promises to grow our GDP by 4% if only we give tax incentives to increase use of AI tech. Stenographers in the press report the amazing "windfall" but thankfully we have Crikey to call BS:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2…

OpenAI’s ‘productivity’ garbage is an age-old scam that’s long crippled Australia
Touting the economic benefits of AI is straight from business lobbyists' playbook, one used over and over again.

Altman: ChatGPT ist mächtiger als jeder Mensch, der je lebte
Im Blogbeitrag sinniert Sam Altman über das Jahr 2030. Da werde es unendlich viel Energie geben. Und unendlich viel Intelligenz.
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Sam Altman posts a series of his exchanges with founder of iyO Jason Rugolo from before the deal with Ive's io; Rugolo responded he just wants to compete fairly (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/692840/sam-altman-io-trademark-ba…

Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle public
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has posted private emails between him and the founder of Iyo, the startup that’s suing OpenAI over the name of its upcoming product, io.

OpenAI updates its coding agent Codex with internet access, turned off by default, and expands availability to ChatGPT Plus users (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/3/codex-agent-internet-access/

Codex agent internet access
Sam Altman, [just now](https://twitter.com/sama/status/1930006856019390521): > codex gets access to the internet today! it is off by default and there are complex tradeoffs; people should read about the risks carefully and …

Filing: Elon Musk's lawyers say he "does not use a computer" after OpenAI accused Musk of not complying with the discovery process in his lawsuit against OpenAI (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-computer-sam-altman/

Elon Musk’s Lawyers Claim He ‘Does Not Use a Computer’
The claim appeared in a court filing related to Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The Tesla and xAI owner has posted about his laptop numerous times in the past year.