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Sam Altman proposes a "US-led international forum" to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI available to allies (Sam Altman/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0c2e1077-f658-4b3d-9040-602615c961ca

The president of OpenAI,
Greg Brockman, has claimed the world has entered a new era of artificial general intelligence
after the release of his company’s latest model, Astra,
which it described as the “world’s most intelligent and aligned model”.
Brockman made the claim on Thursday as the San Francisco company released the model
only weeks after a serious AI safety incident involving other models under its development caused international concern and a pause in …

OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ with Astra model release
Astra’s arrival comes days after Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, described AGI as an ‘irrelevant marketing term’

"OpenAI's CEO says we've reached a point in the AI race that is the stuff of science fiction novels.
"We are now, like, in the singularity," Sam Altman said on Saturday's episode of the "Relentless" podcast."
"OpenAI, incidentally, has said it is preparing to IPO later this year."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the singularity has arrived
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he believes the technological singularity, the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses humans intelligence, is here.

Source: Sam Altman will meet with senior US officials, lawmakers, and economists in Washington, DC, this week to preview OpenAI's upcoming family of AI models (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/altman-trump-china-open-weight-ai.html

Sam Altman to meet with Trump administration, senators this week. Here's what he plans to say
Altman will preview the capabilities of the company's upcoming family of AI models and answer questions about cybersecurity and open-weight models.

Sources: indie studio Neon acquires Artificial, after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the biopic on Sam Altman and OpenAI; Amazon invested $50B in OpenAI in February (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/business/media/opena…

Neon Buys ‘Artificial,’ a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It
Neon purchased “Artificial,” which focuses on OpenAI’s chief, Sam Altman, after Amazon walked away from it following an investment in the start-up.

Whether a reported 5% of OpenAI is a potential gift to the American people, or Sam Altman trying to hedge against the AI infrastructure bubble collapsing, is a question more people should ask.
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Amazon legt Filmprojekt über Sam Altman auf Eis
Luca Guadagnino muss die Arbeit an seinem Film über den OpenAI-CEO vorerst stoppen. Grund sind Amazons Geschäfte mit OpenAI.
https://www.heise.d…

Amazon legt Filmprojekt über Sam Altman auf Eis
Luca Guadagnino muss die Arbeit an seinem Film über den OpenAI-CEO vorerst stoppen. Grund sind Amazons Geschäfte mit OpenAI.

At the G20 summit, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk joined Trump officials in lobbying policymakers against heavy AI regulations (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/te…

Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade "a lot of liberty for safety" (Truman Dickerson/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-risks-ai-2026-8

Sam Altman says he's worried AI will be controlled by few players
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that fears about AI going off the rails could lead people to trade liberty for safety.