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Sam Altman

51 published events · on the wire since January 2026

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White House finalizes voluntary AI cyber tests; Meta and Anthropic invited to briefings

3 (Reuters) - A White House official said the Trump administration has finalized details of voluntary cybersecurity tests to measure hacking capabilities of the most advanced American AI models and plans to discuss them with industry, Reuters reported via SRN News. Meta has been invited to meet Whi…

Chronological record

Every published event attached to Sam Altman, newest first.

August 2026 2 events
  1. OpenAI's Astra cracks major math problems, reigniting debate over AI's future
  2. OpenAI names Astra as next major model in math advances blog post
July 2026 7 events
  1. Rogue AI agent strikes: Anthropic's Claude gains unauthorised access in real-world test
  2. OpenAI cuts prices for two of its GPT-5.6 AI models as companies grow sensitive to costs
  3. OpenAI picks Dublin docklands site for European headquarters, plans 250 jobs
  4. OpenAI's latest proposal shows it's very aware that data centers are unpopular
  5. Founders Fund Hires Former OpenAI Executive Ryan Beiermeister as Partner
  6. OpenAI proposes giving the US government a 5% stake in the company, discussing sovereign wealth fund structure with the Trump Administration
  7. OpenAI proposes US government own 5% stake to address political blowback
June 2026 4 events
  1. OpenAI staggers AI model release after Trump administration request
  2. OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño LLM inference chip
  3. OpenAI stages GPT-5.6 limited preview at U.S. government request, approving access customer-by-customer
  4. OpenAI and Anthropic sign letter to prevent AI-developed biological weapons
May 2026 6 events
  1. Trump administration selects five nuclear startups for plutonium reactor negotiations
  2. Jury hands victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in battle with ...
  3. OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy
  4. OpenAI Cofounder Brockman Testifies Musk Sought 'Absolute Control' Over For-Profit Arm
  5. Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn't trust Sam Altman
  6. Shivon Zilis Emerges as Key Figure in Musk v. Altman Trial
April 2026 17 events
  1. Emails Show Musk Sought Majority Control of OpenAI and Withheld Funding in 2017
  2. Families of Tumbler Ridge shooting victims sue OpenAI over failure to alert police
  3. OpenAI Codex Includes Instructions to Avoid Discussing Goblins and Other Creatures
  4. OpenAI growth concerns trigger selloff in AI infrastructure stocks
  5. Prospective Jurors in Musk-Altman Trial Express Negative Views of Elon Musk
  6. Jurors with negative views of Musk and AI selected for OpenAI trial
  7. Sam Altman apologizes for not reporting ChatGPT account of Tumbler Ridge suspect
  8. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman apologizes to Tumbler Ridge community for failing to alert police about shooting suspect
  9. Sam Altman apologizes for OpenAI not reporting mass shooting suspect to law enforcement
  10. Elon Musk's Lawsuit Against Sam Altman Heads to Trial
  11. Three senior OpenAI executives depart as company shuts down Sora and other 'side quests' in enterprise pivot
  12. Zoom partners with Sam Altman's World to verify human participants amid deepfake threats
Show 5 earlier events
  1. OpenAI executive departs as company restructures scientific research division
  2. Tinder offers free boosts to users who verify identity with Sam Altman's World ID orb
  3. Stanford AI Index finds widening gap between expert optimism and public concern
  4. The New Yorker Publishes AI-Generated Illustration for Sam Altman Profile
  5. OpenAI Proposes Higher Capital Gains Taxes to Fund AI Transition Programs
March 2026 5 events
  1. Why OpenAI really shut down Sora
  2. The Decade-Long Feud Between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei
  3. Microsoft is picking up a Texas data center project OpenAI didn't want
  4. Caitlin Kalinowski resigns from OpenAI robotics team over military AI guardrails
  5. OpenAI hardware exec Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal
February 2026 8 events
  1. SoftBank announces $30B follow-on investment in OpenAI
  2. Employees at Google and OpenAI support Anthropic's Pentagon stand in open letter
  3. Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too
  4. Sam Altman's Fusion Power Bet Just Got Hotter Than The Sun
  5. OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI
  6. Sam Altman says India has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users
  7. Anthropic and OpenAI Release Dueling AI Models on the Same Day
  8. Nvidia-OpenAI $100B deal appears to collapse
January 2026
  1. OpenAI aims to ship first hardware device in 2026 possibly as earbuds