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Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO and co-founder. Also behind Worldcoin / Tools for Humanity.

5 articles First covered Apr 18, 2026, latest Jun 26, 2026

Sam Altman and Broadcom CEO Hock Tan holding a Jalapeño Intelligence Processor wafer mounted in an acrylic display

OpenAI built its own AI chip with Broadcom. The target is Nvidia's inference margins.

Jalapeño is OpenAI's first custom inference processor, co-designed with Broadcom. Here's what a purpose-built inference ASIC actually buys you, and who else is doing it.

Elon Musk speaking at the World Economic Forum.

Policy·3 months ago

A federal jury took two hours to throw out Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.

On May 18 a nine-juror panel rejected every claim Musk filed against OpenAI in 2024. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had told the courtroom she was ready to dismiss on the spot.

AWS marketing illustration of an interconnected machine-learning workflow.

AI·3 months ago

OpenAI's models are on AWS Bedrock the day after Microsoft lost exclusivity

Amazon shipped Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI on April 28, plus Codex on Bedrock. Altman tells Stratechery the runtime matters as much as the model.

World ID blog branding from Tools for Humanity, the Sam Altman-backed company behind the Orb

AI·3 months ago

Worldcoin promoted a Bruno Mars partnership that doesn't exist. His team had to say so publicly.

Sam Altman's World pitched its 'Concert Kit' ticketing feature with a Bruno Mars partnership at its April 17 event. Live Nation told reporters no such deal exists.

The World Orb, a chrome sphere used to scan human irises for World ID verification

AI·4 months ago

Sam Altman's Orb is now your Tinder badge. World goes mass-market.

World ID is rolling out to Tinder US, Zoom, Shopify, DocuSign, and Okta. Tools for Humanity is betting iris scans solve the bot problem.