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Sam Altman

Sam Altman is the CEO of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI

October 2026

  • Rebecca Solnit

    How we win
    Americans, this is your chance to slap down the tech broligarchs

    Rebecca Solnit
  • A man speaks into a microphone

    US judge dismisses sexual abuse lawsuit from Sam Altman’s sister

  • Businessmen walking in server roomGettyImages-152401856

    AI overlords say they want to democratise their technology. Here’s how

    Richard Wilson and Clara Long
  • Moustafa Bayoumi

    Sam Altman says AI will make ‘bad things’ happen. Exhibit A: needless death

    Moustafa Bayoumi

  • Will the Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman movies make a dent on tech giant evangelism?

    Rory Doherty

  • OpenAI came to Australia to apologise. It will leave without answering these key questions

    Toby Walsh

  • First look review
    Artificial review – Luca Guadagnino takes on OpenAI in muddled tech satire

  • Is regulation enough to stop AI systems killing us all?

  • Stop worrying about my AI, says multibillionaire Sam Altman. So we bear the risks and he keeps the money

    Chris Stokel-Walker

  • Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

September 2026

  • Sam Altman speaks on stage beside colourful fuzzy characters under a large "dots" logo

    OpenAI announces ‘dots’ agent after scrapping launch of new AI model over safety concerns

  • A close-up of a wooden OpenAI logo sign beside an illuminated OpenAI banner at a conference venue

    OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing

  • Prime minister Anthony Albanese (left) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

    Revealed: the five-paragraph email OpenAI used to inform Australia about agent attack

  • Composite image showing Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic. The two CEOs have been called to face a Senate inquiry into AI by the Australian government

    Heads of OpenAI and Anthropic called to face Senate inquiry after rogue agent incidents

  • Today in Focus
    Rogue AI hacks government system in world first – The Latest

    Podcast13:30

  • Today in Focus: The Latest
    Rogue AI hacks government system for first time - The Latest

    Video12:23

  • OpenAI’s Medicare hack is a bleak opportunity for Australia to address its security shortcomings post-haste

    Van Badham

  • An OpenAI agent infiltrated Medicare – and Australia only found out months later. Here’s what we know so far

  • Australia launches investigation after OpenAI agent hacked healthcare database

  • OpenAI’s Altman and Anthropic’s Amodei address UN security council

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