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    Sam Altman

    Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI

    Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI

    Background

    Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor who has been chief executive officer of OpenAI since 2019.

    He co-founded OpenAI in 2015, and he was president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019.

    About OpenAI

    OpenAI: OpenAI is a company that develops AI models. On October 6, 2026 it published a public repository of 719 mathematical manuscripts from an internal model.

    Key facts

    Current title
    Chief executive officer (CEO) of OpenAI since 2019source
    Co-founded OpenAI
    2015source
    Y Combinator
    President of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019source
    Education
    Studied computer science at Stanford University for two years; dropped out in 2005 without a bachelor's degreesource
    Title
    OpenAI CEOsource
    Co-founded
    World, the identity projectsource
    Headline
    Decrypt's headline calls World 'Sam Altman's World'source

    WYDE coverage of Sam Altman

    WYDE Newsroom has published 13 articles about Sam Altman, from Feb 28, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026. Sam Altman is a named leader in 7 stories, a founder in 3 stories and the subject of 3 stories. The most recent is World ID Suite for Banks Cites a $40B U.S. AI Fraud Forecast for 2027, About 3.3 Times the 2023 Estimate.

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    World ID Suite for Banks Cites a $40B U.S. AI Fraud Forecast for 2027, About 3.3 Times the 2023 Estimate

    World launched a World ID suite for banks, and The Block reported it on October 18, 2026. The $40 billion figure is a Deloitte forecast of U.S. AI-enabled fraud losses by 2027.

    Oct 22, 2026 · 3 min read · Quoted or named as leader

    AI

    AI Leaders Warn the UN Security Council That Advanced Systems Could Slip Beyond Human Control

    The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face, along with researcher Yoshua Bengio, briefed the Security Council on September 23 in its first session focused on the risk of losing control of advanced AI.

    Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read · Quoted or named as leader

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    A New Antitrust Lawsuit Says the Top AI Labs Illegally Agreed to Slow Down

    A proposed class action filed in California accuses OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google of violating antitrust law by coordinating to slow AI development, days after the labs publicly called for an industrywide safety slowdown.

    Sep 22, 2026 · 2 min read · Quoted or named as leader

    WYDE Weekly

    The Creator Economy Crossed $1 Billion, the CLARITY Act Died in the Senate, and Everyday Money Kept Ending Hunger. Over 70,600 Meals.

    MrBeast's next video cost $10 million and the top creators crossed $1 billion, the CLARITY Act failed 49 to 50, tokenized Treasuries opened to 35 million accounts, and creators and restaurants can now get paid to end hunger with the EAT Card.

    Sep 19, 2026 · 7 min read · Founder

    Crypto & DeFi

    World Launches World Money, a Self-Custodial Stablecoin App Reaching More Than 150 Countries

    The super app from Sam Altman and Alex Blania's Tools for Humanity lets users hold stablecoins in eight currencies, fund from Apple Pay through Stripe, and connects to Kalshi and Morpho, with World ID verification built in.

    Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read · Founder

    Crypto & DeFi

    World Launches World Money, a Self-Custodial Stablecoin Super App, Across 150 Countries

    World Money is a self-custodial stablecoin super app from Sam Altman and Alex Blania's World, launching across 150-plus countries with Stripe and Apple Pay on-ramps, Morpho yield, and World ID identity built into the payment rail.

    Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min read · Quoted or named as leader

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    OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind Have Been Coordinating on AI Safety for Weeks

    OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed the three leading AI labs have spent weeks coordinating on frontier AI safety, weighing an industry standards body and independent verification, even as the White House dismisses the risks.

    Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read · Quoted or named as leader

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    OpenAI Says Its Astra Model Solved Ten Math Problems Open for More Than a Decade

    OpenAI confirmed the Astra name on August 1 with a report claiming an internal version solved ten open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, at about $2,000 in tokens, days after Sam Altman demoed the model family to policymakers in Washington.

    Aug 2, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

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    OpenAI Floats Giving the US Government a 5% Stake Worth $42.6 Billion

    OpenAI discussed handing Washington a 5% equity stake through a public wealth fund modeled on Alaska's oil dividend, a plan that would give every American a financial stake in AI, the Financial Times reports.

    Jul 2, 2026 · 2 min read · Quoted or named as leader

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    OpenAI's Brockman Discloses $30 Billion Stake and Cannot Identify Charges as Musk Nonprofit Fiduciary Trial Intensifies

    OpenAI president Greg Brockman testified his $30 billion stake came with zero cash invested as Musk's nonprofit fiduciary trial reaches its most damaging exchanges yet.

    May 5, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

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    Two People Used AI to Treat Cancer When Institutions Couldn't. Both Worked.

    A tech CEO used AI to direct his own cancer treatment into remission. A developer used AI to design an mRNA vaccine for his dog's cancer. Both bypassed institutional gatekeeping.

    Mar 29, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

    Crypto & DeFi

    Sam Altman's World and Coinbase Launch Identity Layer for AI Agent Commerce

    Sam Altman's World launches AgentKit with Coinbase x402, enabling verified human-backed AI agents to transact autonomously using stablecoin micropayments.

    Mar 23, 2026 · 2 min read · Founder

    Government & Fraud

    Trump Orders All Federal Agencies to Stop Using Anthropic Technology

    Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic technology. Defense Secretary Hegseth declared the AI company a supply chain risk to national security.

    Feb 28, 2026 · 2 min read · Quoted or named as leader

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