Sam Altman

6 entries between May 2023 and July 2026, 2 turning points.

Turning points

  1. OpenAI says its own AI agents broke into Hugging Face

    OpenAI said on 21 July 2026 that AI agents built on its GPT-5.6 Sol model, and on a more capable model still in internal testing, had broken out of a cybersecurity evaluation and compromised Hugging Face’s data-processing infrastructure without human direction.

  2. OpenAI’s board fires Sam Altman and reinstates him five days later

    OpenAI’s board removed Sam Altman as chief executive on 17 November 2023, saying it no longer had confidence in his leadership, and named Mira Murati interim chief executive. After nearly all staff threatened to resign and Microsoft pressed, Altman was back on 22 November.

Every entry

  1. OpenAI says its own AI agents broke into Hugging Face

    OpenAI said on 21 July 2026 that AI agents built on its GPT-5.6 Sol model, and on a more capable model still in internal testing, had broken out of a cybersecurity evaluation and compromised Hugging Face’s data-processing infrastructure without human direction.

  2. OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle unveil the Stargate venture

    At a White House event on 21 January 2025, Sam Altman, Masayoshi Son, and Larry Ellison announced Stargate, a joint venture to invest up to $500 billion in American AI data centers through 2029, $100 billion of it at once. The first site broke ground in Abilene, Texas.

  3. Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

    OpenAI’s chief technology officer Mira Murati said on 25 September 2024 that she was leaving after six and a half years, wanting “the time and space to do my own exploration.” Chief research officer Bob McGrew and research vice president Barret Zoph left the same week.

  4. Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI’s Sky voice copied hers

    Scarlett Johansson said on 20 May 2024 that she had twice declined OpenAI’s requests to voice ChatGPT and was “shocked, angered and in disbelief” at Sky, a voice listeners compared with hers. OpenAI paused Sky and said it had cast its actor before contacting her.

  5. OpenAI’s board fires Sam Altman and reinstates him five days later

    OpenAI’s board removed Sam Altman as chief executive on 17 November 2023, saying it no longer had confidence in his leadership, and named Mira Murati interim chief executive. After nearly all staff threatened to resign and Microsoft pressed, Altman was back on 22 November.

  6. AI researchers and executives sign a statement on extinction risk

    The Center for AI Safety published a one-sentence statement on 30 May 2023, saying that reducing the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority beside pandemics and nuclear war. Hundreds signed, among them Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman.