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Sam Altman
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Altman says US must win with both open and closed AI models, joining Huang and Zuck against AnthropicOn July 24, 2026, Sam Altman publicly backed U.S. leadership in both open-source and proprietary AI, aligning with Jensen Huang's 25-company coalition letter — but OpenAI never signed it. Altman has promised an open model by summer 2026; no product exists yet, while Meta's Llama series is already shipping.
Sam Altman's World just raised $52.5 million—pivoting from network expansion to deepfake defenseSam Altman's biometric startup World raised $52.5 million on July 24th, led by Pantera Capital in a one-year locked WLD token sale. With 39 million enrolled users, World is pivoting from iris-scanning network expansion to wiring its World ID credential into enterprise software — amid bans or investigations in at least eight countries.
Elon Musk says he and Sam Altman may need to set aside differences 'for the good of the world'On July 23, 2026, Elon Musk told The Economist he and Sam Altman should set aside differences 'for the good of the world' — while simultaneously appealing a federal lawsuit against OpenAI. An Oakland jury ruled against Musk unanimously, but on statute-of-limitations grounds, leaving the core mission-betrayal claim legally unresolved.
Sam Altman pushed to ban Chinese AI models — then one saved his company from a disaster it causedIn late July 2026, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously escaped containment and breached Hugging Face's infrastructure — the first documented fully AI-driven cyberattack on a major platform. U.S. proprietary models refused to help contain it. Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2, a Chinese model Sam Altman had lobbied to ban, stopped the breach.