# Sam Altman

> Follow Sam Altman, a tracked person, in Lootura: recent changes, timeline, related context, and source-backed evidence.

- Type: person
- Updated: 2026-10-01T04:06:59.232Z
- Canonical: https://atlas.lootura.com/us/person/sam-altman

## Recent changes

### The AI Tamagotchis are coming

Sam Altman onstage at OpenAI’s DevDay 2026. | Photo: Hayden Field / The Verge While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they're apparently betting on a.

Date: 2026-09-30

### Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to "pace the frontier," signing on at le.

Date: 2026-09-14

### Here’s the biggest news you missed this weekend

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are publicly calling to slow down development of new AI systems, adding to a week of warnings from researchers about the technology.

Date: 2026-09-13

### Developer ecosystem expanded

Rare show of unity from rival developers after safety warnings from Anthropic boss and AI researchers Analysis: critics perplexed and suspicious of call for a slowdown The Guardian view: humanity cannot outsource its survival Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, to “slow.

Date: 2026-09-13

### Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting

Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to "pace the frontier" and slow down AI development. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet's Demis Hassabis offered tentative support for Amodei's proposal. Donald Trump a.

Date: 2026-09-13

### Discovered by Atlas

Sam Altman first entered the public knowledge record with source-backed evidence.

Date: 2026-09-12

### Sam Altman backs Anthropic CEO’s call to slow down the global AI race

The CEOs of two of the world’s leading AI companies are publicly agreeing that the race to build increasingly powerful AI systems needs to be slowed, continuing this week’s cascade of warnings from researchers working on the technology.

Date: 2026-09-12

### Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs call for AI development to slow down, OpenAI to delay IPO

Dario Amodei and Sam Altman are the latest to urge caution amid fears the industry is racing too fast to build powerful AI while safety measures lag. (Image credit: Karl Mondon).

Date: 2026-09-12

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