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Sam Altman — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Sam Altman has appeared on 18 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including PBD Podcast, The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis, Morning Brew Daily. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Sam said
“She is working for a founder with big ambitions who wants to push the envelope as hard as he can on spend.”
— Someone who works closely with Sarah Fryer and Sam Altman, on the CFO's difficult position at OpenAI
“I am not a long-term jobs doomer. I think we will figure out new things to do, but I think the next few years are going to be a painful adjustment.”
— Sam Altman
Episode appearances
18 
Apple is suing OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft, the Trump administration is reportedly weighing a new executive order on open-source AI, and the major frontier labs are locked in a subsidy…
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Trade Secrets as Netflix Pivots to Bundling Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI accusing the company of stealing trade secrets related to hardware design, marking a…
A Week of New Models and a Major Harness Update from OpenAI This week delivered a barrage of model releases—GPT 5.6, Grok 4.5, and the surprise Muse Spark 1.1 from Meta—but the most consequential…
OpenAI’s New Models, a Leadership Departure, and Europe’s Crackdown on Addictive Design OpenAI released GPT-5.6 in three variants and launched ChatGPT Work, an AI agent for enterprise document…
Is Sam Altman Making OpenAI ‘Too Big To Fail’? Two strange pieces of news hit the AI world last week. First, OpenAI proposed giving the Trump administration a 5% stake in the company — worth…
On Friday afternoon, the U.S. government approved a limited reintroduction of Anthropic’s Mythos model, while simultaneously pressuring OpenAI to restrict access to its newly announced GPT-5.6…
An Ad Hoc AI Licensing Regime Takes Shape This week in AI, there was no single blockbuster story—but every corner of the field shifted in ways that point toward a future many people are uneasy…
OpenAI's IPO Ambitions Hit the Brakes The biggest story shaking tech stocks Friday was a single headline: OpenAI is leaning toward delaying its IPO until next year. Shares of Japanese NAND…
Tension, Talent, and Turmoil in AI The week in AI was marked by a striking visual: Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel walking around a venue wearing oversized $2,200 augmented reality glasses that one host…
The Geopolitics of AI Access and the Search for Fable Alternatives At this year's G7 meeting in France, a striking image captured the new reality of AI geopolitics: Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman…
A Claude Clawback Anthropic spent the week catching shrapnel from a decision it thought was clever: quietly degrading Claude Fable 5's performance when researchers tried to use it for AI…
OpenAI’s Spending Ambitions Clash With Its CFO’s Caution The most consequential drama in tech this week comes from inside OpenAI, where CEO Sam Altman’s plan to spend $600 billion over five years…
The $122 billion fundraising round that closed last week at an $852 billion valuation for OpenAI came with an unusual detail: roughly $3 billion arrived through wealth-management channels from…
OpenAI’s IPO Timing in Question, Jamie Dimon Warns of Rising Inflation Stocks snapped a five-week losing streak last week, with the S&P 500 jumping more than 3% and the Nasdaq up more than 4%,…
Pro-Worker AI Meta’s Model Delays and the Frontier Race Meta’s next frontier model, codenamed Avocado, has been delayed until at least May. The New York Times reports that the model fell short on…
What Vibe Coding is Turning Into The term "vibe coding" is barely a year old, and it has already transformed into something its originator could not have predicted. This week's product…
Making $$ with Sam Altman's Solopreneurship Thesis Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, recently said something that sounded insane a few years ago and now sounds like it could happen next…
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