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Sam Altman

Sam Altman is the CEO of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI

September 2026

  • Sam Altman speaks on stage beside colourful fuzzy characters under a large "dots" logo

    OpenAI announces ‘dots’ agent after scrapping launch of new AI model over safety concerns

  • A close-up of a wooden OpenAI logo sign beside an illuminated OpenAI banner at a conference venue

    OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing

  • Prime minister Anthony Albanese (left) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

    Revealed: the five-paragraph email OpenAI used to inform Australia about agent attack

  • Composite image showing Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic. The two CEOs have been called to face a Senate inquiry into AI by the Australian government

    Heads of OpenAI and Anthropic called to face Senate inquiry after rogue agent incidents

  • Today in Focus
    Rogue AI hacks government system in world first – The Latest

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    Rogue AI hacks government system for first time - The Latest

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  • OpenAI’s Medicare hack is a bleak opportunity for Australia to address its security shortcomings post-haste

    Van Badham

  • An OpenAI agent infiltrated Medicare – and Australia only found out months later. Here’s what we know so far

  • Australia launches investigation after OpenAI agent hacked healthcare database

  • OpenAI’s Altman and Anthropic’s Amodei address UN security council

  • British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge mass school shooting

  • Can Trump and Xi cooperate to guide humanity through the AI revolution? Humanity might depend on it

    Alan Finkel

  • China bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenario

  • Allowing AI firms to collude to ‘pace the frontier’ is a dangerous proposition

  • ‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation

  • The US government is failing Americans on AI

    Shakeel Hashim

  • Could AI really wipe out humanity – six experts spell out the risks

  • Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race

  • AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they?

  • OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development

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