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Meta Acquires Manus, Nvidia's $20B Groq deal, Doordash's Reddit Firestorm l Diet TBPN Jan 6, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:54 unnamed speaker Uh, he, he gives a line from Sam Altman that is, uh, Sam says, I think that AI will probably most likely sort of lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning. 2 times in the scene

TBPN Year in Review Dec 20, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:57 John Coogan Sam Altman has a good sense of humor.
  • ▶ 20:57 John Coogan Sam Altman's decision to declare a code red at OpenAI earlier this month may have caught the industry's attention, but it wasn't the first time that the artificial intelligence company has done a code red.

OpenAI Sets Sights on $750 BILLION Valuation Dec 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:20 unnamed speaker Funny post, uh, Sam says, sell me this pen.
  • ▶ 31:25 unnamed speaker I guess, I guess Sam Altman has yawned.

Amazon Bets $10B on OpenAI | News Reaction Dec 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:15 unnamed speaker Well, Sam Allman would like a word with Andy Jassy, and he says, I need ten billion, and Andy says, sure, as long as you buy a bunch of tranium chips.
  • ▶ 16:55 unnamed speaker I think you could be Sam Altman and Marshall a fifty billion dollar fundraising round.

Ford PULLS BACK EV Investment Dec 17, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:22 John Coogan Sam Altman teased it with a photo that at this point, you know, him and a bunch of, uh, him and a bunch of polos. 2 times in the scene

OpenAI ENDS Vesting Cliff Dec 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:37 Jordan Higgins I saw somebody saying that, uh, the, the BG two interview with Sam may, they, they were claiming like, it's very possibly helped us avoid a 2002 1001 style.

GPT-5.2 Reactions, Jacob Elordi vs AI, Disney x OpenAI Deal Breakdown | Diet TBPN Dec 13, 2025 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 0:12 unnamed speaker Sam Altman, of course, what was this, on GPT-Five day, August sixth, he posted a picture of the Death Star rising on the horizon. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:15 unnamed speaker That's the gap between Sam's the Star Wars Death Star vague posts and yesterday's announcement that Disney is investing one billion dollars into open AI and giving them a three-year license that allows users to generate
  • ▶ 5:31 unnamed speaker Knowing Sam and Josh, they've likely negotiated to get Soar ChatGPT broad exposure across Disney properties, both online and offline.
  • ▶ 8:58 unnamed speaker You do something crazy, and then you throw the SOAR watermark on it just to take a shot at Sam. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:38 unnamed speaker The big question is, how will Sam Altman be perceived? 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:37 unnamed speaker Scoop OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gathered news leaders for lunch in New York City on Monday. 2 times in the scene

Disney Partners with OpenAI, Breaking Down SpaceX’s IPO Plans, Oracle Slips | Diet TBPN Dec 12, 2025 · 1 mention

Paramount’s Deal Playbook, Trump Opens Nvidia’s China Door, Saudis Loosen Drinking Laws | Diet TBPN Dec 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:42 unnamed speaker Sam, Sam was, Sam looked like he was running away with it over the summer. 2 times in the scene

Live From NYSE, The Gemini Win Scenario, OpenAI Monetizing With Ads | Diet TBPN Dec 5, 2025 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 9:23 unnamed speaker We'll all be like, we will stand with you, Sam Altman and Fiji-Simo.
  • ▶ 12:10 unnamed speaker This, this projection is factoring in Sam trying to also build SpaceX within OpenAI. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:02 unnamed speaker Okay, it's good to have a space data center bet, and so you need a partnership, and realistically, Sam's not going to partner with SpaceX on it. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:35 unnamed speaker I mean, this does, this does in some way, in some way mirror the Johnny Ive, Sam Altman video of, like, them getting coffee together.

Will AWS Buy Google’s TPUs, Remembering Claude The Gator, Ricursive Raises $35M | Diet TBPN Dec 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:12 unnamed speaker They don't have a Sam.

The World’s Fastest Growing Defense Company, OpenAI’s Code Red, Google Strikes Back | Diet TBPN Dec 3, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 6:47 John Coogan The, the code red, like, leak from this, the, the information reported, it was clearly, like, some sort of all hands that Sam Altman was, uh, you know, holding a town hall with the rest of the OpenAI team, and he's kind of just saying,… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:06 Jordi Hays So what, what Sam said in the, uh, internal Slack memo is he was directing more employees to focus on improving features of ChatGPT, such as personalizing the chat bot for more than eight hundred million people. 2 times in the scene

ChatGPT Turns Three, OpenAI x Thrive, David Sacks vs. The New York Times | Diet TBPN Dec 2, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:19 unnamed speaker Sam Altman says, David Sachs really understands AI and cares about the US leading in innovation.
  • ▶ 19:27 unnamed speaker Jensen called Altman and initiated the ten billion dollar deal after he saw the information about, ah, the information article about OpenAI testing TPUs.

Elon Musk & Tesla's Real Problem | Doug DeMuro Live on TBPN Nov 26, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 42:36 unnamed speaker Do you think Sam Altman paid twenty million for the Gordon Murray S one? 5 times in the scene

Ilya Sutskever on Dwarkesh Patel Reaction, NVIDIA vs Google, Trump Unveils Genesis | Diet TBPN Nov 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:14 unnamed speaker A 4.4 million dollar mission district home shared by investor Lockheed Groom, yes, Sam Altman's ex-boyfriend, and another tech investor named Joshua.

Reverse Engineering 200 AI Startups, Nucleus Genomics Controversy, Drone Hunting | Diet TBPN Nov 25, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 13:13 John Coogan Sam Altman replied to one of our cards we put up, uh, on November, 22nd Sam Altman replied and said, cannot believe this is only two years ago. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:34 unnamed speaker I saw this picture and my first thought was like, that's gotta be AI specifically because I don't think Sam is just walking down the Golden Gate Bridge in the middle of the day.

Nvidia Q3 Earnings, Travis Kalanick's New Startup, Google's Nano Banana Pro Reaction | Diet TBPN Nov 21, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 22:13 unnamed speaker Sam pulled it off. 4 times in the scene

Google Gemini 3 Reactions, Google Antigravity, Anthropic-Nvidia-Microsoft Deal | Diet TBPN Nov 19, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 19:37 unnamed speaker It's a better answer than, than what Sam gave. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:20 unnamed speaker And I think Sam actually cooperated with it a little bit or like gave some interviews for it.

Jeff Bezos’ New AI Startup, Yann LeCun Says LLMs are a Dead End, Thiel Fund Sells NVIDIA | Diet TBPN Nov 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:40 unnamed speaker And then, ah, the tweet of Sam Altman saying we're bringing back Fora was August eighth, so it was one day later.

Thursday's Diet TBPN Nov 14, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 11:05 unnamed speaker She then referred to the loosening of those restrictions that CEO Sam Altman has said will be implemented for adults in December.
  • ▶ 21:23 unnamed speaker Has the mood become that CEO Sam Altman felt 2 times in the scene

Wednesday’s Diet TBPN Nov 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:00 Jordi Hays They wanna create, Sam, you know, alluded to a AI native Slack recently.

AGI in 2035, SoftBank Sells Nvidia, Buffett Goes Quiet | Diet TBPN Nov 12, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker It started when Sam Altman put out that post, like, super intelligence is just a few thousand days away. 2 times in the scene

Elon's Trillion Dollar Pay Package | Diet TBPN Nov 8, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker The timeline is in turmoil over Sam Altman again. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:27 unnamed speaker What does it mean for Sam Altman at open AI? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:41 Tyler Cosgrove Let's start, uh, with Sam Altman.
  • ▶ 17:19 unnamed speaker Altman today.

Jared Isaacman Back In The Cockpit at NASA | Diet TBPN Nov 6, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:52 unnamed speaker Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a, I don't know if he's a journalist, but there's a blogger who was trying to argue simultaneously that Sam Altman has never, like, created anything in his life, he's non-technical, like, he's not, he's not… 2 times in the scene

Mark Gurman on Apple Glasses Release Date, The Next AirPods, The Problem With Siri & More Nov 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:40 unnamed speaker Sam was pressed pretty hard on, on his, uh, spend commitments on Friday, and one of the justifications that he gave for why, like, basically, like, how they were gonna be able to spend that kind of dollars was something to the effect of,… 2 times in the scene

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Live on TBPN Oct 28, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:00 Satya Nadella I've known Sam for a long time, um, since his first company pre-IC days. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:30 Satya Nadella To me, I think, first of all, I think one of the reasons why, quite frankly, both Sam and I, I think, agree on this, which is, it's become a bit of a, a nonsensical word.

Brian Chesky Live on TBPN Oct 22, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 19:35 Brian Chesky I keep telling people, and I told this to Sam Altman, one of my best friends, that no one company can run the entire economy.
  • ▶ 20:56 unnamed speaker Wait, so, uh, you asked, you told Sam Altman he can't control the entire economy. 4 times in the scene

OpenAI Drops A Web Browser? Our Reactions | Diet TBPN Oct 22, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 2:29 Jordi Hays First of all, let's say thank you to Sam Altman for constantly creating content. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:17 Jordi Hays Sam's looking at that margin profile, just being like, Jensen, I'm so

Marc Benioff on AI Agents' Biggest Problem Oct 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:38 Jordi Hays Is that what, did you use that by, did you use that by the way to, to make that picture with, with, uh, Sam?

George Hotz Goes OFF | Tweet Reactions Oct 16, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 0:02 unnamed speaker Yesterday, Sam Altman made waves with a post about loosening the content restrictions such that, uh, users would be able to create text erotica, and that put the timeline in turmoil, and a lot of people are very upset about it. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:53 unnamed speaker Sam Altman has replied to his, uh, his post about erotic content in ChatGPT. 6 times in the scene

How Josh Kushner Became The Most Powerful VC in New York Oct 15, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 13:54 unnamed speaker Sam Altman said, most investors don't work that hard. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:22 unnamed speaker And Sam Altman shared a little bit more about the custom chips that they're working on. 2 times in the scene

Andrew Ross Sorkin on Why 1929 is Happening Again Oct 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:38 Andrew Ross Sorkin So sort of like what we see now, you know, whether you, Sam Altman or Elon Musk or whatever, that really, that whole kind of celebrity CEO that started then.

Acquired Podcast Hosts Break Down Google’s $1 Trillion Mistake Oct 9, 2025 · 1 mention

Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption Sep 13, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 32:00 unnamed speaker Sam Altman. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:04:42 unnamed speaker I, I feel like for watching some of these, like I was watching the Tucker, uh, Sam Altman interview and, um, there's a certain level of polish that some of these, some of these, uh, CEOs have when they get to a certain level of media… 2 times in the scene

Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories Sep 6, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 43:49 Jordi Hays Um, I, I think that Sam recognizes, I mean, every consumer tech entrepreneur has like realized how important it is to integrate at the hardware level, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:24:40 unnamed speaker The president, the first lady, Susie Wiles, Sergey Brin, uh, Gerilyn Gilbert Soto, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Anna Brockman, Safra Katz at Oracle, Gal Tarosh,

Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping Aug 23, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 36:29 John Coogan I think Mark, I think Sam Altman said something to this effect saying that, uh, artificial intelligence will be superhuman at persuasion before it is truly super intelligent. 2 times in the scene

Mark Cuban on AI, Career Advice, and Running for President. Aug 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:21 John Coogan Yeah, I think, Mark, I think Sam Altman said something to this effect, saying that, uh, artificial intelligence will be superhuman at persuasion before it is truly super intelligent. 2 times in the scene

BREAKING: Sam Altman VS Elon Musk Aug 12, 2025 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 0:12 John Coogan Elon Musk and Sam Altman are fighting.
  • ▶ 6:54 unnamed speaker Sam Altman fires back, says, this is a remarkable claim. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:06 unnamed speaker Sam is saying here, you never know. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:48 unnamed speaker So, they, ChatGPT quoted Grok saying that Sam Altman is right and said good bot.

Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5 Aug 9, 2025 · 15 mentions

The State Of AI in 15 Minutes Aug 8, 2025 · 18 mentions

  • ▶ 0:11 unnamed speaker We have Sam Altman, founder, CEO. 16 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:28 unnamed speaker Microsoft tried to do a trade deal during the 2023 chaotic trade deal, trade window that opened up post Sam Altman ouster, but he stuck with the OpenAI team, and now he's president of the company.
  • ▶ 4:47 unnamed speaker Don't give the keys to Sam Altman.

Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift Aug 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:37 Jordi Hays Sam also was talking about how a lot of people are using AI as like a confidant, like a, you know, a friend, things like that, and he mentioned that currently,

Google’s Genie 3 Builds Game Maps From a Single Prompt Aug 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:05 unnamed speaker But like, there is a, there is a story out there that people are telling in the media in books that basically says Sam Altman got fired because he launched HGPT, right?

Microsoft’s Cloud Outpaces Its AI Growth Aug 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:56 unnamed speaker Sam is, you know, renegotiating the deal.

SAMIR CHAUDRY: ChatGPT Might Kill YouTube — Here's How Aug 6, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:13 Samir Chaudry And I think Sam Altman has created something that is meaningful enough to capture a lot of attention.
  • ▶ 22:16 Samir Chaudry I just think that, um, you know, I, I did get, Colin and I did get the opportunity to spend some time with, with Sam Altman, uh, and I think, um, 2 times in the scene

Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs Jul 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:47:15 John Coogan The layoff seems like reasonable downsiding, but, uh, deciding, hey, we're not even going to compete on the, on the most advanced semiconductors, which is what Elon, Google, Anthropic, Sam Altman, you know, every single company is like,…

Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf Jul 19, 2025 · 1 mention

Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses Jul 12, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:38:58 unnamed speaker And Sam Altman was talking about that too.
  • ▶ 2:43:53 unnamed speaker What's interesting is they're like Sam Altman at open AI and just the fact that open AI is a company, like there is kind of a mandate to like vertically and horizontally integrate, figure out code, figure out research, figure out devices.

ELON MUSK's New Grok 4 Is Here! - We Break it Down Jul 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:09 unnamed speaker And Sam Altman was talking about that, too.

Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill Jul 5, 2025 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 2:06:11 John Coogan Chen promised that he was working with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and other leaders of the company around the clock to talk to those with offers, adding, we've been more proactive than ever before. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:09:16 John Coogan Zuckerberg has been particularly aggressive in his approach, offering one hundred million dollar signing bonuses to some open AI staffers, according to comments Altman made on a podcast with his brother, Jack Altman. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:19:37 John Coogan The sentiment is backed by a former open AI staffer who worked closely with Altman and this, and said the CEO wanted to see buzzy announcements, announcements every few months. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:27:21 John Coogan Uh, Satwik Singh says, what Sam never understood was that Zuckerberg torched twenty billion over VR headsets with Nintendo Wii graphics and didn't even flinch.
  • ▶ 2:55:02 John Coogan Um, but what, what do you think of, uh, Sam Altman's ability to get through this?
  • ▶ 3:10:08 John Coogan Sam Altman slams meta AI's, uh, talent poaching spree. 5 times in the scene

Apple Considers New AI partnership Jul 1, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:39 John Coogan You don't want to be waiting around for, oh yeah, like at the next WWDC, they're going to improve it when Sam Altman shipped like it's 25. 2 times in the scene

Meta Poaches OpenAI Engineers Jul 1, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 6:07 unnamed speaker Uh, Chen promised that he was working with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and other leaders of the company around the clock to talk to those with offers, adding, we've been more proactive than ever before. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:13 unnamed speaker Zuckerberg has been particularly aggressive in his approach, offering one hundred million dollar signing bonuses to some OpenAI staffers, according to comments Altman made on a podcast with his brother, Jack Altman. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:34 unnamed speaker The sentiment is backed by a former OpenAI staffer who worked closely with Altman and said the CEO wanted to see buzzy announcements every few months. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:18 unnamed speaker Uh, Satwik Singh says, what Sam never understood was that Zuckerberg torched twenty billion over VR headsets with Nintendo Wii graphics and didn't even flinch.

Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update Jun 28, 2025 · 1 mention

We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025) Jun 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:34 Garry Tan I thought, um, Sam's essay yesterday was just very prescient in that, um,

Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely Jun 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:12 John Coogan This looks like he's about to go on stage and he has a lav mic and it's from a low angle, but like what lighting scenario created this photo? 2 times in the scene
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