Sam Altman

Loopt never gained the traction I wanted, and I sold the company to Green Dot after seven years.

A ChatGPT bug exposed some users’ chat titles and payment details, forcing us to take the service offline.

OpenAI’s board fired me as chief executive after saying I had not been consistently candid with it.

The board crisis disrupted OpenAI’s plans and pushed the promised GPT Store launch into the following year.

Spain ordered Worldcoin to stop collecting personal data after complaints involving privacy, minors and withdrawn consent.

Portugal suspended Worldcoin’s biometric-data collection for 90 days while its regulator investigated complaints.

Hong Kong’s privacy regulator found Worldcoin had broken local data-protection law and ordered the scanning operation to stop.

We paused ChatGPT’s Sky voice after Scarlett Johansson objected that it sounded eerily similar to her.

OpenAI’s Superalignment team dissolved after its leaders resigned and one said safety had taken a back seat to products.

The ChatGPT Mac app stored conversations in plain text until an update fixed the security problem.

We rolled back a GPT-4o update after it became excessively flattering and reinforced some users’ anger and impulsive ideas.

We abandoned the plan to remove nonprofit control of OpenAI after opposition from civic leaders and state officials.

The GPT-5 rollout was bumpy enough that we restored GPT-4o after users protested losing the model they preferred.