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Sam Altman

Chief executive of OpenAI, whose datable public statements about self-improving systems, takeoff speed and capability jumps the corpus records as insider testimony.

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Welcome to December 28, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Sam Altman runs OpenAI, and in this corpus he is the insider whose statements date the loop’s arrival: in a post the newsletter carried on 28 December 2025 he confirmed OpenAI was running systems that can self-improve and needed a Head of Preparedness to manage them. He later promised a model 100x more capable and cheaper, said his inside view pointed to a faster takeoff than expected, and reported feeling useless after asking Codex for ideas.

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2026-10-09: Altman celebrates the mathematics release

2026-10-05: Altman advocates accepting some hacking risk for broad AI access

2026-10-05: Altman calls religious authority for AI a safety concern

2026-09-29: Australia summons AI executives after a reported agent breach

2026-09-27: Altman calls for shared standards and incident reporting

2026-09-24: Altman describes a model strategy across price levels

2026-09-20: Cook and Altman are expected at a dinner with Xi

2026-06-12: A chief executive warns recursive self-improvement could delay his own IPO

2026-06-01: A frontier lab starts hiring to build robots

2026-04-13: A car stops outside the CEO's home and fires a gun

2026-04-12: A founder asks people to stop throwing Molotov cocktails at his house

2026-04-07: OpenAI proposes automated-labor taxes and a public wealth fund

2026-04-03: Forecasters pull their timelines forward eighteen months in three

2026-03-25: OpenAI renames its product organization AGI Deployment

2026-03-16: Million-token context ships across a model family

2026-03-12: Hard reasoning gets a thousand times cheaper in sixteen months

2026-02-23: Altman says his inside view points to a faster takeoff

2026-02-03: Altman says asking Codex for ideas made him feel useless

2026-01-27: Altman promises a model 100x more capable and cheaper

2026-01-24: Researchers are said to be replaced first, sales last

2026-01-09: OpenAI is reportedly eight months from intern-level researchers

2025-12-30: An AI-discovered Alzheimer's drug enters healthy humans

2025-12-28: Altman confirms self-improving systems are running in production

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Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI

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Sam Altman
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- Welcome to December 28, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-28-2025
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