Sam Altman comes out swinging at The New York Times

Photo: Sam Altman speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017 on September 19, 2017 in San Francisco, California. Photo credit: Steve Jennings / Getty Images for TechCrunch via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Maxwell Zeff. TechCrunch – June 25, 2025.

From the moment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped onstage, it was clear this was not going to be a normal interview. Altman and his chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, stood awkwardly toward the back of the stage at a jam-packed San Francisco venue that typically hosts jazz concerts. Hundreds of people filled steep theater-style seating on Tuesday night to watch Kevin Roose, a columnist with The New York Times, and Platformer’s Casey Newton record a live episode of their popular technology podcast, Hard Fork. […]

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