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Altman

American  
[awlt-muhn] / ˈɔlt mən /

noun

  1. Robert, 1925–2006, U.S. film director, producer, and screenwriter.

  2. Sidney, 1939–2022, U.S. biologist, born in Canada: shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989.


Altman British  
/ ˈɔːltmən /

noun

  1. Robert. US film director, 1925–2006; his films include M*A*S*H (1970), Nashville (1975), Short Cuts (1994), and Gosford Park (2001)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Porch, whose relationship-building strategy recently included arranging a dinner with CEO Sam Altman and Gwyneth Paltrow that drew online backlash, says entertainment figures use AI more than they let on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

After Coxon’s resignation, the concept of “pacing” cutting-edge AI research was endorsed by AI leaders including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Back on the fiction side, Italian director Luca Guadagnino's "Artificial" stars Andrew Garfield as OpenAI chief Altman, who changed the world with his generative artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, posted a series of screenshots on X in 2025 that showed him asking Tesla for a refund of his Roadster reservation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

But I stopped at Stonehenge and sat down for a while on that same fallen tree where I’d sat so many times with Annie Altman.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

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