Altman

American

[awlt-muhn] / ˈɔlt mən /

noun

Robert, 1925–2006, U.S. film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Sidney, 1939–2022, U.S. biologist, born in Canada: shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989.

Altman British

/ ˈɔːltmən /

noun

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

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Last year, OpenAI acquired a startup co-founded by former Apple design guru Jony Ive, and Ive and company executives including Chief Executive Sam Altman discussed plans to produce a family of AI devices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Altman has discussed plans to ship as many as 100 million AI “companions.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, who had previously advocated against any type of slowdown and accused Anthropic of fear marketing, has made an about-face after the OpenAI-Hugging Face hacking incident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Altman did not sign the petition, but during the podcast, he suggested the tech industry might need to slow down development of advanced models.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

No matter what she wore, Annie Altman always looked perfect.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

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