RESOLVING THE LEDGER
RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, seen here, most likely not using TikTok, said TikTok was so "powerful" he had to delete the app that kept sucking him in. Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he had to quit TikTok. Altman said he began using the popular app when OpenAI was preparing to launch its own social network. Ultimately, Altman said he got "addicted" and realized he needed to stop scrolling. Even Sam Altman is guilty of getting sucked into TikTok. "I deleted TikTok because it was just too powerful," he said during a recent episode of the "Relentless" podcast. The Open...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, seen here, most likely not using TikTok, said TikTok was so "powerful" he had to delete the app that kept sucking him in. Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he had to quit TikTok. Altman said he began using the popular app when OpenAI was preparing to launch its own social network. Ultimately, Altman said he got "addicted" and realized he needed to stop scrolling. Even Sam Altman is guilty of getting sucked into TikTok. "I deleted TikTok because it was just too powerful," he said during a recent episode of the "Relentless" podcast. The Open...
Read this reportAltman will preview the capabilities of the company's upcoming family of AI models and answer questions about cybersecurity and open-weight models.
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The OpenAI CEO's remarks came days after an autonomous AI agent built on OpenAI models broke out of a sandbox and accessed Hugging Face systems
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to Washington this week to preview the company's most powerful AI yet, pushing for speedy approval of a model that just hacked a real company. Why it matters: He'll tout a model powerful enough to solve an 80-year-old math problem, breach another company's system unprompted and begin to make complex work more cost-efficient for U.S. business. What Sam will show: It does original science. An internal model solved the 80-year-old Erdős unit distance problem, the first prominent open math problem cracked autonomously by AI and verified by outside mathematicians. It ...
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AIPROPX has consolidated 6 reports from 6 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Sam Altman says he got ‘addicted’ to TikTok, including a Saturday afternoon where he scrolled ‘for like 3 hours.” The covered outlets are based across 3 regions — US, Other, and Middle East.
The earliest report in this entry came from Axios (Jul 26, 2026, 12:39 UTC); the most recent came from Business Insider (Jul 27, 2026, 17:27 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 6 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “sam altman”.
6 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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AIPROPX — “Sam Altman says he got ‘addicted’ to TikTok, including a Saturday afternoon where he scrolled ‘for like 3 hours” · https://www.aipropx.com/story/c26ba99e54a3002ca5d6c22e21598898
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