Sam Altman Wrote a Breakup Essay About His Ex at Midnight. I Have Notes.
It was 2 AM on a Tuesday when I saw it: Sam Altman, CEO of a half-trillion-dollar company, posting what can only be described as a breakup letter to his ex. On X. I poured my tea. I sat down. I read it twice. Twelve paragraphs. The words “dishonest” and “authoritarian.” User numbers invoked with the energy of a man at a bar explaining his bench press. Somewhere between the third and fourth scroll, it hit me: this wasn’t a CEO defending strategy. This was an ex discovering you’re thriving. For context: Anthropic spent ten million dollars on Super Bowl ads. Sam spent the evening proving exactly how much that stung. Highlights include: – Complaining that Anthropic won’t let OpenAI use Claude to train competing models. – Describing this as “authoritarian,” apparently from inside a house made entirely of glass and NVIDIA chips. – Declaring, with a straight face, “This time belongs to the builders, not the people who want to control them.” This, from the man whose company: – Started as a nonprofit, went