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Altman courts Samsung and SK as OpenAI faces memory chip shortage

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Sam Altman met Samsung executives and is seeking partnerships with Samsung and SK amid a memory chip supply crisis, while saying AI will transform energy economics and rebranding data centers as 'compute campuses'.

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Timeline · 19 reports

  1. 2026-11-03 09:57 · Semafor Technology
    OpenAI pushes policy rebrand to a skeptical audience
  2. 2026-11-03 09:57 · Semafor Technology
    Exclusive / OpenAI pushes policy rebrand to a skeptical audience
  3. 2026-11-02 15:16 · Data Center Dynamics
    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman meets with Samsung execs as memory chip shortage deepens
  4. 2026-11-02 12:11 · Tom's Hardware
    Elon Musk mocks OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's claim that PCs having RAM is terrible — 'The people deserve to have their RAM too!'
  5. 2026-11-02 12:11 · Tom's Hardware
    Elon Musk mocks OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's claim that PCs having RAM is terrible
  6. 2026-11-02 12:08 · Economic Times Tech
    OpenAI seeks Samsung, SK partnerships amid chip supply crisis
  7. 2026-11-02 09:30 · Economic Times Tech
    OpenAI seeks crucial partnerships with Samsung and SK amid memory chip supply crisis
  8. 2026-11-02 09:27 · Bloomberg AI
    Altman Says AI Will Transform the Economics of Energy
  9. 2026-11-02 03:53 · DigiTimes Asia
    Sam Altman meets with Samsung, SK as memory crunch deepens
  10. 2026-11-02 02:58 · CNBC Technology
    Sam Altman makes surprise South Korea visit as OpenAI builds on chip partnerships
  11. 2026-11-02 00:00 · Bloomberg AI
    Watch OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says AI Will Transform the Economics of Energy
  12. 2026-11-01 16:05 · TechRadar AI
    'AI is not creating the problem': OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI is merely uncovering all the vulnerabilities we've accumulated over the years
  13. 2026-11-01 14:21 · Tom's Hardware
    Sam Altman meets with Samsung leadership to secure more RAM for data centers amid crushing shortages — OpenAI CEO travels to South Korea to meet Samsung leadership to discuss future AI data centers
  14. 2026-11-01 14:21 · Tom's Hardware
    Sam Altman meets with Samsung leadership to secure more RAM for data centers amid crushing shortages
  15. 2026-11-01 10:15 · r/ChatGPT
    Sam Altman says home RAM is "quite terrible." Here's my 1TB server at 4% utilization.
  16. 2026-11-01 00:08 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    OpenAI Boss Sam Altman Says AI On Your PC Wastes Precious Memory
  17. 2026-10-31 12:34 · Economic Times Tech
    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman meets Samsung executives to discuss memory chip supply, AI infrastructure
  18. 2026-10-31 12:04 · The Next Web
    Sam Altman: DRAM in home PCs is ‘quite terrible’, used 5% of the time
  19. 2026-10-31 12:03 · The Next Web
    Sam Altman meets Samsung’s presidents days after his DRAM remark

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  1. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman meets Samsung executives to discuss memory chip supply, AI infrastructure — Economic Times Tech
  2. OpenAI signs four Abu Dhabi agreements spanning energy, government and investment — Reuters AI
  3. OpenAI to merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs into a single desktop experience — TechCrunch AI
  4. Heimstaden adopts ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to streamline property management — OpenAI News
  5. OpenAI weighs rebranding data centers as 'compute campuses' amid growing backlash — Techmeme
  6. Beginner's 15-minute lesson plan aims to teach ChatGPT basics to new users — Tom's Guide AI
  7. OpenAI pays $5,000 bounty for ChatGPT share-link bug that could run code in viewers' sessions — Techmeme
  8. Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic to honor shared robots.txt AI-training opt-out — r/OpenAI

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