Musk mocks Altman's RAM comments as OpenAI weighs renaming data centres amid backlash
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Sam Altman's remarks that desktop PCs' DRAM is underutilized drew mockery from Elon Musk, while OpenAI reportedly plans a PR push to rebrand data centres as local opposition grows; Altman also met Samsung executives amid a memory chip shortage.
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Timeline · 45 reports
- 2026-11-02 15:16 · Data Center Dynamics
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman meets with Samsung execs as memory chip shortage deepens - 2026-11-02 14:57 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
OpenAI Wants to Rename the Data Center. The Neighbours Are the Problem. - 2026-11-02 13:57 · The Independent Tech
OpenAI wants to change the name ‘data centres’ to make people hate them less - 2026-11-02 13:57 · The Independent Tech
OpenAI will give ‘data centres’ new name to stop people hating them - 2026-11-02 12:25 · r/ChatGPT
How To Trap Sam Altman - 2026-11-02 12:24 · r/OpenAI
How To Trap Sam Altman - 2026-11-02 12:11 · Tom's Hardware
Elon Musk mocks OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's claim that PCs having RAM is terrible - 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!' - 2026-11-02 12:08 · Economic Times Tech
OpenAI seeks Samsung, SK partnerships amid chip supply crisis - 2026-11-02 09:30 · Economic Times Tech
OpenAI seeks crucial partnerships with Samsung and SK amid memory chip supply crisis - 2026-11-02 09:27 · Bloomberg AI
Altman Says AI Will Transform the Economics of Energy - 2026-11-02 08:14 · DailyAI
OpenAI Plans a Push for AI ‘Speed Limits’ as Data Centres Lose Favour - 2026-11-02 05:53 · Economic Times Tech
OpenAI may give data centres a new identity as ‘AI compute campuses’ - 2026-11-02 05:39 · Mint AI
OpenAI wants to rename data centres as ‘AI compute campuses’ amid growing public backlash - 2026-11-02 03:53 · DigiTimes Asia
Sam Altman meets with Samsung, SK as memory crunch deepens - 2026-11-02 02:58 · CNBC Technology
Sam Altman makes surprise South Korea visit as OpenAI builds on chip partnerships - 2026-11-02 02:06 · DEV Community — AI
$173M ads, one AI rebrand: OpenAI data centers - 2026-11-02 00:00 · Bloomberg AI
Watch OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says AI Will Transform the Economics of Energy - 2026-11-01 22:28 · Business Insider AI
OpenAI wants everyone to call AI data centers 'compute campuses' - 2026-11-01 21:55 · TechCrunch AI
OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’ - 2026-11-01 21:30 · Techmeme
OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses" (Axios) - 2026-11-01 21:14 · r/OpenAI
Sam Altman is right - 2026-11-01 16:40 · r/singularity
OpenAI wants to rebrand its data centers as "AI compute campuses" after the midterms - 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 - 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 - 2026-11-01 14:21 · Tom's Hardware
Sam Altman meets with Samsung leadership to secure more RAM for data centers amid crushing shortages - 2026-11-01 10:15 · r/ChatGPT
Sam Altman says home RAM is "quite terrible." Here's my 1TB server at 4% utilization. - 2026-11-01 03:58 · r/machinelearningnews
Sam Altman says our PC RAM is a "terrible allocation of global resources." His argument has zero basis, here’s what I built ARCaiL OE under. - 2026-11-01 00:08 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
OpenAI Boss Sam Altman Says AI On Your PC Wastes Precious Memory - 2026-10-31 12:34 · Economic Times Tech
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman meets Samsung executives to discuss memory chip supply, AI infrastructure - 2026-10-31 12:04 · The Next Web
Sam Altman: DRAM in home PCs is ‘quite terrible’, used 5% of the time - 2026-10-31 12:03 · The Next Web
Sam Altman meets Samsung’s presidents days after his DRAM remark - 2026-10-31 11:30 · TechRadar AI
'He can pry it from my cold, dead hands': Sam Altman says it's 'quite terrible' that you're using RAM in your PC when there's not enough for AI data centers - 2026-10-31 06:40 · Bloomberg AI
OpenAI’s Altman Meets Samsung Executives as Chip Crunch Deepens - 2026-10-31 06:24 · DEV Community — AI
Sam Altman Says the RAM in Your PC Is "Quite Terrible." For Client Work, He's Half Right - 2026-10-31 06:10 · Techmeme
When talking about local inference, Sam Altman says supply-constrained DRAM is better used in data centers than sitting in PCs and "being used 5% of the time" - 2026-10-31 05:37 · r/OpenAI
Sam Altman on RAM - 2026-10-30 20:48 · The Verge AI
Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk - 2026-10-30 19:59 · r/antiai
Sam Altman and his bullshit - 2026-10-30 19:47 · r/artificial
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it's "quite terrible" for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization - 2026-10-30 19:26 · r/antiai
Its quite terrible for Sam Altman to have RAM - 2026-10-30 19:24 · r/LocalLLM
OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization - 2026-10-30 18:13 · r/OpenAI
OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization - 2026-10-30 16:28 · Tom's Hardware
OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM - 2026-10-30 16:28 · Tom's Hardware
OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization