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title: "Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sam-altman-says-openai-going-public-in-2026-would-be-ill-advised-7cb10764
published: 2026-09-12T21:16:28.000Z
byline: "Source: The Verge AI"
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# Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’

Source: The Verge AI · Published 2026-09-12 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sam-altman-says-openai-going-public-in-2026-would-be-ill-advised-7cb10764

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and the possibility of building an AI that was beyond human control. On the latter, he \[…\]

In this story: [Fortune](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/fortune)

## Sources

- [Read the original at The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/994384/sam-altman-no-openai-ipo-ill-advised)

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