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Bitcoin life insurer Meanwhile raises $37.5M led by Bain Capital
Meanwhile, a company offering life insurance in bitcoin, raised $37.5 million in funding led by Bain Capital, CEO Zac Townsend told Axios. Sources put the valuation at $350M, up from $190M in April 2025. The company is backed by Sam Altman.
Chronological record
Every published event attached to Sam Altman, newest first.
September 2026 7 events
- Florida seeks court order requiring outside approval for OpenAI model development
- OpenAI plans third-party safety testing during model training
- OpenAI says it will not pursue an IPO in 2026
- OpenAI commits to evaluators with employee-like access
- OpenAI weighs slowing frontier AI development, Altman seeks industry-wide pause
- Altman reportedly tells OpenAI staff company weighing slower frontier AI development
- OpenAI says paid users remain waiting for GPT-6 Astra access
August 2026 7 events
- Brockman takes wider operating control at OpenAI
- OpenAI names new revenue chief amid senior leadership departures
- House Democrats press OpenAI and Anthropic over rogue AI agent test breaches
- OpenAI will not rule out critical cyber capability in Astra model, tightens controls
- White House finalizes voluntary AI cyber tests; Meta and Anthropic invited to briefings
- OpenAI's Astra cracks major math problems, reigniting debate over AI's future
- OpenAI names Astra as next major model in math advances blog post
July 2026 7 events
- Rogue AI agent strikes: Anthropic's Claude gains unauthorised access in real-world test
- OpenAI cuts prices for two of its GPT-5.6 AI models as companies grow sensitive to costs
- OpenAI picks Dublin docklands site for European headquarters, plans 250 jobs
- OpenAI's latest proposal shows it's very aware that data centers are unpopular
- Founders Fund Hires Former OpenAI Executive Ryan Beiermeister as Partner
- OpenAI proposes giving the US government a 5% stake in the company, discussing sovereign wealth fund structure with the Trump Administration
- OpenAI proposes US government own 5% stake to address political blowback
June 2026 4 events
- OpenAI staggers AI model release after Trump administration request
- OpenAI stages GPT-5.6 limited preview at U.S. government request, approving access customer-by-customer
- OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño LLM inference chip
- OpenAI and Anthropic sign letter to prevent AI-developed biological weapons
May 2026 6 events
- Trump administration selects five nuclear startups for plutonium reactor negotiations
- Jury hands victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in battle with ...
- OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy
- OpenAI Cofounder Brockman Testifies Musk Sought 'Absolute Control' Over For-Profit Arm
- Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn't trust Sam Altman
- Shivon Zilis Emerges as Key Figure in Musk v. Altman Trial
April 2026 17 events
- Emails Show Musk Sought Majority Control of OpenAI and Withheld Funding in 2017
- Families of Tumbler Ridge shooting victims sue OpenAI over failure to alert police
- OpenAI Codex Includes Instructions to Avoid Discussing Goblins and Other Creatures
- OpenAI growth concerns trigger selloff in AI infrastructure stocks
- Prospective Jurors in Musk-Altman Trial Express Negative Views of Elon Musk
- Jurors with negative views of Musk and AI selected for OpenAI trial
- Sam Altman apologizes for not reporting ChatGPT account of Tumbler Ridge suspect
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman apologizes to Tumbler Ridge community for failing to alert police about shooting suspect
- Sam Altman apologizes for OpenAI not reporting mass shooting suspect to law enforcement
- Elon Musk's Lawsuit Against Sam Altman Heads to Trial
- Three senior OpenAI executives depart as company shuts down Sora and other 'side quests' in enterprise pivot
- Zoom partners with Sam Altman's World to verify human participants amid deepfake threats
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- OpenAI executive departs as company restructures scientific research division
- Tinder offers free boosts to users who verify identity with Sam Altman's World ID orb
- Stanford AI Index finds widening gap between expert optimism and public concern
- The New Yorker Publishes AI-Generated Illustration for Sam Altman Profile
- OpenAI Proposes Higher Capital Gains Taxes to Fund AI Transition Programs
March 2026 5 events
- Why OpenAI really shut down Sora
- The Decade-Long Feud Between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei
- Microsoft is picking up a Texas data center project OpenAI didn't want
- Caitlin Kalinowski resigns from OpenAI robotics team over military AI guardrails
- OpenAI hardware exec Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal
February 2026 8 events
- Employees at Google and OpenAI support Anthropic's Pentagon stand in open letter
- SoftBank announces $30B follow-on investment in OpenAI
- Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too
- Sam Altman's Fusion Power Bet Just Got Hotter Than The Sun
- OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI
- Sam Altman says India has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users
- Anthropic and OpenAI Release Dueling AI Models on the Same Day
- Nvidia-OpenAI $100B deal appears to collapse