Sam Altman messages "a few hundred" OpenAI employees every day. Across texts, Slack, and other platforms, that adds up to roughly 39,000 messages a year on a five-day working week none of them, he insists, sent by an AI agent. For a CEO who describes his management style as decidedly hands-off, it's a revealing contradiction.

Speaking with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison at the company's Stripe Sessions event, Altman described the habit as genuinely useful rather than performative. "Very quick, like one, two messages, whatever," he said. "The context I get from that sometimes is very helpful in these diffuse........

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