70-Page Confidential Letter Alleges First Charge of 'Lying,' Altman Tells Board 'I Can't Change My Personality'

By: blockbeats|2026/04/06 23:00:02

According to 1M AI News monitoring, Pulitzer Prize winner Ronan Farrow and The New Yorker journalist Andrew Marantz have published a lengthy investigative report based on interviews with over 100 insiders, revealing for the first time two core documents: a roughly 70-page confidential memo compiled in the fall of 2023 by former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, and over 200 pages of internal notes accumulated by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei during his time at OpenAI. Both documents have never been disclosed before.

The Sutskever memo includes Slack messages, HR documents, and phone-captured screenshots (allegedly to evade company device monitoring), starting with a list that reads, "Sam exhibits a consistent pattern..." with the first item being "Deception." The memo accuses Altman of distorting facts to executives and the board and deceiving colleagues on security processes. Sutskever was quoted at the time telling another director, "I don't think Sam is the one who should be holding the button."

The Amodei notes, titled "My Experience at OpenAI" (subtitled "Private, Do Not Share"), circulated among Silicon Valley peers but never disclosed, state that "The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself," alleging that Altman personally denied contractual terms while face-to-face with Microsoft to sign a $1 billion investment deal, even after Amodei read out the terms verbatim.

The report also revealed several previously undisclosed facts:

1. The promised independent investigation upon Altman's return did not result in a written report. The law firm WilmerHale (known for leading investigations into Enron and Tyco) responsible for the investigation only orally briefed two new directors, with the decision not to produce a written report partly based on advice from the private lawyers of those two directors. Insiders described the investigation as seeming to be "aimed at limiting transparency," with some current directors considering a potential need for a "redo."

2. The actual compute power allocated to the Alignment team was around 1%-2% of the publicly promised 20%, with most of it assigned to the "oldest, worst-chipped cluster." When journalists requested to interview a researcher working on existential safety, an OpenAI representative replied, "What do you mean by 'existential safety'? That's not a thing."

3. Around 2018, the executive team earnestly discussed an internal initiative dubbed the "National Plan": to have major nations (including China and Russia) bid for AI technology. Then Policy Lead Jack Clark described its aim as "creating a prisoner's dilemma where all countries would have to fund us." The plan was shelved due to multiple employees threatening to resign.

4. Several Microsoft executives express strong dissatisfaction with Altman. One executive stated, "He distorts, twists, renegotiates, and violates agreements," believing that "there is a small but real possibility he will ultimately be remembered like Ponzi scheme perpetrator Bernie Madoff or FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried."

After being fired, Altman was asked during a call with the board to admit to his deceitful pattern. He repeatedly said, "This is absurd," and then said, "I can't change my nature." One director present interpreted this as, "The meaning of this statement is 'I have a trait of lying to people, and I won't stop.'" Y Combinator's first cohort member and programmer Aaron Swartz, who passed away in 2013, had warned a friend before his death: "You must understand that Sam can never be trusted. He is an antisocial personality and can do anything." The report mentioned that more than one person actively used the term "antisocial personality" in interviews.

In over a dozen conversations with reporters, Altman denied deliberate deception, categorizing the evolving commitments as "well-intentioned adaptation" to a rapidly changing environment, and attributing early criticism to his tendency to "avoid conflict too much." When asked if running an AI company demands a higher level of integrity, he added, "Yes, it does require a higher level of integrity, and I feel the weight of that responsibility every day."

-- Price

The privacy-focused crypto wallet Mixin announced today the launch of its U-based perpetual contract (a derivative priced in USDT). Unlike traditional exchanges, Mixin has taken a new approach by "liberating" derivative trading from isolated matching engines and embedding it into the instant messaging environment.

Users can directly open positions within the app with leverage of up to 200x, while sharing positions, discussing strategies, and copy trading within private communities. Trading, social interaction, and asset management are integrated into the same interface.

Simplified Trading Experience: No KYC Required, Opening a Position in Five Steps

Based on its non-custodial architecture, Mixin has eliminated friction from the traditional onboarding process, allowing users to participate in perpetual contract trading without identity verification.

The trading process has been streamlined into five steps:

· Choose the trading asset

· Select long or short

· Input position size and leverage

· Confirm order details

· Confirm and open the position

The interface provides real-time visualization of price, position, and profit and loss (PnL), allowing users to complete trades without switching between multiple modules.

Social-Native Trading: Strategy and Execution Completed in the Same Context

Mixin has directly integrated social features into the derivative trading environment. Users can create private trading communities and interact around real-time positions:

· End-to-end encrypted private groups supporting up to 1024 members

· End-to-end encrypted voice communication

· One-click position sharing

· One-click trade copying

On the execution side, Mixin aggregates liquidity from multiple sources and accesses decentralized protocol and external market liquidity through a unified trading interface.

By combining social interaction with trade execution, Mixin enables users to collaborate, share, and execute trading strategies instantly within the same environment.

Referral Mechanism: Non-institutional users can receive up to 60% fee split

Mixin has also introduced a referral incentive system based on trading behavior:

· Users can join with an invite code

· Up to 60% of trading fees as referral rewards

· Incentive mechanism designed for long-term, sustainable earnings

This model aims to drive user-driven network expansion and organic growth.

Self-Custody Architecture and Built-in Privacy Mechanism

Mixin's derivative transactions are built on top of its existing self-custody wallet infrastructure, with core features including:

· Separation of transaction account and asset storage

· User full control over assets

· Platform does not custody user funds

· Built-in privacy mechanisms to reduce data exposure

The system aims to strike a balance between transaction efficiency, asset security, and privacy protection.

A New Path for On-Chain Derivatives

Against the background of perpetual contracts becoming a mainstream trading tool, Mixin is exploring a different development direction by lowering barriers, enhancing social and privacy attributes.

The platform does not only view transactions as execution actions but positions them as a networked activity: transactions have social attributes, strategies can be shared, and relationships between individuals also become part of the financial system.

Regulatory Background

Mixin's design is based on a user-initiated, user-controlled model. The platform neither custodies assets nor executes transactions on behalf of users.

This model aligns with a statement issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 13, 2026, titled "Staff Statement on Whether Partial User Interface Used in Preparing Cryptocurrency Securities Transactions May Require Broker-Dealer Registration."

The statement indicates that, under the premise where transactions are entirely initiated and controlled by users, non-custodial service providers that offer neutral interfaces may not need to register as broker-dealers or exchanges.

About Mixin

Mixin is a decentralized, self-custodial privacy wallet designed to provide secure and efficient digital asset management services.

Its core capabilities include:

· Aggregation: integrating multi-chain assets and routing between different transaction paths to simplify user operations

· High liquidity access: connecting to various liquidity sources, including decentralized protocols and external markets

· Decentralization: achieving full user control over assets without relying on custodial intermediaries

· Privacy protection: safeguarding assets and data through MPC, CryptoNote, and end-to-end encrypted communication

Mixin has been in operation for over 8 years, supporting over 40 blockchains and more than 10,000 assets, with a global user base exceeding 10 million and an on-chain self-custodied asset scale of over $1 billion.

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