OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman joined a growing chorus of Silicon Valley leaders expressing outrage in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, aligning with tech industry workers who’ve urged CEOs to take a stronger stand against the violent immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.

Altman made the comments while also praising President Donald Trump as a “strong leader” while Cook said he had a "good conversation" with the president on this matter.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman privately wrote that part of being patriotic "is the American duty to push back against overreach."

The statements come as tech workers have urged executives, who've been largely quiet, to speak out on the subject.

Prominent CEOs have largely avoided criticizing Trump, yet some are now carefully addressing ICE's actions in Minnesota after the death of Alex Pretti

Sam Altman told staff OpenAI "didn't start talking about masculine corporate energy," an apparent reference to Mark Zuckerberg's remarks to Joe Rogan.

Technology is growing faster than ever in today's world, which is changing quickly. AI, or artificial intelligence, is a part of our lives every day, .

In a digital landscape increasingly cluttered by AI-driven hallucinations and sophisticated bot swarms, the irony has reached a breaking point: the man who helped unleash the most advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) is now building the barricade to keep them out of our social feeds.

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OpenAI's Sam Altman is among the dozens of CEOs who are now breaking their silence on the ongoing ICE-related unrest in Minneapolis.