Sam Altman married a software engineer: the story that shakes up Silicon Valley

On January 10th, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his partner Oliver Mulherin, an Australian software engineer, said "yes" in an intimate ceremony in Hawaii. Only 15 people attended, including Altman's brother, Jack Altman, who is the founder of Lattice.

But who is Oliver? Well, he's not just anyone. Mulherin, born in Melbourne in 1993, has an impressive resume: he has been through Meta AI, worked at the IOTA Foundation, and is an AI enthusiast just like Altman. The two have known each other since 2019.

The couple shared the news on Instagram. Ollie wrote: "I married my best friend and the love of my life." The reaction? Hundreds of celebrities and tech entrepreneurs sent their congratulations, from Jeff Bezos's fiancée to names like Alexandr Wang and Adrian Aoun.

Why does this matter? It's not just romance. It's a reminder that the tech industry is changing. Tim Cook from Apple is also gay. And now we have Altman, one of the most influential voices in AI, openly living his story.

But wait, there's more: Worldcoin exploded

While Altman was enjoying his honeymoon, his other project — Worldcoin — reached impressive milestones:

• Argentina surpassed 500 thousand World ID verifications (1% of the total population of the country)
• Record in a single day: almost 16 thousand verifications via Orb
• Globally: 4.8 million people have World ID
• WLD ( token from Worldcoin ) rose from US$ 2.3 to US$ 4.69 after the release of version 2.0

Worldcoin 2.0 is now integrated with Reddit, Telegram, Shopify, and Mercado Libre. The goal? To solve the biggest dilemma of the future: when AI replaces jobs en masse, we need two systems: one to prove that you are human (not a robot) and another to distribute universal income.

CEO Alex Blania compared the launch to "when Apple releases a new version of iOS."

The takeaway

Altman is living the perfect script: personal life sorted, career thriving, and projects that aim to solve real long-term problems. It's not just a tech bro making money — it's a guy with a clear vision of how he wants to change the world.

And yes, the fact that he married another man and no one is shocked? That also says something about where Silicon Valley is heading.